Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, Kowdiar, Trivandrum, Kerala – 695003 (“School”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects the privacy of students, parents, guardians, and visitors to our website.
This Privacy Policy explains the types of personal information we may collect through our website and online admission facility, why we collect it, how we use it, how we protect it, and the circumstances in which it may be shared.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information submitted through:
Depending on the admission process and form being used, we may collect:
We may collect:
When an admission fee is paid online, the School may receive transaction-related information from the payment gateway, such as:
The School does not require parents or guardians to provide confidential payment credentials such as:
through the School’s admission form.
Payment credentials are handled by the applicable payment gateway, bank, card network, or financial institution.
When you use the website, certain technical information may be automatically recorded, depending on the website’s configuration. This may include:
This information may be used for website security, troubleshooting, service availability, and improving website functionality.
Personal information collected through the admission facility is used solely for legitimate School administration, admission, educational, operational, security, and legal purposes.
These purposes may include:
The School does not sell, rent, trade, or commercially exploit personal information collected through the admission portal.
We do not sell applicant, parent, guardian, or pupil information to:
The information is collected and used primarily for School administration and the admission process.
The School may share limited personal information where reasonably necessary for legitimate School operations.
This may include sharing information with:
Third-party service providers receiving personal information for School operations are expected to use that information only for the relevant service and in accordance with applicable requirements.
The admission process necessarily involves the collection of information about students, including children and minors.
Parents or legally authorized guardians are expected to provide information relating to the pupil for the purpose of admission and School administration.
The School does not knowingly use pupil information for targeted advertising or commercial data brokerage.
Some information requested through the admission process, such as religion, community, category, and potentially Aadhaar information where requested, may be subject to enhanced legal or regulatory protections.
The School collects such information only where it is required or reasonably relevant to the applicable admission or administrative process.
Such information will not be sold or commercially exploited.
Applicants should provide only information requested by the School for the relevant admission or administrative purpose.
Where Aadhaar information is requested as part of an applicable admission process, the School will use it only for the stated administrative or admission purpose for which it was collected and will handle it in accordance with applicable requirements.
Applicants should not submit Aadhaar information through an email, message, or other channel unless specifically requested by the School through an authorized process.
Online admission payments may be processed through a third-party payment gateway.
The payment gateway may independently process payment-related information under its own terms, privacy policy, security controls, and applicable requirements.
The School does not intentionally collect or store complete card numbers, CVV, UPI PINs, banking passwords, or similar confidential payment credentials through the admission form.
The School takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.
However, no method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Parents and guardians should also take reasonable precautions to protect their own devices, email accounts, passwords, and other credentials.
The School may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for:
When information is no longer required for a legitimate purpose, it may be securely deleted, anonymized, archived, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the School’s applicable record-retention practices and legal obligations.
Parents and guardians are responsible for ensuring that information submitted through the admission form is accurate and up to date.
If incorrect information has been submitted, the parent or guardian may contact the School to request correction or clarification.
The School may require reasonable verification of the identity of the person making such a request.
The website may use cookies, sessions, or similar technologies required for:
Where third-party analytics or similar technologies are used, their operation may also be governed by the relevant third party’s policies.
The School website may use or link to third-party services, including payment gateways and external websites.
Third-party services may have their own terms and privacy policies.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected and processed by the School through its own website and admission systems. Parents and guardians should review the privacy policies of third-party services when using those services.
When an Applicant proceeds to online payment, they may be redirected to the payment gateway’s website or payment interface.
The School may receive payment confirmation and transaction information necessary to establish whether the admission fee has been successfully paid.
The School does not control the internal processing of payment information by the payment gateway, bank, card network, or other financial institution.
Parents, guardians, and applicants may contact the School regarding:
The School may request reasonable information to verify the identity and authority of the person making the request.
The School may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:
The updated policy will be published on the website with the revised effective date.