Disclaimer
As a company we try our best to safeguard and protect the privacy of our users/ customers. The present privacy policies are drafted in accordance with all laws, rules and regulations of India including IT Act and Data protection Laws of India. That the privacy policies may change from time to time depending upon the amendments and implementation of rules and regulation as per government or court notifications.
Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to us, therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws on data privacy protection and data security. We hope the policy outlined below will help you understand we may collect, how we use and safeguard that data, and with whom we may share it. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect personal and non-personal information, classified as mandatory or voluntary and uses, discloses, and protects such information through the Website.
Personal Information
‘Personal Information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person (“Personal Information”). Personal Information for the purposes of this Policy shall include, but not be limited to, information regarding Your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, e-mail address, etc. You may need to provide Your Personal Information during the course of using some of our services for instance, creating a User ID, providing information in Your account while registering on the app,or communicating with us by phone, email, or otherwise, provide reviews for the content available on the Website.
We may also collect additional information which would be relevant for this purpose along with documents.
We collect user-provided Information: When you register for, browse and use the Website, you may provide us what is generally called“personally identifiable information” (such as your full name, email address, postal mailing address, and/or home/mobile telephone number).
From time to time, we may also ask you optionally to provide other information and relevant documents. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving us permission to use and store it consistent with this policy.
Information Collection
We intend to collect personal information so that we can provide the best service possible to the customers. There are two ways by which we collect information:
Collection of personal information- It is information that includes personal identification of individuals and the information is collected with the intention of providing best possible service to the customers. It helps in understanding the interest of people and hence upgrading and improving products and services. The personal information is not shared with any third party and is used only to enhance the customer care experience through our services. We totally respect your privacy and at no cost will sell, rent or lease any of your personal information to any third party. In order to constantly improve our services, we ask our customers and clients to provide some “personally identifiable information” like name, phone number, email address etc. but not limited to only these.
Information collected from customers who use our services- This is information that we collect from our customers based on the services used and majorly focus on understanding of website performance. It is basically understanding of what visitors are looking for in the website and are mostly related to non-private data. It mostly involves information like page visit, number of visitors, finding information of the pages visited, IP address etc. which are majorly collected with help of cookies.(Cookies are files with small data amount which are used for basically collecting information. It is sent by a website while you are accessing the site and stored in the hard drive of the computer. It helps in collection of information but in respect of your privacy, you as a customer have the option to disable cookies or set an alert when a cookie is being sent. With the help of cookies, websites collect information and as a client if you instruct your browser to not accept cookies, you might be refused access to all parts of the website.
What do we do with the information we gather:
A. We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, in particular for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our services for students/users.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new courses or other incidental information which we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for student related issues research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail, SMS messages etc. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers. So, in any case, we do not store any of the payer’s payment or transaction information.
When you visit the Institute's Official Website, the following information may be collected from you, either voluntarily or involuntarily:
Your computer or network IP address must be validated in order for you to access our official website.
Your email address and message when you communicate electronically with us.
B. Cookies & other tracking technologies:
Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A "cookie" is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about your Platform activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall personal information previously indicated by a web user. It is on you to set most browsers to notify if you receive a cookie, or if you may choose to block cookies from your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of the Platform and some sections of the Platform would not work. Tracking technologies may record information such as internet domain and host names; internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; click stream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed through. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our web site and your web experience. We may also analyze information that does not contain personal information for trends and statistics.
C.Log information:
When you access our website, the server automatically records information that your browser sends us. These server logs may include information such as your web request, internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
D. User communications:
When you send email or other communication to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your enquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
E. Links:
We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed or not? We use this information to improve our customized content. Clicking on links may take you to Websites/Platforms outside our domain. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other Websites/Platforms. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every Website/Platform that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our Platform.
F. Alerts:
We may alert you by Emails / Phone Calls / SMSs / Whatsapp Messages if we update our Platform in a way that we believe you should know about. These alerts are usually prompted by new features on the Platform, or substantial improvements in the products and offers made by us.
G. Public Forums:
When you use certain features on our website like the discussion forums and you post or share your personal information such as comments, messages, files, photos, it 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 personal information in your profile or when posting on our forums this information may become publicly available.
H. Data Security:
If you use a feature requiring payment of a fee, we transmit your credit card data to our bank for processing. If we encounter a problem with payment, we may review the order information with you and our bank to resolve it. We do not otherwise disclose your credit card information. We do not share your email address or your personal information with third party marketers.
I. How do we use the data:
We offer secure pages to collect sensitive information on our order form, such as credit card information. We also use administrative, physical and technical precautions to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of personal information stored on our system. We host the site at a commercial-grade data center that employs extensive security practices. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our Platform reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
Third Party Websites/ Services
This privacy policy is limited to us and is disclosure of information collected from you within our website. There are many third party websites associated and if you connect with such sites via our website, make sure you check the privacy policy of the website. We are responsible for only our privacy policy and not for practices by third party website.
Third parties provide certain services that are available on our Platform. We may provide information, including Personal Information to third-party service providers to help us deliver programmes, products, information and services. Service providers are also an important means by which We maintain our Platform and mailing lists. We are in practice of taking reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on our behalf.
We do not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on our behalf unless such transfer is legally required. Similarly, it is against our policy to sell Personal Information collected online without consent. We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users subscribed to a particular product, or the number of users registered on our website. Such information does not identify you individually.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information remains secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no data transmissions over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us via the internet, and you do so at your own risk. Once we have received your transmission, we will use our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
Child Privacy
We run a very strict policy concerning child’s privacy and as per the guidelines of COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under the age of 13 years.
Links to other Platforms
Our Platform may contain links to other Platforms of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our Platform, you should note that we do not have any control over those other Platforms. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such Platforms and such Platforms are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the Platform in question.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
1) Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the Platform, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
2) if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at query@brkscholarships.com
Copyright
All information displayed, transmitted or carried on Platform is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may not, under any circumstances, modify, publish, distribute, repost, perform, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content on this web Platform.
Changes to this Policy
Any changes in this Policy will be updated & posted on this Platform. Please check back periodically, and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information.
Your Consent to This Policy
By accessing our Platform, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This document supersedes any prior communication on this topic and reflects the entire and exclusive Privacy Policy for this Platform. This Policy is subject to our Terms of Use, which take precedence over any conflicting Policy provision. We may change our Policy by posting a new version of it on our site.
Note: By submitting a payment through the online payments site you are agreeing to these terms and conditions including any updated changes in terms and conditions from time to time through our website.