Introduction
We, at Student Cover are committed to safeguarding your online privacy and understand the need for appropriate protection of any personal Information you share with us. “Personal Information” refers to any information with which one may identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a home or other physical or virtual address like an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. In general, you can visit Student Covers Web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.
1. Cancellation & Refund Policy Under Indian Health and Travel Insurance Plans:
– Indian Student Health insurance plan
– Travel Pro Insurance plan
– Dental Pro Insurance plan
Above mentioned insurance policy can be cancelled:
1. On the discretion of the facilitator or the insurance company if certain terms are violated.
2. On the request of the customer if certain conditions are met. Following are the concerned conditions:
a. When the Indian health insurance plan is no longer valid for the waiver of the insurance fees of the University from which the insured has got an admit letter.
b. When the customer’s travel plan has been cancelled due to circumstances out of his/her control for e.g due to an international travel ban, concerned visa rejection etc. This is only applicable to Indian insurance plan.
Following are steps involved in case an insured wants a refund due to the cancellation of the insurance plans as per the reason mentioned above:
Step 1: Putting refund request
Insured needs to put an official refund request by sending an email to below email IDs:
a. Student Cover’s generic email ID – info@studentcover.in
b. Respective Student Cover’s representative or contact person’s email ID.
Step 2: Time-frame of refund payment
After the refund request is approved from Student Cover’s end, the refund amount would be processed and aimed to be refunded within 3 weeks of the official refund request.
Step 3: Mode of Refund payment
After the refund request is approved from Student Cover’s end, the refund amount would be processed in the same bank card or bank account from where the payment was made by the insured.
Please note that we have tied up with RBI authorized payment gateways to allow you to make online payments towards your insurance premium amount and is only acting as a mere facilitator and providing assistance to its customers for speedy refunds.
We encourage all our customers to read the insurance policy document and provider’s privacy policy carefully before purchasing any insurance plan.
2. Cancellation Policy Under International Insurance
An insurance policy can be cancelled:
- On the discretion of the facilitator or the insurance company if certain terms are violated.
- On the request of the customer if certain conditions are met. Following are the concerned conditions:
- When the insurance policy is no longer valid for the waiver of the insurance fees of the University for which the insurance policy was intended.
- When the customer’s travel plan has been cancelled due to circumstances out of his/her control. This is only applicable to Indian insurance plans.
Any refunds of the premium amounts already paid resulting from the cancellation of the insurance policy due to above mentioned circumstances, would be paid according to the Refund policy mentioned under Privacy policy.
We encourage all our customers to read the insurance policy document carefully before purchasing any insurance plan.
3. Refund Policy Under International Insurance
Customers have the right to request for a refund in case of cancellation of the insurance policy under certain conditions, when met. In this case, refund of the insurance policy premium amount shall be processed as per the applicable process and procedures followed by the respective insurer/insurance company.
In a general scenario, for an international insurance plan a request for refund would be processed within 2 weeks and the refund amount will be processed in the original mode of payment.
For an Indian insurance policy, all refund payment shall be the sole responsibility of the insurer per the rules and regulations laid down by the IRDAI. It has to be understood that we have tied up with RBI authorized payment gateways to allow you to make online payments towards your insurance premium amount and is only acting as a mere facilitator and providing its assistance to its customers for speedy refunds.
We encourage all our customers to read the insurance policy document carefully before purchasing any insurance plan.
4. IRDA Certificate:
All Indian Insurance Plans are sold as under IRDA Agent registration no: 8299658 Agent Name Kiran Chopra
5. Third Party advertisements/Promotions
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads to the users of the website. These companies may use information relating to the Users visits to the Student Cover website in order to provide customized advertisements to the User. Furthermore, the Website may contain links to other websites that may collect personally identifiable information about the User. The Company/Website is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any of the aforementioned linked websites, and the User expressly acknowledges the same and agrees that any and all risks associated will be borne entirely by the User.
6. Your Consent
By using this Web site, you consent to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and to Student Cover processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where Student Cover collects Personal Information on the Web.
7. Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
8. Updating your information
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our services.
9. Children
Student Cover will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission.
10. Information Sharing and Disclosure
Student Cover does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people (save with your consent) or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Student Cover under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Student Cover communicate with you about offers from Student Cover and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Student Cover terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if Student Cover is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Student Cover will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Student Cover may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria – for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
Student Cover does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Student Cover advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
Student Cover works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you have requested please read our detailed reference links.
11. Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws prevalent in India to protect personal information about you. We seek to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules made there under to ensure the protection and preservation of your privacy.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Student Cover reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification.
Disclaimer
Student Cover does not store or keep credit card data in a location that is accessible via the Internet. Student Cover uses the maximum care as is possible to ensure that all or any data/information in respect of electronic transfer of money does not fall in the wrong hands.
Student Cover shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the users account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards/debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise.
