Introduction
We at Academy of Skills Development respects the privacy of our users. We take utmost care when we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.academyofskillsdevelopment.org from any media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto. Please read this privacy policy carefully. Should you find any issues in this policy detriment to your interests you may not like to access various contents of this site.
We reserve the right to incorporate any changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will keep you informed about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site or with effect from the date mentioned therein.
We request you to kindly be informed of our latest privacy policy from time to time. You are also requested to kindly review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have read, understood, been made aware of and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.
Collection of Your Information
In the course of our business, we may collect certain information about you in different ways and forms. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personal Data
Personally information, such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as submitting forms, online chat and message boards. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind. However certain information will be mandatory for us to ask to enable you to surf the full contents of the website. You must provide those contents of information so as to make full use of the website.
Derivative Data
Please be informed that certain information are automatically collected when you access our website, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed etc.
Financial Data
We collect certain financial information related to your payment method such as your credit card number, card company details, expiry date when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site. We store only very limited financial information for a limited period for our limited use for the transaction that we have done with you. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment gateway providers and you are advised to also go through the privacy policy of your payment gateway company and contact them directly to resolve your queries, if any.
Social Media Permissions
While you are visiting our website, the site may in the course of processing the data, may access your basic account information, including your name, email, gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other information that have been made public by you. Also, while processing the data for you, we may request access to certain other data related to your contacts and friends and family and also other accounts on social media such as facebook, Instagram, linkedin and the likes. You may choose to grant or deny us access to each such permission whenever you are prompted to do so and whichever way required. For more information on such social media accounts, you may like to refer to the policy framework of such social media sites.
Data From Social Networks
While processing the data for you, we may request access to certain other data related to your contacts and friends and family and also other accounts on your other social networks. This may include data including your name, your social network username, location, gender, date of birth, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts etc.
Mobile Device Data
Device information, such as your mobile device ID, laptop ID, Notebook ID, Bluetooth device and information about any other gadget model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device may also be collected wherever deemed fit while you are accessing our website.
Third-Party Data
While accessing our website, you grant us permission to access, collect and use Information from third parties which may be in your networks as required by the system and if you connect your account to the third party and grant the site permission to access this information.
Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys
Authenticity of the Personal and other information you may provide when registering, accessing, using or entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys will be your sole responsibility.
Use of Your Information
Having successfully registered, logged on to our website by providing accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Administer sweepstakes, promotions, and contests.
- Assist law enforcement and respond to subpoena.
- Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties.
- Create and manage your account.
- Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you.
- Email you regarding your account or order.
- Enable user-to-user communications.
- Fulfil and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the Site.
- Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits to the Site.
- Increase the efficiency and operation of the Site.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
- Notify you of updates to the Site.
- Offer new products, services, and/or recommendations to you.
- Perform other business activities as needed.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
- Process payments and refunds.
- Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Site.
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
- Respond to product and customer service requests.
- Send you a newsletter.
- Solicit support for the Site.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, order from the court, from any judicial authority, form any administering authority and it is inescapable to do so and in order to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of our organisation, our customers, our suppliers, our vendors, our associates and others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance only when it is necessary and there is no other way but to share your information in the course of furtherance of our business. For doing so, we have your advance permission.
Marketing Communications
With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Interactions with Other Users
If you interact with other users of the Site, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, following blogs with or without your permission.
Online Postings
When you post comments, contributions or other content to the Site, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity with or without your consent.
Third-Party Advertisers
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you which you may please note.
Affiliates, business partners and other third parties
We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates may include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions which you may please note. We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis which you may please note. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law which you may please note.
Sale or Bankruptcy
If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third party. You accept and acknowledge and give us permission that such transfers may occur. May also please note that the transferee may modify or decline to honour commitments we made with you in this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the actions of third parties with whom you share personal or sensitive data, and we have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails or other communications from third parties, it is your sole responsibility to contact the third party directly.
Tracking Technologies
Cookies and Web Beacons
In order to provide you hassle free web surfing on our site, we will make all efforts and take all actions and use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. When you access the Site, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action tends to affect the availability and functionality of the Site. The web beacons, however, can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered, permitting you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
Internet-Based Advertising
Additionally, we may use third-party software to serve ads on the Site, implement email marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us.
Website Analytics
We may also partner with third-party vendors to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Site through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not intend to transfer personal information to these third-party vendors.
You should be aware that getting a new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.
Third-Party Websites
The Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interests, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Site.
Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite all our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information. However, we assure to take complete and maximum precaution at our command.
Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us.
Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in any future revised version of this Privacy Policy.