Privacy Policy
We value your trust. In order to honour that trust, BEACON
Simplified Learning adheres to ethical standards in gathering, using, and
safeguarding any information you provide. BEACON Simplified Learning is an
online learning platform and it operates under the control of BEACON
EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE TRUST (‘Trust’), registered in India. This privacy
policy governs your use of the BEACON Simplified Learning, www.
beaconsimplifiedlearning.blogspot.com ('Website') and the other associated applications,
products, websites and services managed by the Trust. Please read this privacy
policy ('Policy') carefully before using the Application, Website, our services
and products, along with the Terms of Use ('ToU') provided on the Application
and the Website. Your use of the Website, Application, or services in
connection with the Application, Website or products ('Services'), or
registrations with us through any modes or usage of any products including
through SD cards, tablets or other storage/transmitting device shall signify
your acceptance of this Policy and your agreement to be legally bound by the
same. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, do not use the
Website, Application our products or avail any of our Services.
User Provided Information
The Application/Website/Services/products obtains the information
you provide when you download and register for the Application or Services or
products. When you register with us, you generally provide (a) your name, age,
email address, location, phone number, password and your ward's educational
interests; (b) transaction-related information, such as when you make
purchases, respond to any offers, or download or use applications from us; (c)
information you provide us when you contact us for help; (d) information you
enter into our system when using the Application/Services/products, such as
while asking doubts, participating in discussions and taking tests. The said
information collected from the users could be categorized as “Personal Information”,
“Sensitive Personal Information” and “Associated Information”. Personal
Information, Sensitive Personal Information and Associated Information (each as
individually defined under this Information Technology (Reasonable security
practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules,
2011 (the “Data Protection Rules”)) shall collectively be referred to as
'Information' in this Policy. We may use the Information to contact you from
time to time, to provide you with the Services, important information, required
notices and marketing promotions. We will ask you when we need more information
that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact
you. We will not differentiate between who is using the device to access the
Application, Website or Services or products, so long as the log in/access
credentials match with yours. In order to make the best use of the
Application/Website/Services/products and enable your Information to be
captured accurately on the Application/Website/Services/products, it is
essential that you have logged in using your own credentials. We will, at all
times, provide the option to you to not provide the Personal Information or
Sensitive Personal Information, which we seek from you. Further, you shall, at
any time while using the Application/Services/products, also have an option to
withdraw your consent given earlier to us to use such Personal Information or
Sensitive Personal Information. Such withdrawal of the consent is required to
be sent in writing to us at the contact details provided in this Policy below.
In such event, however, the Trust fully reserves the right not to allow further
usage of the Application or provide any Services/products thereunder to you.
Automatically Collected Information
In addition, the Application/products/Services may collect certain
information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile
device you use, your mobile devices unique device ID, the IP address of your
mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet
browsers you use, and information about the way you use the
Application/Services/products. As is true of most Mobile applications, we also
collect other relevant information as per the permissions that you provide. We
use an outside credit card processing Trust to bill you for goods and services.
These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable
information for any other purpose.
Use of your Personal Information
We use the collected Information to analyse trends, to conduct
research, to administer the Application/Services and products, to learn about
each user's learning patterns and movements around the Application/Services and
products and to gather demographic information and usage behaviour about our
user base as a whole. Aggregated and individual, anonymized and non-anonymized
data may periodically be transmitted to external service providers to help us
improve the Application, products and our Services. We will share your information
with third parties only in the ways that are described below in this Policy. We
may use the individual data and behavior patterns combined with personal
information to provide you with personalized content, and better your learning
objectives. Third parties provide certain services which we may use to analyze
the data and information to personalize, drive insights and help us better your
experience or reach out to you with more value added applications, products,
information and services. However, these third party companies do not have any
independent right to share this information. We do not sell, trade or share
your Information to any third party (except subsidiaries/affiliates of the
Trust for related offerings) unless, we have been expressly authorized by you
either in writing or electronically to do so. We may at times provide aggregate
statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related site information
to reputable third parties, however this information when disclosed will be in
an aggregate form and does not contain any of your Personally Identifiable
Information. BEACON Simplified Learning will occasionally send email notices,
messages or contact you to communicate about our Services, products and
benefits, as they are considered an essential part of the Services/products you
have chosen. We may disclose Information:
- as
required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal
process;
- to
enforce applicable ToU, including investigation of potential violations
thereof;
- when
we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud,
address security or technical issues or respond to a government request;
- with
our trusted services providers who work on our behalf, do not have an
independent use of the information we disclose to them, and have agreed to
adhere to the rules set forth in this Policy;
- to protect against imminent harm to the
rights, property or safety of the Application/Website/ the Trust or its
users or the public as required or permitted by law;
- with third party service providers in order to
personalize the Application/Website/Services/products for a better user
experience and to perform behavioural analysis;
- Any portion of the Information containing
personal data relating to minors provided by you shall be deemed to be
given with the consent of the minor's legal guardian. Such consent is
deemed to be provided by your registration with us.
Access to your Personal Information
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your Personal
Information is correct and current. If you have filled out a user profile, we
will provide an obvious way for you to access and change your profile from our
Application/Services/Website/products. We adopt reasonable security measures to
protect your password from being exposed or disclosed to anyone.
Cookies
We send cookies (small files containing a string of characters) to
your computer, thereby uniquely identifying your browser. Cookies are used to
track your preferences, help you login faster, and aggregated to determine user
trends. This data is used to improve our offerings, such as providing more
content in areas of greater interest to a majority of users. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse
all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some of our features
and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Links
We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of
whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve our
customized content. Clicking on links may take you to sites outside our domain.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our Website.
Alerts
We may alert you by email or phone (through sms/call) to inform
you about new service offerings of the Trust and its subsidiaries/affiliates or
other information which we feel might be useful for you, through the Trust or
its subsidiaries/affiliates.
Public Forums
When you use certain features on our website like the discussion
forums and you post or share your personal information such as comments,
messages, files, photos, will be available to all users, and will be in the
public domain. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please
keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when
posting on our forums this information may become publicly available.
Security
We are concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your
Information. We provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to
protect Information we process and maintain. For example, we limit access to
this Information to authorized employees only who need to know that information
in order to operate, develop or improve our
Application/Services/products/Website. Please be aware that, although we
endeavor to provide reasonable security for information we process and
maintain, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches.
How Long Do We Retain User Data?
Currently, we plan to retain user data while an account is active
and for at least three years afterward. We may alter this practice according to
legal and business requirements. For example, we may lengthen the retention
period for some data if needed to comply with law or voluntary codes of
conduct. Unless otherwise prohibited, we may shorten the retention period for
some types of data if needed to free up storage space.
Log information
When you access our Website, our servers automatically record
information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server
logs may include information such as your web request, internet protocol
address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and
one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications
When you send an email or other communication to us, we may retain
those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your
requests and improve our Services.
Changes to this Statement
As the Trust evolves, our privacy policy will need to evolve as
well to cover new situations. You are advised to review this Policy regularly
for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.
Your Consent
We believe that, every user of our
Application/Services/products/Website must be in a position to provide an
informed consent prior to providing any Information required for the use of the
Application/Services/products/Website. By registering with us, you are
expressly consenting to our collection, processing, storing, disclosing and
handling of your information as set forth in this Policy now and as amended by
us. Processing, your information in any way, including, but not limited to,
collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining, sharing, transferring and
disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in India. If
you reside outside India your information will be transferred, processed and
stored in accordance with the applicable data protection laws of India.
Contact Information
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