Your privacy is important to Gyanam Consulting. This Privacy Policy sets forth our practices regarding the collection and handling of personal information of the clients and visitors to our site. You accept the conditions of this privacy policy when you use our services or access the website.
Types of Information Collected
The following are the categories of information collected:
- Private Information: This comprises details such as your name, phone number, email address, date of birth, passport information, and any other relevant details for the services you need, which may include admission consulting, visa support, travel planning, etc.
- Financial Information: We may obtain your payment information for services via secure third party payment gateways (i.e. credit cards). We do not retain your credit card details.
- Personal Information: We may use services tailored to you based on data provided including age, geographical location, region of study, career prospects, etc.
- Usage Data: We may automatically gather data on how you use our service by tracking IP addresses, browsers, devices, and pages viewed. This assists us in enhancing our website and in improving service delivery.
How We Use Your Information
In carrying out business operations, we attempt to enhance the reliability and quality of offered services by using personally identifiable data as reasoned below:
- Service Delivery: To provide comprehensive educational services which include admission counseling, visa assistance travel support, scholarship guidance, university selection, and other educational services.
- Communication: To notify you concerning our services, updates, marketing offers, or any information relating to an application that you have made through our services.
- Payment Processing: To manage and safely execute payments and transactions.
- Legal Compliance: To fulfill legal obligations which may include providing relevant documents to governmental agencies for purposes of visa and admission.
How We Protect Your Information:
Concerning personal privacy, we implement proper technical and organizational safeguards commensurate with the risk presented by a breach of privacy. For instance, data is protected by the use of encryption technologies and secure servers during transmission and storage. Nonetheless, it must be noted that no system of electronic storage, or transmission, is unconditionally secure and thus absolute safety cannot be assured.
Sharing Your Information:
We take your privacy seriously and will not sell your personal information to third parties or rent or lease it to anyone. However, we may share your information under certain conditions:
- With Service Providers: For the purpose of fulfilling our services, we may pass your data on to our third-party service providers such as payment processors, travel agencies, visa assistance partners, and even universities.
- With Government Agencies: Where necessary in law or for visa processing, we will share your personal data with government and embassy bodies.
- For Legal Reasons: We may provide your information if it is required of us by law which could be through a subpoena or other legal process, or if we voluntarily act to avert an imminent threat to the life of any individual, prevent fraud or to safeguard the fundamental rights of persons.
Web Beacons, Cookies, and other technology:
These may be used to enhance user experience on the website. Such technologies enable us understand how users interact with our website and allow personalization of content, advertisement as well as perform analytics.
Users can set their computers to refuse cookies or could be alerted when cookies are being sent. Some sections of our website may not function well if cookies are disabled.
Data Retention:
Retention of your personal data is only ever undertaken for the purposes specified within this Policy, or as legally required. When information is no longer required, we will erase or anonymize it in a secure manner.
Your Rights:
Subject to your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights:
- To review the personal information we hold about you.
- To request rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete information.
- To request the erasure of your personal information, subject to legal limitations.
- To object to or limit the scope of processing of personal data.
- To withdraw consent in cases where consent is the basis for processing.
- To exercise any one of these rights, you can reach us at contact@gyanamconsulting.com.
Third-Party Links:
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not under our control. We do not bear any liability for such websites’ privacy policies. Prior to surrendering any personal data, we suggest examining the privacy policies of third-party services.
Minor’s Data Privacy:
Our services are not aimed at users younger than 18. We do not actively seek personal information from children. In the event that we realize that we have personal information of a child who is less than 18, we will attempt to eliminate that information.
Modifications to this Document
We may, in our sole discretion and without notice to you, update or change this Privacy Policy for any reason. Should these changes occur, we will place an updated policy on our site and change the “Effective Date” on the top of the page. We recommend that this policy be checked from time to time.
Reach Us:
We can be contacted at:
Gyanam Consulting
info@gyanamconsultancy.com
+91-9696959586
If you have other questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our procedures for handling data, don’t hesitate to reach out to us. By using our services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and accept it.
