Francis Xavier Engineering College (FXEC) is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust with respect to your privacy.  Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our practices about how we collect, use and share your personal information.

About our privacy policy

This privacy policy applies when you visit or use our websites, apps and other services, including events, that refer or link to this privacy policy (each, a “Service”).  This policy may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms or notices provided to you. The FXEC company that owns or administers the Service, as identified therein, is the primary controller of your personal information provided to, or collected by or for, the Service.

Information we collect

We collect information about you in three ways: directly from your input, from third-party sources, and through automated technologies.

Information you provide to us

The types of personal information that we collect directly from you depends on the content and features of the Service you use and how you otherwise interact with us and may include:

• Contactdetails, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone numberand social media handle;
• Accountlogin credentials, such as usernames and passwords, password hints andsimilar security information;
• Otheraccount registration and profile information, including educational,professional and other background information, such as your field ofstudy, current position, practice area and areas of interests, ORCID IDand photo;
• Contentthat you upload and share or store in your account, such as annotations,comments, contributions and replies;
• Paymentinformation, such as a credit or debit card number;
• Informationthat you communicate to us, such as questions or information you send tocustomer support;
• Data thatyou provide to us as part of interacting with the Service, such as yourfavorites and search queries; and/or
• Communicationspreferences, such as your preferred language and the frequency, type andformat of the alerts you sign up to receive.

Data from your institution

We may obtain information about you from the institution with which you are employed or affiliated in order to activate and manage your access to and use of the institution’s subscription to the Service, including:

• Contactdetails, such as your name and institutional email address, postal addressand phone number;
• Otheraccount registration information, such as job title; and/or
• Institutionaluser ID.

Data from other sources

We also may obtain contact details and other information about you from other entities and from third parties, including:

• Socialnetworks when that you grant permission to the Service to access your dataon one or more networks;
• Serviceproviders that help us determine a location in order to customize certainproducts to your location;
• Partnerswith which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketingactivities; and/or
• Publicly-availablesources and data suppliers from which we obtain data to validate orsupplement the information we hold.

Device and usage data

The Service may automatically collect information about how you and your device interact with the Service, such as:

• Computer,device and connection information, such as IP address, browser type andversion, operating system and other software installed on your device,unique device identifier and other technical identifiers, error reportsand performance data;
• Usage data,such as the features you used, the settings you selected, URL click streamdata, including date and time stamp and referring and exit pages, andpages you visited on the Service;
• For educational Services, the course modules and test questions you view,answer or complete; and/or
• For location-aware Services, the physical location of your device.

We collect this data through our servers and the use of cookies and other technologies. You can control cookies through your browser's settings and other tools.  However, if you choose to block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, login, or access certain parts or make full use of the Service. For more details, visit the cookie notice of the Service.

How we use your information ?

We are committed to delivering a relevant and useful experience to you. Depending on how you interact with us and the Service, we use your personal information to:

• Provide, activate and manage your access to and use of the Service;
• Process and fulfill a request, order, download, subscription or other transaction;
• Offer you customized content and other personalization to make the Service moreefficient for you and more relevant to your interests and geography;
• Enhance and improve the Service, such as add new content and features;
• Notify you about changes, updates and other announcements related to the Service;
• Deliver targeted advertisements, promotional messages, and other informationrelated to the Service and to your interests;
• Provide technical, product and other support and help to keep the Service working,safe and secure; and/or
• Identifyusage trends and develop data analysis, including for the purposes ofresearch, audits, reporting and other business operations, such as to payroyalties and license fees to third-party content providers, determine theeffectiveness of our promotional campaigns, evaluate our businessperformance, or in other ways pursuant to a customer agreement.

We may also use your personal information to:

• Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments or concerns;
• Conduct and administer user testing and surveys as well as sweepstakes, competitions and similar promotions;
• Provide you with relevant promotional messages and other information about products, events and services of ours, our group companies and third parties such associeties and sponsors;
• Enhance and improve our products, events and services and develop new ones; and/or
• Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Sharing of your information

We share your personal information in the following ways and contexts.

Your institution

If you access the Service through a subscription administered by your institution, your personal information and certain usage data gathered through the Service, such as the number of items you downloaded, any fee-based items you accessed, and test scores, may be accessed by or shared with the administrators authorized by your institution for the purposes of usage analysis, subscription management, course management and testing and remediation.  If your institution is a corporation or other business entity, additional usage data, such as the types of records you viewed and the number of searches you ran, also may be shared for the purposes of cost attribution and departmental budgeting.
We may also disclose to your institution or other third parties non-personally identifiable information, such as anonymous usage data reports and aggregated information, subject to any applicable legal or contractual obligations.

Our group companies and service providers

Depending on the Service provided, we share your personal information with our:

• Affiliates,trading names and divisions within the FXEC group of companies (for a list, visit )and certain RELX Group companies that provide technology, customer serviceand other shared services functions; and/or
• Suppliersand service providers, including editors, reviewers, payment processors,customer support, email service providers, event venues and serviceproviders, mailing houses, shipping agents and IT service providers;

to process the information as necessary to provide the Service, complete a transaction or fulfill your request or otherwise on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Your choices

We may also share your personal information with our group companies and with sponsors, joint venture partners and other third parties, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee, application host or publisher, such as societies, that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you as determined by your choices in managing your communications preferences and other settings.
The Service may let you post and share personal information, comments, messages, materials and other content. Any such information that you disclose publicly or in discussion fora in the Service may be collected and used by others, may be indexed by search engines, and might not be able to be removed.  Please be careful when disclosing personal information in these public areas.

Legal reasons

We also will disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:

• meet anyapplicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;
• detect,investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues; and/or
• protect therights, property or safety of FXEC, our users, employees or others;

and as part of a corporate transaction, such as a transfer of assets to or an acquisition by or merger with another company.

Your personal account

If you create a personal user account on ScienceDirect, Scopus, Mendeley, ClinicalKey or another Service listed , you can sign in with the same credentials to all of them.
We will share your usage activity, preferences and other information amongst these and related FXEC services, like bepress and PlumX, to help you improve your productivity. For example, ScienceDirect may recommend better content for you based on your Mendeley library content and the abstracts you read on Scopus, and Mendeley may present you a better tailored content feed based on your ScienceDirect and Scopus activity.

Administrator data

If you are an administrator of an institution with a subscription to a Service, we will use your details to communicate with you about your institution’s subscription and related services. If you supply us contact information of your colleagues, we may include a reference to you when we contact those individuals with communications about the Service.

Your communications preferences

You can customize and manage your communications preferences and other settings when you register with the Service, by updating your account features and preferences, by using the “opt-in/out” or subscribe/unsubscribe mechanisms or other means provided within the communications that you receive from us or by contacting us.  We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Service whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating your information

The Service may allow registered users to directly access their account information and make corrections or updates at any time.

Keeping such information up to date is solely the responsibility of the user. Registered users may also close their account directly through the Service or by contacting the Service’s customer support.
You have the right under European and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as may be applicable, to request free of charge:

• Access toand correction and deletion of your personal information;
• Restrictionof our processing of your personal information, or to object to ourprocessing; and/or
• Portabilityof your personal information.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the contact address provided below. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to verify your identity.

Data retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Service and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.

Data security

We take precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction through the use of appropriate technical and organizational measures.

Changes

We will update this privacy policy from time to time.  Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice through the Service or by other means.

Contact

If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact:
Editor-in-Chief
SAJAES
Francis Xavier Engineering College
Vannarpettai
Tirunleveli – 627003
Tamilnadu
India