Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Choice School (the “School” or “We”) website located at www.choiceschool.in (the “Website”). The School provides this Website to you subject to the following Terms of Use and Privacy Policy (together, the “Terms”).
1. Privacy Policy for The Choice School
At the Choice School, accessible from https://choiceschool.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors/Users. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by The Choice School and how we use it. This Privacy Policy is devised to help you feel more confident about the privacy and security of your personal details. We receive both information that is directly provided to Us, such as personal information You provide when You visit the Website and information that is passively or automatically collected from You, such as information collected from the browser or device In this Privacy Policy, we refer to all this as the ‘User Information’. We only collect your personal information to conduct our business and to enable us to deliver and improve our services to you. We do not, for any reason whatsoever, sell your personal information to any third party or otherwise trade on it.
You should be aware that while you access our Website, information and data may be automatically collected through the use of Cookies or similar tracking technologies. “Cookies” are text files placed in your computer browser that store basic information that a Website can use to recognise repeat site visits and as an example, recall Your name if this has been previously supplied. We may use this to understand Your service and internet usage, observe behaviour and compile aggregate data in order to improve or customize our products, services offerings or the Website, target the advertising and assess general effectiveness of such advertising. If You do not want information collected through the Use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows You to deny or accept the Cookie feature. Note, however, that “personalised” services may be affected if the cookie option is disabled.
Our Website primarily uses the following three types of cookies:
a) Operationally Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our Website. They make it possible for you to browse and use our Website. If you disable these cookies, the Website will not function correctly.
b) Performance Cookies
These cookies gather information about how visitors/users use the Website and monitor Website performance. For example, performance cookies tell us which pages are popular, monitor traffic to our Website and compile anonymous analytic information. Choice School’s affiliates may collect this information on our behalf in order to perform data analytics services for us. Performance cookies can also be used to identify and remedy operational problems with the Website.
c) Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to recognize and remember your preferences.
You can choose to delete Cookies at any time; however, you may lose any information that enables you to access the Website more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, personalisation settings. It is recommended that you ensure that your internet browser is up-to-date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your internet browser if you are unsure about adjusting your privacy settings.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors/users to our Website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in The Choice School. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Choice School owns and manages the website www.choiceschool.com and the Privacy Policy is drafted in compliance of Sec 43 A of IT Act 2000 (Information& Technology Act).
Rule 4 of Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011.
Rule 3(1) of Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines), Rules 2011
In this Privacy Policy we endeavour to explain to our Website users
- the type of information we collect
- the purpose /use of such information and the required period for retention
- modalities of collection of information
- who shall have access to such information?
- details of third-party agencies if any retaining the information for any outsourced services
- your rights to selective disclosure and editing and erasure of your information
- process of maintaining and storing and reasonable security practices adopted for securing your information
- circumstances of disclosure of information to third parties
- Privacy policies
- Circumstances in which your data can be requested to be deleted
Some of the information you may provide may be in the category of personal information and we understand the same to be provided voluntarily by you. By use of our Website or by explicit provision of such information by you/your agents while in use of our Website shall give us the right to collect, use, store, transfer, disclosure as per law and in accordance to this Privacy Policy. We are obligated to maintain reasonable security standards for the maintenance, storage and dissemination of the same to appropriate third parties with or without your consent as per legal requirements.
2. Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. You may withdraw your consent by sending a written notice to us at choiceit@choicegroup.in
Choice School advises against the use of the communication platform provided on this website for exchange of any confidential, business or politically sensitive information. User is requested to use his or her judgment and exchange of any such information shall be solely at the user’s risk.
3. Information we collect
We collect the following types of information about You, both through offline documentation that You may provide, as well as when You use Our Websites: User Information, Demographic Information, Behavioural Information, and Indirect Information, (each of which have been defined below, and collectively, “Information”).
We collect Your Information either directly from You through offline documentation and/or the Websites or indirectly by using different technologies.
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
Demographic information: We may collect demographic information about you or any other information provided by you during the use of our website. We might collect this as a part of a survey also.
Other information: If you use our website, we may collect information about your IP address and the browser you’re using. We might look at what site you came from, duration of time spent on our website, pages accessed or what site you visit when you leave us. We might also collect the type of mobile device you are using, or the version of the operating system your computer or device is running.
We collect information in different ways: We collect information directly from you. We collect information directly from you when you fill any online application or request/inquiry forms that we include in our website or social media handles. We also collect information if you post a comment on our websites or ask us a question through phone or email.
We collect information from you passively: We use tracking tools like Google Analytics, Google Webmaster, browser cookies and web beacons for collecting information about your usage of our website.
We get information about you from third parties: For example, if you use an integrated social media feature on our websites. The third-party social media site will give us certain information about you. This could include your name and email address.
4. How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including:
- To contact you. We might also use the information you provide to contact you for promotional purposes.
- To respond to your requests or questions. We might use your information to confirm your application, if you have applied for any of our courses online.
- To improve our admission services. We might use your information to customize your experience with us. This could include displaying content based upon your preferences.
- To look at site trends and visitor interests. We may use your information to make our website and services better. We may combine information we get from you with information about you we get from third parties.
- For security purposes. We may use information to protect our organization, our human resources, or our websites.
- To send you transactional communications. We might send you relevant emails or SMS.
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
- As otherwise provided by law
For the purposes of recording information including dates times and locations at which Our Websites have been accessed by using various tracking technologies and thereby improve Our Websites and Your experience by providing You with relevant information based on the above. Your disabling of tracking technologies on the Websites by changing settings on Your smartphone and/or web browser may result in Your inability to use the Website fully or at all;
5. Sharing of information with third-parties:
Disclosing Your Information including Personal Information to organizations and individuals who are acting as our counterparties, consultants and advisors in relation to the Websites for the purpose of streamlining efficient use of the Websites;
Disclosing Your Information including Personal Information to organizations and individuals who are authorised by Us to perform certain functions in relation to the Websites and/or Our business, including Our third party service providers, consultants, business partners and professional advisors and insurers;
We may share the User Information with Our affiliates or group companies, so they can provide, improve and communicate with You about their own, or their marketing partners’ products and services.
We also share aggregated information about You with partners, other Website users, and other third parties for the purpose of improving Our Websites;
We may transfer Information including Personal Information to third parties, including persons outside India, in furtherance of the above; and
We may disclose Your Information, including Personal Information, if legally required to do so, pursuant to an order from a governmental entity or in good faith
We may share information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law or to protect ourselves. We will share information to respond to a court order or subpoena. We may also share it if a government agency or investigatory body requests. Or, we might also share information when we are investigating potential fraud.
We may share information with any successor to all or part of our business. For example, if part of our service is sold we may give our information as part of that transaction.
We may share your information for reasons not described in this policy. We will tell you before we do this.
6. Log Files
The Choice School follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
7. Website Links
This Website may provide links or references to third party websites or applications, including without limitation, third party websites or applications of advertisers or of providers of informational articles or other users. The School is not responsible for any information you choose to provide to those third-party websites or applications; any information, products or services you acquire from those third-party websites or applications, or any damages arising from your access to or use of those third-party websites or applications.
Any links to third party websites and applications are provided as a convenience to the visitors of this Website and any inclusion of any such links in this Website does not imply an endorsement or warranty of the third-party websites or applications or their security, content, products, offerings or services. You are cautioned that any third-party websites or applications are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies, so when linking you should make sure to visit the appropriate pages of those third-party websites or applications to determine what terms of use and privacy policies will apply to your use.
8. Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the privacy policy for each of the advertising partners (if any) of The Choice School.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The Choice School, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that The Choice School has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
9. Third Party Privacy Policies
The Choice School’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
10. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website can place on your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping or other administrative purposes. Our Website may use cookies to help to personalize your experience on the Website. Although most web browsers accept cookies automatically, usually you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you decide to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully use the features of the Website. Cookies may also be used at certain sites accessible through links on the Website.
11. GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
12. Changes To Your Information
- You may review, correct, update, or change Your Personal Information on the Websites by emailing Us at choiceit@choicegroup.in
- You may also request Us to delete Your Personal Information, and We will comply with such requests within a reasonable time, unless We are required to keep certain information for legal purposes.
- Should You choose to delete Your Personal Information, or modify it in a way that is not verifiable by Us, or leads to such Personal Information being incorrect, We will be unable to provide You with access to Our Websites, and such a deletion or modification may be regarded as the user seeking to discontinue access to Our Websites.
- We reserve the right to verify and authenticate Your identity and Your Personal Information in order to ensure accurate delivery of services through the Website.
- Access to, or correction, updating or deletion of Your Personal Information may be denied or limited by Us if it would violate another person’s rights and/or is not otherwise permitted by applicable law.
13. Retention Of Information
- We will put in place measures such that Your Personal Information, which is in Our possession or under Our control, is destroyed and/or anonymized as soon as it can be reasonably assumed that:
the Purpose for which that Personal Information was collected is no longer being served by the retention of such Personal Information; and retention is no longer necessary for any other reason including applicable law. - If You wish that We no longer use Your Personal Information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, contact Us at choiceit@choicegroup.in
- We, however, reserve the right to retain, store and use Your Information including Personal Information collected for the Purpose, whether such Information has been deleted or not. After a period of time, Your data may be anonymized and aggregated, and then may be held by Us as long as necessary for Us to provide Our Services effectively.
- Please note that Your withdrawal of consent to use Your Personal Information may result in Us not being able to provide You with access to the Websites, or terminate any existing relationship that We may have with You.
14. Security and Compliance with Laws
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. All information gathered is securely stored within the school controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall on the cloud; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable
Security is very important to Us. All security procedures are in place to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Your User Information. We strive towards maintaining strict physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect Your User Information including your personal information from unauthorized or inappropriate access.
We follow generally accepted standards to collect, store and protect personal data, including the use of encryption. We retain personal data for as long as it is needed to provide the services you have requested, and thereafter for legal and service purposes. These may include retention periods mandated by legal, contractual, or similar obligations, for resolving, preserving, enforcing or defending our legal and contractual rights, and needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records or to understand how you access, update, or delete your data etc.
While this website will take all the reasonable measures to guard against misuse of personal data/information submitted to it by you, this website cannot guarantee that someone will not overcome our security measures, including, without limitation, the security measures implemented on this Website. Therefore, your posting of personal data/ information on this Website constitutes your acceptance of this risk, and by posting of personal data/information, you waive any right to seek legal relief from this website due to any misuse of your information.
To ensure that your Data receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate safeguards and procedures with the third parties we share your Data with. This ensures your Data is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with the Data Protection Laws.
15. Copyright and Trademark Information
The content included on this Website, such as data, text, graphics, logos, images and software and its compilation is the property of the School and/or its content suppliers and is protected by copyright and trademark laws. In the event you upload any content including, without limitation, photographs or videos to this Website, you (i) represent to the School and its affiliates that you have all rights necessary to upload the content; (ii) agree to indemnify the School and its affiliates for any third party infringement or other claims related thereto; and (iii) hereby license to the School and its affiliates a perpetual non-cancellable royalty-free license to use such uploaded content for any purposes in any media now existing or hereafter developed
16. Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
NOTICE TO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18AND THEIR PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS: IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18AND WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT US PLEASE DO SO THROUGH YOUR PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS. THIS WEBSITE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR ADULTS. THE SCHOOL DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION (“PERSONAL INFORMATION”) FROM CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 13, DO NOT SEND US ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, NAME AND/OR CONTACT INFORMATION.
If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
17. Jurisdiction
If you choose to visit the website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Policy and the website’s terms of use. In addition to the foregoing, any disputes arising under this Policy shall be governed by the laws of India.
18. Notification of Claims of Infringement
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any user submitted information or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Copyright Act by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing:
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the Copyright Agent to locate the material;
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the Copyright Agent to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
The School’s designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is: Copyright Agent at choiceit [at] choiceschool [dot] in. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this section, your notice may not be valid.
19. Grievance or queries:
If you have any questions about this Policy or other privacy concerns, you can also email us at choiceit@choicegroup.in
20. Disclaimer
You agree and undertake to indemnify Us in any suit or dispute by any third party arising out of disclosure of information by You to third parties either through Our Websites or otherwise, and Your use and access of websites, applications and resources of third parties. We assume no liability for any actions of third parties with regard to Your Information or Personal Information which You may have disclosed to such third parties.
21 Indemnity
You agree and undertake to indemnify Us in any suit or dispute by any third party arising out of disclosure of information by You to third parties either through Our Websites or otherwise, and Your use and access of websites, applications and resources of third parties. We assume no liability for any actions of third parties with regard to Your Information or Personal Information which You may have disclosed to such third parties.
22. Severability
If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of this privacy policy (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of this privacy policy will not be affected.
23. Miscellaneous
The User Information resides in Choice School’s database for a certain period of time even after the user ceases to use or access the Website and in such cases Choice School is not liable for any usage of the User Information after the user ceases to use or access the Website.
The Users agree and acknowledge that User Information collated through the Website could be stored and processed in any other country across the world. The users acknowledge that for effective provision of the Website’s services in respective territories including territories outside India, the User Information may be stored or processed by trusted third parties. Whenever the User Information is shared with trusted third parties in countries outside India, Choice School endeavours that the User Information is transferred in accordance with the applicable laws of India.
The user should be aware that the User Information or other data, the user provides to the Website for availing the services or transacting through the Website, could be read, collected, or used by other users or third parties in which case the User Information might be used for sending unsolicited messages or communications, for which Choice School is not responsible.
The user agrees and acknowledges Choice School right to utilize the user’s posts, contents, information and other personal data for the purpose of providing services through the Website. The contents on the Website may contain comments, post and reviews posted by the users which may be public and searchable on the internet in which case the user’s comments, post reviews and information and personal data provided to the Website may be viewed by other users and Choice School cannot guarantee that other users or third parties have not made copies of or used the ideas and information that the user has shared on the Website.
The content of this website is solely the Intellectual Property of the Choice School
