Online Classroom Student Code of Conduct & Privacy Policy

1.Student Code of Conduct / Acceptable Use Policy

Internet access is required for students who take courses with Nazareth Group of Institutions (herein after referred as Nazareth or School). Internet access offers valuable, diverse, and unique resources to both students and teachers. Access must be used in a responsible, safe, efficient, ethical, and legal manner. The following guidelines cover what is expected of students in our online learning environment.

  • ●All students must read the rules of netiquette carefully and understand their significance.
  • ●Students are responsible for good behavior on the school computer network, just as they are in a classroom or a school hallway. Always use a computer in a way that shows consideration and respect. You are not to use obscene, profane, threatening, or disrespectful language. These actions are illegal.
  • ●Integrity and authenticity of student work is something that we take very seriously at Nazareth. Do not cut, copy, or plagiarize Internet content or the work of your online classmates. Nazareth teachers do utilize technologies that can check for authenticity of student work. Copying the work of others, allowing others to knowingly copy your work, and/or misusing content from the Internet could result in your removal from our courses.
  • ●Security on any computer system is a high priority, especially when the system involves many users. If you feel you can identify a security problem in the school's computers, network, or Internet connection, notify a system administrator.
  • ●Think about the social consequences of any publicly accessible online community forum or other program you interact with. E-MAIL IS NOT PRIVATE. Never say anything online or via e-mail that you would not want posted on the school bulletin board
  • ●Be cautious about e-mail messages from anyone, particularly adults asking you for personal information, attempting to arrange meetings, or engaging in personal contact. Disclose to your teacher or other School employee any message you receive that is inappropriate or makes you feel uncomfortable.
  • ●Any sending of unsolicited e-mail to your online classmates is prohibited. E-mail with your online classmates should be of a course-related nature only.
  • ●Students must use an e-mail address that is appropriate for an educational environment. E-mail addresses that use profanity or may otherwise be construed as offensive, will not be permitted for any school/online course related correspondence. Nazareth administration reserves the right to determine if student e-mail addresses are inappropriate. Students with inappropriate e-mail addresses will be required to use an alternative e-mail address or will otherwise be forbidden to participate in Nazareth online courses.
  • ●Protect your password. Keep it secret.
  • ●Passwords are visible to Nazareth system administrators and should be appropriate to an educational setting.
  • ●Nazareth assumes no responsibility for any phone charges, line costs or usage fees for connectivity to the Internet.
  • ●Remember that you are required to adhere to the Code of Ethics of the educational profession in India.
  • ●Users are subject to all local, state, and federal laws. Nazareth School administrators will cooperate fully with local, state, or federal officials in any investigation related to any illegal activities conducted through Internet access. In the event there is a claim that you have violated

this policy, you will be provided with notice of the suspected violation and have an opportunity to present an explanation. Any violations may result in removal from Nazareth online course(s), as well as other disciplinary or legal action.

2.Netiquette Guide for Online Courses

It is important for you as a student to recognize that the online classroom is in fact a classroom, and certain behaviors are expected when you communicate with both your peers and your teachers. These guidelines for online behavior and interaction are known as “netiquette”.

When communicating online, you should always:
  • ●Treat your teacher(s) with respect in all online communications/interactions.
  • ●Always use proper title for teachers – sir or madam.
  • ●Use clear and concise language. Respect teacher’s / other students’ time and attention.
  • ●Be careful sharing personal information online (both yours and other’s).’
  • ●Protect your password. Don’t share your password with anyone. Change your password if you think someone else might know it.

Note: Morphing of images of teacher/fellow students, creating memes or any such other activities are illegal – and if any student found indulging in such activity, severe disciplinary and/or legal action will be taken.

3.Privacy Policy

Nazareth values your trust. In order to honour that trust, Nazareth adheres to ethical standards in gathering, using, and safeguarding any information you provide.

This privacy policy governs your use of School’s Website and/or the other associated/ancillary applications, products, websites and services managed Third parties.

Please read this privacy policy (“Policy“) carefully before registering for online classes. Your registration for joining online classes shall signify your acceptance of this Policy and your agreement to be legally bound by the same. For the sake of clarity your joining online classes offered by Nazareth School shall be bound by the terms and conditions enumerated and agreed upon hereunder with willful and free consent.

If you wish not to agree with any of the terms and conditions of this Policy, kindly refrain from using the Website, Application or its products. User Provided Information

The Application/Website/Services/ records the information you provide when you register for online classes. When you register with us, you generally provide (a) your name, age, email address, phone number, password (b) information you provide us when you contact us for help; (c) information you enter into its system when using the Application/Services/products, such as while asking doubts, participating in discussions and taking tests. The said information collected from the users could be categorized as “Personal Information“, “Sensitive Personal Information” and “Associated Information“. Personal Information, Sensitive Personal Information and Associated Information (each as individually defined under this Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 (the “Data Protection Rules“)) shall collectively be referred to as “Information” in this Policy.

The School may use this Information to contact you from time to time, to provide you with the Services, important information, required notices etc. Nazareth will request you when it need more information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you.

The School will not differentiate between who is using the device to access the Application, Website or Services or products, so long as the log in/access credentials match with yours. In order to make the best use of the Application/Website/Services/products and enable your Information to be captured accurately on the Application/Website/Services/products, it is essential that you have logged in using your own credentials.

Automatically Collected Information

In addition, the Application/products/Services may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile devices unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browsers you use, and information about the way you use the Application/Services/products. As is true for most Mobile applications, the School also collects other relevant information as per the permissions that you provide.

Use of your Personal Information

The School uses the collected Information to analyse trends, to conduct research, to administer the Application/Services and products, to learn about each user’s learning patterns and movements around the Application/Services and products and to gather demographic information and usage behaviour about its user base as a whole. Aggregated and individual, anonymized and non-anonymized data may periodically be transmitted to external service providers to help us improve the Application, products and its Services. The School will share your information with third parties only in the ways that are described below in this Policy.

The School may disclose Information:
  • ●as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process;
  • ●to enforce applicable ToU, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
  • ●when it believes in good faith (doctrine of uberrima fides) that the disclosure is necessary to protect its rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, address security or technical issues or respond to a government request;
  • ●to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of the Application/Website/ Think and Learn Private Limited or its users or the public as required or permitted by law;
  • ●with third party service providers in order to personalize the Application/Website/Services/products for a better user experience and to perform behavioural analysis;
Access to your Personal Information

The School will provide you with the means to ensure that your Personal Information is correct and current. If you have filled out a user profile, it will provide an obvious way for you to access and change your profile from its Application/Services/Website/products. The School adopts stringent security measures to protect your password from being exposed or disclosed to anyone. Only upon you forgetting the password for its Application/Website or Services, the School will have a right to reset the same to you with your prior approval as per standard web practices.

Cookies

The School send cookies (small files containing a string of characters) to your computer, thereby uniquely identifying your browser. Cookies are used to track your preferences, help you login faster, and aggregated to determine user trends. This data is used to improve its offerings, such as providing more content in areas of greater interest to a majority of users.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Disclaimer:

Some of School’s features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Security

The School is concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your Information. The School provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect Information it processes and maintain. An illustration being, the School limits access to this Information to authorized teachers/employees only who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve its Application/Services/Website. Please be aware that, although the School’s endeavour is to provide stringent security, for information it possesses and maintains, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches.

How long does the School retain user data?

Currently, the School retains user data while an account is active and for at least three years afterwards. It may alter this practice according to legal and business requirements.

Log information

When you access School’s Website, its servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

User communications

When you send an email or other communication to the School, it may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Services.

Changes to this Statement

The School’s privacy policies are dynamic in nature, its privacy policy will need to evolve as well to cover new situations. You are advised to review this Policy regularly for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.

Your Consent

The School believes that, every user of our Application/Services/Website must be in a position to provide an informed consent prior to providing any Information required for the use of the Application/Services/Website. By registering with it, you are expressly consenting to its collection, processing, storing, disclosing and handling of your information as set forth in this Policy now and as amended by us. Processing, your information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining, sharing, transferring and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in India. If you reside outside India your information will be transferred, processed and stored in accordance with the applicable data protection laws of India.

Contact Information

The School’s System Administrator shall undertake all reasonable efforts to address your grievances at the earliest possible opportunity. You may contact at: System Administrator, Nazareth Group of Institutions, School, Kovilpathagai Main Road, Avadi, Chennai 62. Email: info@tna.edu.in