Who we are

HillyPages.com is a web platform that serves as an electronic marketplace for online classified advertising. HillyPages supports various businesses and ad types such as sales, rental, community events and services. The platform is suitable for different business sectors such as Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C). HillyPages as a classified ad platform enables members to list products and services for sale as well as purchase.

• Anyone can list a product/service.
• Creating a listing is free.
• Buyers can see product pictures and other details without registering.
• Buyer can directly get in touch with the seller.

HillyPages is driven by a simple business model of connecting buyers and sellers free of charge. Our key objective is to promote trade and commerce for entrepreneurs and small business owners in the North Eastern state of India and beyond. The North Eastern states being referenced to here are listed in alphabetical order Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal (In particular the northern regions).

What personal data we have access to and why we have access

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Personal information you give us when you use our Services or register for an account with us

• Identifying information such as your name, addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses when you register for an account with us.
• Information you provide when posting an ad, responding to an ad or other transaction-based content that you generate or that is connected to your account as a result of a transaction you are involved in.
• Other content that you generate, or that is connected to your account and your use of our Services.
• You may also provide us other information through a web form, by updating or adding information to your account, through your participation in community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, or when you otherwise communicate with us regarding our Services.
• Additional information we are required to collect and process in order to authenticate or identify you or to verify the information we have collected.

Personal information we collect automatically when you use our Services or register for an account with us

• We collect information about your interaction with our Services, your advertising preferences, and your communications with us. This is information we receive from devices (including mobile devices) you use when you access our Services. This information could include the following: Device ID or unique identifier, device type, ID for advertising, and unique device token.
• Location information, including location information from your mobile device. Keep in mind that most mobile devices allow you to control or disable the use of location services by any application on your mobile device in the device’s settings menu.
• Computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, your browsing history, and your web log information.

Personal information we collect using cookies.

We can use cookies-files (hereinafter — “cookies”) for storing of certain information about you and tracking your use of the Services. Use of cookies is common for Internet sites for the purpose of facilitation of their users’ identification. Cookie is a small volume of data which is sent to your internet browser and stored on your PC’s rigid disk. If you do not block or delete cookies, then in each case you use the Service via the same PC our web servers would be notified about you using the Services, and we would receive data on your visit. Generally, we use cookies for User identification and so that we could have a possibility to:

• provide access to your account without re-entering data by you
• collect statistics about usage of Services;
• investigate the patterns of visits and to facilitate guiding of promoting materials based on Users’ interests;
• monitor progress and participation in promotional events.

You are entitled to specify in which manner and at what time cookies will be accepted by way of setting your internet browser installed on PC, which you use for using the Services. You can change such settings at any time, as you wish. After your preferences will have been installed in the internet browser, you will be able to accept all cookies, or you can choose to notify you about cookies being directed to your browser, or you can discard all cookies. When you discard all cookies by having selected an option of blocking cookies in your browser, it can be possible that you will more often need to re-enter your information for getting access to your account, and some additional functionality on the Resources will not be available to you.

Personal information collected from other sources

• Social Media. We allow you to share information with social media sites, or use social media sites to create your account or to connect your account with the respective social media site. Those social media sites may give us automatic access to certain personal information retained by them about you (e.g., content viewed by you, content liked by you, and information about the advertisements you have been shown or have clicked on, etc.). You control the personal information you allow us to have access to through the privacy settings on the applicable social media site and the permissions you give us when you grant us access to the personal information retained by the respective social media site about you. By associating an account managed by a social media site with your account and authorizing us to have access to this information, you agree that we can collect, use and retain the information provided by these social media sites in accordance with this privacy notice. We may also use plug-ins or other technologies from various social media sites. If you click on a link provided via a social media plug-in, you are voluntarily establishing a connection with that respective social media site.

USE AND RETENTION.

We use your personal information to provide and improve our Services, provide you with a personalized experience on our sites, contact you about your account and our Services, provide you customer service, provide you with personalized advertising and marketing, and to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities.

We use the personal information we collect from you for a range of different business purposes and according to different legal bases of processing. The following is a summary of how and according to which legal bases we use your personal information.

We use the personal information we collect to:

• To provide access to and use of our Services (especially, to allow you to post and manage ads or other content), account management, operate, measure, improve, and personalize our Services, keep our Services safe, secure and operational, and customize site content that includes items and services that you may like in response to actions that you take.
• To give you access to your internal messages and other features.
• Provide you with a personalized experience on our sites
• To contact you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, or as otherwise necessary to provide you customer service.
  • When contacting you for such purposes as outlined above, we may contact you via email, WhatsApp, telephone, SMS/text messages, and via mobile push notifications.
• We use general location information to provide you with location-based services (such as advertising, search results, and other personalized content).
• To prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraud, security breaches or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities.
• To enforce our Terms and conditions, this privacy notice, or other policies and any agreement we may have with you.

CHANGE/DELETE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Users who registered an account may gain access to edit or delete information provided by them. The User shall bear responsibility for accuracy of data, or announcements posted by him/her to the Resource.

The User may disable or change account credentials through settings. Posted information can be changed or deleted on user’s personal account on the Resource web page, via application.

Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible. Together with your account we also delete all materials that you have ever posted. Please remember that information related to you, and shared by and between other persons, shall not be considered as a part of your account, therefore, it will not be deleted together with your account

DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information to third parties. This disclosure may be required for us to provide you access to the Services, to comply with our legal obligations, to facilitate our marketing and advertising activities, or to prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities related to the Services.

We minimize the amount of personal information we disclose to what is directly relevant and necessary to accomplish the specified purpose. As stated above, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing and advertising purposes.

We may disclose your personal information to the following parties and for the following purposes:

• To third party service providers who help us to provide Services, including but not limited payment processing services, assist us in providing customize advertising. The third parties should use only that information, which is necessary for such services.
• to law enforcement or governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability.
• to third parties involved in a legal proceeding, if they provide us with a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, or we otherwise believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity

Change of Ownership

If we were to merge with or be acquired by another company, we may share information with them in accordance with our global privacy standards. Should such an event occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information.

SECURITY

We protect your information using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres, and information access authorization controls.

User information is available only to those employees of Administrator, who need such an access to personal user information for performing their official duties. All employees having access to user information shall sign non-disclosure agreement with regard to non-disclosing user information to the third parties.

Your responsibilities over information you receive on HillyPages

When you correspond with another user and receive personal information of the other user (such as their name, email address, contact details, shipping and billing address) you are, independent from us, the controller of such data and you must comply with the applicable privacy laws.

You may use the personal information that you have access to only for HillyPages transaction-related purposes or for other services offered through HillyPages (such as fraud complaints, and member-to-member communications) and for purposes expressly consented by the user to whom the information relates. Using personal information of other users that you have access to for any other purpose constitutes a violation of our Terms and conditions.

Contact Us

If you have a queries or a complaint about this privacy notice, you can email us at contact@hillypages.com