Igotdinged is founded on the principles of helping prospective students discover the right information and provide them with tools to help them realize their dream of quality education. We value your concern of protecting your privacy and take it very seriously. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any personal information that you share with our website. By visiting our website, you are accepting the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Information that we collect from you

We only collect information that is relevant to our website’s aim and any information that you may voluntary submit to our site. This information allows us to provide you a customized and better experience of using our site and its services. Our aim is not to process your information in way that is incompatible with our objectives. The following types of information are collected by us:

   1. Information that you provide:

We collect and store any information that you provide to us at the time of registration to our site and/or during subsequent use of our website and its services.

          * Registration: At the time of registration, you are required to fill our registration form. During registration, we collect your name, email, gender, date of birth, country of origin, hometown, your present city and whether you are joining our site as student, consultant etc. We will also collect any other information that you will provide to us after any revisions to our registration form.

          * Resume Book: To further utilize our site and its services, you may provide us with your personal, academic and professional information in our resume book. Providing this additional information is purely optional, but it enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities in our site. To the extent any of the information you provide at registration or in the resume book is not personally identifiable, it may be used in the same manner and extent which other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used hereunder, including, without limitation, for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service.

          * Contacts Information: In order to invite others to connect with you and join our site, you may enter their names and email addresses. This information will be used by us only to send your invitation and reminders. You may also import your friend list from other service providers. In such cases, we do not store your email or password information that you provide to us of other service providers.

          * Publicly Posted Information: We may also collect any additional information that you post or publish about you or your profile while using any of our site’s services including, but not limited to information posted in discussion forums.

   2. Automatic Information:

We may receive certain types of information whenever you visit our site and use our services. This information includes, but is not limited to information about your IP address, Igotdinged cookie information and the page you requested. We may also receive additional information about the URL’s of the site from which you link or leave our website, your type of browser and ISP etc. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve our site service.

How we use your information

Email Communications: You may receive email communication from Igotdinged relating to your action on our site or regarding our services. Emails relating to your actions include email sent at time of registration, when you forget your password, when a friend invites you to view an artilog or discussion. In addition, we may also send you emails relating to Igotdinged related news, events, happenings, promotions etc. We consider your privacy with utmost importance and will generally not share your email address to a third party without your explicit consent or as detailed in this Privacy Policy.

Cookies: Like most websites, we use the cookies ad other technologies to recognize you, customize your experience, track your site usage and serve you advertisements. Cookies are small identifiers that are transferred to your computer through your web browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. We may use both session cookies (which expire as you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay in your computer unless you delete them) to provide you with a more customized and interactive web experience on our site.

Sharing your information: As we enable students to share information and connect with one another, information about who uses our services is important to us. However, Igotdinged does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide you services that you have requested, and when we have your permission, or as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy.

Member Directory: Your email address and some of the information that you enter in your profile and resume book, are searchable by other igotdinged members or anonymous users who visit our website. This is primarily to help other users to establish a connection with you and vice versa. At any point of time, you have an option to keep your resume as Private and share with only select group of friends. In this case, others cannot view the information that you have provided in your resume book.

Friend Activity: Just like other online and social networking sites, we allow other users to view your friends’ recent activity and visit their profiles. We feel this provides our users with greater access to all the relevant information present in our site.

Social Sharing of Links: Much in the same way as above, other users of our site can browse the articles, blogs and discussions submitted by you and also comment on them. They may also visit your profile and send you messages and friend requests to know you better and form a connection.

Daily Operations: The information that you share with us can be made available to our employees, authorized consultants and/or contractors if necessary during the normal course of our business.

Third Parties: We may provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on our behalf and under confidentiality agreements to provide you with some of the services of our site. These service providers may use your that information to communicate with you about offers, advertisements and services from us and our marketing partners. However, they do not have any independent rights to share this information. Only if you desire to use one of the additional services that are offered by our partners, we may forward Personal Information to these partners to enable them to provide the services that you requested. In such cases, use of your Personal Information by our partners or the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy, not ours. We may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this to make our services more valuable.

Exceptional Cases: We may release your personal information when we believe that the release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Igotdinged, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection.

Publicly Available Information: Any user of our site can view the publicly available information that you have posted on our website. You have the option to control a part of what information you can make available to other users by using features such as marking your resume book as private. Certain other types of information, such as your name, gender, photograph, city, country etc. cannot be privately marked and can be viewed by all. Users of our site can also view and comment on any articles, blogs and discussions that you have submitted. They can visit your profile, see your friends’ recent activities, articles and blogs that you have submitted, the discussions that you have subscribed, your points and any other publicly information entered by you. If someone has visited your profile and/or viewed your resume, we may choose to display that information to you. All these options are also available to you and have been kept to make our services more user-friendly and to facilitate maximum interaction. In addition, we may use any publicly posted information for our own internal purposes.

Other Sites: Some of services in our site may provide a link to other URL’s or websites. This is no way signifies our endorsements of such sites or any of its contents. We do not have any control and cannot be held responsible for privacy concerns for any outsides sites. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to any outside sites.

Children: We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register at Igotdinged. If we learn that we have collected information from a child under 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between age of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents’ permission before using our site.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the make changes or revise our Privacy Policy from time to time. If at any point of time, you have objections to our Privacy Policy, you must stop using our site and its services. Continued to use our site and services shall indicate your acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy and it’s Terms of Use.

Conditions of Use

If you visit our site, you are required to read and agree with our Terms of Use.

Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@igotdinged.com