Electronic Data Protection Act 2005 provides the websites rules and regulations about how to collect, process and handle data. Our website also follows this act and works in accordance with Pakistan’s Constitution.

By signing up an account with Pakistan Connections, you agree that you have reviewed our privacy policy and agree with it. We make frequent changes in our privacy policy, so you must remain updated from our privacy policy.

We keep your privacy on prime priority. When you sign up with us and use our site services, we receive a number of different information about you. Our privacy policy tells our users how and when we need or use your information and to what extent.

Information you Share With Us:

This includes the registration information that you provide us on the time of sign up like your name, email, birthday, etc. Also, we get other information that you share with personal wish with others on our site. This may include your status update, your photos, any video, website links, a book, comments, etc. We also collect information about your interests when you visit other people’s profiles, tag somebody in photos, find friend, or share personal relationship with another user on the site.

Your name, main profile picture, user ID, is considered to be as public information. We keep your birthday information to share age related content with you. The purpose of collecting all this information is to make our site more interactive and full of fun so that we can suggest you more people or activities of your interest.

When you share information publically, you are responsible for sharing the information. You can control your privacy about such information at the time of post or later from Privacy option under Settings tab.

When you select public as privacy type, it means you are ready to share your information with ‘everyone’ on the network. Anyone listed in your friends can see that information and also others can search your profile through your public information. Public information includes your name which helps your acquaintances recognize you. Similarly, if you add a photo, your associates will recognize your profile easily.

Other information we may get from you may include your IP, browser you are using, type of device you are using to access our site, etc. We may also get your GPS location but we use all this information to provide you more real time data and interaction with your friends. For example, your GPS location may tell us about your neighboring friends.

When you post your personal videos, audios, books etc. on our site, we may receive additional information from the device you are using. This information may include time and date, etc. This helps you maintain your account in an organized form and also keep track of your uploads date and time wise.

Overall, if you provide us with your real information, it helps our site run with the purpose it was built for. This way, you help others find you easily, get benefit with great offers on our site, get appropriate adverts, etc. Also, you provide us a chance to offer our valued users more innovative ideas and features.

Others sharing your information:

Other people may also share your information on our website. These people may include the people you have added as friend and all other people using our website if you have shared your profile as public. Otherwise, if you share your profile as private, they can only recognize you through name, user ID or email and can’t see your activities until you add them as friend. You can enable the option of making your profile private by going to settings section.

If someone shares some information about you that you dislike, you can tell our team. We will delete that information and warn the sharing person. If the person keeps on teasing, we will delete his/her account because the purpose of the site is to give opportunity to all Pakistanis to share their positive and constructive ideas through this website and gather as a nation on one platform.

We also keep track of your and your friend’s profiles to help us judge what people to suggest you as friend, inform you about upcoming events, birthday reminders, show you groups you might like to join and show you the most appropriate adverts you may become interested in.

Making Groups:

If you join a group, you agree that you are sharing your public information with entire group. If you do not want so, you can leave the group at any time. Your username is also a public identity. If someone knows your username, he/she can view your information in the site of Pakistan Connections. However, they can view your public information. They cannot access your private information until you give them the permission to do so.

When you provide us your personal information, we use it for already decided purposes only. We do not share your information with anyone until we seek permission from you, or use it by removing your name or any other personal identification information.

Use of Cookies:

Cookies are small piece of information that our server stores on your device. We use cookies with least information possible. There might be some condition when we need to store cookies on your computer so that we can provide you more real time and appropriate services. This data is just statistics and contains no personal information about you. When we need to share such data with third party sites or advertisers, we remove your name or any other personal information so that it is no longer personally associated with you. We do it with your permission. Otherwise, it happens when you directly click on some advertiser’s link. We are unable to control your cookies in this regard.

Cookies are general online usage information including your desired settings for a certain website. It might include browser type, your location, type of device you are using, etc. You can restrict cookies if you do not wish to share your information with us. There is an option in your web browser to enable or disable cookies. You can change these settings to decline cookies at any time. Doing so can limit ease of access at our site.

We might store cookies in your computer’s hard drive through our server to keep track of your browser so that we can see if you are logged in or not.

Third Party Links:

You will find many third party links on our website. You can click them and explore their services. However, each site has its own privacy policy and you must check site’s privacy if you want to avail their services. Pakistan Connections is not responsible or liable if you get any advantage or disadvantage from the website. It is because we do not have any control on those websites.

Account Deactivation or Deletion:

You can deactivate or delete your account if you want to do so. Deactivate means you need the account but, on temporary bases, you do not want others to see your profile or interact with you. Deactivating means you can activate your account when required. You can deactivate your account by going to account’s Setting. However, deleting an account means you do not need your account anymore and want to delete all your information from Pakistan Connections. Click HEHE to delete your account on permanent bases.

Contacting Us:

We have a very active team of customer representatives who is always available to answer any query that come into your mind. Please do not hesitate to discuss or ask any question regarding our website.