Privacy Policy

K12 Techno Services Private Limited (“K12”) intends to protect the privacy of its users and members on its Website and the privacy of the data provided by them to K12 from time to time. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, Website means and includes www.k12technoservices.com the “Website” of K12.

We respect and are committed towards protecting your privacy. We encourage you to read our privacy statement to understand what types of information we collect and how we use this information.

This Privacy Policy apply to our services available under the domain and subdomains of the Website. By visiting this Website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use or access our site. You understand and acknowledge that provision of the information provided herewith is voluntary and you may choose to provide and/or withhold provision of any information. However, in case of non-provision of any information you may not be eligible for certain products and services for which the information needs to be collected. This Privacy Policy does not apply to sites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we link and we are not responsible for any information including inter alia any personally identifiable information you submit to third parties via our website. Please ensure that you read the privacy policy of such other companies or organizations before submitting your details.

The information we collect from you or is submitted by you on the Website on your sole discretion includes inter alia personally identifiable information and such other information which may be collected automatically (as detailed below):

• Name
• E-mail address
• Occupation
• Date of birth
• Mobile number
• Such other information which K12 may require for providing the web-based services.

Apart from the Information that you provide to K12, we may collect certain Information automatically, which may include:

• Your IP address
• Information about your web browser software and version
• General geographic location indicated by your IP address
• Frequency of your visits to this Website
• Average length of your visits
• Pages viewed within this Website during your visits
• Any other such similar Information which K12 may require from time to time. Unless otherwise stated explicitly, this policy applies to personal information as disclosed on any of the media.

You acknowledge that you are disclosing Personally Identifiable Information voluntarily. We identify and use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Website. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.

K12 may also use data collection devices such as 'cookies' on this Website. 'Cookies' are small text files that we place in your device that you use to access our website. This is done to recognize your device during a session or in your future visits to our website, primarily in order to provide better user experience. The types of cookies used on this Website are:

• Session cookie: Session cookies remain only as long as a browsing session is active and are intended to avoid user inconvenience during browsing. These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session and expire at the end of the browsing session. Session cookies also assist the user in navigating the website, and allow the user to access secure parts of the webpage when logged in.
• Persistent cookie: Persistent cookies are stored on a user's device even after termination of a browsing session. It helps in recalling the preferences or actions of the user. Persistent cookies are used for a variety of purposes such as retaining the visitor's language and regional preference(s) at the end of each browsing session. Depending on the type and settings of your browser, cookies may be accepted by default. You may change the settings of your browser to delete existing cookies or prevent future cookies from being automatically accepted. If you disable cookies, certain parts and functions of our website may not be available.

You can reach out to us should you wish to access, amend, or delete your information stored with K12.

K12 may share your Information with its service providers, affiliate(s), agents, partners and such other third parties for the purposes of (i) providing the services and to perform the functions on your behalf or on behalf of K12; (ii) marketing new products and services by K12 or by any of its affiliate(s), service partners and third parties; or (iii) marketing of services provided by such third parties, affiliates and service partners of K12. Pursuant to such arrangement. It is hereby expressly declared that K12 shall not be responsible for use of your Information by such third parties and service partners and their privacy policies.

There maybe services and/or products offered by third parties on the Website. If you choose to apply for these third-party products and/or services, then their use of your Information shall be governed by their privacy policies. K12 shall not be responsible for their use of your Information and their privacy policies.

K12 may use your Information to intimate you for any new products, services, offers and/ or promotions being offered by K12 or any of its affiliate(s), third parties, partners or service partners.

Information shared by you is used by us and/or authorized third parties/service partners/affiliate(s) to support your interaction with us, to offer you services in the best possible manner and to contact you again about other services and products that we and/or authorized third parties/service partners/affiliate(s) offer. By submitting your Information to K12, you expressly acknowledge and consent to K12 to use such Information and to process the same in a manner deemed fit by K12. This may involve conducting data analysis, research based on reviews about deals, transfer of your Information to third party experts for the purpose of outsourcing services offered to you by K12, transfer your Information to third parties/ service partners for providing you services offered by such third parties and service partners etc.

K12 makes every reasonable effort to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of your Information shared with us. We implement standard measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception of Personal Information. However, no Internet website can fully eliminate security risks.

By accessing our Website and using it on a continued basis, you expressly consent and confirm to K12 collecting, maintaining, using, processing and disclosing your Information and other information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

You may choose to withdraw your consent for use of your Information at any point. You may reach out to K12 over email specifying such request. Upon receiving such request K12 will delete your Information. Please note, however, that there might be latency in deleting your Information from K12 servers. Further upon withdrawal of such consent you might not be further eligible for any K12 products and services which shall be at sole discretion of K12.

K12 may retain your Information for the purposes of its archiving policies and internal business purposes and deleted thereafter.

K12 may change the data privacy practices and update this Privacy Policy as and when the need arises, and the same will be made available on the Website. K12 reserves the exclusive right to change or update this Privacy Policy without any prior notice to you.

As per the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder (as amended from time to time), the contact details of the designated grievance officer as under:

• Attention: Mr. M. Dinesh
• E-Mail Address: ithelpdesk@orchids.edu.in