Privacy policy

IMPGC (International Medicinal Plants Growers’ Consortium) is committed to safeguarding its users' privacy. We request all our users to read the following 'privacy policy' to understand how their personal & business information will be treated, as they make full use of our services to their benefit. This policy is applicable only to the entire network of marketplaces operated by IMPGC and not by any other company.

Collection of Information

IMPGC collects information from its users when they register to gain access to our services or at other specific instances when they are requested to provide us with their personal & business information. During registration, we ask the users for their name, email address, business information and other personal details. Once a user registers, he/she is no longer anonymous to IMPGC and it is deemed that the user has given IMPGC the right to publish the desired business & personal details throughout its marketplaces, including but not limited to, business directory, trade leads, catalogs etc.

When you are on our network and are asked for personal information, you are sharing the information with IMPGC alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. Promotions that run on our network may be sponsored by companies other than IMPGC or may be co-sponsored by IMPGC and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If the data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.

We also gather usage statistics such as pages viewed, number of unique visitors, browser software, screen resolution etc. for analysis that helps us provide you improved user experience and services.

Use of Personal & Business Information

IMPGC's primary goal in collecting personal or public information is to provide the user with a customized experience on our network of sites. This includes personalization services, interactive communications and many other types of services. Business information is used to display the user's business listing or product offerings across our network to fetch maximum business opportunities for the user.

In order to provide services free of charge, IMPGC displays advertisements based upon the site usage statistics and visitor trends. IMPGC uses user's perosnal & business information to serve targeted advertisements through its websites, newsletters and customized mailers. In addition to it, once the user's personal and business information is displayed on our network, the user may start receiving business enquiries from various buyers and sellers, which might or might not be of their interest.

Sharing of Information

As a general rule, IMPGC will not disclose or share any of the user's personally identifiable information except when IMPGC has the user's permission or under special circumstances, such as when IMPGC believes in good faith that the law requires it or as permitted in terms of this policy.

IMPGC may also disclose account information in special cases when IMPGC has reasons to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating IMPGC 's Terms of Services or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) IMPGC 's rights or property, other IIL network website users, or if IIL deems it necessary to maintain, service, and improve its products and services.

Distribution of Information

IMPGC may, from time to time, send its users emails regarding its products and services. In addition, IMPGC may occasionally send direct mails about products and services of third parties that it feels may be of interest to the user. Only IMPGC or its agents working under confidentiality agreements will send these direct mailings.

Updation of Information

A user may edit his/her account information and profile by logging onto our website and/or by sending a request to customercare@impgc.com. The requested changes may take upto 30 days to appear online because of verification process and server cache policies.

A user account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in the user not being able to access any members-only area of the network. Residual information will remain within our archive records.

Protection of information

As with all information, IMPGC will never sell any user's personal or business information until and unless it is permitted by the user. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding product or service usage on IMPGC network is provided in an aggregate form only and does not include any personally identifiable information about any individual user.

We request our users to sign out of their IMPGC account and close their browser window when they have finished their work. This is to ensure that others cannot access their personal or business information and correspondence, if the user shares the computer with someone else or is using a computer in a public place. IMPGC takes necessary steps, within its limits of commercial viability and necessity, to ensure that the user's information is treated securely.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while IMPGC strives to protect the user's personal & business information, it cannot ensure the security of any information transmitted to IMPGC and you do so at your own risk. Once IMPGC receives your transmission, it makes best efforts to ensure its security in its systems. Please keep in mind that whenever you post personal & business information online, that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.

Changes in Privacy Policy

The policy may change from time to time so please check periodically.