Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Scope and Application

This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract drafted under the provisions of the (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000, the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, and once fully in effect, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and rules thereunder, as amended from time to time (“Privacy Policy”).

The terms ‘We/Us/Our’ refer to SIFF Ventures Pvt. Ltd., operating under the brand name PARIKSHE, with its registered office at Ground Floor, A Wing, Indiqube Alpha, 19/4 & 27, Varthur Hobli, Kadubeesanahalli, Panathur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103. The terms ‘You/Your/Yourself’ refer to the users, members, or any other persons accessing or using our Platform and/ or our Services. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the terms “Platform” and “Services” shall have the meanings attributed to them in our Terms of Use.

This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between You and Us, governing the collection, usage, protection, and sharing of any information provided by You while accessing/ using our Platform and/ or Services. We have created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. 

This Privacy Policy is an electronic document and does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature. This Privacy Policy should be read alongside other policies published on the Platform, including the Terms of Use (collectively referred to as the “Policies”). By accessing or using the Platform and/ or our Services, You acknowledge and consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If You disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy, please refrain from using the Platform and/ or Services.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not govern information provided to Us outside the Platform.

Our Commitment

We are committed to protecting Your privacy to all possible, reasonable and commercial extent ensuring that Your personal data is safeguarded and handled responsibly. Your trust is of utmost importance to us, and we take the responsibility of managing your information seriously.

We collect certain types of information to provide, maintain, and enhance the Services and features available on the Platform. Therefore, We strongly urge You to fully understand this Privacy Policy to make informed decisions regarding the information You share with Us.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following categories of information:

1. Personally Identifiable Information (or PII):
   • Name, email address, phone number, and any other identifiers you provide when creating an account or otherwise.
   • Demographic details such as age, gender, and educational background.

1. Payment Information:
   • Billing details, including credit/ debit card information or other payment methods used to purchase courses or our Services.

1. Usage Data:
   • Information about how You use the Platform, such as activity logs, content preferences, and interactions. We may use this information to customize our Platform and Services based on such information as provided by you.

1. Device Information:
   • Details about the device used to access the Platform, including IP address, browser type, operating system, and mobile network information. We may use all of this information to help diagnose any problems (including with our servers), as well as to administer our Services and the Platform.

1. Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
   • Data collected through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to enhance user experience and analyze usage patterns.

Please note that if we do combine non-personal information (or NPI) with PII, then the combined information will be treated as PII for as long as it remains combined.

We may also collect other non-specific information to provide you better access to the Services each time such preferences and interests and other NPI are shared with us. We may also store and publish such information to assist us in making the Platform and Services better and easier to use.

How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

1. For our internal operational purposes, such as providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving the Platform and the Services (including course recommendations and personalized learning experiences), and also for providing customer support.
2. To process transactions and send confirmations related to purchases or registrations.
3. To communicate with You, including sending updates, newsletters, or promotional materials.
4. To ensure compliance with legal obligations and resolve disputes.
5. To monitor and analyze usage trends, ensuring a secure and efficient user experience.

Sharing of Information

Our primary goal in collecting the information is for us to facilitate better access to the Platform and render Services to you, and to ensure quality and efficiency in the Services provided to you. Additionally, we may share Your information with third parties under the following circumstances:

1. Service Providers:
   • With trusted third-party vendors who support our business, such as our consultants, service providers and contractors, or those providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our Services are used, measuring the effectiveness of the Platform, providing customer support and business support services, facilitating payments, or conducting research and surveys, and such information will be used for the limited purposes of such services received by us.

1. Legal Compliance:
   • When required to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request including to law enforcement and in response to a court order, (ii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, technical or security issues, (iii) enforce applicable Policies of the Platform, which may be further extended to investigation of potential violations thereof, (iv) protect against harm to our rights, safety or property, our users or the public as required or permitted by law, or (v) protect ourselves against third-party claims.

1. Business Transfers:
   • In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of Our business assets or other such corporate restructuring processes.

We ensure that any third-party recipients of Your information are obligated to protect Your data under reasonable security measures.

Please note that we do not and will not trade or sell your PII in any manner.

Information Security and Data Retention

We take precautions, including without limitation, administrative, technical and physical measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, misuse or theft, as well as against destruction, alteration, disclosure and unauthorized access. Specifically, while we will ensure our best efforts to protect your information in line with commercially reasonable efforts and general industry standards, however, we do not represent, warrant, or guarantee that your information will be protected against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alterations beyond our reasonable control.

You understand and agree that we may continue to store your information after you cease use of the Services or disable your use of, access to, or otherwise of the Services or the Platform. Please note that we shall not use, share or/ and disclose your PII with our affiliates, vendors, third parties etc., after you cease use of the Services or disable your use of, access to, or otherwise of the Services or the Platform, unless required by law to do so. NPI will be retained indefinitely, and we may however continue to use, share and/ or disclose your NPI in furtherance of our Policies.

Your Rights

You have the following rights regarding Your personal information:

1. Access, Correction and Erasure:
   • Request access to the information We hold about You and seek corrections for any inaccuracies as well as erasure.

1. Grievance Redressal:
   • Grievance redressal in respect of any act or omission regarding the performance of Our obligations in relation to the personal data; or the exercise of Your rights under the applicable law.

1. Withdrawal of Consent:
   • Withdraw consent for data processing at any time.

1. Account Deletion:
   • Request deletion of Your account and associated data.
2. Other rights:
   • You are entitled to such other rights as stipulated under the applicable law.

Security Practices

We employ industry-standard security measures to protect Your information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. We regularly test Our systems for vulnerabilities, ensuring Your information is collected and retained only as necessary. While We strive to maintain robust security, no system is entirely secure, and We cannot guarantee absolute protection.

Links to/ from third-party websites

The Platform may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. Information collected by third parties (which may include without limitation information such as contact details), is governed by the privacy practices undertaken by such third parties. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties. We expressly assert that We cannot be responsible for these practices.

We may have presence on social networking websites including but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and blogs which are promotional and business initiatives to attract, engage and connect to a larger group of people. The domain links contained therein may either direct You to Our Platform or request Your participation by way of feedback, suggestions, etc. We, in this regard, fully disclaim any liability(ies) or claim(s), which may arise by use/ misuse of your feedback, suggestions, views, etc. on any of the aforementioned networking websites or blogs, by any third party whether or not known to Us.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify, amend, suspend, terminate or replace this Privacy Policy from time to time within our sole discretion.  Such changes will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Platform.

We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy frequently. By Your continued use of the Platform and availing of Our Services, You consent to the terms of the revised/ updated Privacy Policy.

Governing Law

We are incorporated in, and based out of the Republic of India, and We are duty bound to abide by Indian laws. We may not have complied with some privacy laws of other countries and further represent to be unaware of such other legal requirements. 

Further, any disputes regarding this Privacy Policy shall be subject to exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Bangalore, India.

Grievances

In case of breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed, We have the mechanisms and policies in place in order to identify it and assess it promptly.  Depending on the outcome of Our assessment, We will make the requisite notifications to the supervisory authorities and communications to the affected data subjects, which might include You.

In accordance with the legal requirements, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer who can be contacted with respect to any complaints or concerns including those pertaining to breach of this Privacy Policy and other Policies are published as under:

Data Privacy Officer/ Grievance Officer Name: [ Prashanth Sai Rapelli ]

Email address: [ contactus@parikshe.in ]

Phone number: [ 6366548224 ]

Address: [ Ground Floor, A Wing, Indiqube Alpha, 19/4 & 27, Varthur Hobli, Kadubeesanahalli, Panathur,   Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103 ]

The Data Privacy/ Grievance Officer can be contacted between 10am to 5pm (IST) from Monday to Friday except on public holidays.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of Your information, please contact Us at:

SIFF Ventures Pvt. Ltd.
Ground Floor, A Wing, Indiqube Alpha, 19/4 & 27, Varthur Hobli, Kadubeesanahalli, Panathur,   Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103
Email: contactus@parikshe.in.
Phone: +91- 6366548224

Thank You for trusting PARIKSHE with Your data. We remain committed to providing a secure and enriching learning experience.