HOW TO REGISTER:

The first and the easiest step is to register yourself to make use of all the features of the site. The user has to create his/her profile with some personal details which can be posted on the site for other viewers and visitors to view. The profile can be enhanced with the help of photographs or video clipping about themselves to make it more attractive and eye catching. No other information, except the personal information provided by the user, will be posted on the site for other visitors to see. After entering the personal information, the members can also set their search criteria for their partners. When the search is generated, it gives a list of the possible matches as desired by the member. The member can then decide whether to go ahead and contact the profile or search for more suitable profiles by changing their search criteria.

If you are looking for a perfect soul mate and a happy married life then SearchSaathi.com is the place for you. Start searching for your soul mate now.

PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE AND ANY OF ITS ASSOCIATED CONTENTS AND SERVICES:

Welcome to SearchSaathi.com, the ultimate destination where you can find your soul mate. To use the site and all its facilities, you must agree to become the member of the site and agree to abide by the rules and conditions of the site. You must be a member in order to contact other registered members of the site. SearchSaathi.com may, at any time, in its sole discretion, revise, modify, or alter this SITE without notice. The modified version will become applicable immediately. SearchSaathi.com reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of this AGREEMENT at any time by revising the terms and conditions herein. The user is responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and conditions. Continued use of this SITE following any such changes shall constitute the user's acceptance of such changes. When using any particular content or service on this SITE, the user shall also be subject to and deemed to have read, understood and agreed to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such content and services that may contain terms and conditions in addition to the terms, conditions and notices set forth in this AGREEMENT.

You will be held responsible if found to be violating any terms and conditions and legal action can be taken against you if you are found guilty. Please go ahead with your registering if you agree to abide by all the terms and conditions of the site or else please exit the site immediately.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

1. Eligibility:
   User represents and warrants that he or she is at least 18 years of age and possesses the legal right and ability to enter into this AGREEMENT and to use this SITE in accordance with all terms and conditions set forth in this AGREEMENT.
   
   
2. Termination Of Access Or The User's Account:
   You can terminate your membership at any time by contacting the site manager. Or the site can terminate your account and access to the site if you are found to be violating any agreement of the site previously agreed upon. The user should provide true, current and accurate and complete information to the site and action can be taken against a person who is found to violate these terms and conditions of the site.
   
   
3. Non-Commercial use:
   Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Site, including unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken.
   
   
4. Other Terms of use by members:
   You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You will not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other SearchSaathi.com members. Although SearchSaathi.com cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the SearchSaathi.com Site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect SearchSaathi.com and/or our Members from any abuse / misuse, SearchSaathi.com reserves the right to restrict the number of contacts which a Member may send to other Member in limited time period. There is a limit to the number of profiles you are allowed to contact each day.
   You may not use any automated processes, including IRC Bots, EXE's, CGI or any other programs/scripts to view content on or communicate / contact / respond / interact with SearchSaathi.com and/or its members.
   
   
5. About the Content Posted on the Site:
   SearchSaathi.com holds the right to delete any content or details about any profile if it is found to be violating the terms and conditions of the site. The content can be deleted any time at the sole discretion of the site if it is found to be offensive, illegal, or if it violates the rights, harms, or threatens the safety of other SearchSaathi.com and/or its Members.
   
   SearchSaathi.com is not responsible for any profile or details about the profiles posted on the site. It does not vouch for the authenticity of any profile and does not recommend or refer any profile or matches in any way. Due research, investigation and effort has to be taken by anyone who is interested in making any kind of a contact with the other matches or profiles posted on the site.
   
   The user is solely responsible for the content that he/she posts on the site. SearchSaathi.com can verify the authenticity of the contents posted on the site. In exercising this right, SearchSaathi.com may ask you to provide any documentary or other form of evidence supporting the Content you post on the site. If the user fails to provide the details and verify the content provided and posted by him/her on the site, the site can at any time delete the content and terminate the access of the user to that site.
   
   CONTENT THAT IS ILLEGAL AND PROHIBITED ON THE SITE:
   
   SearchSaathi.com strictly monitors its site and the contents posted on it. It prohibits any content that is illegal. No user should transmit any spam mails or chain letters which hinders the use of the site by other members. The content should not be abusive, defamatory or obscene in nature. It should not advocate any kind of harassment of any person. The details provided should not be false, misleading, threatening or libelous in nature.
   
   The content should not promote any kind of racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm. It should not violate anyone’s privacy or harm any individual in any way. It should not promote hatred or negative sentiments against any religion or caste.
   The content should not contain restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or ../images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
   
   The content should not display pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind; provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
   The site should not solicit passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and
   The site should not engage in any commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes and advertising.
   
   The user should not include telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URL's, and email addresses for the other viewers to see.
   The site should used consistent with any and all applicable local and state laws and regulations
   
   
6. Use of Information Collected From You:
   The name, address and payment information (if applicable) that the user provides to SearchSaathi.com through this SITE, together with information regarding the manner in which the USER uses this SITE, will not be processed or disclosed by SearchSaathi.com except as permitted by the terms and conditions of this AGREEMENT. "Individual Information" is information about a user that is presented in a form distinguishable from information relating to other users but not in a form that personally identifies the USER or enables the recipient to communicate directly with a USER.
   
   
7. Member Disputes:
   You are solely responsible for your interactions with other SearchSaathi.com Members. SearchSaathi.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
   
   
8. Privacy:
   Use of the SearchSaathi.com Site and/or the SearchSaathi.com Service is governed by our Privacy Policy. Please go through our Privacy Policy to know more details about our Policies and Conditions.
   
   
9. Copyright:
   All content compiled and included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, ../images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of SearchSaathi.com or its content suppliers and protected by Indian and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of SearchSaathi.com or its software suppliers and protected by Indian and international copyright laws. All CONTENT and services on this SITE are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual and proprietary laws and any unauthorized use of any of the foregoing may violate such laws. The user is not granted any right or license, either express or implied, in any copyright, trademark, service mark, patent, and right of publicity or other intellectual or proprietary right of SearchSaathi.com.
   
   USER may not modify copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, sell or lease any CONTENT or services obtained from this SearchSaathi.com site.
   
   All the content available for public access on SearchSaathi.com is protected by copyright. Your use of this material must adhere to the following terms, unless you are the original contributor of the content to SearchSaathi.com, in which case your use is governed by the terms governing SearchSaathi.com relationship with its contributors as covered below:
   
   You may download and print a single copy of any content item for your personal, non-commercial use.
   You may not modify any content you download or print from SearchSaathi.com. You must retain all copyright notices and logos on any content item you download or print.
   You may not make any content item originating from SearchSaathi.com available for public access by any means whatsoever without obtaining prior written permission from SearchSaathi.com.
   You may forward Internet URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to third parties for private, non-commercial use, along with brief extracts that do not violate Fair Use guidelines.
   
   
10. Trademarks:
    The trademarks, service marks and logos (collectively, the "MARKS") displayed on this SITE are the sole and exclusive property of SearchSaathi.com or third parties. The user is not permitted to use the MARKS without the prior written permission of SearchSaathi.com or such third party. All the marks indicated on our site are registered trademarks of SearchSaathi.com. Other SearchSaathi.com graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are trademarks of SearchSaathi.com, or its subsidiaries. SearchSaathi.com’s trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not SearchSaathi.com’s, in any manner as to bring discredit to the site or confuses its members.
    
    SearchSaathi.com is solely for the private use of members and may not be used for any other commercial purposes by anyone.
    
    
11. Warranty Disclaimer; Liability Disclaimer
    
    EXCEPT AS MAY BE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE IN A WRITTEN AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND SearchSaathi.com, ALL CONTENT AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. THE CONTENT PUBLISHED ON THIS SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES, MISTAKES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. SearchSaathi.com DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. SearchSaathi.com DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, DATA ACCURACY AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION. SearchSaathi’s TOTAL LIABILITY TO USER FOR ANY DAMAGES (REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, PRODUCT LIABILITY AND/OR OTHERWISE) SHALL NOT EXCEED IN THE AGGREGATE THE AMOUNT OF FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY USER TO SearchSaathi.com FOR THE ONE MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO SearchSaathi’s ACT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SearchSaathi, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES, OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, BUSINESS, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLES, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE AND EVEN IF SearchSaathi HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OR LIKELIHOOD OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO THE USER
    
    
12. Indemnity:
    The user agrees to indemnify SearchSaathi.com, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all liabilities, expenses (including attorneys' fees) and damages arising out of claims resulting from the user’s use of this SITE, including without limitation claims arising out of content submitted to this SITE by the user, the user’s violation of a third party's rights, or any claims alleging facts that if true would constitute a breach by the user of the terms and conditions of this AGREEMENT.
    
    
13. Disclaimer:
    All the information displayed, transmitted or carried by SearchSaathi.com and its related websites including, but not limited to, directories, guides, news articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, ../images, illustrations, profiles, audio clips, video clips, trademarks, service marks and the like, collectively termed the "Content", are protected by the copyright and other intellectual property laws. The Content is owned by SearchSaathi.com, its affiliates or third party licensor's. You may not modify, publish, transmit, transfer, sell, reproduce, create derivative work from, distribute, repost, perform, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content. You agree to abide by all copyright notices and restrictions attached to any Content accessed through the SearchSaathi.com website and not to alter the content in any way. Permitted Use You may take a single copy of the Content displayed on the SearchSaathi.com for personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you do not remove any trademarks, copyright and any other notice contained in such Content. You shall not archive or retain any Content in any form without written permission.
    
    General Terms and Conditions:
    
    SearchSaathi.com web site contains facts, views, opinions, statements and recommendations of the user, website, advertisers, third party information providers and organizations.
    
    SearchSaathi.com web site does not represent or endorse the accuracy, completeness or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information displayed, uploaded or distributed through the web site. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement or information shall be at your sole risk.
    
    SearchSaathi.com makes no warranty or representation whatsoever regarding the web site or any content, advertising services or products provided through or in connection with the web site.
    
    
14. Termination of Services of the site:
    SearchSaathi.com Reserves the right to discontinue in whole or in part any portion of the services with or without notice.
    
    
15. Others:
    Governing Law and Jurisdiction
    This AGREEMENT is governed by International laws and the laws of India without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof.
    The user acknowledges that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between the user and SearchSaathi.com as a result of this AGREEMENT or use of this Web site.
    
    What is a Cookie?
    Cookies are a feature of web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on one site to simplify subsequent interactions with that site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
    
    Use of SITE:
    The user should not in any way tamper with the layout and design of the site. The design and the layout of the site is the property of the site and comes under the copyright of the site. So any tampering or illegal use of the site amounts to crime and legal action can be taken against the person who has violated the law. Even the tampering or use of the site to Include any bugs, viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other harmful properties is considered violation and appropriate action can be taken against them.
    
    Links to Third Parties' Web Sites
    This SITE may contain links to Internet sites maintained by third parties. SearchSaathi.com does not operate or control, in any respect, any information, products or services on such third-party sites. Links to third party Internet sites are included on this SITE solely for the user’s convenience and do not constitute any endorsement by SearchSaathi.com of the third party Internet sites. The user assumes sole responsibility for use of third party links and pointers.
    
    By agreeing to register for SearchSaathi.com, you agree that you have read all the terms and conditions and have agreed to abide by them.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this service agreement.

Please read further to get details about our Privacy Policy:

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What information does SearchSaathi collect from me?
What does SearchSaathi do with the information it collects from us?
Who uses the information SearchSaathi collects from us? / With whom does SearchSaathi share the information it collects from us?
How secure is my Personal Information? How do I trust the site? On what basis do I trust the site?
Does the site use cookies? Tell me more about the cookies.
What is SearchSaathi.com’s policy to remove, correct and update the personal information of the user?
Are there any links with other sites? Tell me about them.
How will I be intimated if there is a change in the Privacy Policy followed by SearchSaathi.com?
What is the e-mail policy of SearchSaathi.com?
How do I contact SearchSaathi.com? What is their contact e-mail id and the address?

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SearchSaathi.com has applied for a license from the VeriSign Privacy Program. VeriSign is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to enable individuals and organizations to establish trusting relationships based on the respect for personal identity and information by promoting the use of fair information practices.

SearchSaathi.com is committed to protecting your private information and trying to give you a perfect and safe experience while searching for your soul mate on the SearchSaathi.com website. The Privacy Statement applies to all the information, logo’s and other important information and links that appear on our website but once you go to any other links showed on our website, which might belong to some other website, our Privacy Policy ceases to exist. You have to then read the Privacy Policy of that website and follow them while surfing their site. By using SearchSaathi.com you agree to conform to all the Privacy Policies of the SearchSaathi.com website. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the protection of your personal information on our website, please feel free to contact us at CUSTOMER SUPPORT.

What information does SearchSaathi.com collect from me?

SearchSaathi.com is an online matrimonial service provider. It helps you to choose the right partner for you thorough the help of the internet. To meet the right partner based on their particular criteria, the members have to create a profile for themselves which is posted on the website and available for others to see. The website then with the help of the criteria selected by you will help in match making and giving you the right choices for the criteria selected by you. To help you, the website needs some personal information to identify you as a prospective bride or groom. The information requested by our website may or may not include: customer- specified SearchSaathi.com username, gender, age, ethnic background, appearance, religion, occupation, preferences/lifestyle information and general geographic location. This information is used by visitors for searching and matching purposes. This information supplied by you is intended to be viewed by visitors to the site. Public information cannot be used to identify a specific member by name, address, etc.

We collect two types of information:

1. One submitted by the user which is divided into:
      a. Public
      b. Private
   
2. Other information not submitted directly by the user but tracked by the computer for various reasons like identifying the user.

Information submitted by user:

We at SearchSaathi.com collect two types of information, public and private. Public information is the information collected from the members on the behest of the members for other visitors on the site to see. This will help the visitor to check out the general profile of the candidate. Public information can be information like gender, age, height, photograph etc. Private information is the personal information which helps the visitor to the site and an interested candidate contact the particular profile other than through the SearchSaathi.com website and allows the visitor to collect information about the profile which has not been put up on the site.

Public: To bring compatible people together, we must gather some personal information which may or may not include customer specified SearchSaathi.com user name , gender, age, religion, occupation, lifestyle, general geographic location and photograph of the profile.

Private: This information is gathered from members who are interested in using the facilities and features of the site. This information includes but is not limited to email address, first name, last name, credit card number or checking account information for payment, a user –specified password, a mailing address, zip code and telephone number.

SearchSaathi.com allows members to submit public and private information on behalf of other members, child, kin, siblings, relatives and friends. If such members like the child, kin, sibling, relative or friends do not wish this information to be displayed on the website, then he/she has the option to request for the removal of such information after providing the necessary proof that the information he/she is requesting to remove belongs to him/her.

SURVEYS & CONTESTS:

From time to time our website requests information from the user via contests and surveys. The user is under no obligation to take part in theses contests and does not have to supply any information if he/she does not want to give it voluntarily. Information requested may include contact information (such a name and shipping address), and demographic location (such as zip code and age).

Other information not submitted directly by the user but tracked by the computer for various reasons like identifying the user:
This information we collect is not identifiable personally with the member. The information not submitted directly by the user is information like the browser type and the IP address. This information is not user specific but is gathered for all the users of the website.

SearchSaathi.com also logs IP addresses for systems administration purposes. IP addresses are logged to track a user's session. This gives SearchSaathi.com an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user's session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous.

What does SearchSaathi.com do with the information it collects from us?
SearchSaathi.com does not share your personal information with anyone for any thing but for the particular use of giving you a perfect setting and help you get a proper match according to your pre-defined criteria. Other than using the information to post a general profile for other viewers and visitors on the site to see, SearchSaathi.com does not use your information in any illegal way.

Who uses the information SearchSaathi collects from us? / With whom does SearchSaathi share the information it collects from us?
We do not in any way sell, rent, share, trade, or give away any of your personal information except to the financial institutions that processes your credit card and checks transactions unless required by law or for the protection of your membership.

SearchSaathi.com will tie up with many other sites to bring you unique features and facilities but will never share your personal information ever without your permission. The user should as a necessary precaution go through the Privacy Policies of such linked sites and our partners to clarify any doubt and to be careful while giving any personal information to the partners for your use of their facilities.

How secure is my Personal Information? How do I trust the site? On what basis do I trust the site?
SearchSaathi.com takes every precaution to protect your personal information. We use the best encryption software in the industry to protect your sensitive information like (the credit card information). We also protect all of your information online and make sure that it is not used in any way by anyone else. Your sensitive and general information is protected by us and will be made use of by our authorized personnel only. To process some specific jobs for example, a billing clerk or a customer service representative may need the information derived from you. This is the only time where we supply them with your information on your behalf to help you get better facilities from our site.

We also have a protection code to prevent the misuse of photographs. We do not allow the photographs to be copied or downloaded.

If you have any questions about Security at our website, feel free to email us.

Does the site use cookies? Tell me more about the cookies:
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects a cookie, they will not be able to use our site. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user.

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers contain a function that allows a user to deny the cookie feature. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. But it has to be remembered that sometimes disabling the cookies may not allow you to use some features of the site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

What is SearchSaathi.com’s policy to remove, correct and update the personal information of the user?
SearchSaathi.com allows the member and user to update, correct, and remove any personal information from our database whenever they want to.

Are there any links with other sites? Tell me about them.
To help you take advantage of more features through our site, SearchSaathi.com may contain links to other websites. We at SearchSaathi.com are not responsible for the Privacy Policies of these other websites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our website. Please read the Privacy Statements of each website that collects personal identifiable information after you leave our website. This Privacy Statement mentioned in this website is solely for this SearchSaathi.com website and does not apply to any other linked websites given in our pages.

How will I be intimated if there is a change in the Privacy Policy followed by SearchSaathi.com?
If there is any change in our Privacy Policy, we will post the same on our website for all the viewers to see and take note. If ever we decide to share your information with some other site for some specific purpose we will intimate you through an Email. 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.

What is the E-mail policy of SearchSaathi.com?
We use Email to help you get information about the matches suitable for you. There will be responses from the members in form of Email. You will also get Email about the partners selected for you by the website determined on the criteria specified by you. You will also receive constant updates about latest features on our website. The members will also emails about announcements of special events associated with SearchSaathi.com.

How do I contact SearchSaathi.com? What is their contact E-mail id and the address?
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Statement, or any other queries related to this page, please email us or contact us at the address mentioned.