Privacy Policy
In addition to our
Terms and conditions Service, Helios Learntech
respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy (the
“Policy”) explains the types of information collected by Helios Learntech when you
use the Platform (as defined in
Terms and conditions) that references this
Policy, how we collect, use, share and store such information collected and also
explains the rationale for collection of such information, the privacy rights and
choices you have regarding your information submitted to us when you use the Services.
For ease of reference, use of the terms “Helios Learntech”, “we”, “us, and/or “our”
refer to Helios Learntech Private Limited – a company incorporated in India and
all of its affiliates which have license to host the Platform and offer Services.
Similarly, use of the terms “you”, “yours” and/or “User(s)” refer to all users of
the Platform and includes all Learners and Content Providers (as more particularly
defined under our
Terms and conditions).
The Services are governed by this Policy, Terms and conditions, and any other rules,
policies or guidelines published on the Platform as applicable to you. Please read
this Policy carefully prior to accessing our Platform and using the Services. By
accessing and using the Platform, providing your Personal Information (defined below),
or by otherwise signalling your agreement when the option is presented to you, you
consent to the collection, use, disclosure, sharing and storing of information described
in this Policy, Terms of Service and any other rules, policies or guidelines published
on the Platform as applicable to you (collectively referred to as the “
Platform
Terms”), and Helios Learntech disclaims all the liabilities arising
therefrom. If you have inadvertently submitted any Personal Information to Helios
Learntech prior to reading this Policy statements set out herein, or you do not
agree with the way your Personal Information is collected, stored, or used, then
you may access, modify and/or delete your Personal Information in accordance with
this Policy.
If any information you have provided or uploaded on the Platform violates the Platform
Terms, Helios Learntech may be required to delete such information upon informing
you of the same and revoke your access to the Platform if required.
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Policy can be found in our Terms
and conditions.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at legal@heliosglobal.in
B. Applicability
This Policy applies to all Users of the Platform. Helios Learntech owns and/or manages
several platforms (other than the Platform) that offer a range of services including
services related to technology solutions in the space of education, either by itself
or through its affiliates and subsidiaries (“
Helios Learntech Group Platforms”).
Each of the Helios Learntech Group Platforms have published their own privacy policies.
Accordingly, this Policy does not apply to information collected through the Helios
Learntech Group Platforms and only applies to the collection of your information
through the Platform. Please visit the relevant Helios Learntech Group Platform
to know the privacy practices undertaken by them. Helios Learntech has taken reasonable
precautions as per applicable laws and implemented industry standards to treat Personal
Information as confidential and to protect it from unauthorized access, improper
use or disclosure, modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss of the
Personal Information.
C. Access
You may be allowed to access and view the Platform as a guest and without creating
an account on the Platform or providing any Personal Information; Helios Learntech
does not validate or takes no responsibility towards information, if any, provided
by you as a guest, except as otherwise required under any law, regulation, or an
order of competent authority. However, to have access to all the features and benefits
on our Platform, you are required to first create an account on our Platform. To
create an account, you are required to provide certain Personal Information as may
be required during the time of registration and all other information requested
on the registration page, including the ability to receive promotional offers from
Helios Learntech, is optional. Helios Learntech may, in future, include other optional
requests for information from you to help Helios Learntech to customize the Platform
to deliver personalized information to you. Helios Learntech may keep records of
telephone calls or emails received from or made by you for making enquiries, feedback,
or other purposes for the purpose of rendering Services effectively and efficiently.
D. Use of the Platform/Services by Children
As stated in our
Terms and conditions, to register on the Platform you must
meet the ‘Age Requirements’ (as defined in our Terms and conditions). If you are
a “
Minor” or “
Child” i.e., an individual who does
not meet the Age Requirements, then you may not register on the Platform, and only
your Parent (defined below) can register on the Platform on your behalf, agree to
all Platform Terms and enable access to you under their guidance and supervision.
While some of our Services may require collection of a Child’s Personal Information,
we do not knowingly collect such Personal Information from a Child and assume that
information has been provided with consent of the Parent. If you are a Parent and
you are aware that your Child has provided us with any Personal Information without
your consent, please contact us at privacy@groomlms.com. If we become aware that
we have collected Personal Information from a Child in the absence of consent of
the Parent, we will take steps to remove such information from our servers.
The information in the relevant parts of this notice applies to Children as well
as adults. If your Child faces any form of abuse or harassment while availing our
Services, you must write to us at legal@groomlms.com, so that necessary actions
could be considered.
E. Controllers
Helios Learntech is the controller of Personal Information that it collects and
processes in connection with the use of the Platform and the provision of the Services
on the Platform. The kind of Personal Information we collect in connection with
such use is detailed below.
F. Personal Information
“
Personal Information” shall mean the information which identifies
a User i.e., first and last name, identification number, email address, age, gender,
location, photograph and/or phone number provided at the time of registration or
any time thereafter on the Platform.
“
Sensitive Personal Information” shall include (i) passwords and
financial data (except the truncated last four digits of credit/debit card), (ii)
health data, (iii) official identifier (such as biometric data, aadhar number, social
security number, driver’s license, passport, etc.,), (iv) information about sexual
life, sexual identifier, race, ethnicity, political or religious belief or affiliation,
(v) account details and passwords, or (vi) other data/information categorized as
‘sensitive personal data’ or ‘special categories of data’ under the Information
Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal
Data or Information) Rules, 2011, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (“Data
Protection Laws”) and in context of this Policy or other equivalent / similar legislations.
Usage of the term ‘
Personal Information’ shall include ‘
Sensitive
Personal Information’ as may be applicable to the context of its usage.
We request you to not provide Helios Learntech with any Personal Information unless
specifically requested by us. In the event you share with Helios Learntech any Personal
Information without us having specifically requested for the same, then we bear
no liability in respect of such Personal Information provided by you.
G. Information We Collect
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example,
to provide our Services on the Platform, to communicate with you, or to make our
Services better.
We collect this information from the following sources:
- Information we collect from You:
- i. Basic account information: In order to access certain features of the Platform,
you will need to create an account and register with us. We ask for basic information
which may include your name, an email address, state of residence country, and password,
along with a username and phone/mobile number.
- ii. Know Your Customer ('KYC') information: If you are an Content Provider registered
with us, then, we also collect the KYC information, which may include information
pertaining to your PAN number, aadhaar number, driver’s license, passport, your
entity details such as name, MOU/AOA, certificate of incorporation, list of directors/partners,
social security number etc., along with the relevant documents. We collect this
information and documents from you to complete our verificat ion process including
pursuant to any other arrangement / agreement executed with you.
- iii. Public profile information: If you are an Content Provider, we may also collect
certain additional information from you to enable creation of your public profile,
if any, on the Platform to help Learners and other Users know you better. We do
not share your KYC information, documents or any such Personal Information on these
public profiles. Your public profile will only contain Personal Information that
are required for Learners or Users to know you (as applicable) viz., your username,
a brief description of any content you have made available on the Platform, your
educational qualifications, your past associations, your photo, and such similar
information that may enable a Learner or other User to know you better. The information
in your public profile will be based on the information you provide to us or as
updated by you on such applicable sections.
- iv. Information when you communicate with us: When you write to us with a question
or to ask for help, we will keep that correspondence, and the email address, for
future reference; this may also include any phone/ mobile numbers if you have provided
us the same as part of your communication either in writing (emails included), over
a phone call or otherwise. When you browse pages on our Platform, we will track
that for statistical purposes which may be to improve the Platform and the Services.
You may also provide us your Personal Information or other information when you
respond to surveys, enter any form of contests, tests, events, competitions, webinars,
etc., hosted by Helios Learntech, either on the Platform or otherwise, or when you
otherwise communicate with us via form, e-form, email, phone, or otherwise, we store
a copy of our communications (including any call recordings or emails, if any, as
permitted by applicable law).
- v. Information related to location: You may also choose to provide location related
information, including but not limited to access to GPS, which will enable us, with
your consent, to offer customized offerings for specific services where location
data is relevant and/or applicable such as informing you whether services on the
Platform that you have expressed interest in may be availed of at or near your location.
- Information we collect automatically:
- i. Device and Log information: When you access our Platform, we collect information
that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including
the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring
site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
We collect log information when you use our Platform — for example, when you create
or make changes to your account information on the Platform.
- ii. Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Platform.
We also collect information about what happens when you use our Platform (e.g.,
page views, support document searches, features enabled for your account, interactions
with other parts of our Services) along with information about your Supported Device
(e.g., screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer). We
use this information to provide our Platform to you, get insights on how people
use our Platform so that we can make our Platform better, and understand and make
predictions about User retention.
- iii. Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your Supported
Device from your Internet Protocol (IP) address. We may collect and use this information
to calculate how many people visit from certain geographic regions or to improve
our Platform Services.
- iv. Information from cookies & other technologies: We may collect information about
you through the use of cookies and other similar technologies. A cookie is a string
of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s
browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. For more information
on our use of cookies and similar technologies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
- Information we collect from other sources: We might receive and collect
information about you from other sources in the course of their services to us or
from a publicly available sources, as permitted by law, which we may combine with
other information we receive from or about you. For example, we may receive information
about you from a social media site or a Google service if you connect to the Services
through that site or if you use the Google sign-in.
H. Basis of Collection and Processing of Your Personal Information
- Basis for collection: We collect and process your Personal Information
based on the following legal parameters depending upon the nature of Personal Information
and the purposes for which it is processed:
- i. Consent: We rely on your consent to process your Personal Information in certain
situations. If we require your consent to collect and process certain Personal Information,
as per the requirements under the applicable Data Protection Laws, your consent
is sought at the time of collection of your Personal Information and such processing
will be performed where consent is secured.
- ii. Compliance with a legal obligation: Your Personal Information may be processed
by us, to the extent that such processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
- Processing of your Personal Information: We may process your Personal Information
in connection with any of the purposes and uses set out in this Policy on one or
more of the following legal grounds:
- i. Because it is necessary to perform the Services you have requested or to comply
with your instructions or other contractual obligations between you and us;
- ii. To comply with our legal obligations as well as to keep records of our compliance
processes;
- iii. Because our legitimate interests, or those of a third-party recipient of your
Personal Information, make the processing necessary, provided those interests are
not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms;
- iv. Because you have chosen to publish or display your Personal Information on a
public area of the Platform, such as a comment area;
- v. Because it is necessary to protect your vital interests;
- vi. Because it is necessary in the public interest; or
- vii. Because you have expressly given us your consent to process your Personal Information
in a particular manner.
We do not use Personal Information for making any automated decisions affecting
or creating profiles other than what is described in this Policy. Where the processing
of your Personal Information is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw
your consent at any point in time in accordance with this Policy. Please note that
should the withdrawal of consent result in us not being able to continue offering
our Services to you, we reserve the right to withdraw or cease from offering our
Services to you upon your consent withdrawal. You may withdraw consent by contacting
us with a written request to the contact details provided in the ‘Grievances’ section
below. Upon receipt of your request to withdraw your consent, the consequences of
withdrawal may be communicated to you. Upon your agreement to the same, your request
for withdrawal will be processed.
I. How we Use and Share the Information Collected
- We use/process your information in the following manner:
- i. To provide Services on our Platform: We use your information
as collected by us to allow you to access the Platform and the Services offered
therein, including without limitation to set-up and maintain your account, provide
customer service, fulfil purchases through the Platform, verify User information
and to resolve any glitches with our Platform. The legal basis for this processing
is consent or, where applicable, our legitimate interests in the proper administration
of our Platform, and/or the performance of a contract between you and us.
- ii. To improve our Platform and maintain safety: We use your information
to improve and customize the Platform and Services offered by us, including providing
automatic updates to newer versions of our Platform and creating new features based
on the Platform usage analysis. Further, we also use your information to prevent,
detect, investigate, and take measures against criminal activity, fraud, misuse
of or damage to our Platform or network, and other threats and violations to Helios
Learntech’s or a third party's rights and property, or the safety of Helios Learntech,
its users, or others. The legal basis for this processing is consent or, where applicable,
our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our Platform, and/or the
performance of a contract between you and us.
- iii. To market our Platform and communicate with You: We will use
your information to develop a more targeted marketing of our Platform, to communicate
with you about our offers, new products, services or even receive your feedback
on the Platform. The legal basis for this processing is consent or, where applicable,
our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our Platform, and/or the
performance of a contract between you and us.
- iv. To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims: We may process
any Personal Information identified in this Policy when necessary for establishing,
exercising, or defending legal claims, whether in court, administrative, or other
proceedings. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in the
protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights, and the legal rights
of others.
- v. To manage risk and obtain professional advice: We may process
any of the Personal Information identified in this Policy to manage risk or obtain
professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest
in the proper protection of our business and Platform
- vi. Consent: We may otherwise use your information with your consent
or at your direction.
- vii. To Better Understand Our Users: We may use information we
gather to determine which areas of the Services are most frequently visited to understand
how to enhance the Services.
- We share the information collected as per terms of this Policy only in the manner
specified hereinbelow. We do not sell or otherwise disclose Personal Information
we collect about you for monetary or other valuable consideration. Further, only
authorized representatives of Helios Learntech and on a need-to-know basis use any
information received from you and as consented by you. In the event of any identified
unauthorized use or disclosure of information or upon your complaint as stated under
the ‘Grievances’ section below, we will investigate any such complaint and take
the appropriate action as per the applicable Data Protection Laws.
-
i. Affiliates and Subsidiaries: We may disclose information about you to our affiliates,
subsidiaries and other businesses under the same control and ownership, and their
respective officers, directors, employees, accountants, attorneys, or agents, who
need the information to help us provide the Services or process the information
on our behalf. or to market similar services/offerings to you. We require our affiliate,
subsidiaries and other businesses under the same control and ownership to follow
this Privacy Policy for any Personal Information that we share with them. Further,
if you have availed any Service that is offered by Helios Learntech in collaboration
with one or more Helios Learntech Group Platforms, or if you have availed any service
similar to a Service offered by a Group Platform, then we may share your Personal
Information with the relevant Helios Learntech Group Platform, who may also communicate
with you regarding certain other products/services offered by them separately via
email, phone, SMS and/or such other mode of communication; you will always have
an option to opt out of receiving some or all of such promotional communications
from an Helios Learntech Group Platform through the unsubscribe link in the email
or such other option that may be communicated to you.
- ii. Third-party vendors/service providers including integrated services on the Platform:
We may share information about you with third-party vendors or service providers
(including consultants, payment processors, and other service providers and integrated
services) who need the information to provide their support services to us or you,
or to provide their services to you on our behalf either directly or through the
Platform. These services may include providing customer support, performing business
and sales analysis, supporting our website functionality, facilitating payment processing,
and supporting contests, surveys, and other features offered on our Platform. Such
third-party vendors are not allowed to use the information for any purpose other
than what it was provided for, and they are required to process and use the information
in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- iii. Third-party platforms to facilitate the additional offerings: We may share
information about you with third-party platforms that are used to create interactive
forums between Content Providers and Learners to enable the Learners a more conducive
environment to extend their learning. The information shared with these platforms
are limited to the information required to facilitate your participation in the
forums and is based on your consent. However, the privacy practices of these platforms
are independent of this Policy, and we suggest that you read through the privacy
policies and terms and condition of the platforms relevant to you prior to consenting
to being a part of any forums made available on these third-party platforms.
- iv. Legal Disclosures: We may disclose information about you in response to a court
order, or other governmental request. Without limitation to the foregoing, we reserve
the right to disclose such information where we believe in good faith that such
disclosure is necessary to:
- o comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, government and law enforcement
agencies’ requests;
- o protect and defend Helios Learntech’s or a third party's rights and property,
or the safety of Helios Learntech, our users, our employees, or others; or
- o prevent, detect, investigate and take measures against criminal activity, fraud
and misuse or unauthorized use of our Platform and/or to enforce our Terms and Conditions
or other agreements or policies.
To the extent permitted by law, we will attempt to give you prior notice before
disclosing your information in response to such a request.
- v. Business transfers:In the event Helios Learntech undergoes any merger, acquisition,
or sale of company assets, in part or in full, with another company, or in the unlikely
event that Helios Learntech goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information
would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party.
If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply
to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use
your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
- vi. Advertising and Analytics Partners:We may share usage data with third-party
advertisers, advertisement networks, and analytics providers through cookies and
other similar technologies.
- vii. With Your Consent:We may share and disclose information with your consent or
at your direction.
Your information may be shared for reasons not described in this Policy, however,
we will seek your consent before we do the same or share information upon your direction.
J. Cross-Border Data Transfer
Your information including any Personal Information is stored, processed, and transferred
in and to the Cloud servers and databases located in Singapore, India and the USA.
Helios Learntech may also store, process, and transfer information in and to servers
in other countries depending on the location of its affiliates and service providers.
Please note that these countries may have differing (and potentially less stringent)
privacy laws and that Personal Information can become subject to the laws and disclosure
requirements of such countries, including disclosure to governmental bodies, regulatory
agencies, and private persons, as a result of applicable governmental or regulatory
inquiry, court order or other similar process.
If you use our Platform from outside India, including in the USA, EU, EEA, and UK,
your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in India. By accessing
our Platform or otherwise giving us information, you consent to the transfer of
information to India and other countries outside your country of residence. If you
are located in the EU and applicable law specifies relevant legal grounds for processing
personal data, the legal grounds for our processing activities are to perform our
contract(s) with you; to meet our legal obligations; and for our legitimate business
purposes, including to improve our operation and Services and to detect and prevent
fraud.
We rely on legal bases to transfer information outside the EU, EEA and UK, and any
Personal Information that we transfer will be protected in accordance with this
Policy as well as with adequate protections in place in compliance with applicable
Data Protection Laws and regulations.
K. Duration for which your Information is Stored
Mostly, when you delete any of the information provided by you or when you delete
your account, on the Platform, the same will be deleted from our servers too. However,
in certain cases, we will retain your information for as long as it is required
for us to retain for the purposes stated hereinabove, including for the purpose
of complying with legal obligation or business compliances.
Further, please note that we may not be able to delete all communications or photos,
files, or other documents publicly made available by you on the Platform (for example:
comments, feedback, etc.), however, we shall anonymize your Personal Information
in such a way that you can no longer be identified as an individual in association
with such information made available by you on the Platform. We will never disclose
aggregated or de-identified information in a manner that could identify you as an
individual. Note: If you wish to exercise any of your rights (as specified in ‘
Your
Rights’ section below) to access, modify and delete any or all information
stored about you, then you may do so by using the options provided within the Platform.
You can always write to us at privacy@groomlms.com for any clarifications needed.
L. Your Choices
- Limit the information You provide: You always have an option to
choose the information you provide to us, including the option to update or delete
your information. However, please note that lack of certain information may not
allow you the access to the Platform or any of its features, in part or in full.
- Limit the communications You receive from us: Further, you will
also have the option to choose what kind of communication you would like to receive
from us and whether you would like to receive such communication at all or not.
However, there may be certain communications that are required for legal or security
purposes, including changes to various legal agreements, that you may not be able
to limit.
- Reject Cookies and other similar technologies: You may reject or
remove cookies from your web browser; you will always have the option to change
the default settings on your web browser if the same is set to ‘accept cookies’.
However, please note that some Services offered on the Platform may not function
or be available to you, when the cookies are rejected, removed, or disabled.
M. Your Rights
In general, all Users have the rights specified herein this section. However, depending
on where you are situated, you may have certain specific rights in respect of your
Personal Information accorded by the laws of the country you are situated in. To
understand Your rights, please refer to the Country Specific Additional Terms below.
If you are a User, you may exercise any of these rights by using the options provided
to you within the Platform upon your login. If however, you are facing any issues
or require any clarifications, you can always write to us at the address noted in
the ‘Grievances’ section below, and we will address your concerns to the extent
required by the applicable law.
- Right to Confirmation and Access: You have the right to get confirmation and access
to your Personal Information that is with us along with other supporting information.
- Right to Correction: You have the right to ask us to rectify your Personal Information
that is with us that you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us
to update your Personal Information that you think is incomplete or out-of-date.
- Right to be Forgotten: You have the right to restrict or prevent the continuing
disclosure of your Personal Information under certain circumstances.
- Right to Erasure: If you wish to withdraw/remove your Personal Information from
our Platform, you have the right to request erasure of your Personal Information
from our Platform. However, please note that such erasure will remove all your Personal
Information from our Platform (except as specifically stated in this Policy) and
may result in deletion of your account on the Platform permanently, and the same
will not be retrievable.
Remember, you are entitled to exercise your rights as stated above only with respect
to your information, including Personal Information, and not that of other Users.
Further, when we receive any requests or queries over email or physically to the
address specified in the ‘Grievances’ section below, then, as per the applicable
Data Protection Laws, we may need to ask you a few additional information to verify
your identity in association with the Platform and the request received.
N. Information Security
- We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using
Transport Layer Security (TLS) or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software (depending
on your browser/Supported Device), which encrypts information you input in addition
to maintaining security of your information as required under applicable laws.
- We maintain electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection,
storage, and disclosure of Personal Information (including Sensitive Personal Information).
Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity
before we disclose Personal Information to you that belongs to you.
- However, no form or method of data storage or transmission system is fully secure,
and we cannot guarantee that security provided by such system(s) is absolute and
that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, or destroyed in the event
of a breach of any of our security measures.
- It is important for you to protect your account against unauthorized access to or
use of your password and to your computer and if you have any reason to believe
that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being,
or is likely to be, used in an unauthorized manner, you must immediately change
your password or inform us, so that we are able to help you stop or prevent such
unauthorized access. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.
- All KYC information collected in accordance with this Policy are fully encrypted
and cannot be accessed by any person other than the designated authority in Helios
Learntech.
- We try and ensure that the third parties who provide services to us under appropriate
contracts take appropriate security measures to protect Personal Information in
line with our policies.
O. Promotional Communications
You will always have the option to opt out of receiving some or all of our promotional
communications through the setting provided within the Platform upon your login,
by using the unsubscribe link in any email communications sent to you or by emailing
help@groomlms.com. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send
you transactional communications, such as service announcements, administrative
and legal notices, and information about your account, without offering you the
opportunity to opt out of these communications. If you no longer wish to use our
Platform or receive any communications from us (except for those that are legally
required), then you may delete your account by using the option enabled within the
Platform or by writing to us at privacy@groomlms.com. Advertisers or ad companies
working on their behalf sometimes use technology to serve the ads that appear on
our sites directly to Your browser. They automatically receive Your IP address when
this happens. They may also use cookies to measure the effectiveness of their ads
and to personalize ad content. We do not have access to or control over cookies
or other features that advertisers and third-party sites may use, and the information
practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by our Policy.
Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.
Please note that opting out of promotional email communications only affects future
communications from us. If we have already provided your information to a third
party (as stated in this Policy) before you changed your preferences or updated
your information, you may have to change your preferences directly with that third
party. We do not sell your Personal Information to third parties, and we do not
use your name or name of your company in marketing statements without your consent.
P. Interest-Based Ads
On unaffiliated sites, Helios Learntech may display interest-based advertising using
information you make available to us when you interact with our Platform and Services.
Interest-based ads, also sometimes referred to as personalised or targeted ads,
are displayed to you based on information from activities such as registering with
our Platform, visiting sites that contain Helios Learntech content or ads. In providing
interest-based ads, we follow applicable laws, as well as the Code for Self-Regulation
in Advertising by the Advertising Standards Council of India and the Self-Regulatory
Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising developed by the Digital Advertising
Alliance (a coalition of marketing, online advertising, and consumer advocacy organizations)
and other rules and guidelines issued by the Federal Trade Commission in respect
of digital advertising. We do not provide any Personal Information to advertisers
or to third party sites that display our interest-based ads. However, advertisers
and other third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies, and other
service providers they may use) may assume that users who interact with or click
on a personalised ad or content are part of the group that the ad or content is
directed towards. Also, some third-parties may provide us information about you
(such as the sites where you have been shown ads or demographic information) from
offline and online sources that we may use to provide you more relevant and useful
advertising. Advertisers or ad companies working on their behalf sometimes use technology
to serve the ads that appear on our sites directly to your browser. They automatically
receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies to measure
the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise ad content. We do not have access
to or control over cookies or other features that advertisers and third-party sites
may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites
are not covered by our Policy. Please contact them directly for more information
about their privacy practices.
Q. Modification to Privacy Policy
Our business changes constantly and our Policy may change from time to time. We
may, at our discretion (unless required by applicable laws to mandatorily do so),
email periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed
us not to, but we encourage you to check our Platform frequently to see the recent
changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Policy applies to all information
that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however,
and will not materially change our policies and practices making them less protective
of customer information collected in the past without your consent.
R. Privacy Grievances
If you have any questions about this Policy, wish to exercise your rights, have
concerns about privacy of your data or any privacy related grievances in respect
of the Platform, then please register your complaint with a thorough description
via email to privacy@groomlms.com addressed to our grievance officer or via a registered
post to the below address-
Helios Learntech Pvt Ltd O-144, The
Shopping Mall, Arjun Marg, DLF Phase-1, Gurgaon - 122002
S. Country Specific Additional Privacy Terms
A. TERMS APPLICABLE IF YOU ARE AN INDIAN RESIDENT Your rights:
If you are located in India, you may have the following rights under the Personal
Data Protection Bill (PDPB) when it becomes a legislation. All requests can be made
by using the option provided to you within the Platform upon your login. You may
also write to us as stated in the ‘Grievances’ section above, and we will address
you concerns to the extent required by law.
- Right to Confirmation and Access: You have the right to get confirmation and access
to your Personal Information that is with us along with other supporting information.
- Right to Correction: You have the right to ask us to rectify your Personal Information
that is with us that you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us
to update your Personal Information that you think is incomplete or out-of-date.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the Personal
Information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, under certain circumstances.
- Right to be Forgotten: You have the right to restrict or prevent the continuing
disclosure of your Personal Information under certain circumstances.
- Right to Erasure: f you wish to withdraw/remove your Personal Information from our
Platform, you have the right to request erasure of your Personal Information from
our Platform. However, please note that such erasure will remove all your Personal
Information from our Platform (except as specifically stated in this Policy) and
may result in deletion of your account on the Platform permanently, and the same
will not be retrievable.
B. TERMS APPLICABLE IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF UNITED KINGDOM (UK), A EUROPEAN
UNION (EU) COUNTRY OR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA) Your rights: If
you are located in the United Kingdom (UK) or European Union (EU) or European Economic
Area (EEA), you have the following rights under the UK and EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) respectively. All requests should be sent to the address noted
in the ‘Grievances’ section above, and we will fulfil requests to the extent required
by applicable law.
- Right to access Your Personal Information: You have the right to
receive confirmation as to whether or not Personal Information concerning you is
being processed and, where that is the case, access to the Personal Information
can be sought;
- Right to Rectification: Our goal is to keep your Personal Information
accurate, current and complete. Please contact us if you believe your information
is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Right to Erasure: In some cases, you have a legal right to request
that we erase your Personal Information;
- Right to object to Processing: You have the right to object to
our processing of your Personal Information under certain conditions;
- Right to restrict Processing: You have the right to request that
we restrict the processing of your Personal Information, under certain conditions;
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we
transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to
you, under certain conditions;
- Right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority:
If you believe we have not processed your Personal Information in accordance with
applicable provisions of the GDPR, we encourage you to contact us at privacy@groomlms.com.
You also have the right to make a GDPR complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority
or seek a remedy through the courts. A list of Supervisory Authorities is available
at:https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. If you need further assistance
regarding your rights, please contact us using the contact information provided
below, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law. You
can identify the supervising authority of your concern by visitinghttps://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.
- Right to not be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling:
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing,
including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning
you.
We collect and process Personal Information about you only where we have a legal
rationale to do so. Specific legal rationale applied for the same will depend on
the type of Personal Information collected and the context in which the same is
being processed, including the Services involved.
C. TERMS APPLICABLE IF YOU
ARE A CALIFORNIA STATE RESIDENT If you are a California state resident,
then you have the following rights to the extent, and in the manner, set out in
the CCPA:
- The right to access the Personal Information that we hold on you;
- The right to know what Personal Information we intend on collecting from them before
the point of collection;
- The right to opt in or out of marketing, analytics, and other similar activities;
- The right to equal services without discrimination; and
- The right to request deletion of Personal Information.
The above rights, the manner in which you can exercise the same and the category
of and the manner in which we collect your information, are detailed below.
T. CCPA NOTICE AT COLLECTION
For purposes of the CCPA, in collecting the information described above, we collect
the categories of Personal Information listed below from you:
- a. Identifiers: We may collect your name, email address, mobile
number, username, unique personal identifier, and Internet Protocol (IP) address.
We use Identifiers as set forth in the “How We Use and Share the Information Collected”
section of this Policy, like your name, contact information, and device and online
identifiers.
- b. Characteristics of Personal Information described in the California Customer
Records statute: We may collect your name, email address, username, unique
personal identifier, and gender. We use Categories of Personal Information described
in the California Consumer Records statute as set forth in the ‘How We Use and Share
the Information Collected’ section of this Policy.
- c. Internet or other electronic network activity information: We
collect cookies as described in our Cookie Policy, we will automatically receive
information from your browser and your device, which includes the date and time
of your visit to the Platform as well as your location, Internet Protocol (IP) address,
domain server, browser type, access time, and data about which pages you visit on
the Platform. We use Internet or other electronic network activity information as
set forth in the ‘How We Use and Share the Information Collected’ section of this
Policy.
- d. Geolocation data: We may collect your IP address. We use Geolocation
Data as set forth in the ‘How We Use and Share the Information Collected’ section
of this Policy. (such as your location based on your IP address);
- e. Audio, electronic, visual or similar information: We may collect
your profile picture or other audio or visual information uploaded as content to
the Platform. We use audio, electronic, visual or similar information as set forth
in the ‘How We Use and Share the Information Collected’ section of this Policy.
- f. Inferences: We may make inferences based upon the Personal Information
collected (such as likelihood of retention or attrition). We use Inference information
as set forth in the ‘How We Use and Share the Information Collected’ section of
this Policy.
U. CCPA DATA PRACTICES DURING THE LAST 12 MONTHS
-
Personal Information collected: As described in this Policy, we
have collected the categories of Personal Information listed below during the preceding
12 months:
- o Identifiers
- o Characteristics of Personal Information described in the California Customer Records
statute
- o Internet or other electronic network activity information
- o Geolocation data
- o Commercial information
- o Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
- o Inferences
- Categories of sources: We have collected the Personal Information
identified in this Policy from you and our payment processors.
- Business and commercial purposes for collecting We have collected
the categories of Personal Information listed above for the following purposes:
- Operate the Platform;
- Provide our Services to you;
- Honor our Terms and Conditions and contracts;
- Ensure the privacy and security of our Platform and Services;
- Manage our relationships with you;
- Communicate with you;
- Analyze use of the Platform and our Services;
- Enhance your experience;
- Track visits to the Platform;
- Provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Platform; and
- Usage analytics purposes.
- Personal Information sold: We have not sold categories of Personal
Information during the preceding 12 months.
- Personal Information disclosed for a business purpose: We have
disclosed for a business purpose the categories of Personal Information listed below
during the preceding 12 months:
- Identifiers
- Characteristics of Personal Information described in the California Customer Records
statute
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Geolocation data
- Commercial information
- Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
- Inferences
We have disclosed each category of Personal Information to the following categories
of third parties: (1) corporate parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates; (2) advisors
(accountants, attorneys); (3) service providers (data analytics, data storage, mailing,
marketing, website and platform administration, technical support); and (4) operating
systems and platforms.
V. CONSUMER RIGHTS AND REQUESTS UNDER THE CCPA
The CCPA gives consumers the right to request that we (1) disclose what Personal
Information we collect, use, disclose, and sell, and (2) delete certain Personal
Information that we have collected or maintained. you may submit these requests
to us as described below, and we honor these rights where they apply. If a request
is submitted in a manner that is not one of the designated methods for submission,
or if the request is deficient in some manner unrelated to our verification process,
we will either (i) treat the request as if it had been submitted in accordance with
the designated manner, or (ii) provide you with specific directions on how to submit
the request or remedy any deficiencies with the request, as applicable.
- Request to Know: As a California resident, you have the right to request: (1) the
specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you; (2) the categories
of Personal Information we have collected about you; (3) the categories of sources
from which the Personal Information is collected; (4) the categories of Personal
Information about you that we have sold and the categories of third parties to whom
the Personal Information was sold; (5) the categories of Personal Information about
you that we disclosed for a business purpose and the categories of third parties
to whom the Personal Information was disclosed for a business purpose; (6) the business
or commercial purpose for collecting, disclosing, or selling Personal Information;
and (7) the categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information.
Our response will cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of a verifiable
request.
- Request to Delete: As a California resident, you have a right to request the erasure/deletion
of certain Personal Information collected or maintained by us. As described herein,
we will delete your Personal Information from our records and direct any service
providers (as defined under applicable law) to delete your Personal Information
from their records. However, we are not required to honor a deletion request if
an exemption applies under the law.
- Submitting a Request:
- Submission of Instructions: You may submit a request to know or to delete by email
to privacy@groomlms.com or by submitting a request via email. Regarding requests
to delete, we may present you with the choice to delete select portions of your
Personal Information, but a global option to delete all Personal Information will
be offered and more prominently presented.
- Verification Process: We are required by law to verify the identities of those who
submit requests to know or to delete. To determine whether the individual making
the request is the consumer about whom we have collected information, we will verify
your identity by matching the identifying information provided by you in the request
to the Personal Information that we already maintain about you. As a part of this
process, you will be required to provide your name and email address, and mobile
number (if the same have been voluntarily provided by you at the time of registering
on the Platform or otherwise while using the Platform). We will inform you if we
cannot verify your identity. Please note-
- a. If we cannot verify the identity of the person making a request for categories
of Personal Information, we may deny the request. If the request is denied in whole
or in part for this reason, we will provide a copy of, or direct you to, our Privacy
Policy.
- b. If we cannot verify the identity of the person making a request to delete, we
may deny the request. If there is no reasonable method by which we can verify the
identity of the requestor to the degree of certainty required, we will state this
in our response and explain why we have no reasonable method by which we can verify
the identity of the requestor.
- c. If we cannot verify the identity of the person making a request for categories
of Personal Information, we may deny the request. If the request is denied in whole
or in part for this reason, we will provide a copy of, or direct you to, our Privacy
Policy.
- Authorized Agents: Authorized agents may submit requests via the methods identified
in this Policy. If you use an authorized agent to submit a request to know or a
request to delete, we may require you to: (1) provide the authorized agent with
signed permission to do so; (2) verify your identity directly with us; and (3) directly
confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the
request. However, we will not require these actions if you have provided the authorized
agent with power of attorney pursuant to the California Probate Code.
- Excessive Requests: If requests from a User are manifestly unfounded or excessive,
in particular because of their repetitive character, we may either (1) charge a
reasonable fee, or (2) refuse to act on the request and notify the User of the reason
for refusing the request. If we charge a fee, the amount will be based upon the
administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the
action requested.
- CCPA Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment
by us due to your exercise of the rights provided by the CCPA. We do not offer financial
incentives and price or service differences, and we do not discriminate against
Users/consumers for exercising their rights under the CCPA.