Vijnanabharathi Educational and Charitable Society, is a Charitable Society registered under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific, and Charitable Societies Registration Act, 1955 and having its registered office at Kallath House, Karath Road, Puthiyakavu, Thekkumbhagam, Tripunithura, Ernakulam – 682301, understands and respects the need and requirement to protect the privacy rights of its Users (“You”, “Your”). Vijnanabharathi shall be the controller of the personal data/information which may be collected from You or which may be processed, in relation to the Services/Platform.

This Privacy Policy provides You with an idea as to how the information that is collected on our platform is processed, protected and disseminated.This Privacy Policy shall be applicable to all Users using the Company’s website or Platform and applies to the data/information that is provided to the Company in the provision of the EdTech Platform/Service.

We collect and process the following data from You/Users including but not limited to;

• Name, email, address, mobile number, gender, etc. at the time of registering with Our Website and/or while creating a User account or while filling questionnaires or forms or when You subscribe to Society’s updates by email and/or upload or submit any material or content while using the Services/platform and/or the Vijnanabharathi website.
• Log-in/User details and password details during the User account sign-in/registration/change password etc. processes.
• Financial details in respect of the subscriptions availed on the platform/website Your data on social media (say Facebook profile data) if You choose to log in through Facebook or other social media
• All communications and emails and other correspondence between You and Us
• The entire range of material or the content which You post on the Platform/Website.
• Your IP address(es), browser and Operating System specifications including mobile browser and mobile operating systems.

We collect the data only for legitimate and lawful purposes for providing You access to the Website and for the usage of the Services through the Platform. Your information shall be used to...

• Verification of identity at the time of signing into Your User account
• Analyze, provide You with any statistical data on User account activity
• Analyze the total number of users and visitors and domain names of internet service providers, in which event there would be no use of any personal information.
• Contact You for queries posted on the Platform or contact You in any regard
• Use for other purposes that We may disclose to You when We request your information.

We do not use any personally identifiable information for any other purpose other than for granting You access to Your User account or the Services and/or the Website. All Your payment (s) made through the partner payment gateway is/are safe and secure. If You choose to log in or sign up with Our Services through any social media like Facebook, etc. We request permission to access Your profile and seek appropriate permissions from You wherever required. If You click on links on third party websites, You shall be governed by their terms of use and privacy policies and We, do not control the manner as to how and in what manner such third parties collect Your personal data and information and how they use it. We, do not endorse neither We, shall be responsible for any data breach or infringement of Your privacy rights or for loss or damage whatsoever if You visit, use or access such third party websites. We may use Your contact information for marketing and promotional purposes about any prospective Service(s) of Vijnanabharathi, however, if You decide and write to Us that We should refrain from using Your data/information in respect of any marketing or promotional purposes, We will honour Your decision. If You do not write to Us to let Us know of any objections to the use of the data/information, it shall signify that You have accorded us permission for such use of the data/information under law. Whichever way We use and process, please note that Your personal information shared by You is safe and secure and We use and process any information under the applicable laws and on Your consent for such processing for lawful purposes and for providing You the Service(s) and access to the Platform/Vijnanabharathi Website. Your creation of the User account and log in every time You use Our Services and/or the Platform amounts to such valid consent.