Privacy
Policy
Last updated: 4rth April 2023
IGCSE NET, a leading edtech firm, registered in
India, for imparting learning, is the owner of (also referred to as “IGCSE
Net” or “it” herein) of the website checkpointanswers.com (the URLs,
the website, the products and services together referred to as the “Services”).
The terms “You” or “Your”
refers to You as the user (irrespective of whether you are a registered or an
unregistered user) of the Services.
“IGCSE NET” values your trust and honours it by adhering to ethical
standards in gathering, using, and safeguarding any information that you
provide.
Please read this privacy policy (herein after
referred to as “Policy”) carefully before using the Services, along with
the Terms of Use (“ToU”) provided on
the website. Your use of the Services, or registrations for Services through
any mode shall signify your acceptance of this Policy and your agreement to be
legally bound by the same.
If you wish not to agree with any of the terms and conditions of this
Policy, kindly refrain from using the Services.
User Provided Information
“IGCSE NET” records the information you provide
when you register for the Services. When you register with it, you generally
provide (a) your name, age, email address, phone number, password and your
ward’s educational interests; (b) transaction-related information, such as when
you make purchases, respond to any offers, or use Services; (c) information you
provide when you contact it for help; (d) information you enter into its system
when using the Services, such as while asking doubts, participating in
discussions and taking tests. The said information collected from the users
could be categorized as “Personal Information”, “Sensitive Personal
Information” and “Associated Information” (each as individually
defined under this Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and
procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 (the “Data
Protection Rules”)) shall collectively be referred to as “Information”
in this Policy.
“IGCSE NET” may use this Information to contact you
from time to time, to provide you with the Services, important information,
required notices and marketing promotions. “IGCSE NET” will request you when it
needs more information that personally identifies you (personal information) or
allows it to contact you. You, at any time while using the Services, also have
an option to withdraw your consent given earlier, to use such Personal
Information. Withdrawal of the consent by you is required to be sent in writing
to “IGCSE NET” at
co*****@ig***.net
with
the subject line of email being “WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT TO USE PERSONAL INFO”.
In any such event, “IGCSE NET” fully reserves the right to withdraw further
usage of the Services or provide any further Services thereunder to you.
Automatically
Collected Information
In addition, the Services may collect certain
information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile
device/computer you use, your
mobile devices/computer unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile
device/computer, the device operating system, the type of Internet browsers you
use, and information about the way you use the Services and any other relevant
information as per the permissions that you provide.
“IGCSE NET” uses an outside credit card processing company to bill you for
the goods and services availed by you. These companies do not retain, share,
store or use personally identifiable information of you for any other purpose.
Use of your
Personal Information
“IGCSE NET” uses the collected Information to
analyze trends, to conduct research, to administer the Services, to learn about
each user’s learning patterns andmovements around the Services and to gather
demographic information and usage behavior about its user base. Aggregated and
individual, anonymized and non-anonymized data may periodically be transmitted
to external service providers to help it improve the Services. “IGCSE NET” will
share your information with third parties only in the ways that are described
below in this Policy.
“IGCSE NET” may use the individual data and behaviour
patterns combined with personal information to provide you with personalized
content, and better your learning objectives/experience. Third parties provide
certain services which it may use to analyse the data and information you
provide to personalize, drive insights, and help better your experience or
reach out to you with more value-added applications, products, information and
services. However, these third-party companies do not have any independent
right to share this information. “IGCSE Net” does not sell, trade or rent your
Information to any third party unless, it has been expressly authorized by you
either in writing or electronically to do so. “IGCSE Net” may at times provide
aggregate statistics about its customers, traffic patterns, and related site
information to reputable third parties, however this information when disclosed
will be in an aggregate form and does not contain any of your Personally
Identifiable Information.
“IGCSE NET”will occasionally send email notices or contact you to communicate
about the Services, benefits, and related information, as they are considered
an essential part of the Services that you have chosen.
“IGCSE NET”
may disclose Information:
Any portion of the Information containing personal data relating to minors
provided by you shall be deemed to be given with the consent of the minor’s
legal
guardian. Such consent is deemed to be provided by your registration with it.
Access to your Personal Information
“IGCSE NET” will provide you with the means to
ensure that your Personal Information is correct and current. If you have
filled out a user profile, it will provide an obvious way for you to access and
change your profile from the Services. “IGCSE NET” adopts stringent security
measures to protect your password from being exposed or disclosed to anyone.
Only upon you forgetting the password for the Services, “IGCSE NET” will have a
right to reset the same for you with your prior approval as per standard web
practices.
Cookies
“IGCSE NET” sends cookies (small files containing a
string of characters) to your computer, thereby uniquely identifying your
browser. Cookies are used to track your preferences, help you login faster, and
aggregated to determine user trends. This data is used to improve its
offerings, such as providing more content in areas of greater interest to a
majority of users.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Disclaimer:
Some of Services and its features may not function properly if your cookies are
disabled.
Links
“IGCSE Net” may present links in a format that
enables it to keep track of whether these links have been followed. “IGCSE NET”
uses this information to improve the customized content of the Services.
Clicking on links may take you to sites outside its Services’ domain. “IGCSE Net”
is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. “IGCSE Net” encourage
its users to be aware when they leave its website to read the terms and
conditions of every website that collects personally identifiable information.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by its website.
Alerts
“IGCSE Net” may alert you by email or phone (through sms/call) to inform
you about new service offerings or other information which it perceives might
be useful for you.
Security
“IGCSE NET” is concerned about safeguarding the
confidentiality of your Information. It provides physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards to protect Information that it processes and maintains.
For example, “IGCSE NET” limits access to this Information to authorized
employees only who need to know that information in order to operate, develop
or improve the Services. Please be aware that, although its endeavour is to
provide stringent security, for information that it possesses and maintains, no
security system can prevent all potential security breaches.
How long does “IGCSE NET” retain user data?
Currently, “IGCSE NET” retains user data while an
account is active and for at least three years afterwards. It may alter this
practice according to legal and business requirements. For example, it may
lengthen the retention period for some data if it is needed to comply with law
or voluntary codes of conduct. Unless otherwise prohibited, it may shorten the
retention period for some types of data if needed to free up storage space.
Log information
When you access the Website, its servers
automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a
website. These server logs may include information such as your web request,
internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of
your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications
When you send an email or other communication to “IGCSE Net”, it may retain
those communications to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and
improve its Services.
Changes to this Statement
As the firm (IGCSE Net) evolves, its privacy policy
will need to evolve as well to cover new situations. You are advised to review
this Policy regularly for
any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.
Your Consent
“IGCSE NET” believes that every user of our Services
must be in a position to provide an informed consent prior to providing any
Information required for the use of the Services. By registering with it, you
are expressly consenting to its collection, processing, storing, disclosing,
and handling of your information as
set forth in this Policy now and as amended by it. Processing, your information
in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting,
using, combining, sharing, transferring, and disclosing information, all of
which activities will take place in India. If you reside outside India your
information will be transferred, processed, and stored in accordance with the
applicable data protection laws of India.
Contact
Information
“IGCSE NET” shall undertake all reasonable efforts to address your
grievances at the earliest possible opportunity. You may contact us at:
Reach out to us on
co*****@ig***.net
, in case of any
queries.
We value your privacy and strive to protect your
personal information. Please read this Policy to understand what types of
information we collect from you, for what purposes and what choices you have
regarding our collection of your information.
This policy covers the www.CheckPointAnswers.xyz
website and all *.primarycheckpoint.com subsites (collectively, Checkpoint
Answers). By access, using or posting information to Checkpoint Answers, you
agree to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service https://primarycheckpoint.com/tos
Children’s
Personal Information
This Website is not intended for children under 13
years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children
under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we learn that a child
under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information online
without parental consent, we will take all reasonable measures to delete such
information from our databases and to not use such information for any purpose
(except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others).
If you believe that a child under the age of 13 has
provided us with personal information without verification of parental consent,
please contact us using our contact form.
Information
we collect about you
We collect several types of information from and about you, including:
We may collect information from or about you in the following ways:
Automatic
information collection technologies
The information that we collect about your equipment, browsing actions and
patterns includes, but is not limited to, traffic data, location data, logs,
the resources that you access, search queries, as well as information about the
computer or device you are using and the Internet connection, including your IP
address, operating system and browser type.
This automatically collected information typically does not include PII,
but we may maintain it or associate it with your personal information collected
in other ways. Collection of this type of information helps us to improve this
Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us
to, among other things: (1) estimate our audience size and usage patterns; (2)
store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize this Website
according to your individual interests; (3) speed up your searches; and (4)
recognize you when you return to this Website.
The automatic collection technologies we or our service providers use for
this automatic information collection may include:
Third party
advertising partners and interest-based ads
We use third party ad networks to display advertisements on this Websites.
These third parties also may use cookies, web beacons and other automatic
collection technologies to collect information about you when you visit this
Websites for purposes of determining your preferences in order to deliver
interest-based advertising and other targeted content to you.
We do not provide any PII to these third-party advertising partners, but
they may combine the non-PII collected on the Website with PII they collect
directly from you or receive from other sources. We do not have access to or
control over the automatic collection technologies that these third-party
advertisers or any third-party websites may use, and the information practices
of these third-party advertisers and third party websites are subject to these
parties’ respective privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics data is used for remarketing purposes. You may visit ad
settings to opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising
and customize Google Display Network ads.
Links to
Third Party Websites and Social Media Widgets
This Website and some of our electronic communications to you, may contain
links to other websites that are owned and operated by third parties. Links to
third parties from this Website are not an endorsement by us. We do not
control, and are not responsible for, the privacy and security practices of
these third parties. We recommend that you review the privacy and security
policies of these third parties to determine how they handle information they
may collect from or about you.
This Website may also include social media features, such as the Facebook
Like button, Google Plus, and Twitter widgets. These features may collect
information about your IP address and the page you are visiting on this
Website, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly.
Your interactions with these features and the information from or about you
collected by them are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that
provide them.
How We Use
Your Information
We use your information, including any PII, to:
Disclosure
of your information
We may disclose and share aggregated non-PII about you at our discretioon.
We may disclose or share your PII only in limited circumstances:
Your
choices about use and disclosure of your information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding our use of your personal
information. Below are some mechanisms that provide you with control over your
information:
Automatic Information Collection Technologies and Advertising. The
“help” function of your browser should contain instructions on how to
set your browser to not accept new cookies, to notify you when a cookie is
issued, or how to disable cookies altogether. If you disable or refuse cookies,
please note that some parts of this Website may be inaccessible or not function
properly.
Accessing
and correcting your information
We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your
account. We also may not accommodate a request to change or delete information
if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirements, be
contrary to our Terms of Service or any other applicable agreement between you
and us, or cause the information to be incorrect.
Upon deletion all private and personally identifying information from your
profile will be deleted. The data will stay in backups on our servers for 2
weeks, after which it will be completely removed. Public content you created,
such as issues, forum posts, projects, documentation page revisions, etc. won’t
be deleted. All this content will be attributed to ‘Anonymous’ user.
Once deleted, your account is gone and cannot be restored.
Protection
of your information
We use reasonable security measures to protect your information collected
through this Website. We do not store passwords in plain text format, only
secure password hashes. However, no method of transmission or electronic
storage is 100% safe, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Therefore,
your use of this Website is at your own risk and we do not promise or
guarantee, and you should not expect, that your information will always and
absolutely remain private and secure. We are not responsible for the
circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on or
concerning this Website. You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps
to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse.
Changes to
this privacy policy
We may update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. This Privacy Policy
will reflect the date it was last updated or amended. If we make any material
amendments, we will notify you by posting a notice of such amendments on this
Website. All amendments will take effect immediately upon our posting of the
updated Privacy Policy on this Website. Your continued use of this Website will
indicate your acceptance of the changes to the Privacy Policy.
Contacting
us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our
information practices, or wish to make a request regarding your information,
please contact us using the contact form
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