Privacy Policy

Disclaimer

www.qdspro.com is owned and operated by QDS Pro. All rights of this website are reserved with QDS Pro. No part or content of this website may be reproduced, replicated, distributed or transmitted in any form whatsoever or through any means, which includes printing, recording or other electronic methods or any other methods, as the case may be, without prior written permission from the administrator of this website. Users may download material from the website only for their own personal, non- commercial use. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Web administrator.

QDS Pro reserves the right to make changes to any information contained on the website at any time whatsoever, and without notice or limitation of any kind, including, but not limited to, information relating to countries, courses, universities scholarships, fees, study material, doubt solving and other related service. We are very sensitive to the privacy concerns of visitors to our website. QDS Pro is committed to respect your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information or private communication. We take care that the content posted on this website is appropriate for their viewing and/or use. This Privacy Policy outlines the way in which QDS Pro gathers and uses information relating to you.

Personally Identifiable Information We Collect:

We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide this information to us. If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. Rather, information is kept in the aggregate. We automatically collect and store only the information about your visit. We use the information we collect to understand the traffic to our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

We collect personally identifiable information (via online or offline registration forms), such as name, contact details, e- mail address, postal address, telephone/mobile number, your gender, date of birth etc. and whether you have chosen to receive future communications from QDS Pro when you provide it to us, or when you register on our website (either directly with us or through our centers), sign up for email newsletters, enter a contest, register for site membership, any subscriptions, participate in surveys, or to otherwise communicate with us. Several of the services that we offer, including but not limited to Doubt Solving, Test Preparation, Seminars, Career Counseling, etc require registration as a condition of use. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you have provided to us.

We may combine personal information collected from you with other information from data available with us to provide a better overall experience, including customizing content for you in both forms – online (or electronic) as well offline. We do not monitor your use of the Internet; neither do we use cookie technology or any other technology to monitor your use of www.qdspro.com. We may receive and collect certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through our Web server. This information may include the IP address assigned to the computer you use while accessing www.qdspro.com.

We may use personal information about you to build up a profile of your performance(s), analysis, preferences and to track your progress over the duration of the package for which you have enrolled with us. We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. We may use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you. We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve QDS Pro’s products and services. We will not sell your personal information to any third party for commercial gains. However, we may, at times, mail promotional material that we believe will be of relevance to you on behalf of third parties and for which we may receive a consideration from the party in question. However, even in such situations, all data will remain solely in the possession of QDS Pro and will not be shared with any third party save and except for authorized law enforcement investigations. We are the sole owners of your information collected by us at several different points on our Website. However we may share information with third parties in limited circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.

We may present information to advertisers who wish to advertise on our website. When we present information to our advertisers it is to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website. Such information is in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.

Information security:

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.

The information you provide to us will be held on QDS Pros’ own servers or on third party servers contracted by QDS Pro. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password- protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, virus attacks, and system errors/bugs nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose to our magazines and websites, secure and to only release this information to third parties we believe share our commitment to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of these parties.

Although, we will endeavor to meet the requirements of the Internet Security policy envisaged under this section, we cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system that may occur whilst using material derived from this website. As best practice, we also strongly recommend that you regularly run an anti-virus programme on all material downloaded from the Internet.

Information Sharing and Disclosure:

QDS Pro does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people (save with your consent) or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We provide the information to our trusted partners who work on behalf of or with QDS Pro under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help QDS Pro communicate with you about offers from QDS Pro and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; We also may disclose personal information to third parties if we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to conduct investigations of possible breaches of law, to cooperate in any legal investigation, or to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the terms of use of our site.

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of QDS Pro’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We transfer information about you if QDS Pro is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, QDS Pro will notify you before information about you are transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

QDS Pro displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria.

QDS Pro does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

QDS Pro is not responsible for the information, you volunteer about yourself in the course of discussions in our forums, chat rooms, mail box facility or other forms of publicly accessible interaction or information that you choose to make public in your member profile. As a member, you can view, correct or change your publicly available information at any time via your member profile page.

Online Ad Serving:

QDS Pro may use advertising services of third parties, to serve advertisements when you visit our sites. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other information you’ve provided to us) about your visits to our and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. You agree and understand that QDS Pro neither owns nor operates/controls any information or services provided on such third party websites. You further agree and understand that such links do not constitute an endorsement by QDS Pro of any such websites and are provided only as a convenience. QDS Pro is not responsible for the content or links displayed on such websites.

Several companies may provide email deployment services for our email messages. The personally identifiable information, such as e-mail address, we provide to these vendors for the purposes of e-mail deployment is only used by them for that purpose and not for any other business activity. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Use of their tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies. Your decision to use any information contained herein will be your decision alone based solely on your own evaluation and assessment. We are not responsible for the consequences of any actions taken based on the information provided on the website. We shall not be held liable for any material or non material damage caused by omissions, incorrect or incomplete information.

Links to Other websites:

Our website has links to partners and other sites. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. Other websites may collect and treat information collected differently, so we encourage you to carefully read and review the privacy policy for each website you visit. We will not be responsible for any information that you may provide to such websites accessible through our website.

Restriction of Liability:

QDS Pro makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non- infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by QDS Pro. Advertisements are subject to the Privacy Policy of the advertising site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

QDS Pro reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at any time without any prior notification. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification. By using this website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and signify your assent to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree with any term of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, please do not use this site or submit any personally identifiable info

Commitment to Privacy

Your privacy is important to us and we, at QDS Pro, respect the need to protect your private information. We understand the sensitivity of the personal information which may concern such diverse fields ranging from your career aspirations to your gender preferences. We shall take such reasonable steps as may be necessary to ensure that your private information remains confidential. This Privacy Policy outlines our online information practices and the choices you can make in giving information about yourself and how such information would be used by us. This Website is hosted by or on behalf of QDS Pro and we are committed to a safe method of collecting and maintaining in a secure environment any personal information which may be requested from you and/or collected from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy and such laws, rules and regulations as may be applicable.

What Information Is Collected?

In general, you may visit this Website without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. QDS Pro collects and stores personal information about its users to customize their experience and enable personalized distribution of content. The personal information including, but not limited to, Full name, Email address, Mobile number, Gender, Date of birth etc. is collected by QDS Pro, only when you voluntarily choose to submit it to us. If you opt to provide us that sort of information, we also may use it for purposes such as verifying your identity, sending you information or contacting you. While you are visiting QDS Pro, we get server logs from your browser including your IP address, Browser Information, requested page and cookies. You can select which information you want to share with us but by not sharing information, you may lose our features and services. We keep user logs in order to improve platform and to provide better user experience. It is important to read our Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps carefully because we may collect some data in order to provide enhanced experience to users. We ask for limited permissions for our Mobile Apps. We obtain your personal data (name, email address, phone number, and password) when you download and register with our Mobile Apps.

How Is Such Information Used?
Website

It is our policy to keep the data we collect from the users (through our services) in secured data servers. Personal data (e.g. contact number, email, Full name, Location etc.) is gathered by QDS Pro to notify about new product information, support services offered on the website, technical updates and changes in policy, to improve the content and functionality or services, to help us better understand our users, or to deliver other services related regular information, new add-on information. We get this data when a user enters his details to sign up for our services. This data is used for improving your abilities and to let you know about your weak areas. With the help of data we gather, we provide individual analysis in our Analytics. We provide several analysis such as qualification wise, gender wise, state wise, city wise in order to provide details of top user in each test.

Mobile Apps:-

We will request the following permissions when you install our Mobile Apps:- 1. We ask for the access of Location which allows users to share location to show nearby Centres/Institutes. If the user allows sharing his/her location, the nearby Centres/Institutes will be shown; otherwise, the default view will be shown. 2. We ask for the access of Storage because we allow users to store Test Sheets, Answer Sheets and Performance Reports to view their test analysis. 3. We ask for the access of Device Camera because it is used to get the user profile image to display on the Profile page; to get the same in the User listings on the different analytics displayed on the website; or to get the Subjective Test Sheets captured, which will then be shared with the tutor to evaluate the sheets. 4. We ask for the access of Device Microphone which is used to record the audio for the Speaking Tests. 5. We ask for the access of Identity to auto-fill the Gmail account on the device in order to provide the user a fast sign up process. 6. We ask for the access of Photos/Media/Files which helps the user to select profile picture from device’s gallery. 7. We ask for the access of SMS for auto-filling of OTP through SMS in order to provide the user a fast sign up process. 8. We ask for the access of Device ID & Call Information for getting Device ID of user’s device, so we can find and fix bugs appearing on a specific device in order to provide better UX.

Is The Information Shared or Disclosed?

QDS Pro is not in the business of selling your information. There are, somehow, few circumstances in which we may share your personal information with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below: Business Transfers: As we are developing our business day-by-day, QDS Pro is expanding business to new places. .For certain programs, we may make your information available to a third party, for marketing and other purposes which we believe may be beneficial to you. QDS Pro will not be responsible for any further agreement / sale / partnership between you and any other third party. Legal Requirements: QDS Pro may share your personal information in response to a legal request or in the good faith belief that the response is required by law to conduct a legal processing or if it is asked by the Government Official or in unavoidable circumstances to protect the safety of users on our website. Related Companies: We may share your personal data with any entity, affiliated with us, that may or may not adhere to the standards set forth in this privacy policy. We share minimal data with our affiliates. PLEASE NOTE THAT QDS Pro SHALL IN NO WAY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY INFORMATION WHICH YOU PROVIDE TO A THIRD PARTY, WHICH MAY BE TABBED INTO OUR WEBSITE. THE INFORMATION BEING PROVIDED TO THE THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS AND SITES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY POLICIES OF THESE THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS.

The Security of Your Information:-

We will secure your information with full responsibility in order to keep data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We run security check every hour and try to keep your data 100% secure. But still, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Data Security:-

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These may include such data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures as may be necessary to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. However, given that the nature of Internet is changing rapidly and more malicious code is being developed with every passing day, we do not guarantee the absolute protection of your information from being destroyed or stolen by means of introduction of such code into our servers, though we shall put our best efforts to prevent such an occurrence. However, you understand and agree that when you approach or are guided to third party gateways for payment, QDS Pro shall not be liable for the information provided by you (credit card number, debit card information, bank account detail or any personal information) to the third party. We restrict access to personal information to QDS Pro employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination of services, if they fail to meet these obligations. However, in case of an unlikely eventuality of a data leakage, we shall endeavour to take all reasonable steps, as may be possible, to protect your information from being passed onto the hands of third parties, and shall proceed to recover such information, which, by means of physical or technological means may be deemed to be recoverable. NOT WITHSTANDING ANYTHING CONTAINED HERE IN, QDS Pro SHALL IN NO WAY BE MADE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF INFORMATION AND/ OR DATA AND/ OR DIRECT OR INDIRECT DAMAGES OR LOSSES WHICH MAY OCCUR FROM SUCH ACTS AND/ OR DEEDS AND CONSEQUENCES, OF WHATSOEVER NATURE ARISING THEREFROM. You may also note that your computer system shall have to be kept up-to-date with the latest anti-virus/ anti-spyware for your information which is residing in your system to be protected. PLEASE NOTE THAT QDS Pro SHALL IN NO WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF INFORMATION/ DATA WHICH MAY OCCUR FROM YOUR SYSTEM DUE TO INTRODUCTION OF ANY TROJANS, VIRUSES, BUGS, LOGIC BOMBS OR SPYWARE INTO YOUR SYSTEM.

Data Removal:-

QDS Pro has no objection to remove your data. You can contact us on “[email protected]” with your concern, we can remove your personal information on urgent basis. Still, it may take 24 hours to remove your entire data from website and more than 7-9 days from the cached version of web. This may subject to the search engines and their own policy. But once your data has been removed, you won’t be able to access it again.

Data Quality and Access:-

QDS Pro strives to keep your information and data accurate, complete and current. We will promptly take steps to correct any inaccuracies in your personally identifiable information that we are made aware of.

Business Relationships:-

The Website contains (or the Website or Service may provide) links to other websites (“Third Party Sites”) as well as to articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, presentations, music, sound, video, information, applications, software and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (the “Third Party Applications, Software or Content”). Such Third Party Sites or Third Party Applications, Software or Content are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us. QDS Pro is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. QDS Pro will not and cannot censor or edit the content of any third-party site. You understand and agree that by affording use of the Website, QDS Pro does not become liable for any loss or damage that you may incur by approaching such external site or resource, or by relying on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, product or material available on or from, such website or resource. Hence, you are advised to verify the contents on your own before acting thereon.

Pixels and Tracking:-

QDS Pro uses pixels, or transparent GIF files and Web Beacons, to track online movement of users on our website and manage online advertising. We also use it for emails and URL clicks to gauge the effectiveness of our activities and track certain user activities. These GIF files are provided by our ad management department. These files enable the department to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to know which advertisements bring users to our Website. The cookie has been placed by us. With cookies technology, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

Third Party Analytics Tools:-

QDS Pro uses third party analytics tools such as Google Analytics. QDS Pro does not control what data third parties collect, or what they will do with it. Their collection and use of information is subject to their own privacy policies.

Cookies:-

Portions of this website use cookies to keep track of your visit, or to deliver content specific to your interests. A “Cookie” is a small amount of data transferred to your browser and read by the Web server that placed it there. It works as a sort of identification card, recording your preferences and previously entered information. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to accept or reject it.

Choice / Opt-Out:-

It is our intent to inform you before we collect personally identifiable information, and tell you what we intend to do with it. You will have the option of not providing the information, in which case you may still be able to access other portions of this website, although you may not be able to access certain programs or services. In certain portions of this website, we also may enable you to “opt out” of certain uses of your information, or elect not to receive future communications or services.

Contact Us:-

If you have any questions or comments about our privacy statement or practices, please contact us via email at [email protected] with the words “PRIVACY POLICY” in the subject line. QDS Pro reserves the right to modify or update this privacy statement at any time without prior notice. We may modify this User Agreement in few parts from time to time.