Intect respects your privacy and is determined to safeguard your personal information shared with us. We (referred to as “intect” or “we” or “us”) are a three-dimensional organization that has been created as a one-stop solution platform for talent acquisition, extensive learning, and placement. Under this document of privacy policy, we assess and protect your personal details when you scroll our website (theintect.com) or contact us through a telephone. Please note that whenever you read “you” on intect’s site, it is referred to as “user”, “your”, or “you”. If you go through the word “Platform”, it indicates “Intect”, our extensive learning division.
The privacy policy explains to you our adequate security measures that are related to use and collection of information shared by our users. It is suggested you go through our document of Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies, practises, procedures, and measures which we take to keep your personal information safe and secure. In case, you have any queries or you do not agree with any of the policies mentioned in the document, write to us at privacy@theintect.com and we will aid you with your query as quickly as possible.
All the privacy policies explained in this important document adhere only to the part of the platform, products and services provided by Intect, and we are not liable for any practises performed by people, organizations, institutions, and websites that Intect does not operate, manage, or employ. Our aim is to aid you with the successful use of our website i.e. theintect.com and to safeguard your set of crucial information you share with us.
Please note that by making use of our platform to submit any PII (Personally Identifiable Information) to us, you abide by our collection, usage, disclosure and retainment of your details (comprised of but not limited to PII) in accord with this document of privacy policy and terms of use, and as required and permitted by the law. intect reserves all the rights to share your details collected hereunder with its affiliates. In the matter of sale or sharing of all or a portion of business assets, your personal information is one of the business assets that may get shared as part of the transaction. If you do not agree with our privacy policies, it is requested not to provide any of your personally identifiable information to us on call or on our website. Note that if you withdraw your consent or deny providing any of your crucial personal details, we might not be able to offer you any of our services and products that are provided on our website.
IF YOU USE OUR WEBSITE TO AVAIL OUR SERVICES, PURCHASE OUR PRODUCTS OR ACCESS OUR WEBSITE TO EXTRACT SOME RELEVANT INFORMATION, YOU ADHERE TO ALL THE TERMS OF USE AND POLICIES MENTIONED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, ALONG WITH THE TERMS OF USE CONTAINED IN TERMS AND CONDITIONS DOCUMENT.
We may collect a set of important details from the information you submit on our website’s learning division (Intect) and/or other divisions. The information collected by you might get saved on our servers.
There are a few functionalities on our platform which might be usable without providing any personal information, although, for services, products, and features in accord to the programs, you might have to submit your personal details. In case, you are not using any of these specific features or services offered on our website or platform, then the only set of details that might be collected by us will be “Non-personal Information” i.e. details that do not identify you as an individual. These non-personal details comprise data like what webpages have interested you and the number of webpages you have viewed. To gain the access of some of the features, products, and services, you might have to submit certain personal details relevant for improvement of our services and features available on our site. Personally Identifiable details include, but not limited to, information such as name, contact number, address, email address, educational qualifications, work experience among other things, and more. Please note that you will be liable for the accuracy and completeness of all the information you share with us on our platform (Intect). Incomplete and inaccurate personal details might cause you difficulty in using the platform, the information you receive, and our ability to provide you with assistance in case of any queries.
| Context | Types of Information Collected | Primary Purpose for Collection & Use of Data |
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User Information |
We may collect the full name, contact number and address of our users to interact with them when required. |
Our legitimate interest lies in contacting and communicating with our users and/or customers concerning business administration such as products, services, and billing. |
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Website Account Information of User |
We may collect personally identifiable information of our users when they create an account to access and use our data and services or request for certain products available on our website. This set of details may include some contact information such as name, email address, company information, educational background, and password of our services. |
Our legitimate interest lies in offering account related services and functionalities to our users, monitoring account details, and discovering any fraudulent logins and account misuse. Plus, we make use of these details to provide better services to our users and/or customers. |
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Contact Information of Vendors |
Our service users may ask their service providers or vendors to provide company and security related details on our website (for example, to complete a security questionnaire). When a user calls a vendor, we collect the full name and email address of the vendor. |
Our legitimate interest lies in contacting vendors on account of our customers/users to invite them to interact with organizations through our platform. Including other things, quality communication allows our vendors as well as customers to efficiently solicit, and transfer, security questionnaires. In addition to this, we make use of these details to complete our contract to offer services and products that may comprise of receiving, soliciting, hosting, and transmitting responses to security questions. |
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Website Account Information of Vendors |
We may collect personally identifiable information of vendors when they create an account to access and use our data and services or request for certain products available on our website. This set of details may include some contact information such as name, email address, company information, title, and password of our services. |
Our legitimate interest lies in offering account related services and functionalities to vendor-users, monitoring account details (logins), and discovering any fraudulent logins and account misuse. Plus, we make use of these details to provide better services to vendor-users. |
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Demographic Information |
We may collect your personally identifiable information such as your IP address and location. |
Our legitimate interest lies in understanding our users to provide the best-in-class tailored products and services. |
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Email Interconnectivity |
We may collect some crucial data of your actions, such as when our mail was opened by you, clicks on the links, banners and make purchases whenever an email is received by you sent from us. |
Our legitimate interest lies in assessing how you interact with modes of communication present in our email. |
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Employment |
We may collect necessary details when you apply for a job or join as an employee, to process your application or to retain you as an employee. These necessary details may include your Social Security Number which is important for employment. |
Our legitimate interest lies in using employee details to craft our contract of employment, or the anticipation of the employment’s contract with you. In some instances, we are required to collect our employees’ information by law. Additionally, our legitimate interest lies in using your information for work force operations and to have efficient staffing. |
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Feedback/Support |
We may collect your personally identifiable information from the inquiry you submit us on our website regarding our data published online, products or services we offer, such as emailing or calling, or completing our online forms for the purpose of support requests, issue reporting or general inquiries. While communicating with us, the calls might get recorded and assessed for quality control, training and for marketing and sales purposes. During the call recordings, we will inform you through a script or voice prompt. |
Our legitimate interest lies in receiving and taking necessary steps on your feedback, inquiries, or issues. |
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Order Placement |
We may collect your personal details such as full name, shipping address, billing address, email address and contact number. If you agree to make the payment through a credit card (directly or via our payment processor), we may collect your payment card information. |
Our legitimate interest lies in using and sharing your details to design our contract to offer you better products and services in the future. |
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Mailing List |
We may collect your email address when you sign up for one of our email lists. |
Our legitimate interest lies in sharing crucial details about our products and services to our users and individuals who give the consent to receive such information. |
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Website Interactions |
We use technology to monitor how you interact with our website. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. This may also include information about your device or browser. |
We have a legitimate interest in understanding how you interact with our website to better improve it, and to understand your preferences and interests to select offerings that you might find most useful. We also have a legitimate interest in detecting and preventing fraud. |
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Web Logs |
We may collect some details, consisting of your operating system, browser type, click-activity, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number provided to the computer when the internet is being used), referring website, domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for users. |
Our legitimate interest lies in observing our networks and the users of our website. We have a legitimate interest in monitoring our networks and the visitors to our websites. Among other things, it helps us understand which of our services is the most popular. |
Other forms of information that we may collect from you or about you are as follows:
We may receive your information when you access or log in to a third-party site, e.g., Facebook, WhatsApp from our Platforms or when you respond to our Ads on such third-party platforms. This may include the text and/or images of your Personally Identifiable Information available from the third-party site. Please be aware that the information we obtain from such third-party platforms is often dependent on their privacy policies and/or on your settings regarding what information you have consented to share with them.
We enter into arrangements with third parties to serve Ads on our behalf across the Internet, social networking sites and blogs. They may collect or store information about your visits to our Platform and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use information about your visits to this Platform and to other websites to target advertisements for goods and services or for any other purpose. This information is collected through the use of a pixel tag, which is an industry-standard technology used by most major websites. Such third parties are not permitted by intect to sell or share your Personally Identifiable Information as part of this process. If such third parties sell or share the Personally Identifiable Information as part of the process, intect’s liability shall be limited to providing you with reasonable assistance in any action you may choose to take against such third parties, at your sole cost and expense.
We have third-party sales and marketing affiliates who may collect your information through one of the various channels owned by them and share this information with us, based on your interest in our Programs. For example, an affiliate may hold an event and share the details of the attendees with intect’s Intect.
We may receive information about you if you use any of the other platforms we operate or the other services we provide. In this case, the data may be shared internally and combined with the data collected on the Platform. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, Educational Partners, scholarship providers, marketing partners, sales affiliates, subcontractors in technical/advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers) and may receive information about you from such sources. We may also receive your information from your employers, educational institution or scholarship providers, where your Program is partly or fully sponsored by such a third-party. The third-party sponsoring your participation in the Programs may provide us with your information, subject to our agreement with them and, therefore, the third-party sponsor may be the controller with respect to such data. In cases where you have been referred to under any referral scheme, we will receive your information from the referrer.
We may use the information we collect to provide you with information relating to our Program and/or other intect services, to respond to your questions or interest shown in our Programs, and to send you updates about the Programs, other intect events, platform maintenance or new services provided by Intect, among other things, through itself or through third parties, via email, SMS, phone call or any other medium.
You authorise Intect, its authorised representatives and affiliates to connect with you via email, SMS, phone call or any other medium in connection with information relating to our Program and/or intect services, irrespective of you being registered with the National Do Not Call Registry, which you agree to de-register from if required.
We use your information for managing and processing purposes, including, but not limited to, tracking attendance, progress and completion of a Program. As part of our management and processing of the Program, we will use certain Personally Identifiable Information to administer exams, projects, and other assessments for the Program. For example, as part of an exam, intect’s Intect may use certain information collected from you in order to verify your identity or to monitor your performance during the exam to confirm that you are abiding by the applicable testing rules or requirements.
We may use your Personally Identifiable Information in order to provide such services to you and for quality control purposes, and we may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you. For example, Intect may make available to you chat room services that allow you to communicate with Intect’s staff members or your peers in the same cohort, and we may use and share your Personally Identifiable Information to provide these services to you. In another example, Intect’s staff members may create groups on WhatsApp (or similar service providers) with other students and make you a member of such a group. These groups may be used to provide services in conjunction with the Programs, including, but not limited to, updates related to the Programs, details of potential employers, etc. Please be aware that the information disclosed on a third-party service provider’s platform will be dependent and subject to such third-party’s privacy policies and/or on your settings regarding what information you have consented to share with them. Intect and/or its associates shall have no liability in this regard whatsoever.
Intect may use certain companies that enable you to establish a membership to participate in digital wallets, payment services or rewards programs. If you elect to do so, we will disclose to such companies your information that is necessary to make their programs work and support your membership with them. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the companies sponsoring these membership programs, and we suggest you review the individual privacy policies of each company with whom you establish such memberships. Billing information may be archived by us or our providers. We may archive Personally Identifiable Information other than billing information and/or use it for future communications with you.
Intect may use and share your information to improve its services and offerings. For example, we, through our service providers (like auditors or surveyors), may approach you to understand the impact of our Programs on your careers. For this purpose, we may connect with you via a phone call, email you questionnaires, or request you to attend workshops.
To the extent any Personally Identifiable Information collected by us contains images of you, you grant Intect a limited, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, distribute, or prepare derivative works of or publicly display such images and/or your likeness in relation to the Program or for marketing purposes. We may use your photograph along with employer information, transition information, designation change, etc., for Ads/and or social media posts to highlight our learners’ achievements.
We use Non-Personal Information in aggregate form to build higher-quality, more useful services by performing statistical analysis of the collective characteristics and behaviour of our Users and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of our Platform.
In addition to the examples provided above, we will share your information in the following manner:
We may share the information that we collect from you with the particular Educational Partner (e.g., a university or a company) that developed or offered the Program you are taking; the instructor(s) who taught, managed or otherwise oversaw the Program; external graders who will be assessing your performance; or mentors who will be supporting students. For example, if you are taking a Program through a university, we may share Personally Identifiable Information about you and your performance with the university to report on your progress in the Program and to enable them to issue a certificate to you on completion of the Program. Information shared with our Educational Partners will be subject to the privacy policies and procedures of such partners. Also, we may archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.
If you are taking a Program that is sponsored or paid for by your employer or a sponsor, or if you have availed a scholarship from a third-party scholarship provider, we may share your Personally Identifiable Information and grades, evaluations or progress in the Program with your employer/sponsor/scholarship provider. This information may be shared at any time during the Program or afterwards.
We provide access to or share your information with operations and maintenance contractors and other third parties who perform services on our behalf. They have access to perform these services but are prohibited from using your information for other purposes. They provide a variety of services to us, including billing, sales, marketing, test proctoring, couriers, mentoring, recruitment consulting, product content and features, advertising, analytics, research, customer service, data storage, security, fraud prevention, credit facilities, payment processing and legal services. Moreover, in certain circumstances, we may share certain Personally Identifiable Information and materials with third parties including, but not limited to, service providers such as Facebook or WhatsApp in order to provide you services that you have requested or services that Intect’s Intect provides in conjunction with the Programs. Also, we use certain third-party platforms to collect your information (such as Typeform or Google Forms), as a consequence of which, your information may be stored on their servers.
If you have opted for any of our recruitment services or if you participate in any of our recruitment activities, we will be sharing your information with recruiters and potential employers. For example, if you participate in a recruitment drive jointly organised by intect’s Intect and a recruitment agency, we will share your information with the recruitment agency and with potential employers who wish to consider you for employment. In this case, such a recruitment agency or an employer may directly contact you to schedule interviews, etc. Please note that any information you share with the recruitment agency or employer will be governed by their policies.
intect’s Intect offers public sharing features as part of its career services, which, among other features, makes your careers profile as well as your details and information public, including your progress in the Program to others outside of Intect. By electing to participate in any of these services, you acknowledge that any information or materials you include in your profile can be viewed by other persons accessing the Platform, including potential or existing employers, recruiters, peers, as well as others on the applicable third-party websites. You also acknowledge that the information shared may remain accessible on third-party websites and/or to those you have shared the information with, in the event you make your profile private after having made it public and/or ceasing to share your information. You also acknowledge that Intect’s Intect has no control over the access of or use of information provided to third parties via this mode outside its website.
We may collaborate with certain third-party service providers to arrange and provide networking activities to previous, current or potential candidates of intect’ Intect. For this purpose, Intect may share certain basic information such as your name, email address and cohort details with such third-party service providers in order to enable them to invite you to connect. Should you agree to sign up to their services, please note that any information you provide will be governed by their policies. In certain cases, in order to facilitate communication between students, we may share your information with other students and working professionals on chat forums such as WhatsApp and Facebook.
intect may share your Information with various government authorities in response to court orders or other legal processes to establish or exercise our legal rights or to protect our property; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. We may also share your information when we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent or take appropriate action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of Intect, the Platform, our users, customers, or others; and in connection with our Terms and other agreements.
intect may share your Personally Identifiable Information with any Associate. The term “Associate” includes, with respect to any person, any entity that is controlled by such person, or any entity that controls such person, or any entity that is under common control with such person, whether directly or indirectly, or, in the case of a natural person, any Relative (as such a term is defined in the Companies Act, 1956, and Companies Act, 2013, to the extent applicable) of such a person.
intect may disclose and/or transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to an acquirer, assignee or other successor entity in connection with a sale, merger, or reorganisation of all or substantially all of the equity, business or assets of intect to which your Personally Identifiable Information relates.
With your consent, intect may share information that can be used to directly contact you with third-party business partners, such as companies that may be offering products or services or other opportunities that may be of interest to you.
Any Personally Identifiable Information that is voluntarily displayed by you on the Platform may be used by third parties for unsolicited purposes. Please note that Intect shall not be liable for such unsolicited use by third parties of your Personally Identifiable Information that has been voluntarily displayed by you.
"Aggregated Data"
means records that have been stripped of Personally Identifying Information and that have been manipulated or combined to provide generalised, anonymous information. Your identity and personal information are not available in Aggregated Data. We may combine your personal information on an anonymous basis with other information to generate Aggregated Data for internal and commercial use, and for sharing with affiliates, subsidiaries and business partners for planning and marketing purposes.
intect takes all reasonable precautions to protect your Personally Identifiable Information both online and offline, in order to avoid any unauthorised access or breach. In addition, we participate in cooperative database services. These services help us direct newsletters, mailings and other marketing initiatives to appropriate purchasers and website visitors. Names and mailing addresses may be shared between participating parties in the co-operative database services.
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, and it will be posted on this Platform as and when it is updated so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances under which we may disclose it. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that Intect has about You and Your account, even if it was collected in the past.
We may store the email addresses/mobile numbers of those who communicate with us via email/mobile or who have shown interest in our Programs and add them to our mailing/SMS/call list when you sign up to receive special promotions and updates. By electing to receive emails/SMS/calls from us, we would be able to send you exclusive information and special offers, which you may otherwise not learn about from our Platform. If you are a registered user and wish to change your preferences, or if you prefer to opt-out of regular mail/SMS/calls, you may mail us at info@theIntect.in to notify us of your request.
Once you have submitted your opt-out request, you may assume that it has been successfully received and is being processed. Please allow us 14 business days from when the request was received to complete the removal, as some of our promotions may already have been in process before you submitted your request.
Our Platform may contain links to other sites. The linked sites are not under the control of intect. Please be aware that Intect is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We advise you to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects your information, including Personally Identifiable Information. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to the Platform, you do so entirely at your own risk. Any links to any partner of the Platform should be the responsibility of the linking party, and intect shall not be responsible for notifying you of any change in the name or location of any information on the Platform.
If you reside or are located in the European Union, we keep your Personally Identifiable Information for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which the Personally Identifiable Information is processed. The length of time we retain Personally Identifiable Information depends on the purposes for which we collect and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws and to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
intect and its Indian service providers store information about you on servers located in India, whereas our international service providers may store your information on servers located in other countries. By using our services, you consent to the storage of your information within India or such other countries. If you are using the services from outside India, please know the information you submit will be transferred to and stored in our servers in India or such other countries. The data protection and other laws of India and/or other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By submitting your data and/or using our services, you acknowledge the transfer, storage and processing of your information in and to India.
As described above, intect also may subcontract the processing of your data to, or otherwise share your data with, service providers and others in countries other than your country of residence, including India, in accordance with the applicable law. Such third-parties maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of services to you, the processing of transactions and/or the provision of support services. By providing us with your information, you acknowledge any such transfer, storage or use.
Cookies are small pieces of information saved by your browser onto your computer/mobile. Cookies are used to record various aspects of your visit and to assist intect to provide you with uninterrupted service. Web beacons are small graphic files linked to our servers that allow us to track your use of our Platform and related functionalities.
We also use or may use cookies and/or web beacons to help us determine and identify repeat visitors, the type of content and sites to which a user of our Platform links, the length of time each user spends at any particular area of our Platform, and the specific functionalities that users choose to use. Cookies and web beacons allow intect to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalise your experience at our Platform. Cookies and web beacons are not used to retain Personally Identifiable Information. From time to time, we may also use additional methods of collecting data.
We may allow third-party companies, including advertising companies (such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Quora and Bing) to place cookies on our website. These cookies enable such companies to track your activity across various sites where they display Ads and record your activities, so they can show Ads that they consider relevant to you as you browse the Internet. These cookies store information about the content you are browsing, together with an identifier linked to your device or IP address.
These cookies also allow us and third parties to know whether you've seen an Ad or a type of Ad, and how long it has been since you've last seen it. This information is used for frequency capping purposes, to help tailor the Ads you see and to measure their effectiveness.
You should be able to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookies, many functions and conveniences of this Platform may not work properly.
You may update or modify your contact information and user preferences by emailing us at info@theIntect.in.
intect has put in place various physical, electronic and managerial procedures to try to safeguard and secure the information we collect. For example, we provide strong encryptions to store certain information and have stringent managerial checks and password change policies in place. The information we collect is stored with third-party data centres that have a holistic security model with seven levels of security. Please note that the Company shall not be liable for any misuse or loss of information carried out by such third-party data centres. Furthermore, we also rely on your cell phones’ strong security model to ensure that there is no information or security leak unless intectionally processed for authentication.
However, please note that while we implement many security measures on this site, 100% security cannot be guaranteed.
Should you have questions about this policy or intect’s process for information collection, use and disclosure practices, feel free to contact us at info@theIntect.in. We will use reasonable efforts to respond promptly to requests, questions or concerns you may have regarding our use of your information. Except where required by law, intect cannot ensure a response to questions or comments regarding topics unrelated to this policy or intect’s privacy practices.
However, please note that while we implement many security measures on this site, 100% security cannot be guaranteed.
Please note that we review and may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon being posted on this page. By accessing the Platform, you indicate your agreement to the modified Privacy Policy and all the changes. Be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.
The miscellaneous provisions provided in our Terms of Use shall apply to this Privacy Policy as well.