Understanding Our

Privacy Policy

01. Privacy Policy

We understand that providing personal identifiable information online involves a great deal of trust on your part. We respect your trust and committed to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal data you provide to us. We request all our users to review our ‘privacy note’ to understand how we deal with information regarding you. These privacy practices are applicable to all the site visitors and clients of NEXT IAS.

02. Our Commitment to Security

Protecting privacy and security of information you provide to us is a top priority for us. Every information we gather from you is kept confidential and we do not share, sell, disclose, rent or license any personal identifiable information to a third party unless required by the law of the land. We maintain 100% transparency in the usage of data we collect through surfers’ activities on our website. We will usually notify you of any changes in the privacy policy by posting the updated policy on the nextias.com website. We request users to check back periodically, to update themselves with the changes in our privacy policy, if any.

03. How We Collect And Use your Information

NEXT IAS receives and stores information from its users when they register on our website or App to gain access to our services or give us in any other way. During registration, we collect information that can identify you, including your name, postal and email address. We may also ask about your business information. A registered member is no longer unknown to NEXT IAS and it is deemed that the user has agreed to give NEXT IAS the right to make use of the data for receiving, including but not limited to, catalogs, periodicals, Newsletters and other promotional materials as designed by NEXT IAS team.

NEXT IAS uses the information you provide to us for the registration process and to manage your account to process your order, including to notify you about special offers, to facilitate your access and use of our site, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. We will notify you prior to the time of data collection or transfer if the data provided by you will be shared with any third party. You can decide whether to participate in the promotion, if you don’t want your data to be shared.

04. How And With Whom We Share Your Information

As a thumb rule, NEXT IAS will not intentionally disclose or share any of the user’s personally identifiable information except when we have user’s permission or under extraneous circumstances, such as when NEXT IAS believes in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below.

NEXT IAS may also disclose account information in special cases when we believe it is necessary to identify, investigate, prevent, or take legal action against someone who may be breaking the Terms of Services or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) NEXT IAS rights or property; to defend and protects the right, or safety of NEXT IAS , website/App users, or others; and in connection with our Terms of Service and other agreements.

05. How We Distribute Information

NEXT IAS may occasionally email its users regarding its products and services. Also, NEXT IAS may send direct mails about special offers, products and services which it feels may be of interest to the user. Only agents working on behalf of NEXT IAS and under confidentiality agreements will send you these direct mailings.

06. Linking Policy

This web site may be linked to or from third party web sites that are not operated by NEXT IAS , or any affiliates. Links to third party websites are provided solely as a convenience to you and you access them at your own risk. NEXT IAS is not responsible for content or privacy policies of those parties, whether or not NEXT IAS is affiliated with sponsors of the sites. Visitors to third party web sites should refer to their separate privacy policies and practices.

07. Editing or Updating Information

A user may contact us in order to remove, deactivate or edit his/her account information and profile by logging into our website/App to update his/her information. The requested changes may take up to 24Hrs to appear online because of verification process and server cache policies.

Note that after deletion or deactivation of account, user will not be able to access any members. Additional residual information will remain in our archives and records, but that will not be used for a commercial purpose.

08. Protection of Information

Any personal or business information provided or acquired by NEXT IAS will not be sold to third parties until and unless it is permitted by the user. We may also share aggregate or anonymous user's information with prospective advertisers, investors or partners and does not include any personally data about any individual user.

We request our customers to sign off their NEXT IAS Current Affairs Channel account and close their browser window when they have finished their work. This is just to ensure that others cannot access their personal or business information and correspondence, if the user shares the computer with someone else or is using a computer/mobile in a public place. NEXT IAS takes necessary steps, within its limits of commercial viability and necessity, to ensure that the user's information is treated securely.

We use encryption for the transfer of data. Unfortunately, no electronic transmission of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while NEXT IAS makes best efforts to safeguard the user's personal & business information, it cannot warrant the safety of any data transmitted to NEXT IAS or all that safety measures maintained by NEXT IAS will always be sufficient and effective. Therefore, as a user of the site, you should agree that you understand all responsibility and risk for your access of the site and you are using it at your own risk. However, once NEXT IAS gets your information, it strives hard to ensure its security in its systems.

09. Protection of information While Ordering and Shipping

In order to buy products from us, you must establish a NEXT IAS account. Setting up an account needs your email address and a password. For placing an order, you are also asked for your name, billing address, shipping address, your credit card number, telephone number, and expiration date (your “Order Information”). We ask this only to process your purchase or order and to notify you of your order status.To process and fulfill orders, we provide your mailing details to shipping/postal or courier companies, but do not provide any more personal information such as your email address or billing information. The above mentioned third parties may not use your personal information for any purpose other than those related to the fulfillment of your order.

10. Cookies & Display Advertising

Our site uses Google Analytics features for Display Advertising, which will let Analytics to collect and store information about our site’s traffic via the DoubleClick cookie in addition to data collected through the standard Google Analytics implementation.For visitors, here are some important points to understand about Display Advertising:

The features for Display Advertising will be automatically implemented for every person who visits our site, as it works via cookie, which is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is transferred to your computer’s hard disk when your browser accesses a website that uses cookies.

These Google Analytics features are based on Displayed Advertising (e.g., Remarketing). If you don’t want to be tracked, you can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads for you by using the Ads Preferences Manager.

11. Modifications in Privacy Policy

NEXT IAS reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to make modifications in this policy in any manner at any time so site visitors are requested to check periodically. Your regular access on this web site and the purchase of any item or service represent your prior acceptance of the modified policy. If you have queries about this Privacy Policy, please email us.

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