Privacy Policy
Greetings Students! You are on the Privacy Policy of the IGNOUAdvisor site, the reference site of the IGNOU University. We would like to notify all our users that it is necessary for them to be compliant with the privacy policy in order to access and use the portal. It is self explanatory and straightforward so let us commence.
Who we are?
IGNOUAdvisor is a portal that aids students by generating information content, materials, and aids on various subjects like admission, examination, results, help books and so many more. We aim to assist students in all their students at IGNOU by building support systems for them in the form of free and paid versions. The portal is open to the public and there are no limitations to who can access it.
Collection of Personal Data
If students only wish to view the articles available on IGNOUAdvisor, they do not have to give us any personal information as we do not require them to provide such information. However, if the students desire to talk to us or purchase some of our service, then we may take certain personal details from students in order to serve them better or to make the best offer possible.
For Writing Comments
When a student wants to post a comment on any article, he or she has to register Name and Email Address. This will be processed by our spam comments bot in order to separate legitimate comments posted by students from spam comments provided.
For Purchase of Services
To make available any of our services, the following personal information shall be collected for ensuring a minimum standard of services to be received.
* Full Name
* Email Address
* Mobile Number
* Program Details
* Full Address with Zip Code
This information is collected during any of the purchases of services and helps us furnish with pre customized services made by our experienced team. This information helps us understand the user better and is crucial for spotting the student’s academic level to assess their needs and requirements.
Usage of Personal Data
* Portal Enhancement: Right away, the data will go a long way in assisting us enhance our portal and services.
* User Contact: It will assist us in reaching out to the users through emails, mobile phones, and other forms of communication.
* This data will allow us to send users newsletters and alerts through emails.
* This data will increase the effectiveness of our communication channels and allow us to better serve the end user through personalized communication.
* Marketing Strategies: The marketing will use this information to improve existing products with the intent to sell new products and services to end users.
* Users Contact: We can also employ this information for promotional activities enabling us to contact the users for other communications to market our services and products.
* Personal Data: As of now, we do not share any personal data with third parties, as we do not have any relationship with any institutions.
Protection of User’s Data
Currently, users are more careful than ever regarding the information they provide to websites. We take reasonable measures to make certain that the personal information users provide is well safeguarded on our server.
* The personal information which we receive from users is protected against malicious parties through encryption via SSL (HTTPS) whenever you interact with our website.
* Only the concerned administrator and the end user are able to view these specific data. Non sanctioned parties cannot access this information.
User’s Rights
As mentioned above, users information is secured on our servers and therefore the following are some of the rights users have.
* Update: Users can alter or change their details any time if required.
* Removal: Every user is entitled to request the deletion of their personal information permanently from our portal. Any such request can be raised using any means of available communication. Our team will delete the user’s information such as comments, user profiles including purchase profiles and many more within 72 working hours.
Advertisement
We use them to make profit from our website,and Google Adsense is by far the most important of our advertisers and companies which bring the greatest number of ad impressions to our website. We also work with Ezoic Ad Network. For more details about compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) visit our Ezoic specific Privacy Policy.
Traffic Analysis
Currently, we are tracking the traffic to our website by its Google Analytics tool, which allows us to gather data on the user’s geographical location, device type, and much more. In case you want to stop being tracked, you can enable the “Send a “Do Not Track” request with your browsing traffic” option in the settings of your browser. For details, please refer to the Privacy Policy of Google at http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Cookies
To begin with, we would like to inform you that a cookie is one of the types of files stored on a computer made for a better user experience. While writing comments on our site IGNOUHelp.in you can save your name, email id, and other personal details which will be stored in the form of Cookies. They are stored to help you avoid filling in these details again during future comments or purchases. The expiry period of these cookies shall be 12 months. Our advertising partner can use it to provide the best advertising service in line with the user’s preference and other information.
Copyright Protection
We assume you are already aware that our site cannot be copied and so no one can duplicate any text at IGNOUAdvisor. It is important to note that no one was given an option to copy any text from our website, thus further restricting the possibility of duplication. Our content is proprietary, which means it cannot be used on other sites. In addition, we would like to state that the textbooks which we share via Google Drive are the sole property of IGNOU copyrighted authority.
Change in Privacy Policy
To indicate, we reserve the right to alter our Privacy Policy at any time without notice and therefore suggest that our privacy page is checked periodically so as to adhere to it.
Contact
If there is any further Information needed regarding the Privacy Policy then use the Contact Us page to get in touch with us.