1. Introduction
The Privacy Policy of the CESP Golden Jubilee Foundation meets and complies with the extant laws of India. and is developed and published pursuant to inter-alia, the Information Technology Act, 2000 ("IT Act") and the rules made thereunder. Visitors from other countries may be advised that the laws and regulations in India in relation to privacy may differ from that of other countries. All information that may be provided by you will be used in accordance with the laws and regulations having the force of law in India.
We may collect information from you through your use of our website, when you request information from us or engage our services. In this policy, we will deal with:
Type of personal information we collect;
Purposes for which we collect and use such information;
How we process, disclose and protect such information.
2. General
This policy applies to collection of information from:
Persons accessing our website;
Applicants for the Scholarship;
Contributors to the Foundation
3. Collection
In terms of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 ("IT Rules"), 'sensitive personal data or information' of a person means such personal information which consists of information relating to:
a. This policy applies to collection of information from:
password;
financial information such as Bank account or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details;
physical, physiological and mental health condition;
sexual orientation;
medical records and history;
biometric information;
any detail relating to the above classes as provided to body corporate for providing service; and
any of the information received under any of the classes (a) to (g) above, by a body corporate for processing, stored or processed under lawful contract or otherwise.
Further, any information that is freely available or accessible in public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force shall not be regarded as sensitive personal data or information for the purposes of the IT Rules.
In terms of other applicable data protection laws, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
b. We may collect information from you of a nature, which may fall within any of the classes above. Common examples of such personal information, include but are not limited to:
your full name, parents' names, temporary and permanent address, telephone numbers and email address;
age and date of birth;
previous education;
Parent’s income;
Any other financial information;
c. Acceptance
While we may collect some information under paragraphs above, we may also collect other personal information from you, with your prior consent.
You do hereby, accept and consent to the collection, use, storage, processing and sharing or disclosure of your information as described in this privacy policy and in accordance with the applicable data protection laws.
In the event any information collected from you contains information relating to third parties, you agree that you have collected such information in compliance with applicable law and are duly authorised to furnish it to us.
Our firm reserves the right to, at its discretion, modify this policy at any time. This policy, as modified from time to time will be available on our website. Please ensure that you visit our website to keep abreast with all such modifications. By further accessing our website or providing us with your information you will be deemed to have accepted all such modifications.
In the event of a change in the applicable law, your consent shall be deemed to valid to the extent permissible under applicable law. To the extent required by any such change, we may seek additional consents and authorisations from you.
4. Purposes of Collection and Use of Information
a. The information you may share with us will be used, stored and processed in compliance with the IT Act, IT Rules and other applicable laws relating to data protection, for the above purposes of or in connection with:
complying with applicable law;
processing applications received from you and responding to the same;
internal purposes such as creating and maintaining records;
providing information to auditors, accountants or otherwise pursuant to investigations or inquiries;
b. Cookies
We would like to make the users aware that the Website uses cookies. The term 'cookies' is used to denote small text files placed on your hard drive when you visit a website. These files identify your computer and record your preferences and other data about your visit so that when you return to the website, the website can recognize you and can personalize your visit. Please note that the cookies used on our websites are not linked to a visitor's personal information.
We use cookies to collect information so that we can determine how to improve the website experience by seeing which pages, areas or features are most popular as well as to personalize the website based on visitor preference. As technology advances and cookies provide more functionality, we expect to utilize them in different ways. If so, we will update this Privacy Policy to identify such new uses of cookies.
However, if you wish, you can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please note that some areas of our website may not function properly if you disable cookies. There are many sources for additional information about Internet cookies, and we encourage anyone concerned about the use of cookies to do more research on the topic so you can make an informed decision about accepting them from any site.
The Foundation maintains log files, which contain Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses. An IP address is a numeric address that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. We do not link IP addresses to personal information. In general, we only use log files to monitor traffic on our website and to troubleshoot technical problems. In the event of abuse, however, we may block certain IP addresses.
5. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose your information to third parties in the following cases, in accordance with the applicable data protection laws:
disclosure to third party service providers such as auditors, accountants, and bankers, for providing inter-alia, data processing;
where there is a legal obligation to disclose such information to third parties, either under applicable law or order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or pursuant to any other legal process;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
Please note that we do not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make any of your personal information available for a commercial purpose, except as expressly provided in this Policy or with your prior permission.
5.1. Third Party Links:
Our website also contains links to third parties' websites in respect of which we do not have any rights. You hereby agree that we are not responsible for the collection, use, processing and disclosure of any information by virtue of your accessing such links and websites.
5.2. Social Media Handles:
In case you provide us any personal information through inbox messages or posts (as applicable) on our social media pages (eg. on LinkedIn, Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram), to the extent that such messages and posts containing the personal information, are sent to our social media accounts, the personal information will be subject to this privacy policy and the applicable data protection laws. However, you hereby agree that given that our social media handles are on third party websites, we are not responsible for collection, use, processing and disclosure of any of your information by third parties (including the social media websites themselves, members of the public, etc.) by virtue of your accessing or providing information on such social media websites (whether or not to our social media page) or otherwise engaging in any other activities on such websites.
6. Data Protection
We value the privacy of the personal information collected from you and endeavour to safeguard the same from unauthorised use, disclosure, alteration and destruction. In order to do so, we maintain appropriate managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures in relation to our computer systems. We also ensure that if any disclosures are made or any access is provided to your personal information, it is on a need-to-know basis only to persons who maintain at least the same level of safeguards for data protection and who are subject to confidentiality obligations.
In our endeavour to protect your personal information, where we find that your personal information is no longer required for any of the purposes (under paragraph 4 above) for which we collected it or otherwise it is not required to be retained pursuant to any applicable data protection law, we will not store it. However, you agree that we may store your personal information in electronic back up form, in which case such backups would be subject to appropriate safeguards (including technical and organisational).
7. Disclaimer
Notwithstanding the above, you agree that we shall not be responsible for:
any unauthorised use, collection, processing or access to your personal information or breaches of security beyond our firm's reasonable control; and
any liability arising in connection with disclosure by you of your personal information to third parties, whether by you accessing third party webpages or websites through our website, or in any other manner.
8. Your Rights of Access to Your Information with Us
You may exercise rights in relation to your personal information which includes the following by requesting/writing to us at the contact details mentioned at paragraph 9 below.
the personal information collected from you or in relation to you;
any modification or updation of any of your personal information;
withdrawal of your consent;
restriction on use or processing of your personal information in any manner or to any extent;
erasure of your personal information;
transmission of your personal data by us to another controller as specified by you, subject to the applicable data protection laws;
In addition to the above, you are also entitled to the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. We do not have any automated decision making or profiling in relation to your personal information.
9. Amendments to the Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time and such amendments shall be effective from the date on which it is posted on our website. We reserve the right to amend this Policy without the consent or concurrence of any third party visitor.
10. Consent
By providing information on this website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to the disclosure of such information to third parties in accordance with the terms hereof.
We hope that this gives you a clear idea of our practices in relation to privacy. If you require any further information, feel free to e-mail us at info@cesp-foundation.in.
11. Contact Information
In case you have any questions pursuant to this privacy policy or if you have any complaints or pursuant to paragraph 8 above, if you have any requests, please write to us at:
CESP Golden Jubilee Foundation, 1/23, Shanti Niketan, Rao Tula Ram Marg, Opposite R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110021