PLEASE READ THESE PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND ALL TERMS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE.
CONTEXT AND PURPOSE
THINKLANCE EDTECH, the WEBSITE, is owned and operated by Thinklance llp. ltd., a company duly incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956.Thinklance llp. ltd. (“THINKLANCE,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the THINKLANCE website, https://www.thinklance.in/ (hereinafter referred to as “Thinklance Edtech”), and describes how we collect, protect, use and share information gathered about you on our websites or mobile service. By using our Service, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. The Website is an Online Youth Mentoring Youth platform that helps students discover and pursue their passion by connecting to Young achievers Below the age of 25 in those respective fields of Passion(hereinafter referred to as “Services”, with the relevant pharmacies referred to as “You” or “Your” or “Yourself” or “Sellers” or “Users”). The arrangement between the Sellers and Buyers shall be governed in accordance with this Terms of Use. The Services would be made available to such natural persons who have agreed to become buyers on the Website after obtaining due registration, in accordance with the procedure as determined by Thinklance, from time to time (“Buyer”). The Services are offered to the Buyers through various modes which shall include issue of discount coupons and vouchers that can be redeemed for various goods/ services offered for sale by the Sellers. For the purpose of providing the Services and for other purposes identified in this Privacy Policy, THINKLANCE will be required to collect and host certain data and information of the Sellers/Users. THINKLANCE is committed to protecting the personal information of the Users and takes all reasonable precautions for maintaining confidentiality of the Seller’s personal information. This Privacy Policy has been designed and developed to help you understand the following:
- The type of personal information (including sensitive personal data or information) that Thinklance collects from the Sellers.
- The purpose of collection, means and modes of usage of such personal information by Thinklance.
- How and to whom Thinklance will disclose such information.
- How Thinklance will protect the personal information including sensitive personal data or in-formation that is collected from the Buyers.
- How Buyer’s may access and/ or modify their personal information.
This Privacy Policy shall apply to the use of the Software by all Buyers / Sellers. Accordingly, a condition of each Seller’s use of and access to the Software and to the other services provided by Thinklance to Buyers is their acceptance of this Privacy policy. Any Seller is required to read and understand the provisions set out herein prior to submitting any sensitive personal data or in-formation to Thinklance, failing which they are required to leave the Software immediately. This Privacy Policy is published in compliance of the (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules, regulations, guidelines and clarifications framed thereunder, including the (Indian) Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011.
TYPE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
When you visit the Website, we may collect certain non-personal information such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, operating system, browser type, and Internet service provider. This type of information does not identify you personally. When you register with the Website or respond to advertisements or posts on the Website or post contents on the Website without registering, we may also collect personal information that you provide such as your name, mailing address, email address, phone/mobile number, home country, Course of Choice, Month of Course, Mode of Payment and zip code (“Registration Information”). You have the option of also providing to us your phone numbers, gender, age, and/or company name if you choose to register with Thinklance Edtech. If you provide your phone number, it will be displayed in your account. Further, if you have provided your phone number and posted a comment using your account, you agree to receive communications on the provided phone number or email address from our side which may include but not be limited to automated calls or text messages. The communication may require you to confirm and verify that your account has been used to post the relevant comment on the Website. We may also collect additional information that our users provide, such as new or deleted postings, new or deleted comments, keyword searches, scam reports and new contact sellers. We use a third-party credit card processing company for purchases, and other third party companies to monitor site traffic, which may, in some instances, store your information. By using this Website or the Service, you consent to collection, storage, and use of the personal information you provide for any of the services that we offer, and you consent to our collection of any changes or updates that you may provide to any information you provide that is collected by Thinklance Edtech.
COOKIES
We may use cookies to manage our users’ sessions and to store preferences, tracking information, and language selection. Cookies may be used whether you register with us or not. “Cookies” are small text files transferred by a web server to your hard drive and thereafter stored on your computer. The types of information a cookie collects include the date and time you visited, your browsing history, your preferences, and your username. In some instances, our third-party service providers may use cookies on the Website. We cannot control or access cookies used by third- party service providers. This Privacy Policy covers only Cookies used by us, and not any cookies used by third parties. You have the ability to either accept or decline the use of cookies on your computer, whether you are registered with us or not. Typically, you can configure your browser to not accept cookies. However, declining the use of cookies may limit your access to certain features of the Website. For example, you may have difficulty logging in or using certain interactive features of the Website, such as the Thinklance Edtech Forum or Comments feature
THIRD PARTIES
We use third-party service providers to assist us in measuring purchases and sales on our Website and generally improving our Website and to monitor our users’ interests and activities. You hereby authorize Thinklance Edtech and/or third party service providers engaged by Thinklance Edtech to collect, use, store, analyse, reproduce, publish, and adapt (either on its own or through third party service provider) the information in relation to your use of the Website for the purpose of data analysis and for improving your experience on the Website. In addition, the Website may occasionally contain links to Third-Party Sites or provide you information in relation to services that you may avail from any third parties. Information about services that you may choose to avail from these third party service providers may be actively provided to you by Thinklance Edtech in any manner including through its various marketing and communication channels. You acknowledge that this is solely undertaken by Thinklance Edtech to improve your experience in relation to the use of the Website and the provision of such services shall be subject to such additional terms and conditions of Thinklance Edtech and/or third party service providers. Thinklance Edtech may also offer for free or for a fee, deliverables produced by third party service providers in furtherance of any services that you may have availed from these third party service providers in connection with the advertisement posted on the Website, without any obligation (monetary or otherwise) towards you. Thinklance Edtech shall not be responsible for any service availed by you from such third parties or any payment made by you to such third parties in connection with the services. Any concern or claims in relation to such services should be directed by you to such third parties. If you click on the links to Third-Party Websites, you leave the Website. We are not responsible for the content of these Third-Party Websites or for the security of your personal information when you use the Third Party Websites. These third-party service providers and Third-howParty Sites may have their own privacy policies governing the storage and retention of your personal information that you may be subject to. They may collect information such as your IP address, browser specification, or operating system. This Privacy Policy does not govern personal information provided to, stored on, or used by these third- party providers and Third-Party Sites. We recommend that when you enter a Third-Party Site, you review the Third Party Site’s privacy policy as it relates to safeguarding your personal information. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to the Website and Third-Party Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. By publishing an ad on the Website, you acknowledge and agree that the Content is public and accessible by any third party and that they may appear in search engine results (such as Yahoo!, MSN, Google, and other search engines) and in the cache of those search engines, in feeds and Third-Party Websites pursuant to co-branding agreements, and that it is the sole responsibility of each of those search engines, Third-Party Websites or RSS web feed resources to update and/or to remove Content from their indexes and their cache. You agree and acknowledge that Thinklance Edtech is not liable for the information published in search results or by any Third-Party Website that carries Thinklance Edtech postings.
HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION USED?
We may use information provided by you to: (i) enforce our Terms of Use, monitor user activity such as keyword searches, and more effectively manage traffic on the Website (ii) provide customer services, create and manage user accounts and (iii) assist you with technical difficulties. Also, we may share with third-party service providers certain information, such as your browser capabilities or operating system, that we have collected in order to better understand which advertisements and services may interest you. We may block users located in certain countries from using the Website. We may retain such information for as long as is required to fulfil our business objective, even after your account is terminated.
PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You are a valued customer, and we recognize that protecting your privacy is important to you. For this reason, we are committed to protecting the personal information you provide in a variety of ways. We do not directly process any payments and do not store your credit card information. Secured Socket Layer (“SSL”) technology is used for processing payment transactions with third- party service provider partners. Your Registration Information may be protected by a unique customer password and user ID. You should not disclose your password information to anyone and you should always remember to log off if using a shared computer. Lastly, you may utilize the Website as an anonymous user by not registering. We have taken certain security protections in safeguarding your personal information. However, as with most electronic transactions, no method is 100% safe. While we strive to use a commercially acceptable means to protect the personal information you provide, we cannot guarantee its security. Therefore, you acknowledge and agree that we assume no liability regarding the theft, loss, alteration or misuse of personal or other information or Content, including, without limitation, such information that has been provided to third parties or other users, or with regards to the failure of a third party to abide by the agreement between us and such third party. You may participate in our Forum or utilize our Comments feature. For postings to the Forum, your username will be posted. For postings using the Comments feature, your name and email will only be posted if you provide it in the comment. We strongly discourage posting any information on these features or in any Content posted by you that you do not want others to see. You agree that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password, and all uses of your account, whether or not you have authorized such use.
ACCESSING AND MODIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may access, remove, review, and/or make changes to personal information that you have provided to us. If you register or respond to listings or posts on the Website or post any content on the Website, we may send you certain notifications, listings, promotions, surveys, text messages, specials and phone calls in relation to the Services. You hereby unconditionally allow us and our service providers to contact you via text messages or by phone calls and agree that you shall have no claim against Thinklance Edtech or its service providers under any applicable law. We may also send you any legally required notifications and certain notifications, including but not limited to, service related notices or notices regarding a change to any of our policies. For example, we may send you a notice regarding server problems or scheduled maintenance to the Website. In order to opt-out of receiving these notices, you may need to deactivate your account. You can opt out of certain e-mail communications from us, including our newsletters. We will not change your preferences without your consent. You cannot opt out of receiving transactional communications from Thinklance Edtech related to your account.
DISCLOSURES
On rare occasions, we may be required to disclose your personal information due to legal or regulatory requirements. In such instances, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required in order to comply with our legal obligations, including but not limited to complying with court orders, warrants, subpoenas, service of process requirements, or discovery requests. We may also disclose information about our users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms and/or Privacy Policy respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Thinklance Edtech, our users or the general public. You agree and acknowledge that we may not inform you prior to or after disclosures made according to this section. If substantially all of our assets are sold or merged into another company, the acquiring company shall be given access to your personal information without your consent. If we sell only a part of our business, the acquiring entity shall have access to your personal information without your consent and we may send you a notice regarding this sale.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We reserve the right to change these Terms from time to time, and at our sole discretion. We may send you a notice regarding material changes to these Terms, including the Privacy Policy or the Website. You should make note of the “last updated date” at the beginning of the Terms. With this information, you should be able to identify if the Terms have been updated recently.
DISPUTES
Any disputes regarding your privacy are subject to the Terms, including but not limited to any provisions related to indemnification, limitations on damages, and choice of law and forum.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Thinklance Edtech via mailto:support@thinklance.in This Privacy policy is subject to the terms of the (User agreement) of Thinklance Edtech. This policy is effective from the date and time a user registers with Thinklance Edtech by filling up the Registration form and accepting the terms and conditions laid out in the terms of use. In order to provide a personalised browsing experience, Thinklance Edtech may collect personal information from you. Additionally some of our websites may require you to complete a registration form or seek some information from you. When you let us have your preferences, we will be able to deliver or allow you to access the most relevant information that meets your end.To extend this personalized experience Thinklance Edtech may track the IP address of a user’s computer and save certain information on your system in the form of cookies. A user has the option of accepting or declining the cookies of this website by changing the settings of your browser. The personal information provided by the users to Thinklance Edtech will not be provided to third parties without previous consent of the user concerned. Information of a general nature may however be revealed to external parties.Every effort will be made to keep the information provided by users in a safe manner, the information will be displayed on the website will be done so only after obtaining consent from the users. Any user browsing the site generally is not required to disclose his identity or provide any information about him/her, it is only at the time of registration you will be required to furnish the details in the registration form. Thinklance Edtech fully complies with all Indian Laws applicable. Thinklance Edtech has always cooperated with all law enforcement inquires. Thinklance Edtech may disclose all or part of your personal details in response to a request from the law enforcement authorities or in a case of bonafide requirement to prevent an imminent breach of the law.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
By using our Service, you consent to the collection, use and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If this Privacy Policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.Your Comments Are well appreciated. If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy or our website, you can send us an email at mailto:support@thinklance.in This Privacy Policy was last updated on 30th of March 2019.