whatnextbuddy.com requires its users to submit certain personal information such as name, email address, age, home town, present location, personal interests etc to validate users and offer them quality information and services. Our website also accumulates other information such as the user’s professional interests, gender, education and occupation etc (which is optional) in order to assist users in finding appropriate disciplines and universities that offer suitable courses. Whatnextbuddy.com is also a tool which enables its users to communicate and share information with each other.
It is mandatory for our website to log non-personally-identifiable information including ip address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type of the users who visit our site. The data gathered, is used to manage and coordinate the overall performance of the website and improvise if required. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with the third-parties to provide better services and advertisements to members. The user’s ips are tracked to monitor in general and security reasons.
Email addresses are used to send notifications related to the service. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service etc.Our website enables its users to create and maintain blogs regarding respective topics, so it has utmost participation and the website becomes an interactive one. For this purpose, the users are again required to register. The blogs and other interactive sections of the website will be arbitrated constantly to avoid violations and controversies.
To improve the quality of the site for our users, we may use "cookies", or similar electronic tools to get information to assign each visitor an exclusive, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user's individual interests using the Identified Computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser, if you click on their ads, something which is not under out control.Whatnextbuddy.com includes links to other websites such as institutions, universities and so on. Such sites are maintained by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our site, any information you provide in the other sites is governed by the privacy policy of the respective site you are visiting, which may be different from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites through a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.
All information gathered on this site is securely stored within the site’s controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. Even though our security system is an effective one, it is a face that no security system is impassable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. The information that you share in this website through blogs and other mediums, are obviously visible to the other members of the website.However new media (internet) is a widely growing medium. We may modify our privacy policy from time to time to incorporate future changes, in case of launching new domains etc. However, our use of any information we accumulate will always be akin to the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.