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At www.defencedirecteducation.com, the privacy policy of our viewers is of extreme importance. We at www.defencedirecteducation.com respect your rights regarding your privacy and information and we provide this policy to help you understand how we receive, collect data and how it is used.

User Information:

To avail certain services on our website, users are required to provide certain information for the delivery process namely:- a) your name, b) email address, c) sex, d) age, e) PIN code, f) credit card or debit card details g) password etc., and / or your occupation, interests, and the like (We do not store any financial information). The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve our sites and provide you with the most user-friendly experience. In some sites, we require your contact addresses.
All required information is service dependent and www.defencedirecteducation.com may use the above said User information to, maintain, protect, and improve its services (including advertising services) and for developing new services
Such information will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force.

Information directly provided to us:

If You make any purchases through our Services, such as ebooks or books, We may collect certain information regarding Your purchase (such as Your name and zip code) as necessary to process Your order. You will be required to provide certain payment and billing information directly to our payment processing partners, including but not limited to Your name, credit card information, billing address and zip code. We do not access, store or collect Your credit card information.

Information Sharing:

www.defencedirecteducation.com shares the sensitive personal information to any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the User in the following limited circumstances:
a) When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms; for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
b) www.defencedirecteducation.com proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Cookies and Data Collection Tools:

www.defencedirecteducation.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

Third Party Advertiser :

.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
.:: Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
.:: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
The third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.defencedirecteducation.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
www.defencedirecteducation.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and data collection web tools on our site. Our advertising partners include Google Adsense.
You have to consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.defencedirecteducation.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of these other advertisers or websites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. The detailed information about cookie management with web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services which are of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Information Security:

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
All information gathered on www.defencedirecteducation.com is securely stored within the www.defencedirecteducation.com controlled database. 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, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
However, the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our privacy policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.

Do we share your information with other companies?

We respect that you do not want your personal information shared with other companies. Therefore, the information which you provide will only be used for your intended purpose and to complete your online purchase.
We do not share or sell your information with any other company. On a time to time basis we may share offers that we feel will be beneficial for you.