Privacy Policy
UPDATED ON 24th May 2021
This Privacy Policy discloses the
privacy practices for Blade Learner(“We/we” or “Us/us”) with regard to Your
(“You/you” or “Your/your”) use of the online platform www.bladelearner.com
(“Website”). This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use describes our current practices
regarding, including your choices in relation to how we collect, compile,
store, use, share and secure your personal information across our Website. It
also describes your choices regarding access, use and correction of personal
information and your rights in relation to your personal information and how
you can contact us or authorities in the event you have a grievance or
complaint. By visiting www.bladelearner.com, you agree to be bound by the terms
and conditions of this Privacy Policy. Kindly go through this Privacy Policy
carefully. By using the Website, you indicate that you understand and abide by
this Policy. If you are not in agreement with the terms and conditions of this
Privacy Policy, kindly do not access this Website. We ensure to review this
Privacy Policy from time to time so that it is updated. If you are just a
visitor, then kindly note that this Policy is subject to change at any time
without notice. To ensure that you are aware of any changes in the Policy,
please review this Policy from time to time. By Personal Data, we mean any
information that can either itself identify you as an individual.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
As a visitor, you can browse
through our Website to find out more about Blade Learner. You are not required
to provide us with any Personal Data if you are merely a visitor. When you
visit the Site, we collect and store certain information in order to increase
security, analyse developments and administer the Website with a view to help
us in making customer experience better. We utilise this information to analyse
traffic patterns on our Website so as to make it more beneficial for our
visitors. We collect your Personal Data only when you register with us, when
you are interested in obtaining information regarding our products and
services, when you participate in activities on our Website or contact us. We
will only collect your Personal Information if there is a proper and valid
reason for doing so, for instance : to comply with our regulatory and legal
obligations; for the performance of our contract with you or to take the
required steps at your request before entering into a legal contract; for our
legitimate interests or where you have given consent. A legitimate interest is
when we have a valid commercial or business reason to use your information. In
certain cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal data
from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your
interests or those of another individual (for instance, in order to prevent
payment fraud or confirm your identity). Our primary objective in collecting
your Personal Information is to provide you a safe, effective, seamless and
customized experience. This allows us to provide online courses, study material
and tutorials that most likely meet your needs and to customize our Website to
make your experience easier, better and safer. The information we gather from
you helps us personalize and continually improve customer experience at our
Website. We do not voluntarily make this information available to any third
parties, nor do we use it for any other objective, except as set out herein. In
order to register on our website or complete the purchase process of one of our
courses, we may collect the following information that you will voluntarily
provide to us through one of our contact forms, chat or phone session, such as:
- Information pertaining to personal details,
like name, email id, photograph, contact address, contact number, IP
address or geographic location
- Information pertaining to identity, like your
mark-sheets, Aadhar /Voter ID/ Passport details;
- Information pertaining to billing, like
credit/debit card number and billing address;
- Username or password;
- Ratings or reviews, syllabus/ course
preferences, account settings; and
- Information provided to us through interaction
with customer service, surveys or promotions.
We collect data about your
interactions with us and also the information regarding the device (Laptop,
computer, mobile, etc) used to access our service. This information contains
your activity on our Website, and search queries; your interactions details
with customer service, and if you call us , your contact number and recordings
of your calls; device IDs or other unique identifiers, device and software
characteristics, connection information, statistics regarding page views,
referral URLs, IP address, browser and web server log information, and
information collected via the use of cookies. With the aid of back end applications,
we strive to provide better services and quality interaction with teachers,
depending on your interest. We may also seek this information at other
instances, such as when you enter contests or other marketing promotions
sponsored by us and/or our partners. If you use a functionality that requires
fee payment, options will appear. In case of payments via credit or debit card,
we will redirect you to registered payment gateway razorpay or paytm. You may
store and save your payment details like card numbers with the gateway. We
cannot access this data. All payment transactions are processed through secure
payment gateway providers. When you access any of our paid products, we store
information about the web pages on our servers. This helps us to track items
that have been completed by you, and those that you need to see. The user’s
full name and his/her display picture can be publicly displayed on the Website.
Blade Learner can seek more information regarding billing information, address,
certificates, etc depending on what profile and what services they are seeking.
Blade Learner can use technologies like cookies, clear gifs, log files, etc to
help understand how you interact with our site and services, so as to render a
better experience.
USAGE AND RETENTION OF
INFORMATION
We use the personal information
we collect, including your Personal Data where it is necessary to render the
services requested by you, where it is necessary to comply with legal
obligations or rights or for normal business purposes of the kind set out in
this Policy. We will use your personal information to provide, analyse and
improve our offerings, to provide you with a customized experience on our
Website, to contact you about your account and our services, to render customer
service, to provide you with personalized marketing and to any fraudulent or
illegal activities. In addition to this, we use your personal information to
figure out your general geographic location, provide localized course content
and classes, recommendations, determine your ISP, and help us quickly and
efficiently respond to queries and enforcing our terms and communicate with you
concerning our service (for example by email, push notifications, text
messaging ,and online messaging channels), so that we can provide you details
about latest features and content available on the Website, offers, and
promotions, surveys, and to assist you with operational requests like password
reset requests.
COMMUNITY
Blade Learner is a community,
wherein we offer a number of features that allow members to connect and
communicate in public or semi-public spaces, such as Forums and Teams. Please
use your judgment before posting in these community spaces or sharing your personal
information with others on Blade Learner. You should be aware that any personal
information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by others, or
could be used to send you unsolicited messages.
SHARING AND DISCLOSING PERSONAL
INFORMATION
We use other Service Providers to
perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services
to you. We engage these Service Providers to provide promotional,
infrastructure and IT services, to personalize and optimize our service, to process
payment transactions, to provide customer service, to analyze and enhance data,
and to conduct consumer surveys. In the process of providing such services,
these Service Providers may have access to your personal or other information.
We do not authorize them to use or disclose your personal information except in
relation to providing their services.
Note to our users in Europe:
We transfer your personal
information from the European Economic Area and Switzerland to India. By
submitting your data and/or using our services, you consent to the transfer,
storing, and processing of your personal information in India.
SECURITY
We shall make an effort to take all precautions to shield the personal information both online and offline. We will try to protect your information using security measures to reduce the risks of loss and misuse of data. We have standard SSL certification which basically helps us create a secure connection between our server and user to render any information or action. Some of the protective measures we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres and information access authorization controls. Only user passwords are encrypted in 64-bit encryption and stored because generally users use the same password on multiple sites, to prevent any kind of theft, piracy or unauthorised access. If you think that your Blade Learner account has been compromised, you can contact us by writing an email to contactbladelearner@gmail.com.
There is no refund policy (refund would be proceed only in case if you have made payment more than once for the same item).
