Who we are
Our website address is https://www.mystudyschool.com. This is the Privacy Policy Page for https://www.mystudyschool.com website (mentioned as “Site” or “My Study School“). Here the users/visitors/readers are mentioned as “you” and the Site Administrators/Writers are mentioned as “our” and/or “we” and/or “us“). This Privacy Policy page defines how My Study School collects information from “Users” (each, a “User“) who visits this Site and uses, maintains and discloses that information.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
We use the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin to manage contact form submissions. For inquiry or feedback if you fill our contact form with your name, email, subject and message and include your personal information that will be sent as email messages that only a select few are allowed to access. However, we do not share or sell your personal information to the third party.
Cookies and Web Beacons
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Our Site may use “cookies” when they visit our Site to enhance User experiences (such as User’s personal preferences which may include showing them a popup for subscribing notification once in they visit, or the ability to login to some of our features such as forums or sometimes to track information about them). Anytime a User want may choose to set their web browser settings to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, the Site may not run properly with all of its features.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
For example, here we are using Facebook Like Page box so that you can easily like our Facebook page to get connected and notified on Facebook easily.
Google Analytics and Search Console
This website uses Google Analytics and Search Console, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this website. We use this data from Google Analytics only to analyze traffic and make improvements to this website.
Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this website, and NOT your name or other identifying information. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. We do not sell your personal data to any 3rd party. We have set User and event data retention to 26 months. We have also set Google Analytics to Anonymize IP Addresses.
Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at the Google Analytics Terms of Service or at the Google Analytics Privacy Overview.
Personal identification information
My Study School may collect and store personal identification information from Users when they visit, fill out a form, and communicate with other activities, features, services or resources that are available on Site. Users may be asked for name, email address. However, Users may visit this Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to provide such personal identification information, but except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.
Non-personal identification information
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users when they visit our Site, engage in some Site related activities. Non-personal identification information may include the type of computer or device they use to visit our Site, their IP (internet protocol) address, their ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser they used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox), the time they visited our site and which pages they visited throughout our Site and other similar information which are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Advertising
We also use Google AdSense a third party for advertisements on our Site. Those Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they send you online advertisement through our Site. These technologies may also send these advertisers (such as Google AdSense program) information which includes the browser you used to visit our site, your IP address, your ISP, and in some cases, whether you have some program installed or not (such as Flash program) to compile non-personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This technological information generally used for showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequently browses cooking sites) or for geotargeting purposes (for example, showing Delhi real estate ads to someone in Delhi).
Google advertising and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
Any advertisements served on our Site by Google Inc. as a third party vendor uses the DoubleClick DART cookie to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet.
What is the DoubleClick DART cookie? The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google Adsense program in the ads served on publisher websites for displaying AdSense ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher’s website (such as our website) and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The data collected from those cookies which are set on visitors browser will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at ‘https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html‘ or ‘https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/‘.
However, we set our google AdSense settings such as it will show non-personalized ads to eligible EEA and California users.
Electronic newsletters
If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails which may include service information, updates, company news, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, for that we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact us via our Site. We may use third-party service providers who may use the Personal identification information to help us operate some of our Site features or activities on our behalfs, such as sending out newsletters or surveys but this is only when you have given us your permission for those limited services.
How we use collected information
My Study School may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:
- To run and operate our Site: We may use that information, to display content on the Site correctly.
- To improve our Site: We may use Users provided feedback, to improve our features and services.
- To send periodic emails: We may use the email address to send Users about information and updates pertaining to their orders or to respond to their inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
How we protect your information
Our website is secured with SSL certification, which means that the pages are encrypted. This is shown by the pages having an https address. You may check this by clicking the padlock icon that appears next to the page’s address in your browser.
We value the User’s personal information. We safeguard Users information which includes username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site by adopting appropriate data collection, storage, processing practices, and security measures. Also, we do not sell your information at the third party.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell Users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information that is not linked to any personally identifiable information regarding visitors and users with our advertisers and trusted affiliates and third-party service providers for the purposes mentioned above. We may use third-party service providers who may use the Personal identification information to help us operate some of our Site features or activities on our behalfs, such as sending out newsletters or surveys but this is only when you have given us your permission for those limited services. Anytime you also can unsubscribe from that too.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to our website. If the link leads to a website other than this website, this website is not responsible for personal information on the external site. In such instances, it is the external website’s privacy statement which applies.
Controlling Your Privacy
You can change your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies. However, this change for all sites is not recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites and this could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. The best option is to change settings on a per-site basis. To block cookies and other tracking mechanisms please consult your browser documentation for instructions.
Accessing, correcting or deleting personal information
For queries about accessing, correcting or deleting personal information please send us an e-mail to [email protected]
Kindly note that, if you want to delete all your data from this site then all your comments are also be deleted from our site and you will not get any follow-up updates or replies to your comments or queries posted in the comments section. Thus you can choose to anonymize rather than deleting your data where your personal information like name, IP address will be anonymized and only comments will stay but also in this case you will not receive any follow-up updates.
Data Access Request Form
Changes to this privacy policy
My Study School has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. We recommend Users to frequently check this page to stay informed about any changes. It is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically so that you become aware of any modifications/changes we made. You acknowledge and agree to this responsibility.
Your acceptance of these terms
If you are using this Site that means you are agreed to accept this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of this Site will signify your acceptance of the latest policy including any changes we made.