Privacy & Cookie Policy

365体育投注 Academy of Higher Education (hereafter referred to as ‘MAHE’, ‘us’, ‘we’) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of individuals whose personal data is collected and processed by MAHE.

This Privacy Policy, is intended to inform you on how we gather, define, and use personal data that you provide to the Institute when you use any of websites and services offered by MAHE.

This Privacy Policy will primarily help you understand:

• The nature of information we collect from you
• The sources from where your information is collected (Including the cases where personal data is not directly collected from you)
• The purpose of collecting your information
• The manner in which your information is collected, stored, used and processed
• The rights that can be exercised by you

We do not sell or trade your personal data or personally identifiable information; however, we may share the same with third parties who assist us in conducting our business, operating our website, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

This Policy applies to all students, parents, visitors and other individuals who provide their personal data to the Institute (hereinafter referred to as “Data Subject(s)”).

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Personal data you provide directly:

When you use certain functions provided by the Website, such as when you register for certain services, access or features, we may ask you to provide certain personal data, which primarily consists of:

A. Personal data: We may collect your personal data elements which may include but is not limited to your name, contact details, postal address, email address, gender, age, date of birth, username and password.

B. Sensitive Personal Data

• We may collect and process data concerning health which may constitute as sensitive personal data under the governing privacy legislation with respect to the product and services provided by us.
• We may also collect and process financial information which may constitute as sensitive personal data under the governing privacy legislation at time of purchase of product/service and/or online payment;

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Personal data that is automatically collected when you visit the Website:

When you download and visit the website, certain personal data may be collected automatically, which includes:

• Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) Address,
• Your browser type and operating system,
• Web pages and links you visit, advertisements you view
• Your bandwidth speed and information about the about the software programs that are installed on your computer,
• Standard server log information

Personal data that we collect from other sources:

We may receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources (as permitted by law), which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you. We also may receive information about you from third-party social networking services when you choose to connect with those services.

Data collected from cookies and similar technologies:

This website uses cookies and/or similar technologies to collect such information including IP addresses as may assist in personalize and enhance the browsing experience for the visitor, analyse behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

Please refer to the Section 7-Cookie Policy for more details.

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General:

We may use the information collected from you for enrolment, to provide a service, to provide customized content and make recommendations based on your past activities on our Website. We may also use your personal details to send statements, payment reminders, newsletters, brochures etc.

Advertisements:

We believe in being open, honest and transparent with our clients and suppliers and want you to feel comfortable about your decision to give us your personal information and how we use it.

MAHE may use your information to provide you with updates, sending newsletters and other communications about existing and/or new programmes by post, email, telephone, in-device messaging and/or text message (SMS), if you have provided your prior consent or we are otherwise permitted to do so under applicable law.

You can change your mind at any time, and it is quick and easy to let us know that you no longer want to hear from us by contacting us at ?privacy.mahe@manipal.edu .

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MAHE may use your information to create user group profiles or segment data and to otherwise create anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our courses or programs, which we may share with third parties and/or make available to the public.

Product/Services Improvement:

MAHE may use your information to improve and enhance existing MAHE functioning, develop new offerings, recommendations, advertisements and other communications, and learn more about individuals’ preferences in general.

Further, we may use information provided by you to deal with enquiries and complaints made; to keep our website and other systems secure and to prevent fraud.?

Other Purposes:

MAHE may use your personal data, as we believe to be necessary or appropriate:

• under applicable law, including laws outside your state or country of residence;
• to comply with legal process and to prevent, detect, or suppress abuse, fraud, or criminal activity;
• to respond to requests from public and government authorities and self-regulatory organizations, including public and government authorities and self-regulatory organizations outside your state or country of residence;
• to enforce our terms and conditions;
• to protect our operations, assets, or interests or those of any of our affiliates;
• to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and
• to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain

Change of Purpose

We will only use your data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis, which allows MAHE to do so.

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Please note that in certain circumstances, we may process your personal data without knowledge or consent, in compliance with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Please note that if you wish to opt-out of any such processing activities for purposes other than the original purpose, you can reach out to us by writing to us at privacy.mahe@manipal.edu.

Our grounds of processing your personal information are:

• Where you have given consent for the processing of data for a specific purpose.?
• Processing is necessary to meet contractual obligations entered by you
• Processing is necessary for a legal obligation that the Institute is subjected to
• Purposes related to employment; or in response to your application for a job that we have advertised about

Processing is necessary for other reasonable purposes pursued by our institutes which may include reasonable purposes such as fraud prevention, information security, and processing publicly available personal data.?

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• To any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, partners, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy and for the purpose of providing services to you.
• To college affiliates, associate colleges and any member of MAHE.
• To our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting and webinars. The information we provide to third parties service providers is subject to confidentiality obligations and is intended to be used solely for the purpose(s) permitted thereby.
• We may employ third party entities and individuals to facilitate our Services (e.g. maintenance, analysis, audit, marketing and development). These third parties have limited access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated to MAHE, not to disclose or use it for other purposes. All of our approved third-party providers go through an extensive data protection compliance vetting process before being selected as a third party provider and are bound by all relevant data privacy laws, terms of confidentiality, and this Privacy Policy.
• If you choose to use the Website, you will be asked to confirm acceptance of MAHE’s Privacy Policy.

There may be instances when we disclose your information to other parties to comply with the law or respond to compulsory legal process or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Services or to protect the rights, property, or safety of MAHE, or any of our respective affiliates or business partners.

We offer a variety of choices about how we use your information. You can make choices about whether to receive promotional communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the communication. In addition, you can also generally make choices in your settings, or by visiting relevant links.

For data subjects in the EU who are subject to the GDPR’s provisions, you have the following rights with respect to the personal data that we hold and process about you:

????i) Right to Be Informed

????ii) Right to Access

????iii) Right to Correction (“Rectification”)

????iv) Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten)

????v) Right to Restriction of Processing

????vi) Right to Data Portability

????vii) Right to Object to Processing

????viii) Right to Not Be Subject to Automated Decision Making

You can make a request by directly writing to us at privacy.mahe@manipal.edu

For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.? The Institute will act on all data subject requests received without undue delay and respond within the stipulated timelines prescribed by regulations, post completion of necessary verification checks.

Discrepancies and grievances

Any discrepancies or grievance