You certainly understand and concur that:
DIRECTION IAS has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate own organization commitment to privacy. Throughout the cyberspace we want to contribute towards providing a safe and secure environment, safe information gathering and dissemination practices for all our sites. This policy applies only to directionias.com which carry the Direction IAS Institute and not to other companies or organizations’ websites to which we link.
Information Gathering And Usage
- Registration / Information
When you sign up for directionias.com we ask you for personal information. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other services / third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
You may provide us with certain information such as your Name, E-mail address, Correspondence address when registering for certain services such as Online Registration / Submit Resume, Contests. This information will primarily be used for the purpose of providing personalization and verification.
- Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. A cookie can contain information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data of your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. directionias.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns and for the personalization feature.
- User communications
When you send email or other communications to directionias.com, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.
- Log information
When you access directionias.com services via a browser, application or other client our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.
- Electronic Newsletter/E-mail
directionias.com offers a free electronic newsletter to its users. We gather the e-mail addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by using the link provided in every newsletter.
- Confidential
DIRECTION IAS Privacy Policy applies to directionias.com services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results, sites that include other applications, products or services, or links from within our various services. Personal information that you provide to other sites may be sent to directionias.com in order to deliver the service. We process such information under this Privacy Policy.
- Public Forums:
When you use certain features on our website like the discussion forums and you post or share your personal information such as comments, messages, files, photos, will be available to all users, and will be in the public domain. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting on our forums this information may become publicly available.
- Data Security:
If use a feature requiring payment of a fee, we transmit your payment details to our payment service provider for processing. If we encounter a problem with payment, we may review the order information with you and our service provider to resolve it. We do not otherwise disclose your credit card information. We do not share your email address or your personal information with third party marketers.We use administrative, physical and technical precautions to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of personal information stored on our system. We host the Site at a commercial-grade data center that employs extensive security practices. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our Site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
Information sharing
Other than the above mentioned sharing of data related to payment details, we only share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Direction IAS in the following limited circumstances:
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:
a) Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request
b) Enforce applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof
c) Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or
d) Protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of directionias.com or Direction IAS , its users or the public as required or permitted by law. We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users subscribed to a particular product, or the number of users registered on our website. Such information does not identify you individually.
We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to our specified purposes.
How Long Do We Retain User Data?
Currently, we plan to retain user data while an account is active and for at least three years afterward. We may alter this practice according to legal and business requirements. For example, we may lengthen the retention period for some data if needed to comply with law or voluntary codes of conduct. Unless otherwise prohibited, we may shorten the retention period for some types of data if needed to free up storage space.
Your Consent to This Policy
By accessing our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This document supersedes any prior communication on this topic and reflects the entire and exclusive Privacy Policy for this Site. This Policy is subject to our Terms of Use, which take precedence over any conflicting Policy provision. We may change our Policy by posting a new version of it on our Site.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us by writing to us at:
Address: Direction Institute for IAS Examination, HariBhawan, 14A/103 WEA,Karol Bagh, New Delhi – 110005
