E-mail addresses

We ask subscribers who register for our online services to provide us with their e-mail addresses so we can send them e-mail news briefings. Consumer VOICE sells, rents, or lends e-mail addresses of users to anyone. The information from subscribers is not made available to advertisers or anyone else outside Consumer VOICE.

User names and passwords

Each visitor who registers to use this service has a user name and password. Hence, after registration each visitor will be known as member of consumer voice. Member may choose his or her own user name and password.
Passwords are the private property of the member. For reasons of security and privacy, we do not give out passwords to anyone.

Subscription/Unsubscription

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for your contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for your privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Users can subscribe or unsubscribe.
Mail this page to a friend

Through this function, you can e-mail the content of a news article to a friend or colleague. In such instances, you are asked to provide your email address (to appear as the message sender) and the recipient’s email address.

Forum Registration

In order to use the Inter-Act forum like Discussion Forum, you must first complete a registration form. You are required to give contact information (such as name and email address) and to choose a username and password. The email address is not disclosed on the forum.

Event registration forms

After registration for any VOICE event such as “World No Tobacco Day 2006” and “Consumer Panchayat 2006”, you are asked to provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address). If there is any cost related to the event, we may request financial information (such as credit card number, expiry date) for billing purposes (See also Credit Card Transactions). Contact details will be used to inform you about the events in detail. To facilitate networking at VOICE events, we may distribute the list of registrations to the participants. In such cases, we will ask for your authorisation on the registration form.

Public Comments & Members Feedback

The development of VOICE publications is based on a multi-member process that regularly solicits feedback and comments from member. To ensure required transparency, comments and feedback submitted are generally considered as public record and can be reproduced partly or wholly on this website. After submission of feedback, you will be asked to provide personal details such as name, occupation and email address. Contact details will not be made public and will be used to contact you if we need to clarify your contribution.

Credit card Transactions

To ensure the security of your credit card transaction, we use an intermediary, Ccavenue Payment Gateway, to process your credit card details through a secured connection. Ccavenue returns the transaction status to VOICE (i.e. whether the charge was accepted by the credit card company) and the name and address of the card holder.

Survey Reports

If you have participated in any conducted by VOICE Guidelines. Your contact details will be collected and will remain confidential, VOICE will not share these with third parties except with your written submission.

Cookies and Log files

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer tied to information about you. There are two sorts of cookies: a session ID cookie is temporary and terminates once you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. It can be removed by following the Internet browser help file directions.

Log Files

Like most standard website servers, we use log files. These files contain information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. This data is not linked to any personally identifiable information. It is used to produce statistical reports to monitor the website and analyse trends.