About BollyScoops

BollyScoops is a user driven bollywood community. The users share, comment, vote on bollywood related scoops. The scoops are sorted by popularity based on the votes that our users submit. The "Latest Scoops" page display the scoops that have been last submitted by our users and have not been yet classified as "Popular Scoops". You can vote for scoops to increase their popularity. If its bollywood related, scoop it on BollyScoops.

Terms and Conditions

  1. Description of Service. BollyScoops is a user driven bollywood community. The users share, comment, vote on bollywood related scoops. The scoops are sorted by popularity based on the votes that our users submit. The "Latest Scoops" page display the scoops that have been last submitted by our users and have not been yet classified as "Popular". You can vote for scoops to increase their popularity. You understand and agree that the Service is provided on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis. BollyScoops disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service. BollyScoops also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you..

  2. Personal Use. The Service is made available to you for your personal use only. Due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (which is available at http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm), you must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to use this Service. You must provide current, accurate identification, contact, and other information that may be required as part of the registration process and/or continued use of the Service. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Service password and account, and are responsible for all activities that occur thereunder. BollyScoops reserves the right to refuse service to anyone at any time without notice for any reason.

  3. Proper Use. You agree that you are responsible for your own communications and for any consequences thereof. Your use of the Service is subject to your acceptance of and compliance with the Agreement. You agree that you will use the Service in compliance with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations, including any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of residence. You shall not, shall not agree to, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) use the Service to upload, transmit or otherwise distribute any content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, obscene, contains viruses, or is otherwise objectionable as reasonably determined by BollyScoops; (ii) upload, transmit or otherwise distribute content that infringes upon another party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary, contractual or fiduciary rights or obligations; (iii) prevent others from using the Service; (iv) use the Service for any fraudulent or inappropriate purpose; or (v) act in any way that violates the Program Policies, as may be revised from time to time. Violation of any of the foregoing may result in immediate termination of this Agreement, and may subject you to state and federal penalties and other legal consequences. BollyScoops reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to investigate your use of the Service in order to determine whether a violation of the Agreement has occurred or to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

  4. Your Intellectual Property Rights. BollyScoops does not claim any ownership in any of the content, including any text, data, information, images, photographs, music, sound, video, or other material, that you upload, transmit or store in your BollyScoops account. We will not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Service.

  5. Representations and Warranties. You represent and warrant that (a) all of the information provided by you to BollyScoops to participate in the Services is correct and current; and (b) you have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform the acts required of you hereunder.

  6. Privacy. As a condition to using the Service, you agree to the terms of the BollyScoops Privacy Policy as it may be updated from time to time. BollyScoops understands that privacy is important to you. You do, however, agree that BollyScoops may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information, including the content of your emails, if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in these Terms of Use and the BollyScoops Privacy Policy. Personal information collected by BollyScoops may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which the parent company, Knowles Group LLC, or its agents maintain facilities. By using BollyScoops, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

  7. Advertisements. As consideration for using the Service, you agree and understand that BollyScoops may display ads and other information adjacent to and related to the content of the news articles. BollyScoops serves relevant ads using a completely automated process that enables BollyScoops to effectively target dynamically changing content.

  8. Account Inactivity. After a period of inactivity, BollyScoops reserves the right to disable or terminate a user's account. If an account has been deactivated for inactivity, the email address associated with that account may be given to another user without notice to you or such other party.

  9. Termination; Cancellation. You may cancel your use of the Services and/or terminate this Agreement with or without cause at any time by providing notice to BollyScoops, however a terminated account may continue to exist for up to ten business days before such cancellation takes effect. BollyScoops may at any time and for any reason terminate the Services, terminate this Agreement, or suspend or terminate your account. In the event of termination, your account will be disabled and you may not be granted access to your account or any files or other content contained in your account although residual copies of information may remain in our system. BollyScoops will notify you via email of any such termination or cancellation, which shall be effective immediately upon BollyScoops's delivery of such notice.

  10. Indemnification. You agree to hold harmless and indemnify BollyScoops, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of the Service, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, BollyScoops will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.

Privacy Policy

BollyScoops knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the BollyScoops website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.


What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers BollyScoops's treatment of personal information that BollyScoops gathers when you are on the BollyScoops website and when you use BollyScoops services.

This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that BollyScoops does not own or control, or to individuals that BollyScoops does not employ or manage.


What Personal Information About Users Does BollyScoops Collect?

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you. We collect the following types of information from our users:

     
  1. Information You Provide to Us:
    We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. The personal information you provide is used for such purposes as:
    1. Registration: In order for you to use BollyScoops services, such as submitting new links to the website, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require your email address.
  2. Automatic Information:
      1. We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. BollyScoops automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, BollyScoops cookie information, and the page you requested. BollyScoops uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.
      2. BollyScoops may also add on any page display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes member profile pages.
      3. Social sharing of data: BollyScoops allows other users to browse stories that you have dugg, submitted, blogged, or commented on. This information is made available via your member profile, on the BollyScoops spy page or within the permalink URL of the story in which you performed the action on. BollyScoops may choose to post this data on other site features in the future.
      4. Profile information: BollyScoops allows other users to browse your full name, location, and instant messaging URL, within your member profile should you provide this optional information.
      5. Syndication: BollyScoops allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the website.
      6. Friends Data: Much like other social services BollyScoops allows non-friends to browse through your friends activities.
      7. API: BollyScoops will allow 3rd parties access to all BollyScoops data that is already publicly available through BollyScoops.com. BollyScoops will forever keep private passwords and blog settings.
      8. Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While BollyScoops will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
 

What About Cookies?

  1. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer.s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. BollyScoops cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
  2. The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of BollyScoops's most attractive features.
  3. Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Will BollyScoops Share Any of the Information it Receives?

Information about our users is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone. We share your personal information only as described below.

  1. Business Transfers:
    In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if BollyScoops, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
  2. Protection of BollyScoops and Others:
    We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of BollyScoops, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  3. With Your Consent:
    Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your personal information may be shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to prevent the sharing of this information by opting out.

Is Information About Me Secure?

  1. Your BollyScoops account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
  2. Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.

What Information Can I Access?

You can access your personal information on our website and correct, amend, or delete information that is inaccurate. Upon logging in visit your user profile setting page and click modify.


What Choices Do I Have?

  1. As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website, such as posting new links.
  2. You are able to add or update certain information on pages, such as those listed in the "What Personal Information About Users Does BollyScoops Collect?" section above. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
  3. You may request deletion of your BollyScoops account by contacting BollyScoops using the form provided on the contact us page. This removes all of your past BollyScoops usage from public view.
  4. As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.

Can Children Use BollyScoops's Services?

You must be 13 years and older to register to use the BollyScoops website. As a result, BollyScoops does not specifically collect information about children.