Privacy Policy 

Shikshtam IT Private Limited (“us”, “we”, or “Shikshatam”, which also includes its affiliates) is the author and publisher of the internet resource www.shikshatam.com (“Website”) on the world wide web as well as the software and applications provided by Shikshatam, including but not limited to the mobile application ‘Shikshatam’ (together with the Website, referred to as the “Services”). 

This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use, share, disclose and protect Personal information about the Users of the Services, including the Teachers/Institutes (as defined in the Terms of Use, which may be accessed via the following weblink https://shikshatam.com/privacy (the “Terms of Use”)), the End-Users (as defined in the Terms of Use), and the visitors of Website (jointly and severally referred to as “you” or “Users” in this Privacy Policy). We created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to the protection of your privacy and your personal information. Your use of and access to the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Any capitalized term used but not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning attributed to it in our Terms of Use. 

BY USING THE SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR INFORMATION, YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO THE PRACTICES AND POLICIES OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE PRIVACY POLICY. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING, DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR DELETE PORTIONS OF THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION, AT ANY TIME. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME, DO NOT USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR GIVE US ANY OF YOUR INFORMATION. IF YOU USE THE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE (SUCH AS YOUR CHILD) OR AN ENTITY (SUCH AS YOUR EMPLOYER), YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AUTHORISED BY SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO (I) ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY ON SUCH INDIVIDUAL’S OR ENTITY’S BEHALF, AND (II) CONSENT ON BEHALF OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL’S OR ENTITY’S INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. 

1.WHY THIS PRIVACY POLICY? 

This Privacy Policy is published in compliance with, inter alia: 

Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000; 

Regulation 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (the “SPI Rules”); 

Regulation 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011. 

This Privacy Policy states the following: 

The type of information collected from the Users, including Personal Information (as defined in paragraph 2 below) and Sensitive Personal Data or Information (as defined in paragraph 2 below) relating to an individual; 

information received by body corporate under lawful contract or otherwise; 

visitor details as provided at the time of registration or thereafter; and 

call data records. 

Shikshatam will be free to use, collect and disclose information that is freely available in the public domain without your consent. 

3.PRIVACY STATEMENTS 

3.1ALL USERS NOTE: 

This section applies to all users. 

3.1.1Accordingly, a condition of each User’s use of and access to the Services is their acceptance of the Terms of Use, which also involves acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any User that does not agree with any provisions of the same has the option to discontinue the Services provided by Shikshatam immediately. 

3.1.2An indicative list of information that Shikshatam may require you to provide to enable your use of the Services is provided in the Schedule annexed to this Privacy Policy. 

3.1.3All the information provided to Shikshatam by a User, including Personal Information or any Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is voluntary. You understand that Shikshatam may use certain information of yours, which has been designated as Personal Information or ‘Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules, (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 booking appointments and for obtaining feedback in relation to the Teacher’s and their practice, (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. Shikshatam also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the End-User for the following purposes: 

Identifying You. 

Publishing such information on the Website. 

Contacting End-Users for offering new products or services. 

Contacting End-Users for taking product and Service feedback. 

Analyzing software usage patterns for improving product design and utility. 

Analyzing anonymized practice information for commercial use. 

Processing payment instructions including those through independent third party service providers such as payment gateways, banking and financial institutions, pre-paid instrument and wallet providers for processing of payment transaction or deferral of payment facilities. 

If you have voluntarily provided your Personal Information to Shikshatam for any of the purposes stated above, you hereby consent to such collection and use of such information by Shikshatam. However, Shikshatam shall not contact You on Your telephone number(s) for any purpose including those mentioned in this sub-section 4.1(iii), if such telephone number is registered with the Do Not Call registry (“DNC Registry”) under the PDPA without your express, clear and un-ambiguous written consent. 

3.1.4 Collection, use and disclosure of information which has been designated as Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules requires your express consent. By affirming your assent to this Privacy Policy, you provide your consent to such use, collection and disclosure as required under applicable law. 

3.1.5 Shikshatam does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Services and, therefore, Shikshatam specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Services, and you agree that you waive any claims against Shikshatam relating to same, and to the extent such waiver may be ineffective, you agree to release any claims against Shikshatam relating to the same. 

3.1.6 You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of account registration. If your personal information changes, you may correct, delete inaccuracies, or amend information by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us through support"@"shikshatam.com Shikshatam.com. We will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete), or Shikshatam has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete, Shikshatam may, at its sole discretion, discontinue the provision of the Services to you. There may be circumstances where Shikshatam will not correct, delete or update your Personal Data, including (a) where the Personal Data is opinion data that is kept solely for evaluative purpose; and (b) the Personal Data is in documents related to a prosecution if all proceedings relating to the prosecution have not been completed. 

3.1.7 If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, contact us through support"@"shikshatam.com Shikshatam.com . We will retain your information for as long as your account with the Services is active and as needed to provide you the Services. We shall not retain such information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under any other law for the time being in force. After a period of time, your data may be anonymized and aggregated, and then may be held by us as long as necessary for us to provide our Services effectively, but our use of the anonymized data will be solely for analytic purposes. Please note that your withdrawal of consent, or cancellation of account may result in Shikshatam being unable to provide you with its Services or to terminate any existing relationship Shikshatam may have with you. 

3.1.8 If you wish to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications such as promotional and marketing-related information regarding the Services, please send us an email at support"@"shikshatam.comShikshatam.com. 

3.1.9 Shikshatam may require the User to pay with a credit card, wire transfer, debit card or cheque for Services for which subscription amount(s) is/are payable. Shikshatam  will collect such User’s credit card number and/or other financial institution information such as bank account numbers and will use that information for the billing and payment processes, including but not limited to the use and disclosure of such credit card number and information to third parties as necessary to complete such billing operation. Verification of credit information, however, is accomplished solely by the User through the authentication process. User’s credit-card/debit card details are transacted upon secure sites of approved payment gateways which are digitally under encryption, thereby providing the highest possible degree of care as per current technology. However, Shikshatam provides you an option not to save your payment details. User is advised, however, that internet technology is not full proof safe and User should exercise discretion on using the same. 

3.1.10 Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when a User or the End-User or anyone who visits the Website, Shikshatam automatically receives the URL of the site from which anyone visits. Shikshatam also receives the Internet Protocol (IP) address of each User’s computer (or the proxy server a User used to access the World Wide Web), User’s computer operating system and type of web browser the User is using, email patterns, as well as the name of User’s ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help Shikshatam improve its Service. The linkage between User’s IP address and User’s personally identifiable information is not shared with or disclosed to third parties. Notwithstanding the above, Shikshatam may share and/or disclose some of the aggregate findings (not the specific data) in anonymized form (i.e., non-personally identifiable) with advertisers, sponsors, investors, strategic partners, and others in order to help grow its business. 

3.1.11 The Website uses temporary cookies to store certain (that is not sensitive personal data or information) that is used by Shikshatam and its service providers for the technical administration of the Website, research and development, and for User administration. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing services to its Users, Shikshatam may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on the User’s browser. The cookies however, do not store any Personal Information of the User. You may adjust your internet browser to disable cookies. If cookies are disabled you may still use the Website, but the Website may be limited in the use of some of the features. 

3.1.12 A User may have limited access to the Website without creating an account on the Website. Unregistered Users can make appointments with the teachers by providing their name and phone number. In order to have access to all the features and benefits on our Website, a User must first create an account on our Website. To create an account, a User is required to provide the following information, which such User recognizes and expressly acknowledges is Personal Information allowing others, including Shikshatam, to identify the User: name, User ID, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, age, phone number, password chosen by the User and valid financial account information. Other information requested on the registration page, including the ability to receive promotional offers from Shikshatam, is optional. Shikshatam may, in future, include other optional requests for information from the User to help Shikshatam to customize the Website to deliver personalized information to the User. 

3.1.13 Shikshatam does not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within its Services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on the Users’ computer, collect data or solicit personal information from the Users, for which Shikshatam is not responsible or liable. Accordingly, Shikshatam does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms of use of such websites, nor does Shikshatam guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites. The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by Shikshatam of the website, the website's provider, or the information on the website. If you decide to visit a third party website linked to the Website, you do this entirely at your own risk. Shikshatam encourages the User to read the privacy policies of that website. 

3.1.14The Website may enable User to communicate with other Users or to post information to be accessed by others, whereupon other Users may collect such data. Such Users, including any moderators or administrators, are not authorized Shikshatam representatives or agents, and their opinions or statements do not necessarily reflect those of Shikshatam, and they are not authorized to bind Shikshatam to any contract. Shikshatam hereby expressly disclaims any liability for any reliance or misuse of such information that is made available by Users or visitors in such a manner. 

3.1.15 Shikshatam does not collect information about the visitors of the Website from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations, save and except for the purposes of registration of the Users (the collection, use, storage and disclosure of which each End User must agree to under the Terms of Use in order for Shikshatam to effectively render the Services). 

3.1.16 Shikshatam maintains a strict "No-Spam" policy, which means that Shikshatam does not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third party without your consent. 

3.1.17 Shikshatam has implemented best international market practices and security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that it has under its control from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. However, for any data loss or theft due to unauthorized access to the User’s electronic devices through which the User avails the Services, Shikshatam shall not be held liable for any loss whatsoever incurred by the User. 

3.1.18 Shikshatam implements reasonable security practices and procedures and has a comprehensive documented information security programme and information security policies that contain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are commensurate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of Shikshatam’s business. 

3.1.19 Shikshatam takes your right to privacy very seriously and other than as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, will only disclose your Personal Information in the event it is required to do so by law, rule, regulation, law enforcement agency, governmental official, legal authority or similar requirements or when Shikshatam, in its sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect its rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk, or to enforce or apply the Terms of Use.