Privacy Policy

1. Scope:

• The Nita Mukesh Ambani Junior School (“School”) operates and maintains the sub-domain https://onlineadmission.nmajs.edu.in, https://edusprint.nmajs.edu.in and related pages of the website https://nmajs.edu.in (“Portal”). The School is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
• This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), together with the terms and conditions of the Portal, outlines the School’s privacy practices regarding the collection, use and safeguarding of your information.
• In the course of use of, registration on or signing up to the Portal, any submission of personal information by you or your parents or guardian (in case of a minor), will be deemed as acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
• The terms set out herein are an electronic record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (as amended / re-enacted) and rules thereunder, and is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3(1) of the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which mandates publishing of rules and regulations, privacy policy and terms of use for access or usage of any application. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.

2. Changes to the Privacy Policy:

• We shall protect your information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
• We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time basis changes in business, legal and regulatory requirements. We will make reasonable efforts to communicate any significant changes to this Privacy Policy to you; however, your continuous usage of the Portal shall be deemed acceptance of the then-current Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically visit this page to review the Privacy Policy and any changes to it.

3. Third Party Websites, Applications and Services:

• The Portal may include links to other websites / applications or may display advertisements from third parties and other content that links to third party websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are governed by their respective privacy policies which are out of the School’s control. Any information you provide while using such third party website or application will be governed by the privacy policy of the operator of such website/ application. Such policy may differ from that applicable to the Portal. If you cannot find the privacy policy of such website/ application, you should contact the operator of the website/ application directly for more information.
• Please note that your mobile service provider, mobile operating system provider, and any third party operators of mobile applications, social media platforms or websites that you access may also collect, use and share information about you and your usage. We cannot control how these third parties collect, use, share or secure this information. For information about third party privacy practices, please consult their respective privacy policies.

4. Personal information we collect:

• Personal information is information that can be used to identify you and may include details such as your name, age, gender, contact information, products and services you are interested in or require more information about. Insofar as sensitive personal information is concerned, it will have the meaning specified under applicable laws from time to time.
• The following is the manner in which we collect, use, share and retain personal information:

• Collection:
You agree that the School may collect your personal information, whenever relevant, to help provide you with information, complete any transaction or provide any services you have requested or authorized. You also consent to the collection of certain personal information in the course of applying / requesting for services.
• Usage:
The School seeks this information with your consent to (i) respond to your queries regarding the School’s programs; (ii) sign you up as a user of the Portal; (iii) verify your documents and the details submitted by you for the admission process; (iv) provide you with access to various services including newsletter subscriptions and information sought through the ‘Contact Us’ form; (v) provide you access to the admission portal, application form, payment gateway and document upload repository to complete the admission process; (vi) provide you access to the student and academic management platform and financial transactions platform; (vii) validate and process your request for the services of the Portal or information; (viii) improve the quality of the Portal; (ix) assist you to determine which services best meet your needs; (x) facilitate our internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal and regulatory requirements; (xi) provide you with recommendations about the services you may be interested in basis your use of the Portal; and (xii) provide you with marketing communications and advertising that may be of interest to you basis your use of the Portal.
• Sharing: We may disclose your personal information and/or sensitive personal information to our affiliates when necessary to perform services on our behalf or on your behalf, including displaying advertising and promotional services, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments and providing customer services.
  
  We may also share your personal information and/or sensitive personal information with external organizations or individuals if we believe that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (a) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (b) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (c) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our users, customers or the public, as required or permitted by law; or (d) provide academic, research and administrative services offered by the School.
• Retention:
The personal information and/or sensitive personal information so collected shall be retained only for a limited duration necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined herein unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law and only for the purposes defined above. Once the purpose is achieved, all personal information and/or sensitive personal information shall be deleted in a safe and secure mode.
  
  You may review the sensitive personal information which the School has access to at anytime and may also refuse or revoke sharing of such sensitive personal information for which you can contact us on info@nmajs.edu.in.
  
  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the School may retain all academic and other relevant non-academic records and information that are required or deemed necessary to be retained for fulfilment of the School’s academic, research and administrative functions.

5. Non-Personal Information:

6. Location Services:

• The School, its licensees and agents, may access, collect and analyse information regarding your usage of the Portal and other information related to your location on a regular basis through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi signals and other technologies and data for the provision of services through the Portal and to help improve the design, functionality, performance, and content of the Portal. In order to collect geo-location information, the location settings must be enabled on your device. Therefore, in some cases, the Portal may request that you enable the location settings.
• Except in cases where any specific services requested by you require or involve personal identification, the School collects location data anonymously and in a form that does not personally identify you. By using the Portal, you agree and consent to transmission, collection, maintenance, processing and use of your location data and queries to provide and improve such services of the Portal.

7. Cookies:

• Information collected by cookies and other technologies are treated as non-personal information. However, to the extent that IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information under applicable law, the School will treat any information linked to such identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we will treat the combined information as personal information.

8. Other Information collected through the Portal:

9. Access, Correction and Deletion of Information:

• The School strives hard to keep its records pertaining to you updated and accurate. However, you shall be responsible to ensure that the information or data you provide from time to time is and continues to be correct and up-to-date and that you have all the rights and permissions to provide such information or data.
• Deletion of certain information or withdrawal of consent may lead to cancellation of your access to the Portal or certain features and services thereof. Additionally, we may not be able to process your request to correct, update or delete any information in case (i) the same is not supported by requisite valid documents; (ii) retention of such information is required under applicable law or law enforcement requests or under any judicial proceedings; (iii) it is impractical to implement (e.g. request relates to back-up copies or if a new system is required to process the request) or (iv) such action risks the privacy of other users of the Portal.

10.  Queries and Complaints:

The School is committed to protecting your personal information collected and processed by it and looks forward to your continued support for the same. In case of any feedback or concern regarding protection of your personal information, or any privacy-related feedback or concerns you may contact at info@nmajs.edu.in.