Privacy Policy
Introduction.
- We, at Empower Youth Foundation and DSB EduTechPvt. Ltd. (hereinafter the group shall be referred to as the “Company”) are committed to follow highest standards of industry practices and we value our users and respect their privacy. This document contains the privacy policy of the website EmpowerYouth.com, EmpowerYouthAndroid and IOS mobile applications (hereinafter referred to as the “Application”) which is owned and operated by the Company. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, whenever the context so requires, “you” and “user” shall mean any natural or legal person who browses through the Website or avail services through the website and the terms “we”, “us” and “our” shall mean the Company.When you use our website, certain information and data such as your IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, the duration and time of your use of our website, services, programs and systems used on our website or any other information or data voluntarily provided by you on our website may be saved and stored on our server.
- This Privacy Policy delineates our ways of collecting, using, storing and managing your information and data. By using our website, you consent to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy and you further consent to the use and disclosure of any information and data including personal information in accordance with the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, therefore, it is advised to you to read this policy before using our website.
- We use your data to provide and improve our Website or Application. By using our Website or Application, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.
1.Information Collection
- We collect several types of information to provide and improve our services to you and various other purposes as provided under this Privacy Policy.
- a) Personal Data
- While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personal information may include without limitation name, email address, name, phone number, complete address, date of birth, financial information, educational and professional information etc. The personal information is collected and stored by us only if you voluntarily provide such information on the Website or Application.
- b) Payment Information
- We will not store or collect your payment card details in case you use payable services on our Website or Application. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
- c) Other Information
- We also collect information such as cookies, log data and third-party analytics for data collection and analysis that your browser sends whenever you use our Website or Application. This information may include without limitation information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, pages of our Website or Application that you visit, time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data, mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
- You may instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website or Application if you do not accept cookies.
- (Wondering what a Cookie is? When You browse on a Website using a browser, certain data generated by the Website is stored on the browser to remember information about you. This is done so as to recognize your device and set your preferences as per your usage of the Website. We use session and persistent cookies wherein session cookies enable you to stay logged in on the Website and persistent cookies recognize you every time you return.)
- We may use and store information about your location if you give us the permission to do so. You can enable or disable location tracking when you use our Website or Application at any time by way of your device settings.
2. Retention Of Data
- The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as it’s necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
- We will also retain certain Data for internal analysis purposes. Information, other than personal information, is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website and Application, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
- We will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
3. Disclosure Of Data
- We will not voluntarily disclose your information or data stored with us to any third party who is not connected with the Company but in certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose any or all information.
- a. Business Transaction
- If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will, however, duly notify you before transferring your Personal Data, which (thereon) becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
- b. Disclosure for Law Enforcement
- Under certain circumstances, Company may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law enforcement agencies, Government authorities or any other party if so required by court order, under any law enforced from time to time, in good faith or to enforce the terms of use or privacy policy of this website.
- c. Legal Requirements
- We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of the Company, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website or mobile application, to protect the personal safety of users of the Website or Application or the public, protect against legal liability.
4. Use Of Data
- a. By the Company
- We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
- We collect all such information to provide and maintain our services, notify you about changes to our services, allow you to participate in interactive features of our website and application when you choose to do so, provide customer support, gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website and application, monitor the usage of our website and detect, prevent and address technical issues.
- To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- b. By the Third-party Service Provider
- Web Analytics: We may use third-party service providers to monitor and use our website or application to track and report website traffic. The web analytics service provider such as Google Analytics, Firebase, Statcounter, Flurry Analytics, Mixpanel, Unity Analytics may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the adds of it own advertising network. Kindly refer to the privacy practices of these web analytics service providers to understand the usage of your data by these service providers. You can access the Privacy Policy and the terms of use of these service providers on their respective websites.
- Behavioral Remarketing: The Company uses remarketing services to advertise on third party website to you after you use our website or mobile application. We and our third-party vendors, including Google Ads, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook and Pintrest, use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past usage of our Website or Application. You may choose to opt-out from receiving these by following the instructions on each website for it. The instructions for the same along with the Privacy Policy and the terms of use of these service providers can be accessed on their respective websites.
- If you want to delete the account from our website, just write us an email on info@empoweryouth.com stating the reason to delete the account.
5. THIRD-PARTY Website and Contents Thereof
- Our website and application may link to third-party website and services that are outside our control. Such third-party websites may collect and store information and data about the user. The Company takes no responsibility for the privacy practices followed by these websites or the content available thereof. The company takes no liability for any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly for use of such website by browsing or by transacting through it.
6. DISCLAIMER
- We do not collect any personal information and data of any individual except when such individual voluntarily share information and data on our website. Upon such voluntary disclosure of information and data, we may further verify and collate the information and data from information available in public domain (as permitted by law) in order to prevent cases of identity theft, fraud etc. We may receive your information and data through third-party websites if you are connected to us through those websites and services.
7. SECURITY OF DATA
- We have implemented and employed existing and necessary internet security methods and technologies in order to secure the information and data, to prevent loss and misuse of the information and to data disclosed through unauthorized access from third-party. Although we use our best endeavor to protect and secure the information and data shared or transmitted over the internet cannot be completely guaranteed; hence we cannot provide an absolute guarantee that the information and data provided by the user will be hundred percent secure and we take no responsibility for any unauthorized access of the information and data on our website.
8. PASSWORD
- The protection and confidentiality of your username and password is solely your responsibility and we recommend you to not disclose it to anyone including anyone claiming to be the representative of the Company or its affiliates. We shall not bear any responsibility or liability for such unauthorized disclosure and its consequences thereof.
9. MINOR'S PRIVACY
- Our website and applicationdo not address anyone under the age of 18 years ('Minor'). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 years. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that a minor who has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take immediate steps to remove that information from our servers.
10. AMENDMENTS
- We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the 'effective date' at the top of this Privacy Policy.
CONTACT US
- If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: info@empoweryouth.com