1. The purpose of this Policy

The purpose of this Policy is to communicate to the site visitor how JMIPSR's website listed below makes use of a technology called "cookies". The aim of this policy is to support the user in taking informed decisions when accessing the said website. Please take a minute to read and understand the policy.

2. What are Cookies?

When a user visits an online site, a small text file which may contain a unique identifier is sent by a webserver to the browser on the user's computer, mobile phone or any other internet enabled device. This small text file is termed as a "cookie". Cookies and other similar technologies help the websites to work efficiently and collect information about the online preferences of the user. Hereafter, these technologies may be referred to collectively as "cookies".

Electronic images known as 'web beacons' (also known as clear gifs, tags or pixels) may be present on some of our website pages that allows us to count users who have visited our pages and run analytics. Web beacons are responsible for collecting limited information e.g. a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and description of the page on which it resides. Please note that Web Beacons placed by third party advertisers might be present on our website.

3. How are Cookies used?

In order to customise the content & advertise, provide social media features and to see how users move through our website, cookies and other such technologies are used. Cookies are used to carry information from one session on a website to another, or between sessions on related websites for smooth working of website, hence, information received from cookies supports us in taking decisions about the ways to improve the services offered by us and enhance your user experience. Moreover, the cookies will expire once the relevant session is terminated.

We may engage third party service providers to act on our behalf to analyse the usage of our website by users. These third parties collect, and share with us, usage information about visits to our website and, sometimes by correlating this information with other information (e.g. your IP address), measure and research the effectiveness of our advertisements, track page usage, help us target our recommendations and advertising, and track use of our recommendations for related advertisements, courses, programmes, etc.

By default, we only collect cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.

4. Types of Cookies

Below you can find out more about the purpose of each type of cookies that we use.

• Strictly Necessary cookies: These cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. This includes cookies that enable you use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services, etc.

Types of non-mandatory cookies:

• Advertising cookies: These cookies allow us to serve you with relevant advertising and to know whether you have seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you have seen it.
• Third party cookies: Any Third party advertising cookies set on Institute's website.
• Analytical/Performance cookies: These cookies allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting the sites and which part of the sites are most popular. This helps us improve the way the sites work, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to the sites. They enable us to greet you by name and remember your preferences such as choice of language or region.
• Personalization cookies: These cookies enable us to build profiles relating to you and other visitors (where we have received consent) so that we can direct more relevant content to you based on your use of the sites.
• Social Media cookies: These cookies personalize your interaction with social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube. These cookies allow users to quickly share content across social media by using simple sharing buttons.
• Session and Persistent Cookies: On JMIPSR's web sites, both session and persistent cookies are used. With transient cookies, we refer to cookies that are only kept in memory within the lifespan of the user's session with the site. These cookies are not persisted to the end user's system. Persistent cookies make it possible for our web site to recognize you whenever you return to our web site so that the settings you have made during previous visits are recognized so you do not need to re-set them ever visit. Persistent cookies are persistently stored on the client system (hard drive or elsewhere), the lifetime of these cookies can span from a few seconds to several years. Examples of where MAHE web sites use persistent cookies are to remember country/language selections; helping with collecting statistics; and for remembering if the user already has responded to an on line survey.

In case of any queries corresponding to cookies that are deployed on our website, you can contact us at [email protected]

5. Managing Cookies

Your personal data will be collected via cookies and other similar tracking technologies with prior consent from you. We will maintain a record of the types of cookies that you have authorised us to use and ensure adherence to your preferences. If you do not wish to accept cookies from the Institute website you can - leave this web site, or configure your browser to either notify you when you receive a cookie (giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it) or to block all or certain categories of cookies. The browser can also delete previously stored cookies. Please see your browser's help facility for information on setting how cookies are handled and managing cookie preferences.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent by sending mail to [email protected]

6. Changes to this Document

We may update this Privacy & Cookie Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices and service offerings. If we modify this Privacy & Cookie Policy, we will update the date on which the new policy will be effective. We will notify you of any material changes in the way we treat your information by placing a prominent notice on our website.

7. Questions, Comments and Information