Who Are We
UCS Careers, a company registered under the Companies Act, 2013 and having its registered office at 21, Mall Road, Opposite Doon School Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, understands and respects the need and requirement to protect the privacy rights of its users (“You”, “Your”). UCS Careers shall be the controller of the personal data/information which may be collected from you or which may be processed, in relation to the Services/Platform.

What Is This Privacy Policy For
This Privacy Policy provides you with an idea as to how the information that is collected on our platform is processed, protected, and disseminated.
This Privacy Policy shall be applicable to all users using the company’s website or platform and applies to the data/information that is provided to the company in the provision of the EdTech Platform/Service.

Personal Data Which Is Collected
We collect and process the following data from you/users including but not limited to:

– Name, email, address, mobile number, gender, etc. at the time of registering with our website and/or while creating a user account or while filling questionnaires or forms or when you subscribe to the company’s updates by email and/or upload or submit any material or content while using the services/platform and/or the UCS Careers website.
– Log-in/user details and password details during the user account sign-in/registration/change password, etc. processes.
– Financial details in respect of the subscriptions availed on the platform/website.
– Your data on social media (e.g., Facebook profile data) if you choose to log in through Facebook or other social media.
– All communications, emails, and other correspondence between you and us.
– The entire range of material or the content which you post on the platform/website.
– Your IP address(es), browser, and operating system specifications, including mobile browser and mobile operating systems.

How Your Personal Data May Be Used
We collect the data only for legitimate and lawful purposes for providing you access to the website and for the usage of the services through the platform.

Your information shall be used to:
– Verify identity at the time of signing into your user account.
– Analyze and provide you with any statistical data on user account activity.
– Analyze the total number of users and visitors and domain names of internet service providers, in which event there would be no use of any personal information.
– Contact you for queries posted on the platform or contact you in any regard.
– Use for other purposes that we may disclose to you when we request your information.

We do not use any personally identifiable information for any other purpose other than for granting you access to your user account or the services and/or the website. All your payments made through the partner payment gateway are safe and secure. If you choose to log in or sign up with our services through any social media like Facebook, etc., we request permission to access your profile and seek appropriate permissions from you wherever required. If you click on links on third-party websites, you shall be governed by their terms of use and privacy policies. We do not control the manner in which such third parties collect your personal data and information and how they use it. We do not endorse, and we shall not be responsible for any data breach or infringement of your privacy rights or for loss or damage whatsoever if you visit, use, or access such third-party websites.

We may use your contact information for marketing and promotional purposes about any prospective service(s) of UCS Careers. However, if you decide and write to us that we should refrain from using your data/information in respect of any marketing or promotional purposes, we will honor your decision. If you do not write to us to let us know of any objections to the use of the data/information, it shall signify that you have accorded us permission for such use of the data/information under the law. Whichever way we use and process, please note that your personal information shared by you is safe and secure, and we use and process any information under the applicable laws and on your consent for such processing for lawful purposes and for providing you the service(s) and access to the platform/UCS Careers website. Your creation of the user account and login every time you use our services and/or the platform amounts to such valid consent.

Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information with a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), provided that we require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution of UCS Careers, or similar event, your personal data may be part of the transferred assets. We may also share your personal data with our related companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. We may share your information with third parties to whom you ask us to send your information. UCS Careers may hire agents, consultants, and related third parties to perform certain business-related functions, say, mailing information, maintaining databases, and processing payments, and we may share information with them. Please note that when we employ another entity to perform such functions, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.

In our commitment to the applicable laws, we may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or to respond to government authorities/agencies for verification of identity or investigation. In the event of a legal proceeding, court process, or other legal process/process of the court of law, we would be bound to do so by/under the applicable laws in force; or where we are mandated to establish or protect our legal rights, intellectual property; and if it is necessary to verify identity, prevent, detect, or take action against any illegal activity/’ies, whatsoever including but not limited to cyber accidents, suspected or apprehended fraud, or where there is a reasonable apprehension of any situation(s) involving potential/material threats to the physical safety of any person, property, etc.

UCS Careers may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public or to protect against legal liability, including to resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce our policies/agreements.

We may share information, including personal information, with our third-party service providers (such as credit card processors, managed cloud hosting providers like Amazon Web Services) for the purpose of providing the requisite hardware, software, networking, storage, and other services which we use to keep our website/service functional to maintain a high-quality user experience. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policy. We do not and shall not permit:
– Any such third-party service providers to use the data/information shared with them for the purpose of marketing their services; or
– The use of the data/information for any other purpose other than in connection with the services they provide to us.

We may use various marketing tools to create a better user experience for users visiting our website/platform. These marketing tools permit us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns, clicks, and allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We may use third-party service providers for tracking user activity. We may use remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google and Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network and via social networks. Therefore, you may see an advertisement for one of our products or services as a result of visiting our website. In addition, we may use custom audiences based on emails and phone numbers of users. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Facebook and Google. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us.

We may use third-party service providers for remarketing:
– Facebook Ads
– Google AdWords

Newsletters
We use MailChimp as our email service provider and, through our email service provider MailChimp, we collect contact information, distribute our newsletter, and track actions you take that assist us in measuring the performance of the website and newsletters. Upon subscription, we may also track the pages you visit on the website through MailChimp. If you are a campaign owner, information about the services you take from us is passed on to MailChimp. Our newsletters may contain tracking pixels. This pixel is embedded in emails and allows us to analyze the success of our newsletters. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email, which links within the email you click, and the pages you visit on our website. This behavior is not passed to third parties. All data submitted at the time of subscription to our newsletter is stored on MailChimp servers. You may remove your subscription to our newsletter at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe button provided in each email. At no time is your banking information passed to the website from any of the following third-party providers. We receive only information used for payment fulfillment. The payment gateway collects personal information such as your name, email address, zip code, and payment information. For details, you may refer to the Privacy Policy of such payment gateway. Upon making a payment, you will receive email confirmations to the email address you provide during your payment.

How We Protect Your Information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our platform/website. Sensitive and private data exchange between the website and its users happens over an SSL-secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures. We do not sell, trade, or rent users.