Our Privacy Commitment
Sammilani Teachers' Training College respects the privacy of applicants, students, guardians, staff, visitors, and other website users. Personal information is handled for legitimate academic, admission, administrative, support, security, and legal purposes in accordance with applicable Indian law, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 as and when its provisions apply.
1. Information We Collect
- Identity and contact details such as name, date of birth, address, email, mobile number, photograph, and identification information.
- Academic, category, eligibility, admission, document, and payment-related information submitted through applications.
- Information supplied through enquiries, feedback, complaints, surveys, event registrations, or support requests.
- Verification information, including email or mobile OTP status and application references.
- Basic technical information such as browser type, device information, IP address, timestamps, and website activity where collected by the website or hosting services.
2. How We Use Information
- To receive, verify, process, and communicate about admission applications.
- To provide academic, administrative, student, enquiry, and grievance services.
- To send OTPs, acknowledgements, notices, status updates, and other service communications.
- To maintain records, prevent duplicate or fraudulent submissions, secure services, and troubleshoot technical issues.
- To meet requirements of the college, affiliating university, regulators, government authorities, auditors, or applicable law.
3. Sharing and Disclosure
Information may be shared only where reasonably necessary with authorised college personnel, the affiliating university, regulators, government authorities, professional advisers, auditors, and service providers supporting email, SMS, payment, hosting, security, or application processing.
The college does not sell personal information. Service providers are expected to use information only for the service they provide and subject to appropriate confidentiality and security requirements.
4. Security and Retention
Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards are used to protect information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. No internet-based system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Records are retained only for as long as reasonably required for the purpose collected, institutional record-keeping, dispute resolution, audit, regulatory, university, or legal requirements. Information may then be securely deleted, anonymised, or archived as applicable.
5. Your Choices and Requests
You may contact the college to request access to or correction of personal information you submitted, report inaccurate information, or raise a privacy concern. Where processing is based on consent, you may request withdrawal of consent, subject to legal, regulatory, academic, and record-retention obligations and any consequences explained at the time of the request.
The college may ask for identity or application verification before acting on a request.
6. Cookies, Minors, and Third-Party Links
The website may use essential cookies or similar technologies for sessions, security, forms, preferences, analytics, or service functionality. Browser settings can restrict cookies, though some features may then not work correctly.
Where an applicant is a minor, information should be submitted with the involvement or authorisation of a parent or lawful guardian as required by applicable law and admission procedure.
External websites and services have their own privacy practices. Please review their policies before providing personal information.
7. Updates and Privacy Contact
This policy may be updated to reflect changes in law, technology, or college services. The effective date above identifies the current version.