Your privacy is important to us. Heritage International Xperiential School (HIXS) is committed to the privacy of its Users.
The Heritage International Xperiential School’s policy is to respect the user’s/accessor’s (henceforth referred as “You’) privacy regarding any information we may collect from you while operating our Website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.hixs.org Website (hereinafter, “Website” “us”, “we”, it or “www.hixs.org/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protect personally identifiable/sensitive information you may provide to us through the Website.
The Privacy Policy sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use and protection of the personal information, data, material and content provided by you while using/accessing our Website. Personal information/Sensitive information any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person, for example name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, gender etc. Content includes photos, videos, text, music, messages, information, comments, labels, tags, descriptions, categorizations, queries or other content or materials uploaded/posted by you. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose information from and about you when you use our website and related services (collectively, the “Services”).
We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy, and become familiar with it, but you should know that we do not sell or rent our User’s personal information to third parties. This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.
1. Website Visitors
- Information we collect from you
Like most website operators, School/Entity Name collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor requestHIXS’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how its visitors use its website. From time to time, HIXS may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. - Information we automatically collect from you
HXIS may collect certain information automatically from your device which may include, but is not limited to, potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on www.hixs.org blog posts, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type (such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer), your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your operating system and carrier. For Website users, details of any referring website or exit pages as well as broad geographic location (e.g., country or city-level location) may also be collected. HIXS only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website, where they come from, and what content on our website is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Services for our visitors. We may also use this automatic information to prevent and detect fraud. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology.
2. Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to HIXS’s Website choose to interact with HIXS in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that HIXS gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who leave a comment at ww.hixs.org to provide a username and email address.
3. Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
4. Advertisements
Ads appearing for our Website may be delivered to users by various advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most relevant to our users. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by HIXS and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
5. Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy and terms of service of every such website you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
HIXS uses Google AdWords for remarketing. HIXS uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
6. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
HIXS discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on itss behalf or to provide services available at its Website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using HIXS’s Website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. HIXS will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, HIXS discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when HIXS believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of – HIXS, third parties or the public at large. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We also may use personal information to create appropriately aggregated or anonymized data, which is not subject to this Privacy Policy, and which we may use or disclose for any purpose
If you are a registered user of www.hixs.org and have provided your email address, – HIXS may occasionally send you an email to update you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with – HIXS. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. – HIXS takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
7. Aggregated Statistics
HIXS may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its Website. HIXS may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, HIXS does not disclose your personally-identifying information. In general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information.
8. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, – HIXS uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalised content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. HIXS uses cookies to help it identify and track visitors, their usage of https://hixs.org/, and their Website access preferences. This Website may use cookies for the following general purposes, including but not limited to:
- To help us recognize you as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting our site.
- To help us customize the content and advertisements provided to you on this website.
- To help measure and research the effectiveness of website features and offerings, advertisements, and email communications (by determining which emails you open and act upon).
HIXS visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using HIXS’s website’, with the drawback that certain features of its website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our Website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to HIXS’s use of cookies.
Period of Retention
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
9. Online Payments or Services
Those who engage in transactions with HIXS – by purchasing its services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, – HIXS collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with it. – HIXS does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described above. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
10. Sharing of Information
We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
- With vendors, consultants and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf;
- In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with any applicable law, regulation or legal process, or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule or regulation;
- If we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property and safety of School/Entity Name;
- In connection with, or in anticipation of, any merger, divestiture, consolidation, bankruptcy, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, or other significant corporate event (in which case the acquiring entity may use the information pursuant to its own privacy policies and procedures, to the extent legally permissible); and
- With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you through our Services that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information.
We may also share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you. Our sharing of information is governed by our Terms of Service with the user who posted it.
11. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, HIXS may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in HIXS’s sole discretion. HIXS encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
12. Contact Information
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us via email or phone.
E: info@hixs.org
T: +91-124-2859200/01
Effective Date: 31-01-2022 The Courts at New Delhi in India shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to the exclusion of other courts and applicable law shall be Indian Law for usage of websites / apps including adherence/compliance/ performance of the terms and conditions, thereto.
