We value the trust you put in our services and systems. That’s why we ensure upon the highest standards for secure transactions and customer information privacy. Please read the following statement to learn about our information gathering and dissemination practices.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use.
1. Collection of Personally Identifiable Information and other Information
In general, you can browse the Website without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself.
If you make a transaction with us, we collect some additional information, such as a billing address, a credit / debit card number and a credit / debit card expiration date and/ or other payment instrument details and tracking information from cheques or money orders.
We collect personally identifiable information (email address, name, phone number, credit card / debit card / other payment instrument details, etc.) from you when you set up a free account with us. While you can browse some sections of our Website without being a registered member, certain activities (such as placing an order) do require registration. We may use your contact information to send you offers based on your previous orders and your interests.
2. Security Precautions
Our Website has stringent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
3. Your Consent
By using the Website and/ or by providing your information, you consent to the collection and use of the information you disclose on the Website in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to your consent for sharing your information.
4. Usage of your Data
Your data is used for the following purposes on this website :
- Your profile, account pages.
- Creating and retrieving Orders.
- Functioning of website features that require certain personal information like name, email, etc.
Data related to orders are sent to payment gateway CCAvenue for processing in encrypted form.
All data collected on Meritstore.in is not shared with any other third-party providers or advertisers.
5. Personal Data Erasure
Users can request for deletion of personal data from the website by sending an email to admin@meritstore.in. The data erasure will lead to the removal and deletion of the user profile from the website. Some residual data like test scores, user activity might still remain in the system. However, these residual data will be anonymous as user identifier will be deleted. Thus, the user’s personal identity will be totally deleted from the website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar (Profile Picture) service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website (Profile Picture), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
All data that is sent through contact forms is not stored in our database, but in our mail box.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information created by our website and stored in your browser, that speeds up the browsing experience.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Cookies are also used by Google Analytics to track website traffic and sales data.
Embedded content from other websites
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Currently embedded content on our website includes videos from youtube and vimeo.
Analytics
We collect data about user visits, pagespeed, site search, location and traffic sources, through Google Analytics installed on meritstore.in