Mar Thoma Pharmacy College

1. Privacy Policy

Dr. Joseph Mar Thoma Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research (hereafter referred to as 'JMIPSR', 'us', 'we') is committed to safeguarding the privacy of individuals whose personal data is collected and processed by JMIPSR.

This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you on how we gather, define, and use personal data that you provide to the Institute when you use any of websites and services offered by JMIPSR.

This Privacy Policy will primarily help you understand:

The nature of information we collect from you
The sources from where your information is collected (Including the cases where personal data is not directly collected from you)
The purpose of collecting your information
The manner in which your information is collected, stored, used and processed
The rights that can be exercised by you

We do not sell or trade your personal data or personally identifiable information; however, we may share the same with third parties who assist us in conducting our business, operating our website, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

This Policy applies to all students, parents, visitors and other individuals who provide their personal data to the Institute (hereinafter referred to as "Data Subject(s)").

2. What Personal Data is collected?

Personal data you provide directly:

When you use certain functions provided by the Website, such as when you register for certain services, access or features, we may ask you to provide certain personal data, which primarily consists of:

A. Personal data:

We may collect your personal data elements which may include but is not limited to your name, contact details, postal address, email address, gender, age, date of birth, username and password.

B. Sensitive Personal Data

We may collect and process data concerning health which may constitute as sensitive personal data under the governing privacy legislation with respect to the product and services provided by us.
We may also collect and process financial information which may constitute as sensitive personal data under the governing privacy legislation at time of purchase of product/service and/or online payment;

Personal data that is automatically collected when you visit the Website:

When you download and visit the website, certain personal data may be collected automatically, which includes:

Your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) Address
Your browser type and operating system
Web pages and links you visit, advertisements you view
Your bandwidth speed and information about the software programs that are installed on your computer
Standard server log information

Personal data that we collect from other sources:

We may receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources (as permitted by law), which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you. We also may receive information about you from third-party social networking services when you choose to connect with those services.

Data collected from cookies and similar technologies:

This website uses cookies and/or similar technologies to collect such information including IP addresses as may assist in personalize and enhance the browsing experience for the visitor, analyse behaviour, administer the website, track users' movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

Please refer to the Section 7-Cookie Policy for more details.

3. How we use the Personal Data

General:

We may use the information collected from you for enrolment, to provide a service, to provide customized content and make recommendations based on your past activities on our Website. We may also use your personal details to send statements, payment reminders, newsletters, brochures etc.

JMIPSR may use your information to provide you with updates, sending newsletters and other communications about existing and/or new programmes by post, email, telephone, in-device messaging and/or text message (SMS), if you have provided your prior consent or we are otherwise permitted to do so under applicable law.

You can change your mind at any time, and it is quick and easy to let us know that you no longer want to hear from us by contacting us at [email protected].

Statistics and Research:

JMIPSR may use your information to create user group profiles or segment data and to otherwise create anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our courses or programs, which we may share with third parties and/or make available to the public.

Product/Services Improvement:

JMIPSR may use your information to improve and enhance existing JMIPSR functioning, develop new offerings, recommendations, advertisements and other communications, and learn more about individuals' preferences in general.

Further, we may use information provided by you to deal with enquiries and complaints made; to keep our website and other systems secure and to prevent fraud.

4. To Whom we disclose Personal Data

To any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, partners, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy and for the purpose of providing services to you.
To college affiliates, associate colleges and any member of JMIPSR.
To our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting and webinars. The information we provide to third parties service providers is subject to confidentiality obligations and is intended to be used solely for the purpose(s) permitted thereby.
We may employ third party entities and individuals to facilitate our Services (e.g. maintenance, analysis, audit, marketing and development). These third parties have limited access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated to JMIPSR, not to disclose or use it for other purposes.

5. Your Rights

We offer a variety of choices about how we use your information. You can make choices about whether to receive promotional communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the communication. In addition, you can also generally make choices in your settings, or by visiting relevant links.

For data subjects in the EU who are subject to the GDPR's provisions, you have the following rights:

i) Right to Be Informed
ii) Right to Access
iii) Right to Correction ("Rectification")
iv) Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten)
v) Right to Restriction of Processing
vi) Right to Data Portability
vii) Right to Object to Processing
viii) Right to Not Be Subject to Automated Decision Making

You can make a request by directly writing to us at [email protected]

Discrepancies and grievances
Any discrepancies or grievances will be addressed in a timely manner and expeditiously within 30 days from the date of receipt of the grievance by JMIPSR. Please write to us at [email protected]

6. Security and Retention

We will only retain your data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. We will destroy the personal data in a secure manner post retention period as per our internal data retention and destruction policy.

The security of your personal data is of great importance to us. We have put in place reasonable physical and technical measures to safeguard the information we collect in connection with the services to ensure the protection of your personal data processed by us, which include but are not limited to the following:

Comprehensive documented information security programme and information security policies
Security measures deployed to protect against unauthorized access including secure socket layers, firewalls and encryption
Access to personal data is restricted to employees, contractors, and agents who need to know that information

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