Welcome to BGI, the official school and institution management application of Buddha Group of Institutions ("BGI", "we", "us", or "our").
BGI is designed to provide students, parents/guardians, teachers, staff, and authorized administrators with access to institution-related services and information.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, protect, and disclose information when you use the BGI mobile application.
By using the BGI application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
Depending on your role and the features you use, BGI may collect and process the following information.
The application may contain or process:
For parents or guardians, the application may process:
For authorized teachers and staff, BGI may process:
To provide secure access to the application, we may process:
Information collected through BGI may be used for legitimate educational and administrative purposes, including:
BGI may send notifications related to the school or institution, including:
Notifications may be delivered through push notifications, SMS, WhatsApp, email, or other communication services configured by Buddha Group of Institutions.
BGI may provide attendance management features.
Attendance information may include:
Attendance information is used solely for authorized educational and administrative purposes.
The application may request camera or photo-library access for features such as:
Camera or photo access will only be requested when required by the relevant feature.
If QR-code functionality is enabled, BGI may use the device camera to scan QR codes for authorized purposes, such as attendance or identification.
QR-code information may be processed together with the relevant student or staff account and attendance information.
If a location-based feature is enabled in BGI, the application may request access to device location information.
Location information may be used for authorized institution-related features such as attendance verification or location-based services.
If location access is not required for a particular feature, the application will not request it for that purpose.
BGI may provide online fee-payment functionality through third-party payment service providers.
When a payment is made, we may receive information such as:
Payment service providers may process payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.
BGI may use third-party push notification services, including Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), to send notifications to registered devices.
These services may process device-related identifiers and technical information necessary to deliver notifications.
BGI may use third-party communication service providers to send institution-related communications.
These communications may include:
The information shared with these providers will be limited to what is reasonably necessary to deliver the communication.
BGI may use third-party service providers to operate and maintain certain application features.
These may include providers for:
Third-party providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services and may be subject to their own privacy policies.
Buddha Group of Institutions does not sell or rent personal information.
Information may be accessible to authorized parties when necessary for legitimate educational or administrative purposes, including:
Access to information is intended to be controlled according to user roles and permissions.
BGI may process information relating to students who are children or minors.
The application is intended for use in an educational environment by students, parents/guardians, teachers, staff, and authorized administrators.
Student information is collected and processed for legitimate educational, administrative, safety, attendance, communication, and institutional purposes.
Parents/guardians or authorized institutional representatives may contact BGI regarding questions or requests concerning a student's personal information.
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information from unauthorized:
Security measures may include:
However, no internet-based service or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for:
Certain educational and administrative records may need to be retained for longer periods based on institutional or legal requirements.
Users may request deletion or correction of personal information where applicable.
However, certain records, including academic, attendance, fee, examination, and administrative records, may need to be retained where required for legitimate institutional or legal purposes.
To request account or personal-data deletion, please contact Buddha Group of Institutions using the contact information provided below.
We may require verification of the identity and authorization of the requester before processing a deletion request.
Subject to applicable laws and institutional requirements, users may have the right to:
Requests may be submitted to our official contact address.
If advertising functionality is introduced in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated as appropriate.
The BGI application may contain links or integrations to external websites or third-party services.
Buddha Group of Institutions is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services that are not operated by BGI.
Users are encouraged to review the privacy policies of those third-party services.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time because of changes to:
Any updated Privacy Policy will be made available through the BGI application or the official BGI website.
The Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Policy will indicate when the policy was last updated.
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact: