Privacy Policy for AURO University Website

Last Updated: July 25, 2025

1. Introduction

AURO University (“AURO University,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates its official website (the “Website” or “Portal”). Our registered office is located at Earthspace, Hazira Road, Surat, Gujarat 394510.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information from users of our Website (“you” or “user”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information in a transparent and secure manner.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION AND HOW WE WILL TREAT IT.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. This policy may change from time to time (see Section 10, “Changes to Our Privacy Policy”). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

2. Information We Collect and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including:

1. Information You Provide to Us Directly:

• Registration Information: When you register for an account on the AURO University website, we may collect:
  • Full Name
  • Date of Birth
  • Gender
  • Educational background (e.g., previous school/university, degrees)
  • Contact Information (e.g., email address, mobile number, postal address)
  • Login credentials (username and password)
• Application Information: If you apply for admission, we may collect additional information relevant to your application, such as academic records, essays, and references.
• Profile Information: Users may be able to add additional profile information, such as:
  • Profile picture (optional)
  • Interests or academic preferences (optional)
• Communications: Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses and phone numbers) if you contact us.
• User Contributions: Information that you post, submit, publish, display, or transmit to other users or other persons on the Website (e.g., forum posts, comments, etc.). Please be aware that User Contributions may be visible to other users of the Website.
• Survey Responses: Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

1. Information We Collect Automatically (via Technologies):

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, Browse actions, and patterns, including:

• Usage Details: Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Device Information: Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your Browse activities.
  • Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Web Beacons: Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the University, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
• Analytics: We may use third-party analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to help us understand how users interact with our Website. These tools collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To create, maintain, and secure your account on our Website.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• To improve our Website, products, or services.
• To customize your experience on the Website.
• For internal research and analytical purposes, to understand user behavior and preferences.
• To ensure the security and integrity of our Website.
• To comply with any legal obligations.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

4. Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verifi¹cation of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

• To Our Affiliates: To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To Service Providers: To contractors, service providers, and other third parties whom we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them (e.g., hosting providers, analytics providers).
• For Legal Reasons:
  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of AURO University, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of AURO University’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by AURO University about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• With Your Consent: For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or with your consent.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

6. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Promotional Offers from the University: If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the University to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]. Please note that this opt-out does not apply to information provided to the University as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience, or other transactions.

7. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

9. Your Rights

Depending on applicable laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

• Access: The right to request access to your personal information.
• Correction: The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
• Erasure: The right to request the erasure of your personal information under certain conditions.
• Restriction of Processing: The right to request the restriction of processing of your personal information under certain conditions.
• Data Portability: The right to request the transfer of your data to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• Objection to Processing: The right to object to our processing of your personal information under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable laws.

10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website homepage. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

11. Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

AURO University

Earthspace, Hazira Road,

Surat, Gujarat 394510

Email: [email protected]