Privacy Policy Buildingsteps! is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. This policy will let you know:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you;

2. What cookies are and how they are used;

3. How your information is used;

4. Who is collecting your information;

5. With whom your information may be shared;

6. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information;

7. How you can access, update or delete your information;

8. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information;

9. How Buildingsteps! protects children's privacy; and

10. What else you should know about your online privacy.

What personally identifiable information does Buildingsteps! collect from me?

Buildingsteps! collects information in several ways from different parts of our network of web sites. Some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, Buildingsteps! Asks for your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry and personal interests. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize your experience. Once you register you are no longer anonymous to Buildingsteps! - You are given a Buildingsteps! ID and are able to take full advantage of Buildingsteps!'s many offerings. What are cookies and how does Buildingsteps! Use them? As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Buildingsteps! Uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Buildingsteps! Require that you accept cookies.

Generally, we use cookies to:

(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" Buildingsteps! Also uses cookies to store your zip code for other services, such as Yellow Pages

. (2) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Buildingsteps! Is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.

(3) Assist registers members in Buildingsteps! Stores to track visits to their websites. This information collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or "click trail" and may also describe which pages you have seen in each members site.

(4) Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests. When a Buildingsteps!-hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player's progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings.

(5) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of Buildingsteps!'s network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on Buildingsteps! a better one.

We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.

Advertising networks that serve ads onto Buildingsteps! may also use their own cookies.

Buildingsteps! also collects IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. In addition, Buildingsteps! Mail includes IP addresses in outgoing mail message headers.

How does Buildingsteps! use my information?

Buildingsteps! primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our sites. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. In order to provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, Buildingsteps! is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to you.

In our role of delivering targeted advertisements, Buildingsteps! plays the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example, Architects in Mumbai). Buildingsteps! takes the advertisement and displays it to users meeting that criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual account information. Only Buildingsteps! has access to individuals' accounts. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner ads as well as promotional email through Buildingsteps! Delivers. You will only receive special offers via email from Buildingsteps

Buildingsteps! does research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Buildingsteps! may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.

Who is collecting information?

When you are on a Buildingsteps! site and are asked for personal information like Date of Birth, you are sharing that information with Buildingsteps! alone, unless you choose to share the information with others. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than Buildingsteps!, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer.

Promotions that run on Buildingsteps! may be sponsored by companies other than Buildingsteps! or may be cosponsored by Buildingsteps! and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.

Please be aware that Buildingsteps! Users/Advertisers may collect personally identification information about you from your website provided by you on your website Buildingsteps! are not covered by this privacy statement.

With whom does Buildingsteps! share my information?

As a general rule, Buildingsteps! will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below

Business Partners & Sponsors: Buildingsteps! may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors. Some or all data collected during a Buildingsteps! promotion may be shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.

Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Buildingsteps! permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.

Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, Buildingsteps! may match user information with third party data. Also, Buildingsteps! discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are Interior Desiners) in order to describe our services to current and prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Other: Buildingsteps! may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Buildingsteps!'s Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Buildingsteps!'s rights or property, other Buildingsteps! users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Buildingsteps! may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?

Buildingsteps! may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services. we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only Buildingsteps! (or agents working on behalf of Buildingsteps! and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and if you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when the first mail reaches you to unsubscribe you for such mails.

On some types of Buildingsteps! promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion-related email messages may include targeted advertisements.

Buildingsteps! does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.

What is Buildingsteps!'s policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

You may edit your Buildingsteps! Account Information and your public Buildingsteps! Profile at any time by using your Buildingsteps! ID and password. If you have forgotten your password, please click here to request a new password. For all other problems signing in to Buildingsteps!, please click here and complete this form. You may update/delete information online by logging on and using your password.

What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

Your Buildingsteps! Account Information and Buildingsteps! Profile are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your website information and Buildingsteps! Profile by using your Buildingsteps! ID and password.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Buildingsteps! will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Buildingsteps! account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

As a global company Buildingsteps! has international sites and users all over the world. When you give Buildingsteps! personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to the United States or other countries. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information. Whenever Buildingsteps! handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, Buildingsteps! takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Buildingsteps! cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems

What else should I know about my privacy?

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

Additional Information

If you have a question that was not addressed in this privacy policy you may contact us at privacypolicy@Buildingsteps-inc.com or at the following: Buildingsteps.com

Attention: Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues

No 6 5th main Kumarapark West Bangalore - 560020 080-3316152