Privacy Policy version 1.1 – updated on 24th May 2018

At Quick Heal Academy, we care about the confidentiality and security of your personal information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to keep your Personal Information secure in compliance with this Privacy Policy. The definition of “Personal Information” provided below. As used in this Privacy Policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Quick Heal Academy.
This Privacy Policy restricts to the information collected through the official website of Quick Heal Academy (the “Site,” which consists of all content and pages located within the Quick Heal Academy web domain) and shall not apply to information that we may collect from you through other ways (for example, this policy does not apply to information provide to us over the phone, by fax, or through any other mode of communication).

PERSONAL INFORMATION

As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information about yourself that you may provide to us when using the Site, such as when you sign up for a user account or enter into a transaction through the Site, which may include (but is not limited to) your name,contact information, gender, date of birth, occupation, and if you register for an ID Verified Certificate of Achievement, a driver’s license or other government-issued identification.We endeavor to limit the collection of Personal Information to what we need with respect to specific Site activities in order to satisfy business, legal, or regulatory requirements. Quick Heal Academy does not currently collect financial information from you.

USERNAMES AND POSTINGS

Comments or other information posted by you on our forums, wikis or other areas of the Site designed for public communications or communications amongst the registered class members may be viewed and downloaded by others who visit the Site. For this reason, we encourage you to use discretion in deciding whether or not to post any information that can be used for identification purpose on those forums (or other public or class-wide areas).

CONSENT OF PROCESSING OUTSIDE HOME COUNTRY

By using our Site, or providing information to us, you understand and unambiguously agree to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of information in the India and outside India, for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy. You hereby agree to the collection, use, disclosure, and retention by us of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to the transfer of your personal data between us and the third parties, affiliates, and subsidiaries described in this Privacy Policy. For further certainty, any consent relating to a right to transfer information referred to in this paragraph shall be deemed to include your consent to the transfer of the applicable Personal Information to a jurisdiction which may provide a different level of privacy protection than that available in India. If you do not agree with these terms, then please do not access, browse, or register on our website. If you choose not to provide us with certain information required to be provided by you with various services offered on our Site, you may not be able to establish a user account and we may not be able to provide you with those services.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

We collect information, including Personal Information (described above), when you sign up for a user account, participate in online courses, send us email messages and/or participate in our public forums. We also collect certain usage information about student performance and patterns of learning. In addition, we track information indicating, among other things, which of our Sites were visited, the order in which they were visited, when they were visited and which hyperlinks and other user interface controls were used. We may log the IP address, operating system, and browser software used by each user of the Site, and we may be able to determine from an IP address a user’s Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity. Various web analytics tools are used to collect this information. Some of the information is collected through cookies (small text files placed on your computer that store information about you, which can be accessed by the Site). You should be able to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookies, many functions and conveniences of this Site may not work properly.

USE AND DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

In cases where we share or disclose your Personal Information:

1. The third-party recipients are required to handle the Personal Information in a confidential
   manner and to maintain adequate security to protect the information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, and destruction; and
2. We will only disclose and share the Personal Information that is required by the third party
   to fulfill the purpose stated at the time of collection. Among other things, we may use the information about you collected through the Site (including your Personal Information) in connection with the following:
   • To enable us to provide, administer, and improve the courses.
   • To help us improve Quick Heal Academy offerings, both individually and in aggregate.
   • Further, to individualize the experience, evaluate the access and use of the Site and the
     impact of Quick Heal Academy on the worldwide educational community.
   • For the purpose for which you specifically provided the information, for example, to respond to a specific inquiry or provide you with access to the specific course content and/or services you select.
   • To track both individual and aggregate attendance, progress and completion of an online
     course, and to analyse statistics on student performance and how students learn.
   • To monitor and detect violations of the Terms of Service, as well as other misuses and
     potential misuses of the Site.
   • To publish information, but not Personal Information, gathered about Quick Heal Academy access, use, impact, and student performance.
   • To send you updates about the online courses offered by us or other events, about our products or services, that may be of interest to you, or email messages about Site maintenance or updates.
   • To archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.
   • To maintain and improve the functioning and security of the Site and our software, systems,
     and network.
   • For purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy (including, e.g., Sharing with Third
     Parties).
   • As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent.
   • To authenticate your identity when you register for a paid certificate.
   • To process refunds, as applicable.

USE FOR PERSONALIZATION AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS

Our goal is to provide current and future visitors with the best possible educational experience. To further this goal, we sometimes present different users with different versions of course materials and software. We do this to personalize the experience to the individual learner (assess the learner’s level of ability and learning style, and present materials best suited to the learner), to evaluate the effectiveness of our course materials, to improve our understanding of the learning process and to otherwise improve the effectiveness of our offerings. We may publish or otherwise publicise results from this process, but, unless otherwise permitted under this Privacy Policy, those publications or public disclosures will not include Personal Information.

SAFEGUARDS

We have taken appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your information from misuse, unauthorized or unlawful access or disclosure, loss, alteration, damage or destruction. These measures include:

• Physical safeguards, with locked doors, controlled access to our facilities and secure destruction of media containing your information.
• Technology safeguards, like the use of Quick Heal anti-virus and endpoint security software, and monitoring of our systems and data-centres to ensure that they comply with our security policies.
• Organizational safeguards, like training and awareness programs on security and privacy, to make sure employees understand the importance and means by which they must protect Your Information. Our organizational privacy policies and standards also guide our handling of Your Information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

At many places in this Site, you shall find links to other websites/portals. These links have been placed for your convenience. We are not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and do not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. The mere presence of the link or its listing on this site shall not be assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages. The site contains links to websites published by third parties, including other content providers as well as certain service providers, such as those who process payments on behalf of us. These other websites are not under our control, and you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the collection and use of your information by such websites, unless we have otherwise indicated in this privacy policy. We encourage you to be aware when you are being redirected to a third party website and review the privacy policies of each website you visit and use.

SECURITY

Quick Heal Academy has a program designed to protect personal information in its possession or control. This is done through a variety of privacy and security policies, processes, and procedures, including administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Personal Information that it creates, receives, maintains, or transmits. Nonetheless, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure; and therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

CHANGING OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Please note that we review and may make changes to this privacy policy from time to time.When changes are made, we will post the same on Quick Heal Academy Site, with an updated effective date. By accessing the Site after any changes have been made, you signify your agreement on a prospective basis to the modified privacy policy and any changes contained therein. Please be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.

COPYRIGHT

Material featured on this Site may be reproduced free of charge after taking prior permission by sending a mail to us. However, the material has to be reproduced accurately and not to be used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Wherever the material is being published or issued to others, the source must be acknowledged. However, the permission to reproduce this material shall not extend to any material which is identified as being copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the departments/copyright holders concerned.

PRIVACY CONCERNS

If you have privacy concerns, have disclosed data you would prefer to keep private, or would like to access the information we maintain about you, please contact us at info@quickhealacademy.com
Note: We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Hence it is suggested that you check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.