DISCLAIMER: By accessing "scuoria.com" (hereinafter "scuoria", "SCUORIA", "we", "us", "our", "scuoria.com", http://www.scuoria.com, https://www.scuoria.com and “site”), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms and privacy policy. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms, conditions and privacy policy, then please do not access and/or use "scuoria.com". We may change these terms, conditions and privacy policy at any time and we'll do our utmost in informing you, though it would be prudent to review our terms and conditions, and privacy policy regularly yourself as your continued usage of "scuoria.com" after changes means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as they are updated and/or amended. User (hereinafter “you”, “your”, “scuoria user”) refers to any user who access, visits or/and uses scuoria and/or its affiliated websites. Third party (hereinafter “they”) refers to any websites, organizations, individuals or/and bodies which isn’t part of scuoria and/or isn’t affiliated to scuoria.com, on whom scuoria has no authority or control whatsoever. Privacy Policy The scuoria.com website adheres to a strict policy for ensuring the privacy of personally identifiable information and preserving the integrity of this online medium. Here we explain the type of information collected from scuoria.com, how that information may be used, how you can access or modify that information, and how that information is protected. 1. WHICH SITES ARE COVERED BY THIS POLICY? This Privacy Policy applies to scuoria.com (“Site”). Please note that our Site may contain links to sponsors and other websites which are not affiliated to us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those web sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website/organization before submitting your personal information to them. Once the user clicks and goes to websites other than scuoria, naturally the privacy policy of scuoria doesn’t apply to the third party websites/organization. Even though the links to such other third party websites/organization are contained in scuoria, we are not responsible for the privacy of any scuoria user on websites other than scuoria.com. The scuoria user is advised to always read and be aware of the privacy practices of other websites before using or accessing them. The scuoria user, by virtue of this privacy policy exempts scuoria or its operators from any responsibility of protecting the user’s private information which the user has submitted to such third party websites. 2. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER? scuoria collects two types of information from visitors to the Site: (A) Personally Identifiable Information, and (B) Non-personally Identifiable Information (information such as IP Addresses and cookies, which allow for a better use of the Site). Uses of this information are discussed in Section 3. A. Personally Identifiable Information scuoria will not collect personally identifiable information from you, other than what you supply to us on a voluntary basis upon request. Personally identifiable information includes, but is not limited to, name, contact number, address, e-mail address. Registration on our website: Our Site requires a free registration, which enables a registered user to connect with scuoria.com. A unique email address must be supplied to register on scuoria. Registration on scuoria allows the user to access the pages and its contents that requires login. Portals, Forums, Feedback and Content Submissions: On some pages of the Site, you can submit content to be published, make postings, comments, suggestions, and vote. We may collect name, contact number, address and e-mail addresses in connection with these activities. For registered users we collect and store the IP Adress and the last login time. And history of any purchases made by you, for a minimum of 1 year. B. Non-personally Identifiable Information In addition to information that you provide to us, we may also collect and store certain non-personally identifiable information automatically when you use the Site. This information is used for statistical analysis of the site usage(read B1) and helps us improve the experience you and other visitors have with the Site. B1. For example, we may collect your IP address, browser information and reference site domain, as well as related information such as the date on which you visit the Site. This information does not identify you personally and is only used in the aggregate. As is common practice among websites, we use “cookies” and similar technologies. Cookies are text files which store your preferences. No personal information is ever stored in a scuoria cookie, even if you have entered your name or email address on other parts of the Site like posting, commenting,messaging etc. You can generally prevent cookies from being used by changing the settings in your web browser, but please be aware that by doing so you may be unable to fully utilize the Site. Disabling cookies in most of the cases will prevent you from accessing your account on scuoria and using scuoria properly and effectively. 3. HOW DO WE USE INFORMATION GATHERED ON THE SITE? Except as expressly set forth in our policies, we will never sell, rent, or swap your personally identifiable information with non-affiliated third parties for their own purposes. Here, “non-affiliated third parties” means such organizations or entities which don’t form part of scuoria. And “affiliated third parties” means those organizations or entities which are a part or subordinate to or a subsidiary of scuoria. There is no administrative control whatsoever on “non-affiliated third parties”, for example a non-affiliated third party could be an individual, organization or an entity with whom we have a collaboration or commercial relationship. Many ads which we publish are of such non-affiliated third parties. An affiliated third party could be an organization which is a subsidiary of or subordinate to scuoria. Affiliated third parties are under administrative control of scuoria. Most of the times affiliated third parties are an extension of our service which might enhance or add to our site functions in such a manner that will increase the user experience while the user interacts with our site. In terms of our own use of the information, we may use your personally identifiable information for the marketing, promotional and fundraising purposes in support of public broadcasting. We will typically explain the extent of use at the time you are asked to provide personal information. If you do not want this information to be collected or used by us for these purposes, you can simply “opt out”. Under certain circumstances, opting out may prevent your participation in activities for which personal information is needed, as in contests. We (which includes our service providers) will use user email addresses to respond to the general purposes for which we collected as the information, to provide services and to operate the Site, including responding to inquiries, to process online payments (such as credit card, debit card, netbanking payments etc..) and billing, e-mail distribution, list processing and analysis, promotions management, to send information about scuoria programs, Site, services, membership. We, or our service providers, may release personal identification information if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, we have received a valid administrative request from a law enforcement agency, or such release is necessary to protect anyone’s rights, property or safety. On certain pages, we offer visitors the opportunity to provide comments or other user-generated content on any postings, forums and articles. Any information that you disclose when posting a message to these areas, along with the screen name or ID used becomes public. We are not responsible for any personally identifiable information that you choose to disclose in these public areas. We reserve the right to send you e-mail relating to site. This includes about major changes to our Site. If you have registered for any other services provided by us, you may receive e-mail specific to your participation in those activities. We offer several e-mail newsletters and listservs related to site. If you no longer wish to receive a specific newsletter, you may opt out by following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each newsletter. We use non-personally identifiable information, such as IP addresses or demographic information (zip codes for example) to tailor our site to the interests/locations of our users and to measure traffic within our site. scuoria uses the content from the cookies to deliver relevant local resources, remember browser preferences, and improve our visitors’ experiences on the Site. scuoria does not sell information collected by cookies nor use for commerce-related purposes. scuoria uses cookies at the following times: • A cookie may automatically generate when you login, to store your login status. • If you create a chat session, a cookie is generated to store the information about that particular session only. • The cookie does not remember any information about you or your computer; it just helps us at scuoria monitor Site usage and traffic; for example, it allows us to measure the number of repeat visitors to scuoria.com in a given month. This data is only used in the aggregate. Additionally, cookies may be used to remember your username only, so that next time when you visit the scuoria homepage you may need to enter the password only. If your browser doesn’t accept cookies from scuoria, you can’t login to your account or access other cookie dependent functions on scuoria. Therefore, every time you want to login to scuoria or to use its other cookie dependent functions, you have to enable your browser to accept cookies from scuoria.com. You can delete these cookies from your browser once you have finished using scuoria.com. Depending on the type of browser you use, you can enable your browser to do that automatically by adjusting the browser preferences. 4. HOW CAN I ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION? Access to personally identifiable information that is collected from our Site may be accessible for a limited period of time from the point of collection, such as where a user provides an e-mail address in order to receive an e-mail newsletter or a reminder about an upcoming program or event. In other cases, personally identifiable information may be maintained, edited and deleted at the user’s discretion at any time after the information has been submitted to scuoria. For example, if you created a password-protected account within our Site, you may be able to access that account to review the information you provided and make corrections and updates as necessary. However this feature is not available throughout our Site where the user is not asked to create an account. Therefore, if at any time, you prefer not to receive e-mail from a service that you subscribed to without creating a personal account, simply opt out by following the unsubscribe options at the bottom of each e-mail. You may also send an e-mail to the following e-mail address for any queries. Email us to hi@scuoria.com www.scuoria.com 5. HOW IS MY INFORMATION PROTECTED? scuoria is committed to ensuring the security of the data provided to us by Site users. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have password protected the datas and encrypted usernames and passwords to protect the information we collect online. 6. DO YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL CHILDREN’S GUIDELINES? scuoria.com is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect or store personally identifiable information about children under the age of 18. Only users above 18 are allowed to create an account on scuoria. Such visitors who are below this age are not recommended to create an account on scuoria.com. If any individual who is below this age limit and has created an account on scuoria.com would be considered violating the terms, conditions and privacy policy of scuoria due to sheer ignorance. If we come to know or it’s brought to our notice that a user who is below this age limit has created an account on scuoria.com, such accounts would be deleted permanently and data associated with such accounts would be permanently deleted. User, who is aged 18 and above are allowed to create an account on scuoria.com and use scuoria. Since we are unable to determine age of a user who registers on scuoria.com, we rely solely on the informed consent of the person or individual who registers to have an account and uses scuoria.com for such determination of age. Therefore, the decision of a user to create an account and use scuoria is considered to be in accordance to this privacy policy and the user is considered to be aged 18 and above. 7. PRIVACY OF CONTENTS THAT A USER POSTS AND SHOWS ON THE USER PROFILE Profile details of a user will not be disclosed on any of the scuoria.com pages, except forum postings and commenting systems. In forums and commenting pages, user who posts a topic or comments to a topic are visible to the public and their name will be visible in accordance to that post or comment. Always think before you post something about yourselves and others. If it’s something you consider private and don’t want the outside world to see or know, don’t post it. Anything you say or post can be seen by others who are using scuoria. scuoria.com would not be responsible for privacy breach arising out of behaviors of scuoria users. For instance, A photo of scuoria user, let’s say user A posts on scuoria.com can be posted to other website/s by the same user A. Or, such posted information can be seen by other users. Or, can post or uploaded to other website/s by another user B who is connected to user A. The user alone is responsible to make decision about what to say and reveal while interacting with this website and other scuoria.com users. This applies to all posts or information scuoria user/users decide/s to show to other scuoria users or the public internet using scuoria.com as a platform. scuoria.com and its operator wouldn’t be responsible for any privacy breaches arising out of user’s poor decision making and the user in such case is considered to be acting out on his/her/their own judgment. Therefore, exempting scuoria.com and it’s operator of any damage or/and loss in whatsoever manner. 8. ACCEPTANCE OF scuoria.com PRIVACY POLICY, TERMS AND CONDITIONS By using this Site, you signify your agreement to the terms and condition of this scuoria.com Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of scuoria.com following the posting of any changes to these terms shall signify your acceptance of those changes. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us. Last updated: June 12, 2022