Effective Date: August 16, 2026
Indian Expats in USA (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates IndianExpatsInUSA.com, an online directory designed to help members of the Indian community discover and connect with businesses, service providers, and other vendors.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you when you use our website.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you create an account, create or manage a business profile, submit a listing, contact a business, submit a review, report a listing, or otherwise interact with the website.
Depending on how you use the site, this information may include your name, email address, business name, business description, location or service area, website and social media links, photographs or logos, listing information, reviews, messages, and other information you choose to provide.
Businesses and service providers should only publish information they are comfortable making publicly available.
2. Account Information
Users and businesses may create accounts on IndianExpatsInUSA.com. We use account information to operate the website, manage listings and profiles, provide site features, communicate with users, and help protect the integrity of the platform.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.
3. Business Listings and Profiles
Information submitted as part of a business profile or listing is generally intended to be publicly visible.
This may include business names, descriptions, service information, photographs, logos, service areas, website addresses, social media profiles, and other information provided by the business.
Businesses are responsible for ensuring that information they submit is accurate and that they have the right to publish it.
4. Messages and Communications
The website may allow users to contact businesses through messaging or contact features.
We may process and store information associated with these communications as necessary to provide the service, maintain platform security, investigate complaints, enforce our policies, or comply with applicable law.
Users should avoid sending sensitive personal or financial information through website messaging features.
5. Reviews and User-Submitted Content
Users may be able to submit reviews or other content relating to businesses listed on the website.
Reviews and certain other submitted content may be publicly visible. We may review, moderate, remove, or restrict content that violates our policies or that we reasonably believe is fraudulent, abusive, misleading, unlawful, or otherwise inappropriate.
6. Payments
Businesses may be charged fees for listings, featured placement, advertising, promotional services, or other services offered by Indian Expats in USA.
Payments may be arranged or processed outside IndianExpatsInUSA.com. We may maintain records relating to payments, invoices, subscriptions, listing periods, and transactions for administrative, accounting, and legal purposes.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, we do not collect or store users’ payment-card information through the website.
7. Automatically Collected Information
When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, referring pages, pages visited, and approximate location derived from technical information.
This information may be used to operate, secure, maintain, troubleshoot, and understand the use of the website.
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
IndianExpatsInUSA.com and services used to operate the website may use cookies or similar technologies for functions such as maintaining sessions, remembering preferences, improving website functionality, measuring website usage, preventing abuse, and supporting security.
Your browser may allow you to restrict or delete cookies. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
9. Third-Party Services and External Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites and services, including business websites and social media profiles.
Indian Expats in USA does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or services. When you leave our website, the privacy policies and practices of the third party apply.
We may also use third-party service providers for website hosting, security, analytics, email, communications, or other operational purposes. These providers may process information as necessary to provide their services to us.
10. How We Use Information
We may use information collected through the website to:
- Operate and maintain IndianExpatsInUSA.com;
- Create and manage user accounts, business profiles, and listings;
- Enable communication between users and businesses;
- Display and moderate reviews and other content;
- Review and approve submitted listings;
- Process and administer listing or promotional arrangements;
- Communicate with users and businesses about their accounts or listings;
- Detect fraud, spam, abuse, or violations of our policies;
- Improve the website and understand how it is used;
- Protect our rights and the rights of our users; and
- Comply with applicable legal requirements.
11. Sharing of Information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share information when reasonably necessary to operate the website, provide requested services, work with service providers, investigate fraud or abuse, enforce our policies, protect users or the public, comply with legal obligations, or respond to lawful requests.
Information that you intentionally submit for publication, such as business listing information or public reviews, may be visible to anyone visiting the website.
12. Data Retention
We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the website, maintain business and transaction records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud and abuse, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
Removal of a listing or account does not necessarily result in immediate deletion of all associated information from backups, administrative records, or records that we are legally or operationally required to retain.
13. Data Security
We take reasonable measures designed to protect information handled through the website. However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
14. Children’s Privacy
IndianExpatsInUSA.com is intended for adults and is not designed for children under 13 to create accounts or provide personal information directly to us.
If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected inappropriately, we may take reasonable steps to remove it.
15. Your Choices and Requests
You may contact us to request assistance with your account or personal information, including requests to correct or delete certain information, subject to applicable law and legitimate record-retention requirements.
Businesses can also update certain profile and listing information through their accounts where those features are available.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically as our website, services, or legal requirements change.
When material changes are made, we may update the effective date shown at the top of this page. Your continued use of the website after an updated policy becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised policy to the extent permitted by law.
17. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your information, please contact:
Indian Expats in USA
IndianExpatsInUSA.com
Email: indianexpatsinusa@gmail.com