We respect the value of privacy of any information you provide on this Website. The privacy policy below applies to any of the portal powered by Netarhat Old Boys Association ("NOBA","the Organisation", "we", "us" and "our"). This policy describes:
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the types of information that we may collect from you when you access or use our websites, applications and other online services (collectively, our "Services"); and
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our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This policy applies only to information we collect through our Services, in email, text and other electronic communications sent through or in connection with our Services.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Services. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time, your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
PRIVACY POLICY
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Services, including information:
by which you may be personally identified; and/or about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Services and your usage details and/or your activities on our Services.
We collect this information: directly from you when you provide it to us; and/or automatically as you navigate through our Services (information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies); and/or through our various automatic data collection processes, that collect the public information about the users/ potential users, from internet.
Information You Provide to Us:
The information we collect on or through our Services may include:
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Your account information: Your full name, email address, postal code, password and other information you may provide with your account, such as your gender, mobile phone number and website. Your profile picture that will be publicly displayed as part of your account profile. You may optionally provide us with this information through third-party sign-in services such as Facebook and Google. In such cases, we fetch and store whatever information is made available to us by you through these sign-in services.
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Your Educational Information: The name of the school/college you studied in, the courses/department you studied, the years of study, etc.
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Your preferences: Your preferences and settings such as time zone and language.
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Your content: Information you provide through our Services, including your posts, photographs, comments, lists,
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Members of your network, the users who add you to their network, your education details, your work details, your information about life during school days and after and or prior, your posts, updates, news ( collectively, ‘User Contribution’. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable (see "Security" section below). Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. You should be careful about revealing any sensitive details about yourself in such postings.
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Your searches and other activities: The search terms you have looked up and results you selected.
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Your browsing information: How long you used our Services and which features you used; the ads you clicked on.
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Your communications: Communications between you and other users through our Services; your participation in a survey, poll, sweepstakes, contest or promotion scheme; your request for certain features (e.g., newsletters, updates or other products); your communication with us about employment opportunities posted to the services.
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Information About Your Friends: You have the option to request your Netarhat friends to join the Services by providing their contact information. If you request a friend to join and connect with you on the Services, we will only use your friend’s contact information to process your request.
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Information About Your Messages: If you exchange messages with others through the Services, we may store them in order to process and deliver them, allow you to manage them, and investigate possible violations of our Terms of Service and wrongdoing in connection with the Services. If you send information from the Services to your mobile device via SMS text message, we may log your phone number, phone carrier, and the date and time that the message was processed. Carriers may charge recipients for texts that they receive.
Anonymous or De-Identified Data
We may anonymize and/or de-identify information collected from you through the Services or via other means, including via the use of third-party web analytic tools as described below. As a result, our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not restricted by this Privacy Policy, and it may be used and disclosed to others without limitation.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use the information we collect from and about you for a variety of purposes, including to:
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Process and respond to your queries
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Understand our users (what they do on our Services, what features they like, how they use them, etc.), improve the content and features of our Services (such as by personalizing content to your interests), process and complete your requests and transactions, and make special offers or announcements.
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Administer our Services and diagnose technical problems.
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Send you communications that you have requested or that may be of interest to you.
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Send you questions/messages from other users that you may/shall be able to answer/respond if you have registered with us.
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Generate and review reports and data about, and to conduct research on, our user base and Service usage patterns.
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Administer contests and sweepstakes.
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Provide you with customer support.
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Provide you with notices about your account.
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Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
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Notify you about changes to our Services.
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Allow you to participate in interactive features offered through our Services.
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In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
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For any other purpose with your consent.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
HOW WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide, as described in this privacy policy, in the following ways:
General Information Disclosures
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To our subsidiaries, affiliates and chapters.
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To contractors, service providers and other third-parties whom we use to support our Services and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
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Service Providers. We may share your information with outside vendors that we use for a variety of purposes, such as to send you emails and messages on behalf of other members, push notifications to your mobile device on our behalf, provide voice recognition services to process your spoken queries and questions, help us analyze use of our Services, and process and collect payments. Some of our products, services and databases are hosted by third party hosting services providers. We also may use vendors for other projects, such as conducting surveys or organizing sweepstakes for us. We may share information about you with these vendors only to enable them to perform their services.
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Legal Purposes. We may share your information when we believe in good faith that such sharing is reasonably necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities or to comply with legal process. We may also share your information to investigate and address threats or potential threats to the physical safety of any person, to investigate and address violations of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service, or to investigate and address violations of the rights of third parties and/or to protect the rights, property and safety of NOBA, our employees, members, users, or the public. This may involve the sharing of your information with law enforcement, government agencies, courts, and/or other organizations on account of legal requests such as subpoena, court order or government demand to comply with the law.
When you register yourself on this site as an alumni, students, staff or the faculty of Netarhat School (“the school”), the information provided by you can be shared with the school. The school shall use it to stay connected to you offline or send you its own correspondence. Information you choose to share with the school when you register through our Services may be used by the school for its own purposes. We do not control the privacy practices of school. Please contact the school directly if you want to learn about its privacy practices.
ANALYTICS
To help us better understand your use of the Services, we may use third-party web analytics on our Services, such as Google Analytics. These service providers use the sort of technology described in the “Automatically-Collected Information” Section above. The information collected by this technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate our users’ use of the Services. We also use Google Analytics as described in the following section. To prevent Google Analytics from collecting or using your information, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. You can set your browser or mobile device to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly. We do not share your personal information with any advertising agency.
COMMUNICATIONS CHOICES
When you sign up for an account, you are opting in to receive emails from other users and NOBA or its associates, NOBA. You can opt out of optional communications such as a newsletter messages, but note that you cannot opt out of receiving certain administrative notices, service notices, or legal notices from us.
REVIEWING, CHANGING OR DELETING INFORMATION
If you would like to review, change or delete personal information, you can do so by logging in to your profile. If you wish to permanently delete your account, please send a mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
If you delete your User Contributions from our websites, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other users of our websites. Proper access and use of information provided on our websites, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
ACCESSING & CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will take reasonable steps to accurately record the personal information that you provide to us and any subsequent updates.
We encourage you to review, update, and correct the personal information that we maintain about you, and you may delete any non-required personal information about you that is inaccurate, incomplete, or irrelevant for legitimate purposes, or are being processed in a way which infringes any applicable legal requirement.
Your right to review, update, correct, and delete your personal information may be limited, subject to the law of your jurisdiction: (i) if your requests are abusive or unreasonably excessive, (ii) where the rights or safety of another person or persons would be encroached upon, or (iii) if the information or material you request relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings between you and us, or providing access to you would prejudice negotiations between us or an investigation of possible unlawful activity. Your right to review, update, correct, and delete your information is subject to our records retention policies and applicable law, including any statutory retention requirements.
SECURITY: HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We have implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to your information and to maintain data security. These safeguards take into account the sensitivity of the information that we collect, process and store and the current state of technology. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us.
We assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access, or other causes beyond our control. You play an important role in keeping your personal information secure. You should not share your user name, password, or other security information for your account with anyone. If we receive instructions using your user name and password, we will consider that you have authorized the instructions.
COMPLIANCE WITH DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS
The information we obtain from or about you may be processed and stored on various servers located across the globe, which may provide for different data protection rules than the country in which you reside. We comply with generally accepted industry standard regulations regarding the collection, use, and retention of data. Each location may provide for different data protection rules than the country in which you reside. By using the Services, you consent to the collection, transfer, use, storage and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy, including to the transfer of your information outside of your country of residence. If you have any questions relating to your personal data, please write to us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DATA RETENTION AND ACCOUNT TERMINATION
You can close your account by visiting your profile settings page on our website. You can delete your User Contribution if such an option is available, before closing your account. As a voluntary community site, we do not have in-house resources to delete your content for you. We may retain information to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service or to comply with legal obligations.
Providing false or misleading information is prohibited and may lead to suspension or termination of user account.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, the features of our services, or advances in technology. Please check this page periodically for changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here. Please review the changes carefully. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent and acceptance of those changes.
CONTACT US
If you are a user and have a question or comment about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at
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