Privacy Policy

Welcome to Defence Study Circle. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, use our services, or interact with us.

By accessing or using our services, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with you ("Personal Information"). This includes:

• **Personal Identifiers:** Name, email address, phone number, postal address.
• **Educational Information:** Course interests, academic background.
• **Payment Information:** (Processed securely by third-party payment processors like Stripe; we do not store full credit card details).
• **Usage Data:** Information about how you access and use our services, such as IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and time spent on pages.
• **Communication Data:** Records of your communications with us, including emails and chat messages.

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our services.
• To process your transactions and manage your orders.
• To send you transactional emails, such as payment confirmations and course updates.
• To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support.
• To personalize your experience and deliver relevant content and course recommendations.
• To monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve our services.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues or fraudulent activities.
• To comply with legal obligations.

We may share your information with third parties in the following situations:

• **Service Providers:** With third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf (e.g., payment processing, hosting, analytics).
• **Legal Requirements:** If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
• **Business Transfers:** In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• **With Your Consent:** We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
• The right to rectify your information if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object to our processing of your personal data.
• The right to request the restriction of our processing of your personal data.
• The right to data portability.
• The right to withdraw consent at any time where Defence Study Circle relied on your consent to process your personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: info@defencestudycircle.com
• By visiting this page on our website: Contact Us