Privacy
Introduction
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Third-Party Service Providers
Community Guidelines
Do not use language that is offensive, demeaning, obscene, or threatening in any manner.
Do not post irrelevant information or queries.
Do not defame or bully on the basis of nationality, gender, race, religion, and or other differences.
Do not post commercial advertisements.
Do not share links redirecting students to groups on WhatsApp or other apps.
Do not share spam posts.
Do not disturb others by unnecessary messages unless they are fine with it.
Do not post inaccurate or misleading information.
Do not share your numbers, private or sensitive information with strangers online.
Be polite, discrete, and respectful towards people.
Report posts if they found them inappropriate
Do not invade others’ privacies.
Do not sell or offer any type of service for any price.
Your Consent
Information security
Updating your information
Children
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with ‘Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help ‘Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ communicate with you about offers from ‘Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Avocation Educational Services Pvt. Ltd.’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if ‘Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, ‘Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria – for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
- Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
- Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
- ‘Avocation Educational Services Private Limited’ works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you’ve requested please read our detailed reference links.
Confidentiality and Security
Non-Personal Information
Personally Identifiable Information
- It includes the information you share with us on the sign-up process and profile details like your name, email address, phone number, education, work experience, projects, and photographs.
- The information you provide on our forums, online and offline events and chats.
- In case of subscription to our Premium plans payment or refund, we might collect your account information from a third-party gateway provider.
Other Information
The user-generated content that you share with us on our platform.
- The interactions you have with our customer support team.
- Recording of the sessions you have with our counsellors for quality purposes.
Use of Information
Sharing Your Information
- Educational partners: We may share your information with universities or program coordinators who developed the program/ course you are taking up.
- Employers, sponsors and scholarship providers:ÌýIf you are taking a Program that is sponsored or paid for by your employer or a sponsor, or if you have availed of a scholarship from a third-party scholarship provider, we may share your Personally Identifiable Information.
- Service providers:ÌýWe provide access to or share your information with other third parties who perform services on our behalf strictly on confidential terms. They have access to perform these services but are prohibited from using your information for other purposes. They provide a variety of services to us, including billing, sales, marketing, test proctoring, couriers, mentoring, recruitment consulting, product content and features, advertising, analytics, research, customer service, data storage, security, fraud prevention, credit facilities, payment processing and legal services. Also, we use certain third-party platforms to collect your information (such as Typeform or Google Forms), as a consequence of which, your information may be stored on their servers.
- Alumni and Networking services:ÌýShould you agree to sign up for our services, please note that any information you provide will be governed by our policies. In certain cases, to facilitate communication between students, we may share your information with other students on chat forums.
- Government and Regulatory disclosure:ÌýWe may share your Information with various government authorities in response to court orders or other legal processes to establish or exercise our legal rights or to protect our property; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. We may also share your information when we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of ¿ìèÊÓƵ, the Platform, our users, and our customers.
- Associates and Business transfers:Ìý¿ìèÊÓƵ may disclose and/or transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to an acquirer, assignee or other successor entity in connection with a sale, merger, or reorganisation of all or substantially all of the equity, business or assets of ¿ìèÊÓƵ to which your Personally Identifiable Information relates.
- Business partners:ÌýWe may share information that can be used to directly contact you with third-party business partners, such as Banks, or private loan companies that may be offering products or services or other opportunities that may be of interest to you.
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