Privacy Policy

1.Introduction

PATHFINDER™ is one of the many other not-for-profit initiatives taken by the Coaching & Training Pakistan Foundation™ (CTPF™) to provide educational and career guidance services to the youth of Pakistan.

“Pathfinder”, “us”, “we”, or “our”, hereinafter referred to as “Service”. Our TERMS & CONDITIONS (hereinafter referred to as “Terms”) govern all use of our Service(s) and together with the PRIVACY POLICY constitutes your agreement with us (“agreement”).

1.1. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors. Our PRIVACY POLICY governs your visit to https://pathfinder.pk/ (hereinafter referred to as “our website”), and explains how we collect, safeguard and disclose information that results from your use of our Service(s).

1.2. We use your data to provide and improve our service(s). By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this PRIVACY POLICY, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning(s) as in our TERMS & CONDITIONS.

1.3. We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2.Collecting personal information

2.1. We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

a)information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including, your IP address, geographical location, browser type, and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;

b)information that you provide to us when registering with our website including your email address;

c)information that you provide when completing your profile on our website, including your name and contact details;

d)information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters, including your name and email address;

e)information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services, including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service use;

f)information relating to any purchases you make of our services or any other transactions that you enter into through our website including your name, address, telephone number, and email address, but not credit card information;

g)information that you post to our website for publication on the internet including your user name and the content of your posts;

h)information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website, including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication;

i)any other personal information that you choose to send to us.

3.Sharing Other’s Personal Information

3.1. Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

4.Using your personal information

4.1. Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

4.2. We may use your personal information to:

a)administer our website and business;

b)personalize our website for you;

c)enable your use of the services available on our website;

d)send you licenses/reports/goods purchased through our website;

e)supply to you services purchased through our website;

f)send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;

g)send you non-marketing commercial communications;

h)send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;

i)send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it, you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter;

j)send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology, you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications;

k)provide third parties with statistical information about our users but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information;

l)deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;

m)keep our website secure and prevent fraud;

n)verify compliance with the TERMS & CONDITIONS governing the use of our website, including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service; and

4.3.If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

4.4. We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.

5.Disclosing personal information

5.1. We may disclose your personal information to, any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

5.2. We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies, this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

5.3. We may disclose your personal information:

a)to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

b)in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

c)in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk;

c)in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk;

e)to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

5.4. Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

6.International data transfers

6.1. Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

6.2. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

6.3. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.

7.Retaining personal information

7.1. This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

7.2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

7.3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

a)to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

b)if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and

c)in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk.

8.Security of your personal information

8.1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

8.2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure, password-and firewall-protected servers.

8.3. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be facilitated and protected by PayMob. To our knowledge, PayMob uses the best available encryption technology to secure your financial transactions.

8.4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

9.Amendments

9.1. We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

9.2. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

10.Your rights

10.1.You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

a)the payment of a fee, currently fixed at PKR. 1000; and

b)the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose, we will usually accept a scanned copy of your Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

b)the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose, we will usually accept a scanned copy of your Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

10.2.We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

10.3.You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

10.3.You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

11.Third-party websites

11.1.Our website may include hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites.

11.2.We have no control over and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

12.Updating information

12.1.Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

13.Cookies

13.1.Our website uses cookies.

13.2.A cookie is a file containing an identifier, a string of letters and numbers that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

13.3.Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

13.4.Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

13.5.We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

13.6.The purposes for which cookies on the website are used, are set out below:

a)we use cookies on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website/track users as they navigate the website/improve the website's usability/analyze the use of the website/administer the website/prevent fraud and improve the security of the website

13.7.Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:

a)in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";

b)in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and

b)in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and

13.8.Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

13.8.Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

13.10.You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:

a)in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

b)in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and

b)in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and

13.11.Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

14. Our details

14.1.This website is owned and operated by Coaching & Training Pakistan Foundation™ (CTPF™).

14.2.We are registered Not for Profit Organization (NPO) under Section 42 from the Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) – Registration No. 0109719, NTN No. 6627443. Our registered office and principal place of business is at 7-Civil Line, Jhelum.

14.3.You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website Contact Us Form, by email to info@pathfinder.pk; info@ctpf.org.pk; or by telephone at +92-330-(CTPF-2873)-000.

14.3.You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website Contact Us Form, by email to info@pathfinder.pk; info@ctpf.org.pk; or by telephone at +92-330-(CTPF-2873)-000.