Overview

Desiwww.com is recognized for our commitment to safeguarding consumer privacy on our Web site. We operate under the following set of strict privacy principles:

The only information Desiwww.com obtains about individual visitors to its Web site is that supplied voluntarily by visitors or available publicly.

In cases when Desiwww.com may need personal information to provide visitors with customized content or to inform them about new features or services, visitors are explicitly asked for that information.

Personally identifiable information provided by visitors (name, e-mail or home address, etc.) will not be disclosed to anyone unless visitors indicate that Desiwww.com may do so.

Only statistical information about our visitors as a group (usage habits, demographics) may be shared with any partner of desiwww.com. Personally, identifiable information will not be shared at any time without the visitor's permission. Desiwww.com employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: desiwww.com.

IP Addresses

An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted with IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. Desiwww.com collects IP addresses in order to conduct system administration, report aggregate information to sponsors and advertisers, and to conduct site analysis. If a visitor requests pages from desiwww.com, the desiwww.com servers enter the visitor's IP address into a log. To maintain visitor anonymity, desiwww.com does not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information.

However, desiwww.com will use IP addresses to identify any visitors who refuse to comply with desiwww.com's in-house rules or terms of service, and to identify visitors who threaten our service, site, customers or others.

Cookies

Our site places a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual's hard disk for record keeping purposes. Our site uses cookies during your online session to deliver content specific to your interests.

Cookies allow us to avoid showing you the same ad or other message repeatedly. Our cookies do not contain personal information. They do enable desiwww.com to relate your use of the site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided to our site.

Registration

Our site's registration system requires users to give us contact information such as their name and e-mail address, and demographic information such as a ZIP code, sex, age or income level. The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may choose (opt-in) to receive future mailings; see the choice/opt-in section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing the visitor content that reflects their stated preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users.

External Link

In order to provide visitors with greater value, desiwww.com may provide links to various third party Web sites. However, even if a third-party affiliation exists between desiwww.com and that destination site, desiwww.com exercises no authority over linked sites, each of which maintains independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. desiwww.com assumes no responsibility or liability for these independent methods or actions and is not responsible for the independent policies or procedures of destination sites.

Similarly, desiwww.com cannot take responsibility for the privacy initiatives or the content of such Web sites. These destination links are provided only for your convenience, and as such, you access them at your own risk. However, desiwww.com wishes to ensure the integrity of the desiwww.com Web site and its destination links, so any comments pertaining to the desiwww.com Web site or any sites accessed through desiwww.com links are greatly appreciated.

Community Partners

Desiwww.com Community Partners represent well-respected healthcare organizations across the country. Through these partnerships, desiwww.com provides its Web site content and services to enhance the Web sites of our Community Partners. These sites also offer information about local healthcare resources, thereby helping members of their communities take active steps towards improving or maintaining their health.

When registering to become a member of the desiwww.com site, you may also be asked if you would like to register as a member of our partner's "local community." Some of our healthcare partners have their own newsletters and events that you may want to participate in and you will have the opportunity to share your e-mail address with them for this purpose (see choice / opt-in below). desiwww.com also shares aggregate information such as site activity (number of visitors, page view statistics) and demographic distribution of local community members.

See the External Links section above for additional disclaimers
regarding third-party Web sites.

Surveys and Questionnaires

Our online surveys and questionnaires may ask visitors for contact and demographic information. The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-in section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users.

E-Commerce and E-Healthcare transaction

Some desiwww.com site features may use applications to collect data to facilitate an e-commerce or e-healthcare transaction. We will ask your explicit permission to transfer this data to the third party to facilitate this transaction.

Desiwww.com may store this information to verify the transaction for customer service and accounting reasons and may use this information to help personalize your experience on the desiwww.com site. desiwww.com may also share this information with other third parties on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users.

See the External Links section above for additional disclaimers regarding third
-party Web sites.

Contests

We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact and demographic information. The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may choose to receive future mailings; see the choice/opt-in section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users.

Third Party Ad Services

Desiwww.com utilizes certain third-party advertising services (including, but not limited to, DoubleClick) to display advertising for our advertisers. These third-party services may place a cookie on your computer for the purposes of ad tracking and presentation. desiwww.com does not share personally identifiable visitor information with its advertising services.

Public Forums

Desiwww.com provides its users with chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or news groups. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

The desiwww.com Web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. desiwww.com employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.

Children's Guidelines

Some sections of desiwww.com may be designed specifically for use by children under the age of 16. Contact information such as their name and e-mail address, and demographic information such as their ZIP code or age may be requested in those sections. In such cases, children will be notified that they should obtain permission from their parents before providing such information.

desiwww.com does not disclose personally identifiable information about users under 16, whether or not an approval is obtained. Information about users under the age of 16 may be shared with third parties on an aggregate basis. Parents and those permitting minors to use the desiwww.com Web site should be aware that any information voluntarily given by children in chat sessions, e-mail exchanges, BBS's, forums, etc., may be used by third parties to generate unsolicited mail or other contact with children.

Choice/Opt-In

Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.

This site also gives users the following options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving communications or our service.

1.You can send e-mail to privacy@desiwww.com

2.You can visit the following URL:
http://www.desiwww.com/registration/

3.You can send mail to the following postal address:

Security and Privacy Officer

desiwww.com, Inc.

5659 Columbia Pike, Suite 200

Falls Church, VA 22041

4.You can call the following telephone number: (703) 575-1570

Corrections/Updates

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

1. E-mail: privacy@desiwww.com

2. Visit http://www.desiwww.com/registration/

3. Call the following telephone number: (703) 575-1570

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Web site, or your interaction with this Web site, contact:

Security and Privacy Officer

desiwww.com, Inc.

5659 Columbia Pike, Suite 200

Falls Church, Virginia 22041

privacy@desiwww.com

Privacy Policy

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Desiwww provides interactive environments on the Internet to enable South Asians professionals from around the world to find, use and share the information they need to do their jobs better and more efficiently. We recognize and support the need to protect the privacy rights of our members through disclosure of our practices for collection and use of member information.

In general, you can visit many of the Desiwww sites on the Web at any time without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. We log the IP address, type of operating system and browser software used by each visitor to an Desiwww site, and from this information we can derive the identity of the visitor's geographic location and Internet Service Provider. We use this data in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful facilities by analyzing the collective characteristics of our members and measuring usage of each area of our sites. We also provide statistical information based on this aggregate data to our advertisers, potential advertisers and other business partners.

In some circumstances, we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information, such as when you apply for membership in Desiwww business directory, or in connection with entering certain Desiwww -sponsored contests and promotions.

We may also provide information about you to third parties who provide goods and services that may be of interest to you. In all cases where we ask you for personal information we will:

* notify you that such information is being collected, and

* identify which informational items are required and which are
optional, and

* offer you the opportunity to opt out of receiving information
from our partners and third parties.

COOKIE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

There is a technology called "cookies" which is a file transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer so that the website operator may track activities on the site. Desiwww uses cookies to help track activity at Desiwww's sites so that Desiwww can make its sites more interesting and useful to visitors. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and ads, to determine how often particular pages are visited, and to track the most popular areas of each Desiwww site. Cookies also allow us to make our sites more convenient to use by, for example, allowing us to save your password so that you do not have to reenter it each time you visit an Desiwww site.

A cookie will NOT permit a website operator to learn any personally identifying information about you, such as your real name or address, unless you have previously provided that information to the website operator or you have set the preferences in your browser to provide this information. We note that you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

Desiwww’s sites contains links to other Internet sites. We encourage all of our partners, contributors and third parties to implement policies and practices that respect the privacy of our users. However, Desiwww is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Please note that we review our privacy practices from time to time, and that such practices are subject to change. We ask that our visitors periodically review this page to ensure familiarity with the most current version of our privacy statement. If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, you can contact us at: privacy@desiwww.com