Privacy Policy
Shiksha Reform Limited Liability Partnership operates a website in India, which provides Courses and Services through the website https://www.shiksha-reform.com/ . Shiksha Reform Limited Liability Partnership is referred to herein as “Shiksha Reform” or “we” or “us” “our”.
Any person utilizing the Website (“User” or “you” or “your”) or any of its features including but not limited to the courses provided by any third-parties made available on the website (“Course(s)”), verification of certificate, job search (“Services”) being conducted on the Website shall be bound by the terms of this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
All capitalised terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms.
Shiksha Reform respects the privacy of its Users and is committed to protect it in all respects. With a view to offer an enriching and holistic internet experience to its Users, Shiksha Reforms offers a vast repository of Services. All of the Courses which are offered are paid and you may need to register in order to access the Courses. Kindly refer to our Terms of Use for further information on the Courses. The information about the User is collected by Shiksha Reform as (i) information supplied by Users and (ii) information automatically tracked during User’s navigation on Shiksha Reform.
Before you submit any information to the Website, please read this Privacy Policy for an explanation of how we will treat your information. By using any part of the Website, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and transfer of your information for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy and to the collection, processing and maintenance of this Privacy Policy and of the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. While you have the option not to provide us with certain personal information, withdraw your consent to collect certain information, request temporary suspension of collection of personal information or request deletion of personal information collected, kindly note that in such an event you may not be take full advantage of the entire scope of features and services offered to you and we reserve the right not to provide you with our services.
We may periodically review and change our Privacy Policy to incorporate such future changes as may be considered appropriate. We will notify you about the change. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page, so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, how we store it and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Purpose and Usage:
To avail certain Services on the Website, Users would be required to provide certain information for the registration process, namely:
- Name (As per government issued identity card)
- Name of Legal Guardians
- Age
- Date of Birth
- Institution
- Address
- Email Address
- Contact Number
- WhatsApp Number
- Profile Photograph
- Qualifications, Skills and Certifications
Additionally in the course of providing you with access to the Services, and in order to provide you access to the features offered through the Website and to verify your identity, secure your account details, you may give us the permission to the features offered through the Website and to verify your identity, secure your account details, you may, give us the permission to capture, record your device related information, operating system information, network information, location information etc. You may also be required to furnish additional information, including your Permanent Account Number.
In certain instances, we may also collect sensitive personal information from you on the Website. SPI (as defined below) means such personal information which consists of information relating to your financial information, such as information regarding the payment instrument/modes used by you to make such payments, which may include cardholder name, credit/debit card number (in encrypted form) with expiration date, banking details, ‘Transaction ID’, wallet details, etc. (“SPI”) This information is presented to you at the time of making a payment to enable you to complete your payment expeditiously.
Except for any financial information that you choose to provide while making payment for any Services on the Website. Shiksha Reform does not collect any other SPI in the course of providing the Services. Any SPI collected by Shiksha Reform shall not be disclosed to any third-party service provider in a separate written agreement between Shiksha Reform and you or as required by law. It is clarified that this condition shall not apply to publicly available information, including SPI, in relation to you on the Website.
We collect and use personal information provided by you (that is, information that may be used to identify you and that is not otherwise publicly available) to operate, provide, develop, and improve the Services, keeping you informed of Our offerings, and the products and/or services of our affiliates and group entities, and to enable Our affiliated and group entities to reach out to you in relation to the products and services offered by them.
In the course of providing the Services, Users may invite other existing Users or other users (“Invited Users”) to participate in any of the Services or buy the Courses through any social media platform including without limitation, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram etc. We may thereafter use this information to contact the Invited User and invite such user to register with Shiksha Reform (if such Invited User is not an existing User) and participate in the Courses in relation to which such person was invited by you. The participation of the Invited User in any Course or Services shall be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use for the use of the Website. The Invited Users hereby consent and agreed to such disclosure of their information with us, our affiliates and/ or our group entities.
All required information is specific and based on the kind of Courses/ Services the User wishes to participate in or access, and will be utilized to provide services, including but not limited to the Services requested by the User.
Disclosure/Sharing:
Shiksha Reform may share information as provided by you and data concerning your usage of the Services and participation in the Courses with its affiliates and group entities to enable its affiliates and group entities to reach out to you in relation to the Courses and/ or Services offered by them. Shiksha Reform may also share such information with third party service providers engaged by Shiksha Reform, for the purpose of data analytics or for the purpose of storage, improving the services (including product enhancements) and to help Shiksha Reform serve you better. Provided that affiliate, group entity and third-party service provider (as my be applicable) with whom the information is shared will be required, on best efforts basis, to comply with the same standards as applicable to Shiksha Reform in relation to maintaining the security of the information.
By using the Website, you hereby expressly agree and grant consent to the collection, use and storage of your information by Shiksha Reform. Shiksha Reform reserves the right to share, disclose and transfer information collected hereunder with its affiliates and group entities. In the event Shiksha Reform sells or transfers all or a portion of its business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets that are shared, disclosed or transferred as part of the transaction. You hereby expressly grant consent permission to Shiksha Reform for disclosure and transfer of personal information to such third parties.
Shiksha Reform may share information and data concerning usage of the Services and participation in the Game with its commercial partners for the purpose of facilitating user engagement, for marketing and promotional purposes and other related purposes. Further, Shiksha Reform reserves the right to disclose/ share information with affiliates, group entities and third parties in limited circumstances, including for the purposes of complying with applicable law, responding to duly authorized legal process, governmental requests, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.
Use of Cookies:
To improve the effectiveness and usability of the Website for our Users, we use “cookies”, or such similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique random number as a User Identification (Used ID) to understand the User’s individual interests using the identified device. Unless the User voluntarily identifies himself/herself (e.g., through registration), Shiksha Reform has no way of knowing who the User is, even if we assign a cookie to the User’s device. The only information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the User. A cookie cannot read data off the User’s device hard drive. Shiksha Reform’s advertisers may also assign their own cookies to the User’s device (if the User clicks on their ad banners), a process that Shiksha Reform does not control.
Shiksha Reform’s web servers automatically collect limited information about User’s device connection to the Internet, including User’s IP address, when the User uses the Website. (User’s IP address is a number that lets devices attached to the Internet know where to send data to the User — such as the web pages viewed by the User). The User’s IP address does not identify the User personally. Shiksha Reform uses this information to deliver its web pages to Users upon request, to tailor its Website to the interests of its users, to measure traffic within the Website and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where Shiksha Reform visitors come.
Links:
Shiksha Reform also includes links to other websites. Such websites are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond Shiksha Reform’s control. Once the User Leaves Shiksha Reform’s servers (the User can tell where he/she is by checking the URL in the location bar on the User’s browser), use of any information provided by the User is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site which the User is visiting. That Policy may differ from Shiksha Reform’s own. If the User can’t find the privacy policy of any these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, the User may contact the site directly for more information. Shiksha Reform is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Security Procedures:
All information gathered on Shiksha Reform is securely stored within the Shiksha Reform controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to such servers being password-protected and strictly limited based on need-to-know basis. However, we understand that as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. Thus, we cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Further, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas will be available to anyone with internet access. By using the Website, you understand and agree that your information may be used in or transferred to countries other than India.
Advertising:
When Shiksha Reform presents information to its online advertisers – to help them understand its audience and confirm the value of advertising on the Website – it is usually in the form of aggregated anonymized data (information that cannot be used to trace a user) of Users that may include statistics and/ or data concerning User traffic, User responsiveness and User behaviour to such advertisements on our website. When you register with Shiksha Reform, we contact you from time to time about updating your content to provide features which we believe may benefit you.
Disclaimer:
Several deceptive emails, websites, blogs etc. claiming to be from or associated with Shiksha Reform may or are circulating on the Internet (“Deceptive Communication”). Such Deceptive Communication may include our logo, photos, links, content or other information. Some Deceptive Communication may call the User requesting the User to provide login name, password etc. or inform the User that the User has won a prize/ gift or provide a method to commit an illegal/ unauthorized act or deed or request detailed personal information or a payment of some kind. The sources and contents of these Deceptive Communications and accompanying materials are in no way associated with Shiksha Reform. For your own protection, we strongly recommend not responding to such Deceptive Communication. You agree that we shall not be liable for any loss, damage and harm that you may suffer by relying and/or acting upon such Deceptive Communications.
Except, as provided for the purpose of verification, as set out under the Terms of Use, we and/or our employees will not contact you to divulge your SPI.
Conditions of Use:
SHIKSHA REFORM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE, IT’S SERVERS, OR EMAIL SENT BY US OR ON OUR BEHALF ARE VIRUS FREE. SHIKSHA REFORM WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO COMPENSATORY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, INCOME OR PROFIT, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES. IN NO EVENT WILL SHIKSHA REFORM BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER IN AN AMOUNT.
Retention of Data:
Your personal information may be retained and may continue to be used until: (i) the relevant purposes for the use of your personal information described in this Privacy Policy are no longer applicable; and (ii) we are no longer required by applicable law, regulations, contractual obligations or legitimate business purposes to retain your personal information and the retention of your personal information is not required for the establishment, exercise or defence of any legal claim.
User Account and Data Deletion:
Users are entitled to request Shiksha Reform to delete their User accounts and their personal information by sending an email with their written request to [email protected]
We will do our best to respond promptly and in any event within one month of the following:
- Our receipt of your written request; or
- Our receipt of any further information we may ask you to provide, to enable us to comply with your request, whichever is later.
As an alternative to account deletion, by writing [email protected] , you also have the option to request either:
- (i) the suspension of your account, after which you will not be able to access the Courses/ Services on your User account but will continue to have access to other parts of the Website; or
- (ii) temporary deactivation of your account, where you will no longer be able to log into the Website but which allows you to request reactivation of your account with all your account data.
If you proceed with permanent deactivation of your account, you will lose access to the Website, the Courses offered and availed by the User, and the Services, including any User data and personal information associated with your account. Users may request for account restoration within six (When you request deletion of your data, we follow a deletion process that ensures that your data is safely and completely removed from our servers or retained only in anonymised form. We try to ensure that our services protect information from accidental or malicious deletion. Because of this, there may be delays between when you request deletion and when copies are deleted from our active and backup systems.6) months from the date of notification of account deletion by Shiksha Reform by writing to [email protected]
When you request deletion of your data, we follow a deletion process that ensures that your data is safely and completely removed from our servers or retained only in anonymised form. We try to ensure that our services protect information from accidental or malicious deletion. Because of this, there may be delays between when you request deletion and when copies are deleted from our active and backup systems.
Applicable Law and Jurisdiction:
By visiting this Website, you agree that the laws of the Republic of India without regard to its conflict of laws principles, govern this Privacy Policy and any dispute arising in respect hereof shall be subject to and governed by the dispute resolution process set out in the Terms of Use.
Updating Information:
You will promptly notify Shiksha Reform if there are any changes, updates or modifications to your personal information. Further, you may also review, update or modify your personal information and User preferences by logging into your profile page on the Website.
Contact Us:
Any questions or clarifications with respect to this Privacy Policy or any complaints, comments, concerns or feedback can be sent to Shiksha Reform at [email protected] or by normal/physical mail addressed to: Pro Shiksha Reform, 603, Swastik House, Kargil Chowk, Nandi Park Society, Piplod, Surat, Gujarat 395007.
Attn: Shiksha Reform Team
Shiksha Reform LLP
