The following is our Privacy Policy. Read carefully and you will understand how we collect and use the information you give us when you sign up for our services.

Before you begin to use our services, you will be asked to register to become a member. To complete the registration, you will need to give us some information about yourself including but not limited to your name, email address, zip code, age, and occupation. hellomirchi is collecting this information and we retain ownership of it.

Use of Information

hellomirchi believes that knowing more about you will enable us to serve you better. It allows us to personalize the content and services we offer you. It also permits us to target advertising for products or services to your interests and tastes. hellomirchi uses this information internally to improve the products and services we provide to you.

We may also combine it with other information about you that is available to us internally or from other sources, and we may share it with third-party marketing partners to help us improve how we serve you and to alert you to new products, services and special offers if you opt-in to our sharing your information with third parties. One of the many services hellomirchi can offer to you when you register is notification concerning new products and services available from hellomirchi or from third-party marketing partners, should you opt-in to receiving these notifications.

These notices and offers will be targeted to your individual preferences and tastes based on the information you have provided. In addition, we may use personal information to better design our Web Site and we may share it with advertisers if you have opted in to receiving third-party advertising. These partners include companies that facilitate marketing offers, promotions, newsletters, etc.

hellomirchi's site is protected by a firewall and other measures to safeguard your financial information and further ensure your privacy is kept intact. In addition, 128-bit SSL encryption through Verisign protects sensitive information such as credit card numbers and any personally identifiable information.

Correcting/Updating Your Information

You may change your Personally Identifiable Information by going to http://www.hellomirchi.com and entering your User ID and Password on dialer by pressing the "Member Center" tab. You must have both User ID and Password to log into your account; if you don't have both, you can choose to have them e-mailed to you. Once you are logged in, you can change your information by clicking the tab marked "My Account" and choosing what information you'd like to alter.

Notification of Changes

If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.

In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our website notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Communication

As a member of hellomirchi, besides special offers that you may receive from our partners, (if you opt to) you will receive a confirmation email with your UserID and password. You may also receive emails that help keep you informed of your account information.

Emails that involve current promotions as well as newsletters to help keep you informed of our latest development are also sent sporadically.

If you choose to "Tell a Friend" once you have become a member, they will receive the selected message that describes our services. They will only receive this email on one occasion.

Opting Out

Please note, you may opt out of all promotional and informative emails as well as all emails from third parties or strategic partners at any time by sending an email to:

support@growthnet.net

Include "opt-out" in subject and your email address in the body.

You can also opt out from emails in two places during the signup process by simply checking off the opt-out boxes.

Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses

We may collect your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administrate our website. Your IP address is only used to identify you and form broad demographic information. This practice is common and even essential for most websites, as all companies find it necessary to assess their business online.

We collect log files pertaining to the amount of calling activity, amount of unique users, the length of a visit, pages visited, time and day of visit, file downloads and advertising views and clicks through Webtrends, whose privacy policy can be found here.

All of this information is collected in aggregate and is used in aggregate and not specific to a user.

Cookie

A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server to identify and prepare customized web pages for you. Although you can elect to not accept cookies, hellomirchi's products and services require the use of cookies. We use cookies to keep track of login/password information as well as your identifiable information to personalize the website as well as for resolving fraud issues pending discrepancies. If cookies are disabled, you cannot log in to hellomirchi.

We use a third-party advertising company to display the advertisements on our website. These advertisements may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our website, cookies received with banner advertisements are collected by our third-party advertising company. This information may be used by hellomirchi and our third-party advertising company to target advertisements to you in the future.

hellomirchi may also collect personally identifiable information from you in the event of a contest, sweepstakes, or other type of promotion.

Links and Special Relationships

Our site may include links to other websites on the Internet. However, please be advised that hellomirchi is not responsible for the privacy practice of such sites.

hellomirchi encourages you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites because their privacy practices may differ from ours.

It's also important to know that hellomirchi has several strategic partners that help us provide one or more of the services available through hellomirchi. Occasionally, we will share your account information with our partners if that is necessary in the development and/or improvement of our services, if you choose to opt-in to the sharing. On a case-by-case basis, if our partners have product information that may be of interest to you we may allow them to use your information for the dissemination of product information, if you opt-in to us doing so.

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