Privacy Policy

We, at RITES, are committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected and protected. This policy has been written to provide you with information about how personal information you disclose on the RITES website will be used. Please take a moment to read this privacy policy. The policy will be updated on occasion, to maintain its integrity.

1. Any information collected will be used by RITES for purposes that have exclusively been communicated at time of receiving the information.
2. We will not collect information identifiable about you without your knowledge or consent.
3. We do not use contact information about you to create mailing lists, unless you have explicitely signed up for a mailing list.
4. We use the information we collect from you to allow you to participate in the site activities.

Types of Information We Will Collect

1. Personally Identifiable Information

   During registration, some personally identifiable information will be gathered about you. RITES require your name, e-mail address, username, and password for registration.

   In addition to, during registration, we may ask you for personal information or at other times, such as when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. We also encourage you to complete surveys that we use for site enhancement and research purposes. If you contact us through the use of surveys or by email, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Wherever RITES collects personal information, we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy from that page.

2. Non-personal Information

   Some information may automatically be collected as you browse our site. The web server that hosts the RITES website automatically collects information such as the IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your browser type and version, the operating system and platform you use, the pages you visit, the average time spent on our site, information you search for, any errors that occur, access time and other statistics.

   Cookies are also being used. Cookies are pieces of information transferred to your hard drive for record-keeping purposes.

   This data is used to measure the level of use of our site and for improvements which will help us better understand the users requirements and expectations.

The disclosure of any personal information to third parties will only occur :

1. When and if RITES is required to do so by operation of law and in particular by any order of a court.
2. Where it is necessary to identify anyone who may be violating the rights of others or the law in general
3. Where RITES intends to co-operate with the investigation of any alleged unlawful activities without being required to by virtue of any court order or other legal requirement.
4. Where it is necessary to protect the rights of RITES.

If You Are Under 13 Years of Age

If you are under 13 years of age, you should not provide any personally identifiable information on this website without the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian.