Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 28, 2024
PRIVACY POLICY
ANY CAPITALIZED TERM USED BUT NOT DEFINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY SHALL HAVE THE MEANING ATTRIBUTED TO IT IN OUR TERMS OF USE.
We, Winspire Educational Solutions Private Limited (“Edtex or EDTEX”), are committed to respect the privacy of every User who shares information or data with Us and We highly value the trust placed by You in Us. That’s why We insist upon the highest standards for secure transactions and User information privacy. Please read the following statement to learn about Our information gathering and dissemination practices.
Your privacy protection is important to Us and We strive to take due care and protection of the information, We receive from You, the User. In this regard, We adhere to the various governing laws such as a. Information Technology Act, 2000 and b. TheInformation Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures andSensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 c. Digital Data Protection Act,2023 and all other Applicable laws.
This Privacy Policy ("PrivacyPolicy") explains how We collect, use, share, disclose, disseminate and protect Personal Information about the Users of the Services as per the above-mentioned laws, particularly when You use Our Website for availing the services offered and provided by Edtex. We created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate Our commitment to the protection of your privacy and personal information. Your use of and access to the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and Our Terms of Use.
Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure You are aware of any changes, it is suggested to review this policy periodically.
By visiting the Website You agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If You do not agree please do not use or access Our Website.
By mere use of the Website, You expressly consent to Our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Data Collected
During the course of your usage of Our services, Wemay collect information about You so that We can best meet your needs. Incertain cases, We may use your contact information to send You informationabout any new or relevant services.
We collect your Information in the following mannersas listed below:
(a)Information You Provide To Us-
i.Personal Information:
“Personal Information” is that information which can be used to directly or indirectly identify You and includes your name, mobile number, email id, address, Job title and University You belong or represent. However, any data/information relating to an individual that is freely available or accessible in the public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005, or any other law shall not qualify asPersonal Information.
By signing up on the Website or proceeding to the use the Website, and / or using Our Services You represent that You voluntarily provide Us with Personal Information and consent to their collection, use, and disclosure in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You also represent that You are duly authorised by any third party whose information You share with Us. We shall act as per your representation of authority and shall not make any independent enquiries to ascertain the veracity of your authorisation. In the event You do not have sufficient authorisation You shall be solely responsible for your acts and omissions including sharing of information with Us by You and the consequential processing and actions taken by Us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may collect your Personal Information throughvarious forms filled by You in various places including demo registrationforms, contact Us forms, or when You otherwise interact with Us. Some of thefields that may be/are captured are as following:-
a. Name,
b. Email,
c. Mobile Phone Number and
d. Address (including pin code)
(b)Information We collect as You access and use Our Services:
In addition to any Personal Information or other information that You choose to submit to Us, We may use a variety of technologies that automatically (or passively) collect certain information whenever You visit or interact with the Services (“Usage Information”).This Usage Information may include the browser that You are using, the URL that referred You to Our Services, all of the areas within Our Services that You visit, and the time of day, among other information. We may use UsageInformation for a variety of purpose, including to enhance or otherwise improve the information Services. In addition, We collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for your computer, mobile or other device used to access the Services (any “Device”). A DeviceIdentifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access the Services, and Our computers identify your Device by its DeviceIdentifier. Usage Information may be non-identifying or may be associated with You.Whenever We associate Usage Information or a Device Identifier with your PersonalInformation, We will treat it as Personal Information.
A few of the methods that may be used by Us to collect your Usage Information include, without limitation, the following (and subsequent technology and methods hereafter developed):
i. Cookies
A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to access the Services. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a Device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built-in to or downloaded by You to your Device. Cookies and Flash Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, remembering You and your preferences and tracking your visits to Our Website. Cookies work by assigning a number to the User that has no meaning outside of the assigning Website. The cookies do not contain any of your personally identifiable information.
If You do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, You may choose to disable or control the same by setting a preference within your Device. However, if You choose to disable cookies on your Device, some features of the Services may not function properly or may not be able to customize the delivery of information to You.
You should be aware that Edtex cannot control the use of cookies (or the resulting information) by third-parties, and use of third party cookies is not covered by Our Privacy Policy.
ii.Embedded Scripts
An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services, such as the links You click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from Our web server and is active only while You are connected to the Services, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.
iii.Communication triggered from User's End:
We strive to make sure that Our User's experience exceeds the expectations. There are many ways to reach Us i.e. via phone, e-mail, chat and other social media channels. Once You initiate a communication from your end, to help improve Our Service etiquettes to You, We may catalogue your contact information and correspondence details for later references. This eventually will enable Us to track the responses You provide to Us as a feedback for Our e-mails and also the number of visits that You make to Our Website.This methodology will help Us to improve Our Services.
We retain this information as necessary to resolvedisputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted bylaw.
(c)Information third parties provide about You
We may, from time to time, supplement the information We collect about You through Our Website with outside records from third parties in order to enhance Our ability to serve You, to tailor Our content and to offer You opportunities to avail services that We believe may be of interest to You. We may combine the information We receive from those sources with information We collect through Our Services. In those cases, We will apply thisPrivacy Policy to any Personal Information received, unless We have disclosed otherwise.
(d)Information collected by Website
Our Services are primarily provided through the Website.You agree that We may collect and use technical data and related information,including but not limited to, technical information about your device, systemand application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically tofacilitate the provision Services to You (if any).
We may use information automatically collected by thein the following ways:
i. To operate and improve Our Website, other Services and tools.
ii. To create aggregated and anonymized information to determine which Website features are most popular and useful to Users, and for other statistical analyses.
iii. To prevent, discover and investigate violations of this Privacy Policy or any applicable terms of service or Terms of Use for the Website, and to investigate fraud, charge back or other matters
iv. To customize the content or services on the Website for You, or the communications sent to Yout hrough the Website.
All the information provided to Us by a User, including Personal Information, is voluntary.
You understand that We may use certain information of yours, which has been designated as Personal Information (a) for the purpose of providing You the Services, (b) for commercial purposes and in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, (c) for sale or transfer of such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates (d) for communication purpose so as to provide You a better way of availing Services and for obtaining feedback in relation to the Services provided, (e) debugging customer support related issues (f) for the purpose of contacting You to complete any transaction if You do not complete a transaction after having provided Us with your contact information in the course of completing such steps that are designed for completion of the transaction. Further, We also reserve the right to use information provided by or about the User for the following purposes:
· Contacting Users foroffering new products or services.
· Contacting Users fortaking product and Service feedback.
· Analyzing softwareusage patterns for improving product design and utility.
· Analyzing anonymizedpractice information for commercial use.
We may keep records of electronic communications andtelephone calls received and made for the purpose of administration ofServices, customer support, research and development.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting your Personalinformation or Usage Information is to provide You with an enhanced experienceusing the Services.
We use your information to closely monitor whichfeatures of the Services are used most. Your IP address is used to helpidentify You, but contains no personal information about You.
We will send You strictly service-relatedannouncements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, ifOur Services are temporarily suspended for maintenance, We might send You anemail. Generally, You may not opt-out of these communications, which are notpromotional in nature.
Wefurther use information internally to:
1. Direct Our efforts for service improvement
2. Internal training purpose and data analysis
3. For research, analysis and other business-relatedpurposes, subject to not directly disclosing any of your Personal Information
User declarations:
1. Userunderstands and has the knowledge that his/her Personal Information is beingcollected.
2. Userunderstands and has the knowledge of the purpose for which his/her PersonalInformation is being collected.
3. Userunderstands and has the knowledge of the indented recipients of theinformation.
4. Userhas read and understood this Privacy Policy and all other policies governingthe usage of the Website.
5. Userunderstands and has knowledge that Edtex will collect the information providedby him/her through various means on the Website
6. Edtexretains this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customersupport and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
Disclosures
We may share non-personally identifiable information,such as aggregated User statistics and log data, with third parties forindustry analysis, demographic profiling, to deliver targeted advertising aboutother products or services, or for other business purposes. We do not sell,share, rent or trade the information We have collected about You, includingPersonal Information, other than as disclosed within this Privacy Policy exceptfor the reasons as follows-
(a) Administrativeand Legal Reasons: We cooperate with government and law enforcement officialsand private parties to enforce and comply with the law. Thus, We may access,use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information (including PersonalInformation), including disclosure to third parties such as government or lawenforcement officials or private parties as We reasonably determine isnecessary and appropriate:
· To satisfy anyapplicable law, regulation, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process.
· To protect and/ordefend the terms and conditions for online and mobile Services or otherpolicies applicable to any online and mobile Services, including investigationof potential violations thereof.
· To protect the safety,rights, Our property or security, Our Services or any third party.
· To protect the safetyof the public for any reason.
· To detect, prevent orotherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
· To prevent or stopactivity We may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal,unethical, or legally actionable activity. Further, We may use IP address orother Device Identifiers, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation withthird parties such as copyright owners, internet service providers, wirelessservice providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing suchinformation to third parties, all in Our discretion. Such disclosures may becarried out without notice to You.
(b) Business Transfer: We may share your information,including your Personal Information and Usage Information with Our affiliatesfor internal reasons. We also reserve the right to disclose and transfer allsuch information:
· To a subsequent owner,co-owner or operator of the Services or applicable database.
· In connection with acorporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially allof Our membership interests and/or assets or other corporate change, including,during the course of any due diligence process.
Third Party Links
The Services may contain content that is supplied bya third party. In addition, when You are using the Services, You may bedirected to other Websites or applications that are operated and controlled bythird parties that We do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practicesemployed by any of these third parties. For example, if You click on a banner advertisement,the click may take You away from one of Our Website onto a different web Website.These other web Websites may send their own cookies to You, independentlycollect data or solicit Personal Information and may or may not have their ownpublished privacy policies. We encourage You to note when You leave OurServices and to read the privacy statements of all third-party web Websites orapplications before submitting any Personal Information to third parties.
Change in Information
You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy ofthe information You submit to Us, such as your contact information. If there isany change in your Personal Information, or if You no longer desire OurServices, You may correct, delete inaccuracies, or amend information by makingthe required changes by contacting Us. We will make good faith efforts to makerequested changes in Our then active database as soon as reasonablypracticable.
You may also cancel or modify your communicationsthat You have elected to receive from the Services by following theinstructions contained within an e-mail.
Retention of Information
If You wish that We no longer use your information toprovide You Services, please contact Us.
We will retain your Personal Information and UsageInformation for as long as it is needed to provide You services. We will furtherretain your Personal Information and Usage Information as needed to comply withOur legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, investigate or preventfraud and other inappropriate activity, to enforce Our agreements, and forother business reason. After a period of time, your data may be anonymized andaggregated, and then may be held by Us as long as necessary for Us to provide OurServices effectively, but Our use of the anonymized data will be solely foranalytic purposes.
Confidentiality
The informationcollected through the Website is highly confidential and We undertake to ensureprotective mechanism to prevent any data breach. Further, We shall retain andsubmit your Personal Information to the appropriate authorities and useinformation so collected to facilitate the intended purpose of collecting theinformation in the first place.
Security
Securityof your Personal Information is amongst Our top priorities. We take securityconcerns seriously and always strive to ensure that the security of Our Websiteis never compromised. We at Edtex strive to ensure the security, integrity andprivacy of your Personal Information against unauthorized access or alteration,disclosure or destruction. To facilitate the aforementioned practices, We adoptinternal reviews of the data collection, storage and processing practices andsecurity measures, including appropriate encryption and physical securitymeasures to guard against unauthorized access. We use secured servers for Ourtransactions and information is protected very carefully.
ThePersonal Information and Usage Information We collect is securely stored withinOur databases, and We use standard, industry-wide, commercially reasonablesecurity practices such as encryption, firewalls and SSL (Secure Socket Layers)for protecting your information. However, as effective as encryption technologyis, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of Ourdatabases, nor can We guarantee that information You supply won’t beintercepted while being transmitted to Us over the Internet or wirelesscommunication, and any information You transmit to Us, You do at your own risk.
Your Consent
By using the Website and/ or by providing your information, Youconsent to the collection and use of the information You disclose on the Websitein accordance with this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to yourconsent for sharing your information as per this privacy policy.
If We decide to change Our privacy policy, We will post those changes on thispage so that You are always aware of what information We collect, how We useit, and under what circumstances We disclose it.
Grievance Officer
In accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules made thereunder, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are providedbelow:
Name: Mr. Arun Korupolu;
Phone Number: 824 783 5789
Email Id: arun@edtex.in
Severability
If any provision of the Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitral tribunal to be unenforceable under applicable law,t hen such provision shall be excluded from this Agreement and the remainder of the Agreement shall be interpreted as if such provision were so excluded and shall be enforceable in accordance with its terms; provided however that, in such event, the Agreement shall be interpreted so as to give effect, to the greatest extent consistent with and permitted by applicable law, to the meaning and intention of the excluded provision as determined by such court of competent jurisdiction or arbitral tribunal.
Waiver
No provision of this Agreement shall be deemed to be waived and no breach excused, unless such waiver or consent shall be in writing and signed by Edtex. Any consent by Edtex to, or a waiver by Edtex of any breach by You, whether expressed or implied, shall not constitute consent to, waiver of, or excuse for any other different or subsequent breach.