Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. This notice applies to all information collected from or submitted to this website. We are collecting personal information as defined under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules made thereunder.
The Information We Collect
We respect the privacy and security of our users. Our goal is to provide you with knowledge, resources, products and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. In order to achieve this goal, we sometimes collect information, like IP addresses, browsing details etc. during your visits to our website to understand what differentiates you from each of our millions of other users.
The personal information, including academic and contact details, which you provide to us while using our website will be kept confidential.
We request that children below the age of 18 years not to submit any personal information to us as they are not eligible to use any of the services offered by us.
How We Use Information
We do track certain information about the visits to our website by using cookies. We compile statistics that show the numbers and frequency of visitors to our website and its individual pages. These aggregated statistics are used internally to improve the website content and our service offerings in general.
We may communicate with our user via email only if the user agrees to receive such communications. Users who believe that they are receiving our communications in error or no longer desire to receive them, should inform us and we will remove that user’s name from our communication list.
How We Protect Your Information
We adopt highest standards of security, privacy and confidentiality in maintaining personal information of our users. We permit only authorized employees or individuals, who have been trained in proper handling of users’ information, to have access to your information.
We will take all appropriate steps to keep your personal information, including sensitive personal information confidential. The steps include: only work related limited access to user information databases, communicating this policy statement to all employees, experts and service providers and establishing and enforcing strict disciplinary processes for violating this statement. Whenever we engage other service providers to provide support services, we will require them to conform to our privacy standards and to allow us to audit them for compliance. The privacy and protection of your personal information is vitally important to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, despite our efforts to protect your personal information, we are not in a position to ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. You transmit all such information at your own risk. However, once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
We will not willfully disclose any individually identifiable information about our users to any third party without first receiving such user’s consent. We may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the same is required by Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) or to protect our rights and/or property.
We welcome any questions or comments you have about our privacy policy. Please direct them to: dir-dit.goa@nic.in
Website Policy
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●For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this Government computer system employs commercial software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
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●Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular deletion.
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●Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Indian IT Act (2000).
How We Protect Your Information
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●If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the Service.
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●Information Collection and Use
For a better user experience, while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to Name, Mobile Number, Address, Gender and G.P.S Location. -
●Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your device internal memory. This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and to improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service. -
●Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it and also comply with mandatory government regulations. But users are requested to note that information over internet can be prone for compromises, on occasions, various cyber security measures. -
●Links to Other Sites
This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. -
●Changes to this Privacy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.
How We Protect Your Information
Hyperlink Policy
Links to External Websites/Portals : At many places in this website, you shall find links to other websites/portals. This links have been placed for your convenience. We are not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over availability of linked pages.