Website policies
Thank you for visiting the website of the Clinical Studies and Trials Unit (CSTU) under the Division of Development Research at ICMR. We respect your privacy and consider it an important element of our business. Our privacy policy is straightforward: We do not collect personal information about you when you visit our website unless you volunteer to provide that information to us. This is broadly how we handle the information we gather.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store the following information:
- The name of the domain from which you access the Internet
- The date and time you access our site
- The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site
We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an email, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through our website, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us provide you with information or material that you request. If provided, personally identifiable information is maintained in a database that is regularly purged.
Links to Other Sites
Our website has links to many other websites. When you go to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of that site. ICMR cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided there.
Copyright Policy
Material featured on this Website may be reproduced free of charge. However, the material has to be reproduced accurately and not to be used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Wherever the material is being published or issued to others, the source must be prominently acknowledged. However, the permission to reproduce this material shall not extend to any material which is identified as being copyright of a third party. Authorization to reproduce such material must be obtained from the departments/copyright holders concerned.
Hyperlinking Policy
1. Links to external websites/portals
At many places in this website, you shall find links to other websites/portals. The
links have been placed for your convenience. ICMR is not responsible for the contents
and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views
expressed in them. Mere presence of the link or its listing on this Portal should not be
assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all
the time and we have no control over availability of linked pages.
2. Links to ICMR -Website by other websites
We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on this site
and no prior permission is required for the same. However, we would like you to inform
us about any links provided to this Portal so that you can be informed of any changes or
updations therein. Also, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your
site. The pages belonging to this site must load into a newly opened browser window of
the User.
Archive Policy
Each of the content components that is valid for a particular period of time is accompanied by a validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known ie, the content is stated to be perpetual. Under no circumstances, any content is to be displayed on the portal after the validity date.
Website Monitoring Plan
The ICMR , the development team and National Government Cloud (NCG) team will monitor the ICMR website periodically to address and fix the quality and comparability issues namely, performance, functionality, broken links, traffic analysis and feedback from visitors.
Linking to a Website
ICMR website links to other websites that provide health information. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
Questions
If you have any questions or concerns about the ICMR online policy for this site or its implementation, please contact us at [intent.icmr@gmail.com]