Privacy Notice

• Child: means an individual who has not completed eighteen (18) years of age.
• Cookies: A small file placed on your device by our website or the Platform when you either visit or use certain features of our website or the Platform. It allows a website to remember your actions or preferences for a certain period.
• Data Principal: means the individual to whom the Personal Data relates and where such individual is a Minor or Person with Disability includes the parents or lawful guardian of such Minor or Person with Disability.
• Data Fiduciary: means any person who alone or in conjunction with other person(s) determines the purpose and means of processing of Personal Data.
• Data Processor: means any person who processes Personal Data on behalf of a Data Fiduciary.
• Personal Data: means any data about an individual who is identifiable by or in relation to such data.
• Processing: in relation to Personal Data means an automated operation or set of operations performed on digital personal data, and may include operations such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation, alteration, retrieval, use, alignment or combination, indexing, sharing, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, restriction, erasure or destruction.

• Information that you provide to us: We receive and store any information you enter on our university website.
• Automatic Information We Collect: We use cookies to run analytics whenever you interact with us through the website. For more information about how cookies are used, please refer to our cookie policy below.

• Consent: We collect and process minors' personal data only with verifiable parental consent as prescribed under Section 9 of DPDPA 2023 for inquiry and admission purposes.
  To withdraw your parental consent, you can contact us at connect@adaniuni.ac.in. Please note that withdrawing consent will not affect our ability to process your personal data for legitimate use, such as complying with legal obligations or acting on instructions from government authorities.
• Legitimate Use: We are dedicated to safeguarding individuals’ privacy and ensure that personal data is collected and processed for specific, legitimate uses as prescribed under Section 7 of DPDPA 2023. These include:
  • Voluntary sharing of personal data for specified purposes.
  • Performance of functions by the state as per applicable laws or ensuring national security, sovereignty, and integrity of India.
  • For fulfilling any obligation under any law.
  • For compliance with any judgment or decree or order issued under any law.
  • For taking measures to provide medical treatment or health services to any individual during an epidemic.
  • Responding to health and other emergencies.
  • Employment related processing.
  • Processing during disasters and breakdown of public order.

• We are dedicated to safeguarding the privacy and well-being of children and/or persons with disabilities.
• For admission, inquiry, we may collect Personal Data of children’s and/or persons with disabilities through the registration form provided on the website. However, we make every effort to comply with all relevant laws and regulations regarding handling of data pertaining to children’s and persons with disabilities.
• When processing this data, we strive to obtain proper consent from parents or lawful guardian such child and/or person with disability as required by law. Additionally, we ensure that the collection, use, and sharing of children’s or persons with disabilities Personal Data is limited to what is necessary for the intended purposes and are conducted in a secure manner.

The Cookie Notice explains how the website uses cookies in its operations. Cookies are small text files that the application saves on the user's system/devices, when a user visits the application, in order to remember the user's device upon revisiting the website or during the session. Cookies set up by the Adani University are called first-party cookies and cookies set up by other domain(s) than the application you are visiting are termed third-party cookies. Third-party cookies may be used for marketing and advertising purposes.

We may use cookies for the following purposes:

• To analyze your use of our application.
• To improve the way our application works.
• To understand your preferences.
• To maintain user session continuity.

We use the following types of cookies:

1. Performance/Analytics Cookies - Performance/Analytics cookies are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use a website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the site as the user interacts with it. These cookies do not collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of a website.

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   _ga	.adaniuni.ac.in	First-Party	13 months
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   _ga_P517PWZ4RP	.adaniuni.ac.in	First-Party	13 months

2. Advertising/Targeting Cookies- These cookies track your browsing behavior to help show ads tailored to your interests. They may be set up by us or third-party partners and require your consent, as they're not essential for basic site functions. These cookies support marketing efforts and improve your experience with personalized content.

   Name of Cookie	Domain	Type of Cookie	Expiration
   NID	.google.com	Third-party	6 months

3. Strictly Necessary Cookies- iii.These cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to support functions such as logging in, risk analysis, payment transactions, distinguishing between humans and bots, and store session information.

   Name of Cookie	Domain	Type of Cookie	Expiration
   __cf_bm	.vimeo.com	Third-party	30 minutes
   _cfuvid	.vimeo.com	Third-party	When the browsing session ends

1. Right to Access Information: You can request access to your Personal Data anytime you want to from us.
2. Right to correction and erasure: You have the right to request corrections to any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you. You also have the right to request the erasure of your data in specific situations.
3. Right of grievance redressal: You have the right to access appropriate grievance redressal mechanisms to ensure timely and effective resolution of any complaints or concerns regarding the Processing of your Personal Data.
4. Right to Nominate: You may nominate an individual to exercise your data rights in case of your incapacity or death. This person can manage, access, or request changes to your Personal Data on your behalf, subject to proper verification.

If you are a resident of a country with specific data protection laws, you may have additional rights only to the extent your country seeks to protect your Personal Data.

To exercise the above rights, you can raise a request via e-mail to connect@adaniuni.ac.in.

Further if you are not satisfied with our redressal, you may lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Board of India, after exhausting the grievance redressal mechanism provided by our Platform.

Duties of Data Principals: You are expected to provide accurate, verifiable authentic and up-to-date information to us to facilitate proper data Processing. You should cooperate with us to ensure compliance with applicable data protection norms and exercise your rights responsibly, keeping in mind our legitimate uses and legal obligations. Where required by law, you must provide informed consent for the processing of your Personal Data.

1. We manage channels, pages, and accounts on various social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to share information and engage with employees, vendors, clients, and the public. We may monitor and record comments and posts made about us on these platforms to help improve our products and services.
2. We advise you to use official and authorized channel only for communication purposes. Please be aware of communicating with s through publicly accessible social media sites with the following information:
• content that is inappropriate, offensive, or insulting toward individuals.
• Any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or otherwise offensive based on race, ethnicity, or other grounds.
• Information that infringes on the rights of others, including intellectual property rights.
• Confidential or personal data, such as financial details, bank account information, and transaction records
• Sensitive personal data, including:
  • Special categories of information like racial or ethnic origin, political views, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data used for identifying individuals, health information, or details about a person’s sex life or sexual orientation;
  • Other sensitive data such as criminal records and national ID numbers.

We care about keeping your Personal Data safe and secure. We also ensure that any service providers we work with protect your data the same way we do. If you think your data has been misused, lost, or accessed without permission, please reach out to us at connect@adaniuni.ac.in.

You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual obligations, by contacting us through the details provided below. Upon receiving your request, we will take reasonable steps to cease the Processing of your Personal Data, unless further retention is required by law. Please note that withdrawal of consent may affect our ability to provide you with certain services or respond to your requests effectively.

• We retain your personal data only as long as necessary for educational and operational purposes. You can request account deletion and data removal by contacting us at connect@adaniuni.ac.in as required by law and for the duration necessary to fulfil its intended purpose, in accordance with our internal data retention and disposal policy.
• Your Personal Data is securely processed and stored only for as long as required for its purpose or as mandated by applicable laws. Once the retention period expires, your data will either be deleted or archived to meet legal retention obligations or in accordance with applicable statutory limitation periods.

Although the website undertakes appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure safety and protection of the Personal Data of Users, in the event of any data breach, we shall notify you as soon as possible about the breach, including its nature, extent and the timing and location of its occurrence, on your registered e-mail ID. In congruence with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), we shall also intimate the Data Protection Board of India within appropriate timelines.

If you have any questions regarding this privacy Notice or the protection of your personal data, you may reach out to us at connect@adaniuni.ac.in.

1. From time to time, we may need to update or make changes to our Privacy Notice to ensure it remains accurate and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
2. Whenever such updates or changes are made, we will promptly upload the revised Privacy Notice to our website.
3. We encourage you to periodically visit the page for the latest information on our privacy compliance. Your continued use of our services after any updates to the Privacy Notice will be considered as your acceptance of those changes.
4. You understand that you have the option to access this Privacy Notice in English or in any of the languages specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. Should you require this Privacy Notice to be provided in a language other than English, you may submit a request to this effect by contacting us at connect@adaniuni.ac.in.