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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 March 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and disclose your information when you use our Service and your associated privacy rights.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

1. Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

"Account"means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
"Company"(referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to MSS MSK Fellowship.
"Country"refers to India.
"Cookies"are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
"Data Controller"for the purposes of the GDPR, refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
"Device"means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
"Do Not Track"(DNT) is a concept promoted by US regulatory authorities for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
"Personal Data"is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. For GDPR purposes, this means any information relating to You such as a name, identification number, location data, online identifier or factors specific to Your identity.
"Sale"means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating a Consumer's personal information to another business or third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
"Service"refers to the Website.
"Service Provider"means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company — third-party companies or individuals employed to facilitate the Service, provide the Service on behalf of the Company, or assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For GDPR purposes, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
"Usage Data"refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
"Website"refers to MSS MSK Fellowship, accessible from our official website.
"You"means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service. Under GDPR, You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User.

2. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You, including but not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. It may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically including the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, IP address, mobile operating system, mobile Internet browser type, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. The technologies We use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies — A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or indicate when a Cookie is being sent.
  • Web Beacons — Small electronic files in certain sections of our Service and emails that permit Us to count users who have visited pages or opened an email and collect other related website statistics.

Cookies can be Persistent (remain on Your device when offline) or Session (deleted as soon as You close Your browser). We use both:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: Essential to provide services available through the Website and to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Cookie Policy / Notice Acceptance

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: Identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: Remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as login details or language preference, for a more personal experience.

Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third-Parties

Purpose: Used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website, including testing new pages, features or functionality.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
  • To manage Your Account and registration as a user of the Service.
  • To enroll and participate in the MSS MSK Fellowship programs.
  • To communicate regarding program updates, schedules, and administrative matters.
  • To issue certificates upon completion of the program.
  • To internally analyze and improve the program offerings.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for products, items or services You have purchased through the Service.
  • To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates, informative communications, or security updates.
  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about.
  • To manage Your requests to Us.
  • For business transfers: to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets.
  • For other purposes such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and evaluating the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, and to contact You.
  • For business transfers: in connection with any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition.
  • With Affiliates: our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies under common control with Us.
  • With sponsoring companies: to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information in public areas of the Service.
  • With Your consent: for any other purpose with Your explicit consent.

3. Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

4. Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

6. Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

7. Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing. We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council.

8. GDPR Privacy

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
  • Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
  • Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
  • Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
  • Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
  • Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.

Your Rights under the GDPR

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:

  • Request access to Your Personal Data — the right to access, update or delete the information We have on You.
  • Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You — the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information corrected.
  • Object to processing of Your Personal Data — where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing.
  • Request erasure of Your Personal Data — the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
  • Request the transfer of Your Personal Data — We will provide Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • Withdraw Your consent — the right to withdraw Your consent on using Your Personal Data at any time.

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. If You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), You also have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data.

9. Categories of Personal Information Collected

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular Consumer or Device. The following reflects categories we may collect or may have collected within the last twelve (12) months:

Identifiers (name, email, IP address, account name, etc.)Yes
Protected classification characteristics (race, gender, age, etc.)No
Commercial information (purchase history, services considered)Yes
Biometric information (fingerprints, faceprints, etc.)No
Internet or network activity (interaction with our Service)Yes
Geolocation data (approximate physical location)Yes
Sensory data (audio, visual, thermal, etc.)No
Professional or employment-related informationNo
Non-public education informationNo
Inferences drawn from other personal informationNo

Sources of Personal Information

  • Directly from You — from forms You complete on our Service, preferences You express, or from Your purchases.
  • Indirectly from You — from observing Your activity on our Service.
  • Automatically from You — through cookies We or our Service Providers set on Your Device as You navigate through our Service.
  • From Service Providers — third-party vendors to monitor and analyze our Service, process payments, or provide other services.

10. Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes

  • To operate our Service and provide You with our Service.
  • To provide You with support and to respond to Your inquiries, including to investigate and address Your concerns.
  • To fulfill or meet the reason You provided the information (e.g. responding to a question or processing a payment).
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
  • To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity.

If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes We will update this Privacy Policy.

11. Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes

We may use or disclose, and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months, the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:

Identifiers
Personal information
Commercial information
Internet or network activity

When We disclose personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

12. Sale of Personal Information

We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Personal information, Commercial information, and Internet or network activity.

Share of Personal Information

We may share Your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

  • Service Providers
  • Payment processors
  • Our affiliates
  • Our business partners
  • Third party vendors to whom You or Your agents authorize Us to disclose Your personal information in connection with products or services We provide to You

Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age

We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our Service. We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless We receive affirmative authorization from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age.

If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided Us with personal information, please contact Us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete that information.

13. Opting Out

Website

You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers. The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, You will need to opt out again.

Mobile Devices

Your mobile device may give You the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps You use in order to serve You targeted ads:

  • "Opt out of Interest-Based Ads" or "Opt out of Ads Personalization" on Android devices
  • "Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS devices

You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on Your mobile device.

"Do Not Track" Policy

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals. However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked.

14. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

15. Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

17. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

By registering for the MSS MSK Fellowship Program, you acknowledge and agree to abide by the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy.