POLICIES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SCHOOL FOR SCHOOL WEBSITE

Online Fee Policies – Privacy Policy:
Spring Meadows Public School considers the protection of your personal information important and shall take necessary care to safeguard your privacy.
If you decide to access the website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and Our Terms and Conditions of use. Our Policy regarding the collection, use and disclosure, if any, of personal information is very strict and we adhere to the best of practices to guard your personal information with care.

Terms and Conditions for Online Fee Submission:

• Online transaction charges are not part of the Fee. The following transaction charges shall be applicable:
  Net Banking / Credit Cards / Debit Cards : As applicable
• All Fee rules as given in the Fee Book shall remain applicable.
• The Fee deposited through Credit Card/Debit Card/Net Banking will normally reach the school’s bank account after 1-2 days. It is the sole responsibility of the candidate to ensure that fee is deposited well in time.
• Spring Meadows Public School does not warranty the availability of online Fee Payment System every time. Spring Meadows Public School will not be responsible for fine exemption if the last day student fee transition fails. We strongly advice that submit the fee through Offline or Online Payment System before the last fee day comes.

Payment Gateway Disclaimer
Bill payments by you to SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL may be made through an electronic and automated collection and remittance service (the “Payment Gateway”) hosted through HDFC Bank. The Payment Gateway service is provided to you in order to facilitate access to view and pay your bills online. Spring Meadows Public School makes no representation of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the Payment Gateway. You expressly agree that your use of this online payment service is entirely at your own risk.

Limitation of Liability

• SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL has made this service available to you as a matter of convenience. SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL expressly disclaims any claim or liability arising out of the provision of this service. You agree and acknowledge that you shall be solely responsible for your conduct and thatSPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL reserves the right to terminate your rights to use the service immediately.
• In no way shall SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL , the Payment Service Providers or its affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, data or other intangible losses arising out of or in connection with the access to, use of, or reliance on the Payment Gateway services.
• SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL and the Payment Service Providers assumes no liability whatsoever for any monetary or other damage suffered by you on account of (i) the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the Payment Gateway; or (ii) any interruption or errors in the operation of the Payment Gateway.
• You shall indemnify and hold harmless SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any claim or demand, or actions.
• We / our Employees are not liable for any loss or damages arising from your use of, or reliance upon the information contained on our website, or any failure to comply with the terms and conditions where such failure is due to circumstance beyond our reasonable control.
• If we waive any rights available to us under terms and conditions on an occasion, this does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other or subsequent occasion.
• If any part of terms and conditions are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining terms and conditions shall nevertheless continue in full force.
• You agree, understand and confirm that personal data including without limitation details relating to debit card/credit card transmitted over the Internet is susceptible to misuse, theft and/or fraud and that SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL has no control over such matters.
• Although all reasonable care has been taken towards guarding against unauthorized use of any information transmitted by you, SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL does not represent or guarantee that the use of the payment gateway will not result in theft and/or unauthorized use of data over the Internet.
• SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL , the Payment Service Providers and its affiliates and associates shall not be liable, at any time, for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of information contained at this site.
• To register with this website or to use certain services and tools, you will be given a student id for logging in.

Personal Information
To the extent required or permitted by law, we may also collect, use and disclose personal information in connection with security related or law enforcement investigations or in the course of cooperating with authorities or complying with legal requirements.
If you e-mail us, you are voluntarily releasing information to us. Your e- mail address will be used by Spring Meadows Public School to respond to you.
In addition, we may have collected similar information from you in the past. By entering this website you are consenting to the terms of our information privacy policy and to our continued use of previously collected information. By submitting your personal information to us, you will be treated as having given your permission for the processing of your personal data as set out in this policy.

Your information will be managed in accordance with the law, including the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2013.

Email, mailing lists, and other services:
When you request information or services, we use your email address and any other information you give us to provide you with the information or services you’ve requested, including sending transaction confirmations, acknowledgements and alerts. Mail confirming your transactions or any changes to your account information, will be sent as per Spring Meadows Public School prevailing operating policy and with a view to enhance the security of the service offering.
In respect of other information or services sent to your email address, we will continue to provide these until you ask us to stop (by using the “unsubscribe” instructions provided on each email and/or the Web site where you signed up and/or as we otherwise provide), or until the information or service is no longer available. We will not use your email address or other information to provide you with any unsolicited message or information (unless the message or information is part of the service you are requesting)

Non-personal information
At this web site, information sent by your web browser, may be automatically collected. This information typically includes your domain name (the site after the [at] in your e- mail address). It may also contain your user name (the name before the [at] in your e- mail address). Other examples of information collected by our server include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect the visitor’s computer to the Internet, operating system and platform, the average time spent on our website, pages viewed, information searched for, access times, websites visited before and a visitor visits our website, and other relevant statistics.

Disclaimer
This website is provided to you on an “as is” and “where-is” basis, without any warranty. Spring Meadows Public School , for itself and any third party providing materials, services, or content to this website, makes no representations or warranties, either express, implied, statutory or otherwise of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non- infringement of third party rights, with respect to the website, the information or any products or services to which the information refers. Spring Meadows Public School will not be liable to you or any third party for any damages of any kind, including but not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, arising from or connected with the site, including but not limited to, your use of this site or your inability to use the site, even if Spring Meadows Public School has previously been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Availability
Spring Meadows Public School controls and operates this website from India and makes no representation that the materials are appropriate or will be available for use in other locations. If you use this website from outside the India, you are entirely responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws.
Information that Spring Meadows Public School publishes on the World Wide Web may contain references or cross references to Spring Meadows Public School programs and services that are not announced or available in your country. Such references do not imply that Spring Meadows Public School intends to announce such programs or services in your country.
Third Party Interaction and Links to Third Party Sites
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
We are not responsible for the content of any linked website and cannot take responsibility for the consequences of your using the information or services on linked websites. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time.
Our website does not endorse or favour any specific commercial product or business. A link to a third-party website does not imply endorsement; you must use your own judgment to decide whether the information or service on that website is suitable for your needs. If a website is not linked to ours, this does not mean or imply that it is unsatisfactory. The linked websites are regularly reviewed in the light of customer usage and feedback.
Websites that we link to may have terms and conditions that are different from ours. Do not assume that our terms and conditions apply to other websites.

Third Party Interaction and Links to Third Party Sites
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
We are not responsible for the content of any linked website and cannot take responsibility for the consequences of your using the information or services on linked websites. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time.
Our website does not endorse or favour any specific commercial product or business. A link to a third-party website does not imply endorsement; you must use your own judgment to decide whether the information or service on that website is suitable for your needs. If a website is not linked to ours, this does not mean or imply that it is unsatisfactory. The linked websites are regularly reviewed in the light of customer usage and feedback.
Websites that we link to may have terms and conditions that are different from ours. Do not assume that our terms and conditions apply to other websites.

Terms and conditions related to e-payment
The following terms and conditions will apply to the user of SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL online payment gateway service offered through the SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL website. Please go through the conditions carefully and if acceptable, you may register and transact for e-payment on SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL Website.
SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal procedures of Government of India, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL right to comply with law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of this Website or information provided to or gathered by SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL with respect to such use. You agree that providing details of your use of the Website by SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL to regulators or police or to any other third party, or in order to resolve disputes or complaints which relate to the Website, is SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL complete discretion.
If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth herein, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.
This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parent and SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL with respect to e-payment on SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL Website and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral, or written, between the parent and SPRING MEADOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL with respect to this Website. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.
The records of Spring Meadows Public School and/or the Payment Service Provider, generated by the transactions arising out of the use of the Service, including the time the transaction is recorded shall be conclusive proof of the genuineness and accuracy of the transaction.
The services of e-payment of bills are absolutely free for Spring Meadows Public School parents for all types of transactions. Spring Meadows Public School l reserves the right to charge and recover from the User, fee for availing the Service.

Refund / Charge Back Transaction:
In the event of charge back or refund of the amount to the parent for any reason, the amount will be refunded to the parent through Cheque only and no cash refunds will be made.