Privacy Statement
At the Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology we recognize that your personal privacy is a serious and important issue and we support the principle of protecting privacy on the Internet within the context of current Indian legislation.
This privacy policy explains how we treat your personal information. By using the MGUMST web site you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this policy. Though the policy has been developed to take account of changes in Internet technology, it is subject to change and any such changes will only be notified on this page.
Information collected by this site
The information we collect will depend upon what you do when visiting our site. Except as stated in this statement, we will not collect personally identifiable information about you when you visit our sites unless you choose to provide such information to us. You are free to visit our site without providing personally identifiable information. However, if you would like to access our Services, in some cases you must first register or create an account or Student profile with MGUMST. When you register or create an account or Student profile, we will request certain personal information. Requests can include, but are not limited to, your name, address, city, state, postal code, country, email address, age, home or other contact information, office/institution contact information, gender, and parent/guardian contact information etc.
We may use this information to create an account or Student profile and issue you an access ID and password.
On occasions we may ask you to provide some limited personal information about yourself to participate in services such as the Alumni email directory or the University Contact Information and Online Faculty facility. This information may include your name, title, institutional affiliation, address, telephone number and email address. It may be stored electronically or manually by the University.
If you are paying with a credit card, Debit Card, Net banking, we will not collect your Card/Bank details (employing industry standard security and encryption technologies), billing information and email address to process your payment.
Personal information better enables us to provide you with content relevant to your interests and provides us with aggregate demographic data that MGUMST uses to improve the services offered to users. Users may change their personal information at any time by using the provided interface once they are logged in and as often as necessary.
What we do with the information?
Any personal information that you provide to us will only be used for the purpose stated at the time we request it.
Personal information provided by you, and any other information relating to you, will be held by the Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology and may be used for its own marketing purposes, or occasionally shared with other organisations in the prevention of fraud.
MGUMST gathers information about all users collectively, such as what areas users visit most frequently and what services users access most often. MGUMST automatically logs IP addresses, session sources, and other data which tracks users access to our sites. Using the logging data, we analyze demographic and other statistical information about user behaviour to analyze the popularity and effectiveness of our site. In performing such analysis and in the course of our business we will only ever disclose such information in an aggregated form that is not capable of identifying an individual user.