Privacy Policy

MapsforUPSC recognizes the importance of maintaining your privacy and is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information while using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

This privacy policy sets out how MapsforUPSC uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this website. By visiting and/or using our website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Contact information such as Name and Email Address submitted by you through opt-in form, contact form and other forms on our website
  • Information you post in a public space on our website or on a third-party social media plugins on our website
  • Information about your IP address and the browser you’re using. 
  • Other information relevant to visitor’s surveys and/or our contents quality improvement

 

How We Use Your Information

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with better quality contents and better experience with us , and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping
  • To respond to your feedbacks, suggestions and queries
  • To send you promotional communications. These may include the deals email, alerts related to new services, social notifications, surveys, or other newsletters depending on your settings. You may opt-out of receiving such information at any time: such marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.”
  • We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
  • We may use your information to customize your experience with us. This could include displaying content based upon your preferences
  • We may use information for security purposes. We may use them to protect our contents, our visitors, or our website
  • We may share information with third parties who perform services on our behalf and help us in the smooth running of our website
  • We may share information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law or to protect ourselves. We may also share information if a government agency or investigatory body requests or when we are investigating potential fraud

 

Cookies

We may log information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on MapsforUPSC.

You can typically remove and reject cookies from MapsforUPSC with your browser settings. For step-by-step instructions, please check your browser’s help section. Here are links for popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our website looks and works for you.

 

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a service which collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. To learn more about the information collected by Google Analytics, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

Social Plugins

We use various Social Media plugins such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. to help user share our contents and/or comment on our posts and/or follow us on those Social Media platforms.

We do not have control on how these platforms interact with you or collect and use your data.

These Plugins may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction correlating your Social Media account with whatever action you take within the interface if you are logged into that Social Media Platform. For more information about how these data may be used, please see data privacy policy for the platforms that you may use. Links for few important ones are given below:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

 

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

 

Affiliate Links

Some of the links in our website may be affiliate links. That means, if you click on those links and buy products from that website, we get a small commission from it. However, no additional amount will be charged to you for the commission we receive.

 

Third-Party or Other Websites

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

 

Updates To This Policy

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

This policy was last updated on February 7, 2025.

 

Jurisdiction

If you choose to visit this website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Policy and the website’s Terms of Use. In addition to the foregoing, any disputes arising under this Policy shall be governed by the laws of India.

 

Contact

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact MapsforUPSC at contact(at)mapsforupsc(dot)com. You may also fill out the contact form given on the contact-us page to send us your message.

 

Copyright

Copyright © 2025 MapsforUPSC | All Rights Reserved

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.