Brainware University, (“Brainware University website and its smartphone apps”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://www.brainwareuniversity.ac.in (hereinafter referred to as “Service”). Our Privacy Policy governs your visit to https://www.brainwareuniversity.ac.in, https://www.brainwareuniversity.ac.in/studentselfservice/, https://www.brainwareuniversity.ac.in/applicant/ and explains how we collect, safeguard and disclose information that results from your use of our Service. We use your data to provide and improve Service. By using Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions. Our Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern all use of our Service and together with the Privacy Policy constitutes your agreement with us (“Agreement”).

We reserve the right in our sole discretion to edit or delete any document, information or other content appearing on the Site.

Scope:

The UNIVERSITY Privacy Policy applies to all faculty, staff, students, affiliates, and third-party service providers. This policy is not intended to replace or supersede other existing University policies and procedures.

Objective / Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to protect the privacy of individuals who have sensitive information stored (either in electronic or paper form) on assets owned by The Brainware University, while at the same time providing the University the ability to share this information with authorized entities as required by legitimate academic or business need or by law.

Service means the https://www.brainwareuniversity.ac.in website and smartphone apps operated by Brainware University.

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of Service or from Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller means a natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.

Data Processors (Or Service Providers) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

1. Email address

2. First name and Last name

3. Phone number

4. Address, Country, State, Province, Postal code, City and Other data including any Government issued/recognised identity proof.

5. Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you.

Security of Personal Data subject to the GDPR

All personal data and sensitive data collected or processed by the University under the scope of the Indian Government General Data Protection Regulation Compliance Policy must comply with the security controls, systems, and process requirements and standards set forth in the University’s Data Classification and Protection Standard.

We will not share your information with third parties except:

• as necessary to meet one of its lawful purposes, including but not limited to, its legitimate interest,
  • contract compliance,
  • pursuant to consent provided by you,
  • as required by law;
• as necessary to protect the University’s interests;
• with service providers acting on our behalf who have agreed to protect the confidentiality of the data.

1. While your personnel and students access our website, we recognize and collect the IP address, browser type, ISP, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time, stamp, number of clicks, domain name and country/state.

2. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the web-site.

Usage Data

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access our Service by or through any device (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g.IP address), the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other diagnostic data. When you access Service with a device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of device you use, the IP address of your device, your device operating system, the type of Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Location Data

We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service. You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time by way of your device settings.

Cookies and related technologies:

The University website uses cookies, tracking pixels and related technologies. Cookies are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your device. Our site uses cookies dropped by us or third parties for a variety of purposes including to operate and personalize the website. Also, cookies may also be used to track how you use the site to target ads to you on other websites.

Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use:

1. Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

2. Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

3. Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Other Data

While using our Service, we may also collect the following information: sex, age, date of birth, place of birth, passport details, citizenship, registration at place of residence and actual address, telephone number (work, mobile), details of documents on education, qualification, professional training, information on marital status, family members. social security (or other taxpayer identification) number, office location and other data.

Brainware University uses the collected data for various purposes:

1. to provide and maintain our Service;
2. to notify you about changes to our Service;
3. to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so;
4. to provide customer support;
5. to gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service;
6. to monitor the usage of our Service;
7. to detect, prevent and address technical issues;
8. to fulfil any other purpose for which you provide it;
9. to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
10. to provide you with notices about your account and/or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices, email-instructions, etc.;
11. to provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information;
12. in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
13. for any other purpose with your consent.

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside India and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to India and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Brainware University will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.