Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to Manaskriti School, Sector 82, Greater Faridabad, Haryana, and to personal information processed through:

• The official Manaskriti School website and its webpages.
• Online and offline admission, enquiry and registration forms.
• School ERP, learning-management and parent-communication platforms.
• Academic, administrative, transport, health and activity records.
• School events, competitions, workshops and extracurricular programmes.
• Campus security systems, visitor records and CCTV cameras.
• Email, telephone, WhatsApp, SMS and other authorised communication channels.
• Recruitment applications, employee records and vendor communications.

The policy applies to students, prospective students, parents, guardians, employees, applicants, alumni, vendors, visitors and other individuals who interact with the School.

The information collected depends on the nature of an individual’s interaction with the School.

Personal information may be collected:

• Directly from you when you submit an enquiry, application, registration, consent form or communication.
• During a student’s enrolment through academic, attendance, transport, activity and wellbeing records.
• Through authorised platforms such as the School’s ERP, payment gateway, learning systems or communication tools.
• Automatically through the website using cookies, server logs and analytics technologies.
• From authorised third parties such as previous schools, education authorities, examination boards or service providers, where permitted or required.
• During campus visits and events through visitor registers, CCTV systems, photographs, videos and participation records.

Manaskriti School may process personal information for the following purposes:

• Responding to admission enquiries and arranging school visits.
• Processing applications, admissions, enrolment and student records.
• Delivering education, assessments and student-support services.
• Monitoring attendance, academic progress and participation.
• Communicating notices, circulars, results, fee information and emergency updates.
• Managing school fees, payments, receipts, concessions and refunds.
• Providing transport, healthcare, counselling and safeguarding support.
• Planning events, excursions, competitions, clubs and extracurricular activities.
• Maintaining campus security and protecting students, staff and visitors.
• Operating and improving the School’s website, systems and digital services.
• Showcasing School activities and achievements where appropriate permission has been obtained.
• Complying with requirements of CBSE, government authorities, courts or other competent bodies.
• Managing recruitment, employment, vendor and contractual relationships.
• Preventing fraud, misuse, cyber incidents and unauthorised access.

Where consent is the appropriate basis for processing, the School may request clear consent from the relevant individual, parent or lawful guardian.

As an educational institution, Manaskriti School processes information relating to children. We recognise that children’s personal data requires heightened care and protection.

The School aims to ensure that children’s information is:

• Collected for clear educational, administrative, safety or legal purposes.
• Limited to information reasonably necessary for those purposes.
• Accessible only to authorised personnel and service providers.
• Not used for behavioural monitoring or targeted advertising that is harmful to children.
• Not processed in a manner likely to cause a detrimental effect on a child’s wellbeing.
• Retained only for as long as required for the relevant purpose or by law.

Parents and lawful guardians should ensure that information provided to the School is accurate and should notify the School when important student or contact information changes.

Photographs, videos, recordings, artwork and student accomplishments may be created or documented during School activities, celebrations, competitions, classroom projects, educational visits and public events.

Subject to applicable consent requirements and School procedures, such material may be used for:

• School newsletters, yearbooks, notice boards and internal communication.
• The official School website and authorised social-media channels.
• Admission, awareness and community-engagement materials.
• Reports submitted to education authorities or programme partners.
• Recognition of student achievement and participation.
• Documentation and archival records of School events.

Parents or guardians may contact the School regarding their preferences or concerns about the public use of identifiable photographs or videos. The School will assess such requests subject to legal, operational, archival and already-published material considerations.

CCTV cameras may operate in appropriate areas of the School campus and School-controlled premises for safety, security, incident investigation, access control and protection of people and property.

• CCTV access is intended to be limited to authorised personnel.
• Recordings may be reviewed when a safety, security or disciplinary incident occurs.
• Recordings may be shared with law-enforcement or competent authorities where legally required.
• CCTV footage is retained according to operational requirements, storage capacity and applicable obligations.
• Cameras are not intended to be placed in areas where individuals reasonably expect complete privacy.

The School’s website may use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files stored on a visitor’s device that help a website function, remember preferences and understand usage.

Cookies may be used for:

• Enabling essential website functionality and security.
• Remembering user preferences and form-related choices.
• Measuring website visits, performance and engagement.
• Understanding which pages and information are useful to visitors.
• Supporting embedded maps, videos, social-media content or third-party forms.
• Measuring the effectiveness of admission-awareness campaigns.

Visitors can manage or disable cookies through their browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the operation of some website features.

Manaskriti School does not intend to sell or rent personal information as a commercial database. Information may, however, be shared when reasonably necessary with:

• CBSE, education departments, examination bodies and government authorities.
• Authorised School employees, educators, counsellors and administrators.
• ERP, cloud-hosting, website, communications and IT-support providers.
• Payment gateways, banks, auditors and financial-service providers.
• Transport, healthcare, insurance, security and activity-service providers.
• Event organisers, competition hosts and educational partners.
• Professional advisers, auditors, legal representatives and consultants.
• Courts, law-enforcement agencies or regulatory authorities when legally required.
• Emergency responders where disclosure is necessary to protect health or safety.

Service providers are expected to process information only for authorised purposes and to maintain appropriate confidentiality and security safeguards.

The School may use external service providers for website hosting, forms, analytics, advertisements, communication, video content, payment processing, ERP operations, cloud storage and learning tools.

These services may process information on infrastructure located in India or in other jurisdictions, subject to applicable law, contractual arrangements and the service provider’s own policies.

Parents, students and visitors should review the privacy notices of third-party platforms they access. Manaskriti School is not responsible for the independent privacy practices of external platforms that are not controlled by the School.

The School seeks to use reasonable administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

Safeguards may include:

• Role-based or need-based access to School records.
• Password protection and authentication controls.
• Secure hosting, backups, firewalls and security updates.
• Confidentiality obligations for employees and authorised providers.
• Controlled storage and disposal of physical records.
• Incident-response and data-recovery procedures.
• Periodic review of access rights and digital systems.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely risk-free. While the School takes reasonable precautions, it cannot guarantee absolute security against every cyber threat, technical failure or unauthorised act.

Personal information will ordinarily be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, maintain legitimate educational and administrative records, resolve disputes, safeguard the School community or comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information. For example:

• Admission and enquiry information may be retained for follow-up and administrative purposes.
• Student academic and admission records may be retained as required by educational regulations and institutional recordkeeping needs.
• Fee and financial records may be retained for accounting, audit and taxation purposes.
• Employment records may be retained for statutory, contractual and administrative requirements.
• CCTV recordings may be retained for a limited operational period unless required for an investigation or legal proceeding.
• Website and technical logs may be retained for security, performance and analytical purposes.

When information is no longer required, the School may securely delete, destroy, anonymise or archive it in accordance with applicable requirements.

Subject to applicable law, verification requirements and relevant exemptions, an individual, parent or lawful guardian may request:

• Information about the personal data being processed by the School.
• Correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
• Updating of outdated contact, identity or student information.
• Deletion or erasure of information that is no longer required, where legally permissible.
• Withdrawal of consent where processing depends on consent.
• Clarification regarding how particular information is being used.
• Redressal of a complaint or concern relating to personal data.

Withdrawal of consent will not affect processing already completed lawfully before the withdrawal. Certain information may still need to be retained or processed to meet educational, contractual, safeguarding or legal obligations.

To protect privacy, the School may request reasonable identity, relationship or authority verification before acting on a request. Requests relating to a child should ordinarily be submitted by the child’s parent or lawful guardian.

The School website may contain links to external websites, applications, social-media platforms, payment services, government portals or educational resources.

These external services are operated independently and may follow different privacy practices. Manaskriti School does not control and is not responsible for the content, availability, security or privacy practices of third-party websites.

Users should review the privacy policy and terms of each external platform before submitting personal information.

Manaskriti School may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in law, technology, School practices, digital services or operational requirements.

The revised version will be published on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. Where a change materially affects how personal information is processed, the School may provide an additional notice or seek renewed consent where required.

Visitors, parents and guardians are encouraged to review this page periodically.

For questions, correction requests, consent-related concerns or complaints regarding personal information, please contact Manaskriti School using the details below.