Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how LCIT and its related organizations and affiliates (“LCIT”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses and shares personal information collected through this website. We value your privacy, and we will not share your personal information with third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy without your consent.

BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS OF THE PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE OR PROVIDE US WITH YOUR INFORMATION.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy applies to our collection, use, and sharing of your personal information when:

You visit our website at www.lcit.edu.in and its related sites, including lcitsop.edu.in, lcitcc.edu.in, and lcitps.edu.in.
You receive our communications or participate in online/offline activities or events.
You fill out an application for admission on our website.
We obtain data from third parties such as resellers, database vendors, content publishers, and suppliers.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information gathered on and through the Site and does not apply to any other websites not owned or operated by LCIT or information collected by LCITians through other means.

Personal Information We Collect

Information You Provide

• Contact information. We collect information about you when you provide contact information to us via email, mail, or through the Site, including as a result of creating an account, filling out an application for admission through the Site, registering for a contest, or registering for a admission. This information may include your first and last name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and credit card information.
• Sensitive personal information. We collect information that may be considered sensitive, such as your country of citizenship, race, gender, and social security number, through our Site’s online application process.
• Feedback and correspondence. We may collect information about you when you request information, respond to surveys, or otherwise correspond with us.
• Other information. We may collect other information from you that is not specifically listed here. We may use such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information We Get From Others

We may obtain additional data from third-party sources like service providers, vendors, social media platforms, and advertising agencies to provide you with more relevant information about our services.

Information Automatically Collected

Our servers and third-party service providers may automatically record certain details about how you use the Site:

Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Device and browser type, operating system, DNS.
Pages or features browsed and time spent on them.
Click interactions and engagement statistics.

Statistical Analyses

We may collect some sensitive personal information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, gender, and criminal background) through the Site as a result of our online application process for admission. In collecting this sensitive personal information, LCIT respects individual privacy, protects against unauthorized access to or use of information, and complies fully with all laws and government regulations in the collection, use, storage, display, distribution and disposal of such information. Authorized uses of sensitive information within LCIT are limited to uses which are necessary to: a) meet our legal and regulatory requirements; b) facilitate access to services, transactions, facilities and information; or c) otherwise support efficient academic and administrative processes.

How We Use Your Personal Information

To provide, maintain, and improve the website experience.
To process applications for admission.
To register users for events, classes, and contests.
To send newsletters and marketing communications.
To display advertisements tailored to your interests and browsing behavior.
To perform analytics and database management.
To Create and Maintain Your Account When you register at LCIT, an account is created for you using certain personal information you provided during the registration process.
To Send You Communications. We may send you newsletters or other communications, but you may opt out of receiving them as described in the Your Choices section below. Your information may be used both while you are a current student at LCIT and after you have graduated from LCIT.
To Advertise To You. We may use your personal information to manage and serve ads in the Site or on third party sites and to tailor ads to your interests and browsing history. In addition to the cookies utilized by us on this Site, LCIT may allow trusted third parties to place advertisements for our services on sites and applications operated by others. These third parties may use cookies and web beacons to measure the effectiveness of our ads and to determine the display of content and advertising to you based on your interests both on our Site and other sites and applications that you may visit (see our Cookie Policy below). To support this interest-based advertising solution, we and the companies we have contracted with may use anonymous information about your visits to our and other websites and applications.
For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety We may use your personal information as we believe appropriate to: (a) investigate or prevent violation of the law or your agreements with us; (b) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by prosecuting and defending legal claims); (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity; (d) comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; and (e) where permitted by law in connection with a legal investigation. For example, we may share information with law enforcement to reduce the risk of fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use our site for illegal reasons.

How We Share Your Personal Information

We may use third parties to help us design and operate the Site, provide services to support the Site, process your information, and provide promotional and marketing activities on our behalf. For example, we may hire a company to run certain website applications, help us analyze our data, process your credit card information, or send information on our behalf about services and events in which you may be interested. Unless otherwise indicated at the time we collect your information, if we allow third parties to access the personal information we collect, we will have contractual provisions or other appropriate protections in place to ensure such access is for limited purposes and in compliance with this Privacy Policy.

We do not share your personal information with third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances:

LCIT-Related and Affiliated Organizations: We may share your personal information with LCIT’s affiliates and related organizations, such as LCIT’s alumni organization, for use consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third-party companies and individuals as needed for them to provide us with services that help us with our business activities and to promote our services to you. A list of our current service providers is available upon request.
Business Partners: We may share your personal information with our business partners who offer a service to you jointly with us. A list of our current business partners that have access to certain personal information we collect is available upon request.
Security, Compliance, Fraud Prevention, Safety; Compliance with Law: We may disclose your personal information as we believe appropriate to government or law enforcement officials or private parties for the purposes described above under the following sections: For compliance, fraud prevention and safety, and for compliance with law.
Business Transfers: We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business deal (or potential business deal) such as a merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy.

Your Choices

Opt Out of Marketing Communications

You may opt out of marketing-related emails by changing the communication preferences in your account settings or by following the opt-out prompt in the email. To opt out of other forms of marketing communications, please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Policy.

Consequences of Not Providing Personal Information

You are not required to provide all personal information identified in this Privacy Policy to use our Site or to interact with us offline, but certain functionality will not be available if you do not provide personal information. For example, if you do not provide personal information, we may not be able to respond to your request, perform a transaction with you, or provide you with marketing that we believe you would find valuable.

Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies set by the website are called “first party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website are called “third party cookies.” Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality, such as advertising or website analytics, to be provided on or through the website. The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer or device both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites and/or mobile apps.

What Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies does LCIT Use?

We use several different kinds of cookies on this Site, including:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: Necessary for the Site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems.
Performance Cookies: Allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Site.
Functional Cookies: Enable the Site to provide enhanced functionality and personalization.

Cookies are not the only way to track visitors to a website. We may use similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Sites. These technologies often depend on cookies to function properly, and so disabling cookies may impair their functioning.

If you sign up to receive our e-mails, we will also use cookies in conjunction with these emails. When your browser downloads any graphic content in the e-mail, we will also place a cookie on your computer that will tell us if you come to our website at a later date.

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we collaborate with various third-party service providers who also use cookies to help us optimize our website and understand more about the visitors to our website. For example, we use NextRoll to provide us with information about our visitors and to help us analyze how people use our website. Our third-party service providers include: Capture Higher Ed, Facebook, Google (including YouTube), and NextRoll. To learn more about how these providers use cookies, please click the links above or visit their respective websites to view their privacy policies.

Other Important Privacy Information

Third Party Sites and Services

The Site may contain links to other websites and services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control third party websites, applications or services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding their collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read their privacy policies to learn more.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. We take a number of organizational, technical, and physical measures that are designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.

Verifying, Changing, and Deleting Your Information

If you have registered for an account through our Site, you can access, review, and manage many changes yourself via your account, including updating your profile information and changing your communication preferences. If the information you are seeking is not available within your account, you can contact us as detailed below and ask us to change, update or fix your information in certain cases, particularly if it is inaccurate. You can also request that we erase or delete all or some of your personal information or otherwise object to, limit, or restrict the use of such information (if we have no legal right or legitimate business interest in retaining such information).

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post them on the Site and indicate the effective date of the change. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or through the Site.

How to Contact Us

Lakhmi Chand Institute of Technology

Near High Court, Raipur Road

Bodri, Bilaspur

Chhattisgarh, India

Pin: 495220

Contact No.: 9179080002, 9522220113