1.0 Privacy Statement
Protecon BTG Private Limited, a company registered under Company Act 1956 with Corporate Identity Number U72900DL2013PTC258379, and having its Corporate Office at 1st Floor, B-27, Sector-132, Noida, UP-201304 and registered office at 23D, Pocket-C, SFS Flats, Mayur Vihar, Phase-III, Delhi-110096, hereinafter referred to as “Protecon” (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://www.iitrprograms.com/ (hereinafter referred to as “Service”).
Our Privacy Policy governs your visit to https://www.iitrprograms.com/, and explains how we collect, safeguard and disclose information that results from your use of our Service.
By using our services, 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”).
2.0 Definitions
Service means the https://www.iitrprograms.com/ website operated by Protecon.
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from that data (or from that 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.
3.0 Information Collection and Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
4.0 Types of Data Collected
4.1 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 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.
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. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link.
4.2 Usage Data
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access 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), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers 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, your device unique ID, the IP address of your device, your device operating system, the type of Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
4.3 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.
4.4 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. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.
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:
- Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
III. Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
- Advertising Cookies: Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.
4.5 Social Media Data
We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details like your Facebook, Twitter or other social media account. If you choose to do this, we may receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary based on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, and profile picture, as well as anything else you choose to make public on such a social media platform. We shall only use this information as given in this privacy policy. For more information on personal information usage Third Party Social Media provider, please refer to the ‘Links to Other Sites’ section.
4.6 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, employment agreements, NDA agreements, information on bonuses and compensation, information on marital status, family members, social security (or other taxpayer identification) number, office location and other data.
5.0 Use of Data:
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website.
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website.
- Understand and analyse 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.
- Personalize Advertisements as per your interests and send you marketing and promotional content via Phone Calls, WhatsApp and Email.
6.0 Retention of Data
We retain all Personal Data in accordance with our data retention policy which abides by applicable Data Protection Laws. The retention period depends on the type of data and existence of the user’s account. We retain data for as long as the account stays active and delete it within 15 days after the account is deleted. If the user does not deactivate his/her account, we retain the data indefinitely.
Unless the user deletes their account, we will retain the user’s data for 15 days. If the user deletes their account, we will delete their data within 15 days, we do not have any feature for deactivation of the user account, therefore if the user wants to remove their data then they will have to delete their account.
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.
7.0 Transfer of Data
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.
Protecon 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.
8.0 Disclosure of Data
We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with the law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Protecon, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
With Your Consent: Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your personal information may be shared with third parties, and will be able to prevent the sharing of this information.
9.0 Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
10.0 Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
11.0 Profile Visibility
While employing our website, your profile shall be visible to other users and vice versa. Further, some activities that you engage in on our platform shall be broadcasted to other users. Your continued use of the Protecon website shall constitute acceptance of this feature.
12.0 Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our website to
- Monitor site traffic and behaviour flows of users.
- Measure the effectiveness of on-site products.
- Measure the effectiveness of off-site marketing campaigns and tactics.
Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on; if you want to opt out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the add-on for your web browser here.
13.0 CI/CD tools
We may use third-party Service Providers to automate the development process of our Service.
15.0 Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
16.0 Non-Transferability
The rights to a user account and paid courses may not be transferred or assigned to another account/person/entity, whether by sharing, requesting, operation of law, or otherwise. Any effort to share account rights, purchased courses, or any other privileges granted to the user is void and will not be considered. As a result, transferring account rights is not permitted.
17.0 Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
18.0 Report Vulnerabilities
You can send a report regarding vulnerabilities to query@iitrprograms.com including the following:
– Vulnerability Description
– Affected URL(s)
– Steps to reproduce
– POC(Screenshot/Video)
– Resolution (Optional)
We only accept vulnerability reports for the following domains:
Upon confirmation of the aforementioned vulnerabilities, we provide certificates and goodies to the individuals who reported the issue. Please note that we will only be able to provide the certificates and goodies if you are a resident of India. Furthermore, we do not provide monetary rewards.
19.0 Commercial Communication
We may still send you commercial communication even if you have chosen DND for your telecommunications service provider. If you want to enable DND, please email us at query@iitrprograms.com, and we won’t send you any commercial communications.
20.0 Children’s Privacy
Our Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 18 (“Child” or “Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children under 18. If you become aware that a Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at query@iitrprograms.com. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from Children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
21.0 Update
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 07 July 2023. If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at query@iitrprograms.com.