Privacy Policy Marian College owns and operates its website and is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its user community. The intent of this privacy policy is to detail the information Marian College may gather about individuals who visit its website, how that information is used, and Marian College disclosure practices. Please note that this policy applies only to its website and not to the websites of other companies or organizations to which we provide links or to any software that may be downloaded from Marian College website. Our postal address is: Marian College Kuttikkanam Kuttikkanam P.O Peermade, Idukki Kerala, India - 685 531
Anonymous User Information Marian College collects some anonymous information each time you visit its website so it can improve the overall quality of your online experience. It collects your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register with Marian College before we can collect this anonymous information. Marian College website does not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or e-mail address, in order for you to use the website. The Marian College website may assign an anonymous ID number to your request(s) and links the following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited the website, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard website servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. Marian College analyzes the information to examine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Individual User Information From time-to-time the Marian College website requests information from you that may identify you personally in addition to the anonymous information described above. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, e-mail address, postal address, and pin code), and demographic information (such as age, gender, occupation, and household income). Marian College will not use or disclose your individual user information except as described in this privacy policy. Marian College collects individual user information in the following ways from different Marian College websites: Surveys or Contests From time to time, Marian College may conduct surveys or contests on a Marian College website. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose individual user information to the Marian College website. Contest information will be shared with the contest or survey sponsors to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the Marian College website. We may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests. These companies may use your personal information to help the Marian College website communicate with you about offers from the Marian College website and our marketing partners. Such third parties do not have Marian College permission to use your personally identifiable information for any secondary purpose. Tell-A-Friend If you elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about any of our sites, we ask you for your friend's name and e-mail address. Marian College will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the Marian College website. Marian College does not store the information related to your friends and the one-time e-mail sent pursuant to your input will be our only contact with that person for such input. Correspondence If you contact Marian College, we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your e-mail address. Third Party Information Gathering The Marian College websites Sites contain links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that Marian College is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website. Cookies Marian College may set and access Marian College or partner cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small data file that a website may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your system. We may occasionally use both session cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. We use cookie and web beacon technology to track which pages on the Marian College websites our visitors view and which Web browsers our visitors use. We may also use cookies to help us provide personalized features and preferences to you within various Marian College websites in a way that may be linked to individual user information that you elect to share with us. We may also use "action tags" to assist in delivering the cookie. These action tags allow us to compile statistics and other data about our customers on an aggregate basis, by embedding a random identifying number on each user's browser. Then we track where that number shows up on our site. Sharing Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on our website. We may also share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Marian College or such Marian College websites™ terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement in places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If, however, we are going to use Individually Identifiable Information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by posting a notice on our website for 30 days |