Privacy Policy and General Terms & Conditions – IMS Learning Resources Private Limited

www.imsindia.com is owned and operated by IMS Learning Resources Private Limited (IMS). All rights of this website are reserved with IMS. No part or content of this website may be reproduced, replicated, distributed or transmitted in any form whatsoever or through any means, which includes printing, recording or other electronic methods or any other methods, as the case may be, without prior written permission from the administrator of this website. Users may download material from the website only for their own personal, non-commercial use. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Web administrator.

IMS reserves the right to make changes to any information contained on the website at any time whatsoever, and without notice or limitation of any kind, including, but not limited to, information relating to countries, courses, universities scholarships, fees, and other related service.

We are very sensitive to the privacy concerns of visitors to our website. IMS is committed to respect your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information or private communication. We take care that the content posted on this website is appropriate for their viewing and/or use. This Privacy Policy outlines the way in which IMS gathers and uses information relating to you.

Personally Identifiable Information We Collect:

We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide this information to us. If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. Rather, information is kept in the aggregate. We automatically collect and store only the information about your visit. We use the information we collect to understand the traffic to our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

We collect personally identifiable information (via online or offline registration forms), such as name, contact details, e-mail address, postal address, telephone/mobile number, your gender, date of birth etc. and whether you have chosen to receive future communications from IMS when you provide it to us, or when you register to our test preparation classes (either directly with us or through our centers), sign up for email newsletters, enter a contest, register for site membership, any subscriptions, participate in surveys, or to otherwise communicate with us. Several of the services that we offer, including but not limited to Test Preparation, Seminars, Counseling promotional campaigns, Admission etc require registration as a condition of use. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you have provided to us.

We may use personal information about you to build up a profile of your performance(s), analysis, preferences and to track your progress over the duration of the programme for which you have enrolled with us. We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. We may use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you. We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve IMS’s products and services. We will not sell your personal information to any third party for commercial gains. However, we may, at times, mail promotional material that we believe will be of relevance to you on behalf of third parties and for which we may receive a consideration from the party in question. However, even in such situations, all data will remain solely in the possession of IMS and will not be shared with any third party save and except for authorized law enforcement investigations. We are the sole owners of your information collected by us at several different points on our Website. However we may share information with third parties in limited circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.

We may present information to advertisers who wish to advertise on our website. When we present information to our advertisers it is to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website. Such information is in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.

Information security:

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.

The information you provide to us will be held on IMS’ own servers or on third party servers contracted by IMS. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, virus attacks, system errors/bugs nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

The information you provide to us will be held on IMS’ own servers or on third party servers contracted by IMS. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, virus attacks, system errors/bugs nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Although, we will endeavor to meet the requirements of the Internet Security policy envisaged under this section, we cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system that may occur whilst using material derived from this website. As best practice, we also strongly recommend that you regularly run an anti-virus programme on all material downloaded from the Internet.

Information Sharing and Disclosure:

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

We provide the information to our trusted partners who work on behalf of or with IMS under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help IMS communicate with you about offers from IMS and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; We also may disclose personal information to third parties if we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to conduct investigations of possible breaches of law, to cooperate in any legal investigation, or to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the terms of use of our site.

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of IMS’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We transfer information about you if IMS is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, IMS will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

IMS displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria.

IMS does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing 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.

IMS is not responsible for the information, you volunteer about yourself in the course of discussions in our forums, chat rooms, or other forms of publicly accessible interaction or information that you choose to make public in your member profile. As a member, you can view, correct or change your publicly available information at any time via your member profile page.

Online Ad Serving:

IMS may use advertising services of third parties, to serve advertisements when you visit our sites. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other information you’ve provided to us) about your visits to our and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. You agree and understand that IMS neither owns nor operates/controls any information or services provided on such third party websites. You further agree and understand that such links do not constitute an endorsement by IMS of any such websites and are provided only as a convenience. IMS is not responsible for the content or links displayed on such websites.

Several companies may provide email deployment services for our email messages. The personally identifiable information, such as e-mail address, we provide to these vendors for the purposes of e-mail deployment is only used by them for that purpose and not for any other business activity. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Use of their tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies.

Your decision to use any information contained herein will be your decision alone based solely on your own evaluation and assessment. We are not responsible for the consequences of any actions taken based on the information provided on the website. We shall not be held liable for any material or non material damage caused by omissions, incorrect or incomplete information.

Links to Other websites:

Our website has links to partners and other sites. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. Other websites may collect and treat information collected differently, so we encourage you to carefully read and review the privacy policy for each website you visit. We will not be responsible for any information that you may provide to such websites accessible through our website.

Restriction of Liability:

IMS makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website.

No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources.

Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by IMS.

Advertisements are subject to the Privacy Policy of the advertising site.

Payment & Refund:

Following policy is applicable for all the products /services that are bought and/or paid for on www.imsindia.com. This policy is applicable ONLY for products/services purchased online on www.imsindia.com and NOT for any classroom programmes or correspondence courses or test series or any other product for which the payment has been made at IMS centre.

The fees should be paid in full to avail the product/service

Any revision in the course fees /subscription fees / any other fees will be at the discretion of IMS and shall be updated on the website time to time.

Fees paid for a specific programme are not transferable to any other programme.

Fees once paid shall not be refunded in any circumstances.

Fees once paid shall not be adjusted with any other product /service availed subsequently at any IMS centre.

Courseware ,content and Fees may be changed at the discretion of IMS

All the communication in this regard should be addressed to support@imsindia.com

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

IMS reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at any time without any prior notification. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification. By using this website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and signify your assent to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree with any term of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, please do not use this site or submit any personally identifiable information.

General Terms & Conditions:

The information displayed on this site is provided on a ‘best efforts’ and ‘as is’ basis without any warranties of any kind, including, but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. The users of www.imsindia.com claim the entire responsibility for the selection and use of the service(s) and neither IMS nor any of its information providers, licensers, employees , partners or agents shall have any liability for any errors, malfunctions, defects, loss of data, resulting from the use or inability to use the service. In no event shall the liability of IMS, if any, exceed the amount paid, if any, by the user. While utmost care is taken to provide correct and up to date information, IMS does not warrant the accuracy, completeness and timely availability of the information provided on the site and accepts no responsibility or liability for any error or omission in any information provided on the site nor does the site claim to be comprehensive in its coverage of examinations (either competitive or otherwise in nature) and/or of the various educational programmes conducted in India.

This website may contain information about various academic programs offered by institutes and/or institutions as well as about various examinations that are conducted by them or by independent parties/third parties in India. This information has been compiled from various sources, including primary research conducted by, or on behalf of IMS as well as secondary or desk research. IMS will in no event be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential or indirect damages arising out of the use of or inability to use and/or for any delay in the service provided by the site. THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES.

IMS expressly disclaims any warranties whether express or implied about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, correctness, completeness, quality, continuity, performance, fitness of products, services contained/displayed within this website for any purpose.

Questions?

For any doubts/clarifications or additional information that you may require, please contact us at
support@imsindia.com