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$pageTitle = 'Privacy Policy | IBVTE - Indian Board of Vocational and Technical Education';
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        <h1><i class="fas fa-user-shield me-2"></i>Privacy Policy</h1>
        <p>Your privacy and data protection are important to us.</p>
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                    <h2>1. Information Collection</h2>
                    <p>We collect information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address or phone number.</p>
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                    <h2>2. Use of Information</h2>
                    <p>Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:</p>
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                        <li>To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)</li>
                        <li>To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)</li>
                        <li>To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)</li>
                        <li>To process transactions</li>
                        <li>To send periodic emails</li>
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                    <h2>3. Data Protection</h2>
                    <p>We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.</p>
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                    <h2>4. Cookies Usage</h2>
                    <p>Yes, we use cookies (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information).</p>
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                    <h2>5. Disclosure to Third Parties</h2>
                    <p>We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.</p>
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                    <h2>6. Online Privacy Policy Only</h2>
                    <p>This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.</p>
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                    <h2>7. Your Consent</h2>
                    <p>By using our site, you consent to our website's privacy policy.</p>
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