UPRETI FOUNDATION

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 12, 2026

1. Introduction

The UPRETI FOUNDATION TRUST ("we", "our", or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to strictly protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of our website, applications, and services. By using our website, you expressly consent to the data practices described in this statement.

2. Information We Collect

We collect several types of strictly necessary information from and about users of our website, including:

  • Personal Data: Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number, collected when you submit contact forms or scholarship applications.
  • Application Data: Academic records, financial information, essays, and references submitted voluntarily for the sole purpose of scholarship evaluation.
  • Usage Details: Information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our website, and usage details collected automatically through cookies and tracking technologies.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us strictly to:

  • Present our website and its contents to you.
  • Evaluate and process scholarship applications and UFT Academy enrollment requests.
  • Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it (e.g., responding to inquiries).
  • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts or terms.

Under no circumstances does the UPRETI FOUNDATION TRUST sell, rent, or lease its applicant or user lists to third parties.

4. Data Security & Retention

We have implemented strict security measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Application data for rejected candidates is securely purged in accordance with our internal data retention schedules.

5. Third-Party Disclosure

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties except as necessary to evaluate your scholarship application (e.g., external review board members who are strictly bound by non-disclosure agreements), comply with any court order, law, or legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the UPRETI FOUNDATION TRUST.

6. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the website home page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

7. Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: hello@upreti.in.