Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy shall be read in conjunction and together with the Terms of Use / User Agreement and forms an integral part of the User Agreement between You ( “User(s) or you” ) and Vidhya (“We/Our/Us/Vidhya”). Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning attributed to them under the Terms of Use / User Agreement
1. Vidhya Terms of Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy describes how and when Vidhya collects, processes, uses and shares your information when you use Vidhya, including our mobile applications and websites (the "Services"). Vidhya receives your information through our mobile applications, websites, email notifications, and other interactions with our Services. By accessing and/or using the Services, you consent and authorize us to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any or all of the following terms of the Privacy Policy, please Do Not Use and/or access the Services.
2. Contact Us You can contact us for any query relating to the Services at support@vidhya.live For questions specifically about this Privacy Policy, or our use of your Personal Information, please contact us by email at dpt@vidhya.live The terms "Personal Information" and "Sensitive Personal Data or Information" shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the applicable laws of India (including without limitations, Information Technology Act, 2000 and amendment thereof).
3. Personal Data Collection and Use We use Personal Information to facilitate and improve our Services and communicate with you following existing regulations, while data integrity, accuracy, relevancy and legally justified processing are ensured. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us, the choices you make, including your privacy settings, and the products and features listed below (collectively “Personal Information” or “Personal Data”):
3.1 General Information The general data we collect can include SDK/API/JS code version, browser, Internet service provider, IP address, platform, timestamp, application identifier, application version, application distribution channel, independent device identifier, Android ad master identifier, network card (MAC) address, and international mobile device identification code (IMEI) the equipment model, the terminal manufacturer, the terminal device operating system version, the session start / stop time, the location of the language, the time zone and the network state (WiFi and so on).
3.2 Content, Following, and other Public Information Vidhya is a digital educational platform which offers a wide range of content for educational purposes including without limitations, audio, visual, audiovisual and gamified content, so most of the information you provide us is information that you choose to be made public. This includes not only the content that you post and data provided with such content, such as when it was posted, but also the accounts you follow, the content that you like or comment on, and other public interactions on the Services. Your public information is broadly and instantly disseminated. For instance, your profile information and public content are immediately delivered to a wide range of users and other services that access Vidhya. When you share information or content via the Services, you should think carefully about what you are making public.
3.3 Location Information In addition to profile information, you may also tell us your exact location if you choose to enable your computer or mobile device to send us location information. We may use and store information about your location to manage content copyright and exploitation restrictions applicable to your location and to also provide features of our Services, such as tagging a video with a location, and to improve and customize the Services, for example, with content that has been tagged near your location.
3.4 Links We may keep track of how you interact with links across our Services, including our email notifications, third-party services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do this to help improve our Services, for example to provide relevant advertising, and to be able to share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.
3.5 Cookies Like many websites, we use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services such as viewing public videos. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer's hard disk. Vidhya may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our Services, and to customize and improve our Services. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. If you do not want cookies from Vidhya or other websites, you can instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. However, some Services may not function properly if you disable cookies.
3.6 Log Data Our servers automatically record information ("Log Data") created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device and application IDs, search terms, and cookie information. We receive Log Data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, view videos hosted by Vidhya, or interact with our email notifications. Vidhya uses Log Data to provide our Services and to measure, customize, and improve them. If not already done earlier, we will either delete Log Data or remove any common account identifiers, such as your username, full IP address, or email address, after 18 months or such other period as required by us.
3.7 Other Non-Personal Identification Information We do not collect the "Personal Information" which can identify you or another person. We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our apps. Non-personal identification information may include the type of your phone, apps and other technical information about Users means of connection to our apps, such as the versions of phone model and other similar information.
3.8 Third-Party Services Vidhya uses a variety of third-party services to help provide our Services, including to host our various blogs and wikis and to help us understand the use of our Services. These third-party service providers may use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Services and other websites and services, including your IP address, device ID, pages viewed, and links clicked. Our service providers include Google Analytics and its demographics and interests reporting feature, which you can opt out of here and here.
Vidhya also use Facebook ad support: https://m.facebook.com/ads/ad_choices.
Vidhya also uses YouTube API Services in some of it's products. That means if you are using a Vidhya's service which makes use of Youtube APIs, then you are agreeing to the YouTube Terms of Service & Google Privacy Policy as well.
3.9 Interest-Based Ads In order to provide with a personalized advertisement experience to you, third parties, including Facebook, may collect or receive information from our app and other apps and use that information to improve services and targeted ads.
On your Android, you can change your device settings to control whether you see online interest-based ads from Facebook and other companies. On your Android (versions 2.2 and up) and Google Play Services (versions 4.0 and up): • Go to Google Settings • Tap Ads • Tap Opt out of interest-based ads and tap OK
Based on your choice on Admob ad personalization consent page, Admob & its partners will deliver personalized ads or non-personalized ads to you while using our Services. But, if you ever change your mind in the future, you can easily change your choice about interest-based ads anytime by: • Tap Help menu in our app • Tap Ad Preferences and make your choice • Revisit our Services
4. Sensitive Personal Data and Information Vidhya will never ask you and you must never provide sensitive Vidhya will never ask you and you must never provide Sensitive Personal Data Or Information to Vidhya or to any person/entity representing Vidhya. Any disclosure of Sensitive Personal Data Or Information shall be at your sole risk and without any liability to Vidhya (including its directors, key managerial personnel, officers and employees). You understand, acknowledge and agree that Vidhya or any other person acting on behalf of Vidhya shall not in any manner be responsible for the authenticity of the Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information provided by you to Vidhya.
You must note that any information that is freely available or accessible in public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force shall not be regarded as Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy and Vidhya shall not be obliged to take any measures to protect the same since the same is freely available in the public domain. Please further note that identity theft and the practice currently known as "phishing" are of great concern to Vidhya. We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information/debit card information/financial pin numbers and passwords.
5. Information Sharing and Disclosure To improve our products and provide you with better service, We also share Personal Data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For example, companies we've hired to provide data analytical services may need collect and access to Personal Data to provide those functions. In such cases, these companies must abide by our data privacy and security requirements.
5.1 Your Consent We may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you choose to publicly post a video or update your profile information.
5.2 Service Providers We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in India and abroad. We may share your Personal Information with such service providers subject to confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy, and on the condition that the third parties use your Personal Data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions.
5.3 Law and Harm Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Vidhya’s rights or property. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party's, including a government's, request to disclose your information.
5.4 Business Transfers In the event that Vidhya is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity. By providing your information to us, you consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
5.5 International Transfers Our business may require us to transfer your personal data to countries outside India. We take appropriate reasonable efforts and steps to ensure that recipients of your personal data are bound to duties of confidentiality.
5.6 Non-Private or Non-Personal Information We may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as your public user profile information, public posts, the people you follow or that follow you, or the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did).
6. Age of Consent and Child Policy Our Services is primarily meant for the Users who have attained the age of 13 years or above and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents (not less than 13 years) to use and access our Services. If you access our Services, then you shall be bound by our Age Suitability Terms.
7. Our Policy Towards Children Our Services are not directed to minors who are under the age of 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please email to support@vidhya.live We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
8. Legal Basis for Personal Data Processing We process Personal Data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, as described above. Our legal basis to process Personal Data includes processing that is: necessary for the performance of the contract with you (for example, to provide you with the services you request and to identify and authenticate you so you may use our Service); necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example, to comply with applicable accounting rules and to make mandatory disclosures to law enforcement); necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, to manage our relationship with you, to ensure the security of our services, to communicate with you about our products and services); and based on consent by our customers (for example, to place certain cookies and to share your information with third parties for advertising purposes).In some instances, you may be required to provide us with Personal Data for processing as described above, in order for us to be able to provide you all of our services, and for you to use all the features of our Services.
9. Third Party Websites / Apps Our Service may contain links to other websites/services owned and operated by third parties which are not under the control of Vidhya ("Third-Party Websites/Apps"). Any Third Party Websites/App you visit by a link from our Service is solely the responsibility of owners of such Third Party Websites/Apps. The content of, including materials and information contained on, any Third Party Websites/Apps to which you link from our Service is solely the responsibility of the owner and provider of such Third Party Websites/Apps. Any transactions that you enter into with a third party listed in this Service or linked from our Service are solely between you and owner/provider of such Third Party Websites/Apps. Vidhya is and shall not be responsible for any such Third Party Websites/Apps, any products or services sold or provided by such Third Party Websites/Apps, nor the organizations publishing those Third Party Websites/Apps, and hereby disclaim any responsibility and liability for the same. The inclusion of any links does not constitute or imply an endorsement or recommendation by us of the Third Party Websites/Apps and the services and products offered therein, of the quality of any product or service, advice, information or other materials displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in or in connection with the Third Party Websites/Apps. Vidhya shall not be liable, accountable or responsible for your Personal Information and/or Sensitive Personal Data or Information being used or misused by such Third Party Websites/Apps.
Your access and usage of any Third Party Websites/Apps is entirely at your own risk. Vidhya shall not be a party to any transaction between you and a Third Party Websites/Apps. Your use of a Third Party Websites/Apps is subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policy of such Third Party Websites/Apps in addition to our Terms of Use/User Agreement and Privacy Policy.
10. Limited Liability Protection and security of your Personal Information is a paramount importance for us and we want the same to be as safe as possible while using and accessing our Services. To this extent, we have implemented reasonable technical safeguards to protect your Personal Information. Whilst we will take all the reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information against potential risks and exposures, there is no absolute security in the online/ internet sphere as known to public. Therefore, you must not disclose any information on our Services that is Sensitive Personal Data or Information. You understand that the transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure and there are risks associated with it. Although we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of the same while it is being transmitted to our Services and any transmission is at your own risk.
11. Support If you do not consent to any part of the terms of this Privacy Policy or wish to withdraw consent to process Your Personal Data then you may stop using the Services and ask us to remove your Personal Data from our records by writing to us at support@vidhya.live. However, if you so withdraw, we might be unable to provide certain services. You may also request to know or edit any Personal Information about yourself stored with us by writing to us at support@vidhya.live
In case you have any grievance with respect to your unaddressed request by us in relation to your Personal Information, you can send an email notification to our grievance officer at dpt@vidhya.live who will ensure redressing your complaints at the earliest but in no event later than thirty day(s) from the date or receipt of complaint.
You have full control regarding which emails you want to receive from us if you have registered your email with us. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such emails from us, please write to us instructing an Opt-Out. Please note that once we receive your request, it may take an additional period of time for Your opt-out to become effective.
12. Changes to this Policy We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time without any further notification (except for material changes). The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your Personal Information and will always be at https://www.vidhya.live/privacy-policy . If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an email to the email address associated with your account or through the Services. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.