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Privacy Policy

Objective and Scope

PathshalaNepal.com (“we”, “us”, “our”, “PathshalaNepal.com”) values the trust placed in us by data subject (“you”, “your”, “user”, “subscriber”,”students”) and therefore, we follow the highest standards of privacy guidelines to protect the information shared by you with us.

This privacy policy describes the usage of information provided or collected by PathshalaNepal.com and/or its subsidiary (ies) and/or affiliate(s) (collectively referred to as the “Company“), which operates various Websites/Mobile applications & other services including but not limited to delivery of information and content via any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (collectively the “Services“). We follow this privacy policy in accordance with applicable law in the places where we operate.  In some cases, we may provide additional data privacy notices specific to certain services or regions. Those terms are to be read in combination with this policy.

PathshalaNepal.com here in after is a property of Pathshala Premise Limited, a Nepali Company registered under the Companies Act, 2063 BS having its corporate office at Prayag Pokhari, Lalitpur , Bagmati Province, Nepal. With a view to offer most enriching and holistic online educational experience to its users PathshalaNepal.com offers a vast repository of Online materials and variety of community interactions. You may read ‘About Us’ to know more about PathshalaNepal.com.

This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction and together with the Terms of Use applicable to the PathshalaNepal.com Service that you are using.

What does this privacy policy cover?

The objective of the privacy policy is to inform you regarding the processing of your personal information which is collected during your visit to our website/application. This policy applies to current and former visitors of the website/application, users who register on PathshalaNepal.com in connection with use of our services, or whose information PathshalaNepal.com otherwise receives in connection with its services (such as but not limited to contact information of individuals associated with PathshalaNepal.com including partner colleges/ institutes).

I. Collection and Use of Personal Information

Personal information (PI) – means any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person (‘data subject’ here in referred as you/your’). In particular using a common identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

The Company respects the privacy of the users of the Services and is committed to reasonably protect it in all respects. The information about the user as collected by the Company is:

A.  Information you provide to us

Information Collected when you use our Website
Many of our services require you to register/sign up for an account on PathshalaNepal.com. When you do, we will ask for personal information, to continue to interact with you and to continue providing you the Services. Information that we collect include, but not limited to –

To add certain content, like pictures, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album

Information Collected when you use our Mobile Application
When you download our mobile application (related to our various services) we collect the below information, but not limited-

Information you provide to us voluntarily
We may collect additional information at other times, when you provide feedback(s), modify your content or email preferences, respond to surveys, or communicate with us by posting a comment on our website/application or asking us a question through or e-mail. This information may include personal information such as, but not limited to, your name, e-mail id, mobile number, comment, message etc.

B.  Information Automatically Collected/Tracked while Navigation

Cookies
To improve the responsiveness of the “Services” for our users, we may use “cookies“, (a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect your information about Website/Application activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a user) or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (“User ID“) to understand the user’s individual interests using the identified computer. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser(s) (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control. We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us via website(s), Application(s) or Services through your computer/laptop/notebook/ mobile/tablet/pad/handheld device or any other electronic device capable of connecting to internet.

You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of the Website/application and some sections/features of the site/application may not work.
For more details you can refer to our Cookie Policy

Log File Information
We automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, mobile number, including, but not limited to, your IP address, browser software ,operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed, whenever you visit(s) our website(s), application(s) or services.

Clear GIFs
We may use “clear GIFs” (Web Beacons) when you use our websites, to track the online usage patterns in an anonymous manner, without personally identifying the user. We may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by them. We also collect information from you passively using Google Analytics, Facebook Analytics and Google search console for collecting information about your usage of our website.

C. Inferred Information through usage and log data

We may collect and track certain information about you based upon your behaviour on the PathshalaNepal.com Services We use this information for conducting internal research on our users’ demographics, devices, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our users.

We may also collect your Information to track user behaviour and preferences for internal analytics and research. We may also use your information:

If you choose to post messages on social media accounts, message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the PathshalaNepal.com Services, we may collect and store such information.

D.  Information obtained from other Sources

We may receive information about you from other online sources. We may add it to our account information system and treat it in accordance with this policy. If you provide information to the platform provider or other partner to whom we provide services, your account information including, but not limited to, your name, email ID, may be passed on to us. We may obtain updated contact information(s) from third parties in order to correct our records and fulfil the Services or to communicate with you or share the information with any third party.

If you link, connect or login to your PathshalaNepal.com Services account with a third party service such as E.g. Google or Facebook, they may send us information such as your registered e-mail id and public profile information from the service as stated above.

In case you choose to decline to submit personal information on the Application/Websites, we may not be able to provide certain services on the Application/Websites to you. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the same at the time of opening your account. In any case, we will not be liable and or responsible for the denial of certain services to you for lack of you providing the necessary personal information.

II. Processing of personal information

We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful basis. Lawful basis on which we would process our personal information includes obtaining explicit consent from you for processing your personal information or processing for “legitimate interests” where processing is necessary by us to provide you with services (For e.g. processing your information by our group companies/affiliates).

III. Third party services

Third parties provide certain services available on PathshalaNepal. PathshalaNepal may provide information, including Personal Information that ‘PathshalaNepal collects on the Website/Application to third-party service providers to help us deliver programs, products, information, and services. Service providers are also an important means by which PathshalaNepal maintains its Website/Application and mailing lists. PathshalaNepal will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on PathshalaNepal behalf.

PathshalaNepal does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on PathshalaNepal behalf unless such transfer is required for legal purposes or for providing relevant services. Similarly, it is against ‘PathshalaNepal’s policy to sell Personal Information collected online without consent.

When you are in a relationship with PathshalaNepal, your personal information may be transferred to European Economic Area (EEA) or outside EEA, for the purposes mentioned in this policy or to their local service providers for support in the pursuance of such purposes. Transfers to EEA or outside EEA are covered by standard data protection laws.

We present information to our advertisers to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website/application. It is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site/application. When you register with PathshalaNepal, we contact you from time to time about updation of your content to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit you.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website/application. These companies may use information (such as but not limited to photos/media/files on your device, location, audio about your visits to this and other websites/applications in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. However, we do not store this data in our environment.

Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform (for example, via our sites like social media login (Login via Facebook) the information we collect is through those third-party sites linked with our sites is covered by this privacy policy, and the information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on the third-party site or platform will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our sites. Please also keep in observance that our sites and sites may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other sites that may collect your personal information. All capitalized terms that have not been specifically defined herein shall have the same meaning as provided under the Terms of Use.

PathshalaNepal.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

IV. Children

To use the Site/Application you agree that you must be the minimum age (described in this paragraph below) or older.
The minimum age for these purposes shall be 13, however if local laws require that you must be older in order for PathshalaNepal to lawfully provide the services in the Site/ Application to you then that older age shall apply as the applicable minimum age. In all jurisdictions outside the European Union, if you are under the age of 16 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must use PathshalaNepal the supervision of your parent, legal guardian or responsible adult.

V. Information Sharing

We restrict access to your Personal Information to employees who we believe reasonably need to know/or that information in order to fulfil their jobs to provide, operate, develop, or improve our products or services.

PathshalaNepal does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

VI. Retention of personal information

Your personal information processed by PathshalaNepal are kept in a form which permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal information are processed in line with legal, regulatory, contractual or statutory obligations as applicable.
At the expiry of such periods, your personal information will be deleted or archived to comply with legal/contractual retention obligations or in accordance with applicable statutory limitation periods.

VII. Monitoring

To the extent permitted by law, PathshalaNepal may record and monitor your communications with us to ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies. This may include the recording of telephone conversations.

VIII. Your Controls and Choices (As applicable under GDPR)

A. Accessing and Rectifying your personal information

When you use the services on our Website/Application (or any of its sub sites), we make reasonable efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed or corrected before processing such requests. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, requiring disproportionate technical effort, jeopardizing the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. You can make such requests by sending us an e-mail

B. Right to Rectification

You have the right for inaccurate or incomplete data we hold to be updated. You shall have the right to obtain from PathshalaNepal without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal information concerning you.

C. Data Portability

You may also be entitled to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit to another controller, wherever feasible

D. Data Erasure

We retain your personal information as long as necessary for us to provide services to you or you ask us to not retain your data. If you no longer want us to use your information then you can request that we erase your personal information and close your PathshalaNepal Services account. Please note that if you request for the erasure of your personal information;

E. Withdrawing Consent and Restriction of Processing

For withdrawing your consent at any time during the tenure of your services with us, you may choose to do so by sending us an e-mail. We shall review your request and may ask you to verify your identity. Post verification we will withdraw the consent for which request was made by you and stop any further processing of your personal information

F. Right to Object to the Processing

Except in very specific cases where provided by law, you have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you.
Such right can be exercised at any time where your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes.

G. Right to object  being subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling 

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, except in specific cases provided by law.
PathshalaNepal shall provide information on action taken on a request pertaining to the rights above without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. PathshalaNepal shall inform the data subject of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for delay.

H. Complaints

If you have any complaints regarding processing of your personal information you may contact our privacy officer at info@pathshalanepal.com. You have the right to complaint about the data processing activities carried out by PathshalaNepal before the competent data protection authorities.

X. Social media

PathshalaNepal operates channels, pages and accounts on some social media sites to inform, assist and engage with you. PathshalaNepal monitors and records comments and posts made on these channels about PathshalaNepal in order to improve its products and services.
Please note that you must not communicate with PathshalaNepal through such social media sites the following information:

PathshalaNepal is not responsible for any information posted on those sites other than the information posted by its employees on its behalf. PathshalaNepal is only responsible for its own use of the personal data received through such sites

XI. Changes in the Policy

PathshalaNepal reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification.

XII. Contact Information

Support
If you require any information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or this privacy policy or grievances with respect to use of your personal information, please email us at info@pathshalanepal.com

Postal Address
PathshalaNepal Ltd.
Pryagpokhari, Lagenkhel Lalitpur, Bagmati Province

XIII. Disclaimer

PathshalaNepal shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user’s account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise
Any other personal information shared by you which is not asked by PathshalaNepal during registration, either mandatorily or optionally; accounts to wilful and intentional furnishing; and PathshalaNepal will not be liable for breach of such information.