Privacy Policy Bizlx.com
A. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
We may combine any information we collect about you with other information we have about you to help us update, expand and analyse our records, identify new customers, resellers, general users, and provide products and services that may be of interest to them. If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us. If you are located in a jurisdiction where such sharing requires your permission, we will only do so with your consent. Please note that if you access our services through a tool that hides your location, such as through a virtual private network, you may not receive our request for permission because we were not able to identify you as being located in a jurisdiction where your permission is required.
The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
Information you provide to us
If you are a representative or employee of any Buyer or Reseller or a Sole Trader, Buyer or Seller, information seeker through our platform.
- You will be asked to provide certain contact information that is necessary for the registering for a Platform account on behalf of a Reseller, Buyer or Seller, Reviewer, including name, address, phone number, email address, job title and department; or professional registration details as per requirements.
- You can be asked to provide certain identity information, tax registration and/or related information about your business, such as your company name, business type and industry, corporate registration GST registration details and information about your business license according to legalities of nation.
- If you are a retailer, advertiser, supplier we will also ask you to provide details about the nature of legitimate goods, services and products that you intend to introduce and sell / advertise via the Platform and details about your sales/transactions on Bizlx.com
- If you are a Buyer / information seeker we will also ask you to provide details or preferences about the goods and products that you may be interested in buying/enquiring via the Platform and any details or preferences relevant to your purchases.
- If you are professionally associated by Bizlx.com as a content creator, reseller, blogger, model or a social media influencer, in addition to the information mentioned above, we may also collect your live stream videos, your images, social media account names and profile photos, and posts or comments made by other users of the Platform; as per general agreements and terms agreed between Bizlx.com and you as a representative of our business or on behalf of our clients.
- If you are a our business listing subscriber, or reseller and avail our subscription / paid services, profit sharing services, then in connection with this facilitation we offer through online / offline payments, purchases and payments over the Platform, you may be asked to provide certain payment information, if there are issues of refund, bonus, commissions or any other reason related to payments done from us. This might include your bank account numbers, bank location and IFSC codes.
- Information you submit to the Platform for publication may be made publicly available on the Platform and therefore accessible by any internet user. You should exercise caution when deciding what information you submit to us for publication.
- We will process any information provided to us in connection with disputes or to support complaints in connection with the Platform or goods and/or services advertised via the Platform. Please note, reseller partners, advertisers, information seekers and/ Sellers may submit complaints regarding the products and services on the Platform and/or disputes between the Buyers and Sellers to the Platform and under such circumstances, we will process data provided to us by Buyers and/or Sellers that is relevant to the disputes or complaints submitted.
Information that we collect automatically
- If you contact us (such as via our contact us enquiry form, email service, call by telephone etc), we may record a copy of your correspondence and may ask for additional information to verify your identity.
- We will collect contact details and other information of users from publicly available sources for the purposes of verifying the users and performing due diligence on the users.
- If you seek information as a general viewer, information seeker, surfing the website or filling enquiry forms for goods or service listed on our platform with enquiries, calling contact reference details on our platform, we may collect your details like Name, Phone No, Email ID or record call for our purpose of data management, and attending the services properly.
- We will collect details of user activities, transactions and interactions on the Platform including information relating to the types and specifications of the products and services purchased, pricing and delivery information, dispute and complaint records, communications between users and any information disclosed in any discussion forum.
- From time to time, we may also collect information about the existing and prospective users, during or in connection with trade shows, industry events and/or other functions. Including representative contact names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses.
- If you visit our Platform, we will automatically collect certain information from your device. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered as personal information under applicable data protection laws. Specifically this information may include IP addresses, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location), browsing patterns and details of how you have interacted with our Platform and the goods and services available on it. In addition, we gather statistical information about the Platform and visitors to the Platform including, browser software, operating system, software and hardware attributes, pages viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors.
- Collecting above mentioned information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our Platform, where they come from, and what content is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Platform. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further under the section E “COOKIES” below.
Information that we receive from third parties
We may receive personal information about you from social media platforms if you choose to register for a Platform account via a social media account. Exactly what information we receive will depend on your privacy settings with the applicable platform, but it would typically include basic public profile information such as:
Your Name
Your Profile picture (If Logged by Social Media)
Country
Company Name
Contact Details
We may receive personal information about you from third parties that are engaged by us to assist with providing verification services, and conducting suitable KYC (know-your-customer) checks on users, and to improve our marketing efforts. This may include your name, email address, company details and contact information for company representatives. If you choose to participate in reviewing or rating products and/or services on Bizlx.com, we may receive personal information about you from third parties that work with us to conduct reviews into our services and/or rate us.
B. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Verifying your identity and conducting security, KYC (know-your-customer) and anti-money laundering diligence and background checks in order to set up user accounts;
- Verifying your eligibility to register as a Platform user in accordance with our Terms of Use here
- Setting up / administering user accounts, including providing log-in IDs and developing a Platform profile;
- Providing users / resellers / business listing customers with call center service support; responding to queries, feedback, and managing data, information, claims and/or disputes;
- To provide the requested Services to you
- To provide you with useful content
- To ensure the proper functioning of our Services
- To offer and improve our Services
- To provide you with requested information or technical support
- To facilitate your movement through our websites or your use of our Services
- To do a better job of advertising and marketing our Services (subject to your consent where required by applicable law)
- To advertise and market third party products and services (subject to your consent where required by applicable law)
- To diagnose problems with our servers or our Services
- In connection with our security and compliance programs
- To administer our websites / app's performance
- To communicate with you
- To assist our team/reseller in offering you a personalised experience or otherwise tailor our Services to you
- Facilitating communication between listed business owners and resellers, or Buyers and Sellers via the Platform, processing transactions for registrations, subscription plans in case, and further adding e-commerce transactions in future with settlement between Buyers and Sellers made over the Platform, assessing fund withdrawal requests from Sellers; resellers etc.
- Providing logistics services in future development of project (including, without limitation, customs clearance declarations via the Platform);
- Assessing and monitoring account security and transaction risks of users of Bizlx.com, detecting and preventing fraud, money laundering and other security incidents;
- Sending and serving tailored marketing and advertising that we believe will be of interest to you based on the ways in which you use the Platform, your browsing records, and order history;
- Performing research or statistical analysis in order to improve the content and layout of the Platform, and to improve the product offerings and services on Bizlx.com including, for example, using anonymized data for machine learning purposes.
- Identifying, developing and marketing and advertising products and services that we believe you will value, including across browsers and devices, in accordance with applicable laws. Cookies or other similar technologies may be used to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
- If you are a Buyer, we will share details of the last viewed products on the Platform to enable Sellers to contact you with details of products and/or services that might interest you. You can opt not to share this information with Sellers via the Buyer Privacy Settings here
- We may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you (such as archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes) if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.
C. DISCLOSURE OR SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose (or provide access to) personal information to the following categories of recipients:
Other Platform Users where necessary in connection with the facilitation of purchases and communications made between you and the other users.
Third party business partners, service providers and/or affiliates of Bizlx.com engaged by us or working with us to assist us to provide services to you or who otherwise process personal information for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you when we collect your personal information.
Categories of these partners or service providers include:
- Members of Bizlx.com Group and their respective affiliates and/or their designated service providers that work with us to provide processing services such as software, tools, systems and messaging services for purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
- Our business partners (for example, in order for them to provide you with discounts or offers that may interest you);
- Marketing and advertising platforms, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and providers of analytics services relating to users’ behavior, in order to tailor the Content you see when visiting our Platform. These platforms may combine information they collect on our Platform with data on their platforms and data they collect from other websites or through other sources in order to conduct targeted advertising. The processing activities of these third party marketing platforms are governed by their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy;
- Payment service providers who collect and process personal information to assist with settling the payments for transactions or process withdrawal requests for Sellers. The activities of payment service providers may be governed by their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy;
- Credit risk assessment providers to conduct risk assessment on Sellers to determine whether a Seller can be permitted to make a fund withdrawal;
- Logistics partners for providing delivery services for Buyers, including return and exchange of products, and warehousing services for Sellers;
- Custom agents for customs clearances purposes;
- Cloud computing service providers to provide cloud storage services;
- Customer service providers to provide after-sale services;
- Risk control service providers to assess the security of users’ accounts and transaction risks; and
- Third party rating / reviewing service providers to carry out reviews of our services with customers if you choose to participate in reviewing or rating Bizlx.com products and/or services;
- To our professional advisers, law enforcement agencies, insurers, government and regulatory and other organizations where we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable laws or to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or protect your vital interests or those of any other person, we may also disclose and transfer your personal information or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws.
- To an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy
- To any other person with your consent to the disclosure.
- We may provide aggregated or anonymized data to third parties, but when we do so, the information we share is in a de-identified format that does not personally identify you.
- We have established relationships with third parties and websites to offer you products and services which we do not offer and such third parties and websites include the following affiliated platforms of Bizlx.com or their operators: Bizlx.com This Privacy Policy does not apply to these third party sites or co-branded sites. The privacy policies of those other parties may differ from ours, and we have no control over the information that you submit to those third parties. You should read the relevant privacy policy for those third party sites and co-branded sites before responding to any offers, products or services advertised by those parties.
D. RETENTION
We retain your personal information as long as we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so for example to provide services or products to you, or as required or permitted by applicable laws, such as tax and accounting laws. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
E. COOKIES
This section explains how we use cookies and similar technologies (we'll refer to them collectively as "cookies") to recognize you when you visit our Platform. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control them.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's or mobile device’s hard drive. If you do not de-activate or erase the cookie, each time you use the same browser or mobile device to access the Platform, our web servers will be notified of your visit to the Platform and in turn we may have knowledge of your visit and the pattern of your usage.
Cookies set by the website or app owner (in this case, Bizlx.com) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your device both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Cookies can also be categorized as session cookies (which are erased once you close the browser or shut down the device) and persistent cookies (which remain even after closing the browser or shutting down the device/application and which are activated each time you visit the Platform). The session cookies use encrypted data to authenticate you. The persistent cookies do not store account numbers or passwords. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies.
Why we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical and/or security reasons in order for our Platform to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. First party cookies are mainly served to enable basic functionality on our Platform; including web analytics cookies that help us understand how users use our web pages and how we can improve their use. For example we use essential or strictly necessary cookies to enable us to remember goods added to your Bizlx.com shopping basket and to recognize you when you sign into your Bizlx.com account.
In addition we also use social media cookies. You may register for Platform membership and "share" Platform content through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes we embed videos from websites like YouTube. These websites have their own privacy policies which govern their use of information, which you can find on the respective websites.
We also use cookies to enable us to track and target the interests of Platform visitors to enhance the experience on our Platform by researching visiting patterns and conduct interest-based advertising; assisting our partners to track user visits to the Platforms; and to track progress and participation in promotions. We use first and third party cookies for these purposes.
Cookies we use
The specific categories of first and third party cookies served through our Platform and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary):
F. INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOUR USAGE AND DEVICES
- We collect data relating to your online activity on our websites, including the following:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Type of device you use, operating system version, and device identifier;
- Geographic location
- Pages you view
- How you got to our Services and any links you click on to leave our Services;
- When you update your information, communicate with us, or order new Services
- Metadata about your use of our Services and emails we send to you (including clicks and opens)
- Metadata about how your customers, contacts, and users interact with the Services we provide you
- Your interactions with any videos we offer
- ssues you encounter requiring our support or assistance
- Any device or other method of communication you use to interact with the Services.
- We store the data we collect in a variety of places within our infrastructure, including system log files, back end databases and analytics systems.
- We also collect information that you may provide during your telephone conversations with us, which we may monitor or record.
G. INFORMATION WE ACQUIRE FROM SOCIAL MEDIA
We collect information from third party social networking sites, including information that they provide to us if you use your credentials at such social networking sites to log into some of our Services (such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form).
The information you allow us to access varies by social networking site, and depends on the level of privacy settings you have in place at the social networking site. You can control and find out more about these privacy settings at the applicable social networking site.
As otherwise described in this privacy Notice.
We also use the information we receive to produce reports on trends and statistics, such as mobile search trends, email open rates by industry, campaign best practices or the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, our websites or evaluated or purchased our products or services
Last Updated: 26th May, 2025