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Privacy Policy

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In consideration for your agreement to the terms and conditions contained here, the Symbiosis Centre for Behavioural Studies grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Site. User may download material from the Site only for User's own personal, non-commercial use. User may not otherwise copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, hyperlink or commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any material. The burden of determining that use of any information, software or any other content on the Site is permissible rests with User. If you experience any technical difficulty with this website, or have questions, concerns or suggestions regarding this site, please contact the webmaster.


The information that we collect from the members using the site falls into the following general categories:

  • User Provided Data:

Users may provide personally identifiable information to SCBS Website when choosing to participate in the various services available on the website.


  • Cookies:

When visiting SCBS Website , we may send one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. SCBS Website may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the website may not function properly. Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to deliver the advertisements and links that appear on SCBS Blog. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see. SCBS Website has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. SCBS Blog’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.


  • Log data file information:

When users log-in to their SCBS website, our servers may automatically record and archive certain information that web-browsers send whenever visiting a website. These server logs may include information vital to validating the user’s authorization to access the account. Information, such as a web request, internet protocol (the “IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring pages, exit pages and visited URLs, platform type, click counts, pages viewed and in what order, time spent, the date and time of the request, and other important data is necessary to validate and authorize a User’s entry and activity on the website.


Use of Information

Personally identifiable information submitted by a user on SCBS website is used to operate, maintain, and provide features, general and unique, of the website for the user’s use and pleasure.

All personal information, data, or content that you, the user, voluntarily disclose to the website public areas become available to other users and can be collected and used by others. Any content that you submit (the “User Submission”) may be redistributed throughout the Internet and other media channels, and/or may be viewed by the general public through other means not controlled by SCBS website.

SCBS website does use your personally identifiable and certain non-personally identifiable information, such as but not limited to, anonymous user usage data, browser type, cookies, IP addresses, click stream data, and the like, to improve the quality and use designs of the Website through analysis of this data and trends.

We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the SCBS Blog; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.

The site may include links to other websites and provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another website or purchase third party products or services through the site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.


External Links, Content and Third-Party Advertising

SCBS Website is not responsible for the content of external sites, nor are external sites to which links are provided herein necessarily endorsed by SCBS Website. Recommended Links and links to merchant affiliates are provided as additional resources for our visitors, and at the time of review seemed to be suitable. We cannot assure that all the links found on SCBS Website are safe to use.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

One of our third-party advertiser include Google. Google uses DART technology, use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.