Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Overview

Welcome to Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Pattan (accessible from https://itipattan.com). As a premier government vocational institution governed by the Directorate of Skill Development, Jammu & Kashmir, one of our main priorities is the privacy and digital safety of our trainees, applicants, faculty, and site visitors.

This Privacy Policy document details the protocols governing how information is gathered, recorded, and processed when navigating our portal. If you have any inquiries or require further details concerning our privacy practices, please contact our administrative desk at itipattannew@gmail.com.

2. Consent

By accessing and using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to abide by its terms. If you do not agree with any provision of this policy, please discontinue use of this site.

3. Information We Collect

We collect information in several distinct ways:

• Voluntarily Submitted Information: When you contact us directly via our Contact Us form, email us, or submit admission queries, we may receive personal contact details such as your full name, email address, telephone number, and the specific contents and attachments of your message.
• Academic and Trainee Data: Academic materials, trade syllabus downloads, and official exam results published on this portal comply with institutional disclosure norms under the Skill Development Department, J&K.
• Technical Log Data: Like most standard web servers, our hosting environment records log files automatically when visitors navigate the site.

4. Log Files

Government ITI Pattan follows standard procedure regarding the use of log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information to optimize portal performance.

5. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Government ITI Pattan uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, UI accessibility settings (such as dark/light contrast), and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other technical parameters.

7. Third-Party Advertising Partners

Some of the advertisers and analytical partners on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners include:

• Google AdSense — Google Advertising & Privacy Guidelines

These third-party ad servers or ad networks employ technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are utilized in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Government ITI Pattan, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note: Government ITI Pattan has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

8. Managing and Disabling Cookies

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. Detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites:

• Google Chrome Cookie Settings
• Mozilla Firefox Cookie Settings
• Apple Safari Cookie Settings
• Microsoft Edge Cookie Settings

9. Your Data Protection Rights

In accordance with India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 as well as international frameworks such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), every user is entitled to the following rights:

• The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data held by the institution.
• The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain statutory guidelines.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact our administrative desk.

10. Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Government ITI Pattan does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

11. Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can reach us through any of the following channels: