Privacy Policy



College-canteen provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of this website, located at www.college-canteen.com ("Site" ) or collected through our social networking service, including via SMS, WAP and Instant Messaging ("Service" ). This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason; each version will apply to information collected while it was in place. We will notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy on our Site. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.

By using our Site you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us.

  • 1.Information Collection and Use

  • We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data

    • a. Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views);
    • b. Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services including including information about your use of the products and services that we offer.
    • c. Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters. if you desire to have access to certain restricted sections of the Site, you will be required to become a registered user, and to submit certain personally identifiable information to College-Canteen. This happens in a number of instances, such as when you sign up for the Service, or if you desire to receive marketing materials and information. Personally identifiable information that we may collect in such instances may include your IP address, full user name, password, email address, city, time zone, telephone number, educational qualification, field of interests, and other information that you decide to provide us with, or that you decide to include in your public profile
    • d. Your full user name and your photo, if you decide to upload one, are displayed to people in the College-canteen network to enable you to connect with people on college-canteen, as specified in your privacy settings. Once a member, you may provide additional information in the profile section, including but not limited to your bio, your location, as well as your personal web site, if you have one. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new friends and opportunities in the college-canteen system. If you contact us by email through the Site, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and may use your email address, and any information that you provide to us in your message, to respond to you.
    • e. Once you become a User, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your skills, professional experiences, and networking objectives. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration to become a User is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the College-Canteen system to build and leverage your professional network. Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section that is not personally identifiable may be used in the same manner and extent to which other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used hereunder, including for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service. If you opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of being a User, including receiving ads that are more targeted to your interests
    • f. any other information that you choose to send to us;

      • Cookies

      • 1. Like most websites, College-Canteen uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows College-Canteen to recognize you as a User when you return to the College-Canteen website using the same computer and web browser. If your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use the College-Canteen website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on our website

        One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set once you've logged in to your College-Canteen account. The next time you visit the College-Canteen website, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so you will not need to log in before using the service. In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card number) or to send a message to another User, however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie.

        Additionally, if you log out of the College-Canteen website you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a "session" cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the College-Canteen website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

        We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing User preferences and tracking User trends. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing services to our Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Any information provided to third parties through such cookies will not be personally identifiable but may provide general segment information, e.g. your industry or geographic location, your occupation, or information about your professional or educational background, for greater customization of your user experience. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies or you opt to refuse all cookies, you may not be able to use the College-Canteen website or services. College-Canteen does not store personally identifiable information in the cookies.

      Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer

      • 1. Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the College-canteen web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave College-Canteen. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the College-canteen service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

      • Certain information you provide to College-canteen may reveal, or allow others to identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, religion or other aspects of your private life, and more generally about you. Please be aware that in providing information to College-canteen for the purposes of opening your user account, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and College-canteen User Agreement. The supplying of all such information by you to college-canteen , including all information deemed "sensitive" by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, but please note that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.

      1. Rights to Access, Correct and Eliminate Information About You

      • You have a right to access, modify, correct and eliminate the data about you which has been collected pursuant to your decision to become a User. If you update any of your information, we may keep a copy of the information which you originally provided to us in our archives for uses documented herein.

        We take your rights seriously and encourage you to use them if you deem this to be appropriate. You may exercise these rights by emailing us at privacy@college-canteen.com or writing to us at:

        Naabi-Limited

        Attn: Privacy Policy Issues

        No 16, Rathmore Avenue,

        Tyrrelstown,

        Dublin 15

      Uses of personal information

      Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

      We may use your personal information to:

    • (a) administer the website;

    • (b) improve your browsing experience by personalising the website

    • (c) enable your use of the services available on the website

    • (d) send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website

    • (e) send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you

    • (f) send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications

    • (g) send you email notifications which you have specifically requested

    • (h) send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications

    • (i) provide third parties with statistical information about our users - but this information will not be used to identify any individual user

    • (j) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website

      • College-Canteen is about sharing information with others - friends and people in your networks - while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to friends and networks through College-Canteen. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:

      • 1. College-canteen is an online service dedicated to helping all types of students, professionals, colleges, universities, other corporations, organisations and other agencies more effectively connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on our website is used to help you describe yourself to other Users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by College-canteen from Users (such as, for example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by College-canteen This information can be utilized by College-canteen in such manner as College-canteen , in its sole discretion, deems appropriate

      • 2. College-Canteen will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the College-Canteen website or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. If we send any communications to you via the carrier service with which you have a mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, you understand you will pay any service fees associated with any such access (including text messaging charges for messages to your mobile device). These include a series of welcome emails which help inform new Users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from College-canteen related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another User in your network sends you an opportunity. College-canteen may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into your 'Account & Settings' and amending your email notification choices. If you wish, you can also opt-out of receiving promotional emails, by sending a request to customer_service@collge-canteen.com.

      • 3.Sharing Information with Third Parties

        College-Canteen takes the privacy of Users very seriously. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable information with third parties to carry out your instructions or to provide specific services or information. For instance, we use a credit card processing company to bill Users for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and they are bound by confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.

        College-Canteen offers a "public profile" feature which allows Users to publish portions of their College-Canteen profile, including their "name", but not their "email address" to the public Internet. Users may opt-out of this feature by editing their account and settings, however College-Canteen does not warrant how often third-party search engines will update their cache.

        We may provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of our services to third parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate, including to prospective advertisers on College-Canteen website. We may segment our Users by area of studies, nature of user, (i.e Students, colleges,universities, Science, philisophy, engineering etc.,. ), industry, geographic location, or company. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our Users' activities on the site, please email customer-service@college-canteen.com

      • 4.Teaming with Other Organizations to Offer Combined and Other Services

        College-Canteen may offer our services in connection with other websites (including updates about the college-canteen service) or may team with other online services to give you the combined results of both services or additional services and benefits.

      • 5. We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about college-canteen, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the College-Canteen -specified purposes.
      • 6. We have partnered with YR Host for our dedicated server and maintenance.
      • 7. If you, your friends, or members of your network use any third-party applications developed using the College-Canteen Platform ("Platform Applications"), those Platform Applications may access and share certain information about you with others in accordance with your privacy settings. You may opt-out of any sharing of certain or all information through Platform Applications on the Privacy Settings page. In addition, third party developers who have created and operate Platform Applications ("Platform Developers"), may also have access to your personal information (excluding your contact information) if you permit Platform Applications to access your data. Before allowing any Platform Developer to make any Platform Application available to you, college-canteen requires the Platform Developer to enter into an agreement which, among other things, requires them to respect your privacy settings and strictly limits their collection, use, and storage of your information. However, while we have undertaken contractual and technical steps to restrict possible misuse of such information by such Platform Developers, we of course cannot and do not guarantee that all Platform Developers will abide by such agreements. Please note that College-canteen does not screen or approve Platform Developers and cannot control how such Platform Developers use any personal information that they may obtain in connection with Platform Applications. In addition, Platform Developers may require you to sign up to their own terms of service, privacy policies or other policies, which may give them additional rights or impose additional obligations on you, so please make sure to review these terms and policies carefully before using any Platform Application. You can report any suspected misuse of information through the college-canteen Platform and we will investigate any such claim and take appropriate action against the Platform Developer up to and including terminating their participation in the College-canteen Platform and/or other formal legal action.
      • 8. We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the College-canteen service or using the college-canteen name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
      • 9. We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on college-canteen. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on college-canteen and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
      • 10. If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Collge-canteen business, or individual business units owned by NAABI-LIMITED were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
      • 11. When you use College-Canteen, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items , this information may become publicly available.
      • 12. College Canteen may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by College-canteen
      • 13. Advertisements that appear on College-canteen are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. College-canteen does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on College-canteen unless you choose to share it with them.

        • International data transfers

        Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

        Information which you provide may be transferred to countries including the United States, India, Ireland which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area. In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world. You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information

        Security:-

        College-canteen takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services

        Our Policy towards Children

        The Site is not directed to persons under 15. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact us at customer-service@college-canteen.com We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 15. If we become aware that a child under 15 has provided us with personal identifiable Information, we will delete such information from our files.

        Policy amendments

        We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.