Maharashtra University of Health Sciences [hereinafter "MUHS" or "University"]
is engaged in muhsonline.net to facilitate various educational processes involving
students and educational institutes.
MUHS has adopted the following Privacy Policy for information that may be
collected from its website muhsonline.net [hereinafter “website”]. This privacy policy
states what kind of information is collected from its Users by MUHS and the
manner it is intended to be used. This Policy also states how the information is
protected by MUHS.
MUHS is committed to protecting your privacy. When you provide certain information
that allows us to identify you, it is strictly used in accordance with this Privacy
Policy.
MUHS reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy, as required.
Users are encouraged to check this page periodically to ensure that you are aware
of the changes. This policy is effective from 16th August 2016.
Information Collected and its Use
In order to facilitate various processes of educational institutions, we may collect
the following types of information from you:
Information
- When you visit our “website”, we will ask you to sign up for a muhsonline.net account.
Here, we ask you for personal information such as your name, email address and an
account password, contact information, Pin code etc. as may appear on the website.
- The Information is primarily collected to facilitate your interaction with a specified
Institute, such as filling out a specific college admission application, requested
by you. It also helps you to interact with institute to clarify your queries.
Further, it enables you to submit in a convenient and efficient manner any information
that is likely to be needed when you complete college admission, financial aid and
other applications and forms made available through our website.
- The information submitted is kept Confidential by ensuring appropriate technological
support. Your information is being retained by us on behalf of the Educational institute
for admission and other misc. purposes.
- As muhsonline.net is a facilitator in the Online Admissions process, your request
in respect of admissions will involve a transfer of data. Such data related to your
request or query will be made available to the institution or recipient you opt
or choose or designate or to a service provider assisting us in completing that
task.
- Therefore, your personal information is collected and provided to the designated
recipient for the purposes of facilitating your admissions by:
- Filing and submitting online applications for admission with Institute specified
by you or for Filing and submitting financial aid applications to the designated
recipient. Your personal data required to complete that application will be provided
on your behalf to the admissions office of the institution to which you are applying.
- Your request to any educational institution for brochure or prospectus or any other
material, will entail your contact information to be sent to that institution.
- Except as provided herein, personal data that you enter on the website, is not made
available or distributed to third parties, except with your express consent. We
will not give, sell or provide access to your personal information to any company,
individual or organization for its use in marketing or commercial solicitation or
for any other purpose, except with your express consent, as is necessary for the
operation of this site.
- We also ask you for other information such as preferences and interests, which is
optional. You may choose not to enter such information apart from what may be necessary
for the purpose of muhsonline.net. If you voluntarily submit any additional information,
we have your deemed free consent to use or share such information for the purpose
of marketing or commercial solicitation.
- Additionally, for the purpose of payment, you may be requested for credit card or
other payment account information which is directly submitted to the Payment Gateway.
We do not maintain any data submitted for the purpose of effecting payment. In case
of any dispute or discrepancy, you are requested to directly contact your Credit
Card Company and the Payment Gateway Company.
- We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from
other muhsonline.net services or third parties in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services.
- If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was
collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use. If we propose to
use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy
Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information
for those other purposes.
Information sharing
muhsonline.net only shares personal information with other companies or individuals
outside of muhsonline.net in the following limited circumstances:
- We have your free consent.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted
businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our
behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on
our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
- When required by law to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant,
Compliance under any prevailing law or statute, regulation or court order or any
other order from any appropriate authorities or to detect, prevent, or otherwise
address fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect against imminent harm
to the rights, property or safety of MUHS, its users or the public as required
or permitted by law.
- We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of
users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked
on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.
Security measures:
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal
reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures,
as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems
where we store personal data. However, MUHS shall not be responsible in any
manner whatsoever if the login or user id and/or password is shared and/or leaked
by the user.
We restrict access to personal information to MUHS employees, vendors, contractors
and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve
our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may
be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they
fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
MUHS processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was
collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific
privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices
to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed
to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the
personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend
on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
We make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information
and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your
request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate
business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information
requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests,
and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic,
require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize 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.
Cookies
When you visit www.muhsonline.net, we send
one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use
cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking
user trends, such as how people search. MUHS also uses cookies in its advertising
services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web.
We may set a cookie in your browser when you visit a website and view or click on
an ad supported by MUHS’s advertising services. 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. However, some of our features and services
may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. You can decline to submit
personal information to any of our services, in which case MUHS may not be
able to provide those services to you.
Log information
When you access muhsonline.net, our 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 email or other communications to muhsonline.net, we may retain those
communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and
improve our services. muhsonline.net only processes personal information for the purposes
described in this Privacy Policy. We may retain your information for Internal record
keeping or enhancing our products and services or for Audit purposes. muhsonline.net
processes personal information on secure data servers.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. Note that once you click these
links to navigate away from our site, we do not have any control over the contents
of the external sites. We will not be held responsible for the protection and privacy
of any information which you provide to these sites and they will not be governed
by this privacy statement. We encourage you to exercise caution and look at the
privacy statement of such websites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Any changes made
to this Policy shall be made available on the website. Your acceptance of this Privacy
Policy is a deemed acceptance to the modified or changed Policy.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please
feel free to email us at
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