This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, transfer or otherwise process and protect personal data. We request you to please refer to the Terms, Payment Terms, Disclaimer and programme related information on the website before making any payments. All the definitions and terms given in the “Terms” page apply to this Privacy Policy page.
The site, software or applications obtains the information you provide when you fill forms on the site or enter data on the sit and/ or register for the products or services. You may also share personal data with us offline through personal calls, personal meetings or any other means of communication.
When you visit our site and/ or send or leave data on the site or use the site, we collect the data including comments, usage data and query forms and the visitors IP address and browser user agent string. When you use our tools such as virtual portfolio analyser and virtual risk analyser, you create data on our site on usage of these tools. We may use the data received or created to develop our products or services that may be offered by us to others for commercial purposes. All the data may be used by us or provided/ disclosed to third parties who may use the data for their commercial products or services.
When you register with us or when you update your personal profile on our site subsequently, you provide your personal data to us. You also provide transaction-related information, such as when you make purchases, respond to any offers, or download or use applications from us or use our tools like virtual portfolio analyser and virtual risk analyser. You may provide to us personal or transaction related data when you contact us for help. Information you enter into our system when using the site, software or applications, such as while asking doubts, participating in discussions, taking tests, submitting presentations and notes and discuss queries associated with the virtual portfolio analyser or the virtual risk analyser. The said information collected from the users could be categorized as “Personal Data”, “Sensitive Personal Data” and “Associated Data”. Personal Data, Sensitive Personal Data and Associated Data, shall collectively be referred to as ‘Information’ in this Privacy Policy. We may use the Information to contact you from time to time, to provide you with the products and services, important information, required notices and marketing promotions. We will ask you when we need more information that personally identifies you (Personal Data) or allows us to contact you. We will not differentiate between who is using the device to access the site, software or application or our products and services, so long as the log in/ access credentials match with yours. In order to make the best use of the products and services and enable your Information to be captured accurately on the site, software or application, it is essential that you have logged in using your own credentials.
Your data which may include your profile, submissions made to us and your other data or Information including performances and our evaluations or certifications shall be visible to the public, or visible to any one or more third parties to whom you want us to share the data. This data may be shared by a link to our website. The data so shared may include uploads made by you on our website such as images, presentations, text, videos, document files or spreadsheet files.
All data including these uploads made by you to our website shall be our intellectual property and you should avoid uploading them with embedded location data or any Personal Data on these files or texts.
We may request you and if you do provide us with videos, audios or we may do an interview or discussion with you which may require camera and microphone access. All video, audio and telecalls between you and us or our representatives/ agents are recorded for quality and training purposes. These recordings shall not be shared with you for any reasons whatsoever. We may release such videos, audios or telecalls publicly for promotional and marketing purposes. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you consent to our collection/ recording and use of your audio, video or telecall recordings and Personal Data for the above-mentioned purposes. A part of our business model entails social media promotion of our students personal data and projects with an intent to help them get attention and get better job or career chances/ growth.
We use the collected Information to analyse trends, to conduct research, to administer the products and services, to develop new commercial products or services, learn about each user’s learning patterns and movements around the site, software or application and to gather demographic information and usage behaviour about our user base as a whole. Aggregated and individual, anonymized and non-anonymized data may periodically be transmitted to external service providers to help us improve the site, software, application or the products or services or to develop new commercial products or services or to improve other products or services. We will share your information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy. We may use the individual data and behaviour patterns combined with Personal Data to provide you with personalized content, and better your learning objectives or to develop and improve other commercial products or services.
Third parties provide certain services which we may use to analyse the data and information to personalise, drive insights and help us better your experience or reach out to you with more value added applications, products, information and services. However, these third parties do not have any independent right to share this information. We do not sell, trade or share your Information to any third party (except subsidiaries/affiliates/ associates of the Company for related offerings) unless, we have been expressly authorized by you either in writing or electronically to do so. We may at times provide aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third parties, however this information when disclosed will be in an aggregate form and does not contain any of your Personally Identifiable Information. We will occasionally send email notices, messages or contact you to communicate about our Products and Services. We may disclose Information:
Any portion of the Information containing personal data relating to a child or a person with disability provided by you shall be deemed to be given with the consent of the parent of such child or the lawful guardian. Such consent is deemed to be provided by your registration with us.
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your Personal Data is correct and current. If you have filled out a user profile, we will provide an obvious way for you to access and change your profile from our site, software or application. We adopt reasonable security measures to protect your password from being exposed or disclosed to anyone.
When you use certain features on our site like the discussion forums or blogs and you post or share your Information including Personal Data such as comments, messages, files, photos, will be available to all users, and will be in the public domain. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose Information including Personal Data in your profile or when posting on our forums this information may become publicly available.
All the Information including personal data provided by you to the site or to us or created on the site, whether online or through any other means which may include phone calls, electronic mails, personal meetings or any other mode of communication shall be deemed to be made or caused to be made publicly available by you. The Information including personal data shared with us is similar to publicly made available data on social media.
We may choose or be required by law to provide additional disclosures relating to the processing of the Information including Personal Data in certain countries, regions or states.
All Information will be stored in a cloud database which may be within India or outside India and may be kept in physical local devices as well at our sole discretion. This means that your Information including personal data may be processed in a jurisdiction that offers a level of protection that may, in certain instances, be less protective of your Information including personal data than the jurisdiction you are typically a resident in.