Privacy Policy in Brief

All information collected in this Portal will be used for

• Administration of the Portal
• Better user experience
• Sending messages from the Portal
• Fulfilling any statutory or legal responsibilities

No information will be revealed to any Third parties.

Privacy Policy in Detail

This document has been created in order to define policies meant to protect the identity of the alumni and personal information data from any kind of misuse. All members who register with this website agree to these conditions.

Personal Information

The portal does not collect any personal information about you unless you provide that information voluntarily by sending an e-mail, completing an online form, or completing the online application wherever applicable.

Registration Data

The portal's profile form requires you to give us contact information (such as name and e-mail address), unique identifiers (unique name and password) and demographic information (such as pin/zip code or age).

You are free to mark much of the profile information as private by changing appropriate settings. The site is governed by strict access control mechanisms which restrict the viewing of any personal information of registered users. Only super users are allowed to access the database containing information about users. The access of information is only available to nominated administrators who will generally access the database for maintenance, clean up and for audit purposes.

Your personal information will not be disclosed to any person or organization outside this forum excepting with Sathya Sai institutions with any other forum/organization without your explicit permission, excepting in a form which is not personally identifiable. However, we may collect or disclose personal information without consent if the collection or disclosure is:

1. necessary to perform the statutory or legal duties
2. for the purpose of validating the identity of the user
3. of information to be used solely for statistical purposes that is in a form that cannot be used to identify any particular person.

Contact Information and Mailers

Admin may use your contact information from the profile form to send information about the website or the activities etc and other information. We believe that this is a necessary to be part of the activities of alumni. However, one can opt out of telephonic communication by changing appropriate profile settings.

Notifications

Members can receive notifications every time there is an update in the groups in which they are members and/or a friend of his posts any material on the site. Member can chose to opt out of these notifications by choosing appropriate settings.

Information Collected Automatically When You Visit this Website

When visiting this website, we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

• Your IP Address
• File you requested for
• The time at which it was requested
• The document that referred you to the page
• The response code sent by the server
• User agent of the browser that you were using
• Last Login date
• Date of registering the profile (Collected only on registration)
• Cookies (Explained in detail below)

All information that is collected automatically is used to improve our web content, to investigate possible problems and in general to help us understand how you are interacting with our Web site. This information is collected for statistical analysis and to determine what information is of most and least interest to our users. The information is not collected for commercial purposes and the portal does not sell or otherwise distribute the information collected from the website for commercial purposes.

 In addition, cookies are used to facilitate the user experience.

Information Collected When You E-mail our Webmaster

If you send an e-mail to our webmaster, your email address and the contents of your message are collected. These are used to respond to you, to address issues you identify, to improve this Web site, or to forward your message to someone who can help you. Your e-mail address will not be disclosed to any person or organization outside this forum excepting Sathya Sai Institutions, without your explicit permission.