Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy governs the way in which the information provided, by the users of Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy, at the time of registration for courses and while availing other services, is collected, used, maintained and disclosed by guidingstarsacademy.in. This privacy policy applies to the site and all services offered by Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy.

By visiting, using, registering to or otherwise accessing any services, users agree to our website’s privacy policy and give an explicit and informed consent to the collection, use and processing of user’s personal data in accordance with this privacy policy.

If the user does not agree to this privacy policy, they are requested not to visit, use, register to or otherwise access any services provided by Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy.

Collection of Data

This includes information that the users provide to Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy when they register, visit our website or use our services and certain information that is gathered automatically. These comprise of the user name and email address when user chooses to sign up for our services, register for courses, submit user opinions, contact us or our experts. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or click stream data to analyse trends in the aggregate and administer the site etc.

Use of Information

This information will be used for the express purpose of sharing the details of the existing courses, new courses introduced, articles, post or content. After that use, the information will be retained by Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy or may be deleted.

Web Browser Cookies

Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy may use “cookies” or similar technologies to enhance user experience.  guidingstarsacademy.in may also use cookies to analyse trends, administer the website, track user’s movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base.

User may control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if they choose to disable cookies, it may limit the use of certain features on our website and services. Some areas of the site may not work properly or at all.

We send cookies to user computer in order to uniquely identify user browser and improve the quality of our service.

We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies.

We enable some of our business partners to use cookies in conjunction with user’s use of the site.

We have no access to or control over the use of these cookies.

These cookies collect information about user’s use of the site, such as where user came from, which pages user has visited within the site, and possibly other sites user visits. However, the cookies do not collect user name, email address, contact information or other personally identifiable information that by itself would allow the third party to identify or contact user.

Sharing of User Information

We may share user’s information with third parties who provide services on our behalf to help with our business activities such as email service providers, data analysers and business intelligence providers for the purpose of enhancing our contents and services. These companies are authorized to use the user’s personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

Personal Information Access and Retention

We may retain user’s information for as long as their account is active or as needed to provide services, to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Users may sign-up to receive recent articles or other communications from us. If user would like to discontinue receiving this information, they may contact us ssguidingstarsacademy@gmail.com.

We may collect personal identification information from users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when users visit our site, register on the site, subscribe to the newsletter, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Users can always refuse to supply personal identification information and visit our site anonymously, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain site related activities.

Use of collected Information

Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy may use email address and the above information to send recent articles/ posts, respond to service requests, respond to all enquiries and concerns, etc.. We may use this information to improve customer service, respond to user customer service requests and support needs more efficiently, to personalize user experience. We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site. We may use feedback the users provide to improve our services, to run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature, to send users information they agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to them. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.

However, despite any requests to close user account or user indicated email preferences, we may still need to contact user as required by law or on legal matters. If at any time the user would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, user may write to us at ssguidingstarsacademy@gmail.com.

How we protect user Information

The security of user’s personal information is important to us. We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of user’s personal information, username, password, and data stored on our site. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect user personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If the user has any questions about the security of user’s personal information, the user can contact us at  ssguidingstarsacademy@gmail.com.

 Sharing User Personal Information

Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy does not sell, trade, or rent users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding users with our business partners and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the site or administer activities on our behalf,

Public Content

User can contribute to the site in various ways, including writing reviews, uploading videos and photos, participating in question and answers, tagging products, filling out user public profile, and voting on other users’ contributions. We may store user’s contributions in our database, display them to other users, and use them for promotional purposes. If the user includes personal information in user Public Content, it can be used and viewed by others. We are not responsible for the information user chooses to include in user Public Content. If user posts content for public view on the Site, we may distribute such Public Content to a wider audience by sharing all or portion of it with third parties so that they can publish it on their own websites and media platforms. We may ask them to credit user as the source of these contributions by including user account name and profile photo.

Third Party Websites and Services

Users may find advertising or other content on our site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our site.

In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

We may share user information with our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control that we may have now or in the future, in which case we will require them to honour this statement.

If another company acquires our company or all or substantially all of our assets, that company will possess user information, and will assume the rights and obligations with respect to that information as described in this statement.

Third Party Advertising

Third parties serve some of the ads on the site. We do not send any individualized personal information to them, but they may have access to information that they obtain through cookies or that user shares with them.

We allow user to access third party services, such as Facebook and Twitter, to share user selected Public Content with those services, and import information about who the user is connected with on those other services. so that the user can connect with them on the site.

Some of those third party services may also provide us with information from user accounts to enhance and personalize user use of this site. User can allow Facebook to tell us who user’s Facebook friends are, so user can follow their activity on Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy.

User may modify user privacy settings with third party services. User can adjust user privacy setting on Facebook to prevent user’s friends from sharing information about user from their Facebook accounts with Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy.

We may share non-personal information in the aggregate to third parties relating to user behaviour in connection with actual or prospective business relationship with those third parties, such as advertisers and content distributors. We may disclose the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, advertising banners.

Internet Based Advertising

Google AdSense is used on guidingstarsacademy.in.  AdSense serves ads, based on the content of the sites user views.

As users browse websites that have partnered with Google or Google sites, such as You Tube, Google may place a cookie in user’s browser to track the types of pages visited or content that user viewed. Based on this information, Google associates user browser with relevant interest categories and uses these categories to show interest-based ads.

Google does not associate sensitive interest categories with user browser (such as those based on race, religion, sexual orientation, health, or sensitive financial categories), and does not use such categories when showing user interest-based ads.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology for the advertisements and links that appear on guidingstarsacademy.in and may send them directly to user’s browsers.

They automatically receive user IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that user sees.  Guiding Stars Open Learning     Academy.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. User should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt out of certain practices.  The privacy policy of guidingstarsopenlearningacademy.in does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Investigations

We reserve the right to investigate abuses on the site, and enforce and apply our Terms of Service and Statement.

We may disclose information about user to third parties if we believe that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to take action regarding suspected illegal activities; to enforce or apply our Terms of Service and Statement; to comply with legal process and law enforcement instructions and orders, us; or protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.

Links

The site may contain links to third party websites with which we have no affiliation. Except as set forth herein, we do not share user personal information with those third parties, and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest user read the privacy policies on all such third party websites.

Our Policy towards Children

The site is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If the user comes to know that user’s child has provided us with personal information without user’s consent, please contact us at  ssguidingstarsacademy@gmail.com.

If we come to know that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.

We never collect or maintain information at our site from those we actually know are under 13.

Dispute Resolution

If the user believes that Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy has not adhered to this statement, user may write to us at ssguidingstarsacademy@gmail.com.

Legal

In certain situations, Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including, to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

We may also disclose user personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect user safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

Feedback

User may feel free to give us feedback, register a complaint, or ask questions about the site. We may store user communications, including any personal information user includes in them, so that we can effectively respond to user.

Modifications to Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to make changes to our information practices. We encourage user to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Guiding Stars Open Learning Academy has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.

Users acknowledge and agree that it is user’s responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications. By using this site, user signify user acceptance of this policy. If user does not agree to this policy, please do not use our site.

User’s continued use of the site even after the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed as user’s acceptance of those changes.