Parentof Privacy Policy

This privacy policy governs your use of the application ‘Parentof App’ (‘Application’), www.parentof.com (‘Website/app’) and the other associated applications, products, Website/apps and services managed by the Company (Parentof Solutions Pvt. Ltd.).

This Privacy Policy is in accordance with applicable global privacy laws, such as the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA) and outlines our practices regarding information collected from and about children who use our Services.

You should always check with your parents or guardians before giving out any information about you, especially before entering information on any Website/app mobile application, or online service. In case you are an adult, this privacy policy applies to our collection and processing of your data.

For more information on what you as a parent or guardian can do to control your child’s access to or use of our Services, please see the “Parental Control and Choices” section of this Privacy Policy.

Please read this privacy policy (‘Policy’) carefully before using the Application, Website/app, our services and products, along with the Terms and conditions (‘TnC’) provided on the Application and the Website/app. Your use of the Website/app, Application, or services in connection with the Application, Website/app or products (‘Services’), or registrations with us through any modes or usage of any products shall signify your acceptance of this Policy and your agreement to be legally bound by the same.

Parentof (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates ‘Parentof App’ (‘Application’), www.parentof.com (‘Website/app’) and the other associated applications, products, Website/apps and services managed by the Company (Parentof Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) (the “Service”). This page, along with terms and conditions, informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. It also describes your selections regarding access, use and correction of your personal information and your rights with respect to your personal information. It also updates you of the process to contact us or supervisory authorities in case you have any grievances.

By using the service, you agree to the privacy policy. By using the services, you consent that you understand and agree to this privacy policy. Please do not use the services if you do not provide your consent to the terms mentioned on the Website/app. Parentof reserves the right to review this Privacy Policy from time to time to make sure it is up-to-date. Please review this Policy periodically to make sure you are updated with the terms and conditions.

Personal Information here implies any information that can either itself identify you as an individual or that can be connected to you indirectly by linking it to details you have provided us. We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information collection

As a visitor, you can browse the Website/app to find out more about us. We do not seek any data from you when you visit us but we do collect and store certain information in order to improve security and administer the Website/app with a view to assist us in improving customer experience. We use this information to evaluate traffic patterns on our Website/app for internal purposes and metrics.

We collect your Personal Data when you register with us, when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on our Website/app or otherwise contact us. We will only collect your Personal Data if we have a valid reason for doing so, e.g.: to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract; for our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or where you have given consent. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example, to prevent payment fraud or confirm your identity Our primary goal in collecting your Personal Data and other personal information is to provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us to provide courses, study material, tutorials that most likely meet your needs and to customize our Website/app to make your experience safer and easier. We also use your Personal Identifiable Information together with other Personally Non-Identifiable Information to help us better know our users and to improve the content and functionality of our Website/app. The information we learn from you will help us personalize and continually improve your experience at our Website/app. We do not voluntarily make this information available to third parties, nor do we use it for any other purpose, except as set out herein.

When you visit our Website/app, as part of a purchase of one of our courses or registering on our Website/app, we may collect a variety of information that you will voluntarily provide to us via one of our contact forms, via a chat or phone session (Personal Identifying Information), such as:
  • Contact Information, such as name, email address, display picture, mailing address, phone number, IP address, geographic location, or phone number
  • Information to enable us to check and verify your identity, e.g. your date of birth, mark- sheets, Passport/Aadhar /Voter ID details.
  • Billing Information, such as debit card number, credit card number and billing address.
  • Unique Identifiers, such as username or password
  • Reviews or ratings, syllabus and course preferences, account settings, (including preferences set in the “Account/Profile” section of our Website/app)
  • Information provided to us through our service, interaction with our customer service, participation in surveys or marketing promotions.
We collect information about you and your use of our service, your interactions with us as well as information regarding your computer or other device used to access our service. This information includes your activity on our Website/app, such as sessions, DIY activities and search queries, details of your interactions with customer service, such as the date, time and reason for contacting us, transcripts of any chat conversations, and if you call us , your phone number and call recordings; device IDs or other unique identifiers, device and software characteristics (such as type and configuration), connection information, statistics on page views , referring source (for example, referral URLs ), IP address (which may tell us your general location), Internet Service Provider (ISP),browser and standard web server log information, information collected via the use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies. Such log files related to errors, access, etc. maybe stored on a web server.

We use performance/analytics cookies to analyse how the Sites are accessed, used, or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the Sites. Third-parties who provide us with products and services may also place cookies, ad tags and/or beacons that collect the information outlined above in order to provide us with products and services including, analytics tools (Google Analytics, Appsflyer and the likes), functionalities like playing video content, and targeted advertising. These third parties may also collect information about you from other sources and combine it with other information collected about you from third party Website/apps not partnered with us. For example, advertiser and advertising networks, as well as data analytics companies who service them, may participate in Online Behavioural Advertising and track your activity across various sites and/or devices where they display ads and record your activities, so they can show ads that they consider relevant to you.

With the help of backend applications, we aim at providing better services and better interaction with mentors, depending on the beneficiary’s line of interest. We also may ask for this information at other times, such as when you enter contests or other promotions sponsored by us and/or our partners. If you use a feature that requires payment of a fee, options like NEFT or Card will appear. In case of payments via credit or debit card, we will redirect you to registered payment gateways such as RazorPay, CCAvenue, payubiz and other such registered gateways. You may store and save your payment details like card numbers with the gateway. We do not have access to this data. All payment transactions are processed through secure payment gateway providers. We do not store any card information (other than the last 4 digits of your card) in our servers. When you use one of our products, we track the web pages, and information that has been accessed by you, and store it on our servers. This enables us to track items that you have completed, and those that you need to see.

The user’s full name and his/her display picture, work submitted on the Website/app can be publicly displayed on the Website/app. Depending on what profile and what services they are seeking, Parentof can ask for more information relating to address, billing information, certificates, past employment information etc. Parentof can use technologies such as cookies, clear gifs, log files, and flash cookies for several purposes, including to help understand how you interact with our site and services, in order to provide a better experience.

Usage and retention of information

We use the personal information we collect, including your Personal Data where it is necessary to deliver the services you have requested, where it is necessary to exercise or comply with legal rights or obligations or for normal business purposes of the kind set out in this Policy.

We will use your personal information to provide, analyse, administer and improve our services, to provide you with a personalized experience on our Website/app (especially, by offering you services that are best suited for you), to contact you about your account and our services, to provide you customer service, to provide you with personalized marketing and to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities.

We further use your personal information to determine your general geographic location, determine your Internet service provider , and help us quickly and efficiently respond to inquiries and requests and enforcing our terms (such as determining free trial eligibility) and communicate with you concerning our service (for example by email, push notifications, text messaging, and online messaging channels), so that we can send you details about new features and content available on the Website/app, special offers, promotional announcements, surveys, and to assist you with operational requests such as password reset requests.

Community

Parentof is a community. We offer several features that allow members to connect and communicate in public or semi-public spaces. Please be sensible and judge before posting in these community spaces or sharing your personal information with others on our Website/app. 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 companies, agents or contractors (“Service Providers”) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services to you. We engage Service Providers to provide marketing, advertising, communications, infrastructure and IT services, to personalize and optimize our service, to process credit card transactions or other payment methods, to provide customer service, to collect debts, to analyse and enhance data (including data about users’ interactions with our service), and to process and administer consumer surveys. In the course 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 connection with providing their services.

Sharing and disclosing personal information

We use other companies, agents or contractors (“Service Providers”) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services to you. We engage Service Providers to provide marketing, advertising, communications, infrastructure and IT services, to personalize and optimize our service, to process credit card transactions or other payment methods, to provide customer service, to collect debts, to analyse and enhance data (including data about users’ interactions with our service), and to process and administer consumer surveys. In the course 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 connection with providing their services.

Security

We shall try to take all precautions to protect the personal information. We will try to protect your information using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. We have standard SSL certification which helps us create a secure connection between our server and user to render any information or action. Some of the safeguards 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 believe your account has been abused or hacked, please contact us by sending us an email at support@parentof.com

We do not sell, transfer or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent and we only use your information as described in the Privacy Policy. We view protection of your privacy as a very important community principle. We store and process your personal information on computers located in India that are protected by physical as well as technological security devices. We use third parties to verify and certify our privacy principles. If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way, please do not use this Website/app.

Under no circumstances, we rent, trade, transfer or share your personal information that we have collected with any other company for their marketing purposes without your consent. We reserve the right to communicate your personal information to any third party that makes a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.

Notwithstanding anything contained anywhere in this Agreement; we cannot assure absolute security to your personal data and by entering into or by logging into our Website/app, you explicitly agree not to sue us for any data breach.

Permissions asked by this application, and third party applications and links

We may pass your details to other companies in our group. We may also pass your details to our agents and subcontractors to help us with any of our uses of your data set out in our Privacy Policy. For example, we may use third parties to assist us with delivering services to you, to help us to collect payments from you, to analyse data and to provide us with marketing or customer service assistance. We may exchange information with third parties for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We may transfer our databases containing your personal information if we sell our business or part of it. Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall NOT sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or unless we are required to do so by law. The Site may contain advertising of third parties and links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties or other sites, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Our Website/app may contain links to other Website/apps that are not under our direct control. These Website/apps may have their own policies regarding privacy. We have no control of or responsibility for linked Website/apps and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors. You accessing such linked Website/apps shall be at your own risk. These Website/apps are not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should check the privacy policies, if any, of those individual Website/apps to see how the operators of those third-party Website/apps will utilize your personal information. In addition, these Website/apps may contain a link to Website/apps of our partners. The Website/apps of our partners are not subject to this Privacy Policy, and you should check their individual privacy policies to see how the operators of such Website/apps will utilize your personal information.

This Application may ask some permissions from third party applications like Facebook and Google allowing it to perform actions with the User’s account and to retrieve information, including Personal Data, from it. For more information about the following permissions, refer to the permissions documentation and to the privacy policy of Facebook and Google.

The permissions asked are for Basic information which includes certain Users Data such as id, name, picture, gender. Certain connections of the User, such as the Friends, are also available. If the user has made more of their data public, more information will be available. This includes:
  • List of Friends
  • Studied at
  • Worked at
  • Lives in
  • From (hometown)

Cookies

We transfer cookies to your IP address, giving the browser distinct identification, in order to keep track of the user’s preferences. Furthermore, these files also help in logging-in faster and they act as a mechanism to determine user trends. The data thus retrieved from the user’s IP address, enables us to enhance our offers, including but not limited to more content in areas of greater interest to a majority of users. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our Website/app correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

Parentof will keep the personal data of Users while they remain registered customers or users of the Website/app and/or the App, and the personal data will be retained after the termination of the contractual relationship, duly blocked, for the time necessary to answer for any liabilities that may be derived from the relationship.

In particular, the Personal Data required for responding to queries made and delivering electronic marketing communications will be processed for as long as the User does not revoke the consent given and, once that consent has been withdrawn, for the time necessary to answer for any liabilities that may have arisen. In any case, when the personal data is not required for the purpose for which it was obtained and until it is not finally cancelled, it will be retained in a blocked form.

Parental Control and Choices

If we allow children to create an account or otherwise engage with us over time, we will obtain parental consent prior to the collection of their Personal Information. If you are a parent, you can refuse to permit us to collect Personal Information from your child and can request that we delete from our records the Personal Information we have collected. Please keep in mind that a request to delete records may lead to a termination of an account, membership, or other Services.

The Company shall not in any event be liable for economic loss in any form, or any physical or psychological damage caused to any kid, guardian or parent by attending Parentof. Parental guidance is needed in some classes and parents are required to oversee their kids’ conduct in such classes. We do not take responsibility for conduct of kids’ behaviour during or beyond Parentof.

If you have any questions or concerns about our approach to children’s privacy, you, as a parent, want to access the data of your child, or request the deletion of your child’s data, please submit a request via our Contact us webform (https://www.parentof.com/contact-us).

Who will your data be sent to?

Parentof may communicate the personal data of Users when so required by law, for defending its legitimate rights and interests, or when necessary, in accordance with the services contracted by Users. They may also be accessed by third party service providers and computer and technical support services. Certain systems, data and services are hosted on Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), and in the Google Cloud Platform. Your data may be transferred internationally to that company’s servers in various locations.

To conclude, we inform you that Parentof relies on other companies to provide certain services related to the Website/app and/or the App, like billing or payment of Services through our platform. Limited data is shared with some of these companies but only for the purpose for which they are engaged.

Ownership of rights

All rights, including copyright, in this Website/app are owned by or licensed to us. Any use of this Website/app or its contents, including copying or storing it or them in whole or part, other than for your own personal, non-commercial use is prohibited without our permission. You are prohibited from modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, printing, publishing, selling, licensing, creating derivative works or using any content available on or through our Website/app for commercial or public purposes. You may not modify, distribute or re-post something on this Website/app for any purpose.

The Site contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music, sound, and the entire contents of Parentof is protected by copyright as a collective work under the applicable copyright laws. Parentof owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as copyright or license to use in the content original to it. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. You may download / print / save copyrighted material for your personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly stated under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material without the express permission of Parentof is permitted. If copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material is expressly permitted by Parentof, then no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made.

You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material. Trademarks that are located within or on our Website/app or a Website/app otherwise owned or operated in conjunction with Parentof shall not be deemed to be in the public domain but rather the exclusive property of Parentof, unless such site is under license from the trademark owner thereof in which case such license is for the exclusive benefit and use of Parentof, unless otherwise stated.

Parentof does not have any express burden or responsibility to provide you with indications, markings or anything else that may aid you in determining whether the material in question is copyrighted or trademarked. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, proprietary rights or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material to any public area of the Website/app, you warrant that the owner of such material has expressly granted Parentof the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material. You also permit any other end user to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that end user’s personal use. You hereby grant Parentof, the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made available on the Website/app by you.

If you come across any abuse or violation of these Terms, please report to support@parentof.com

Consent

By submitting data to us or our agent or using the Site, you consent to our use of your data in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.

Conditions of use

Licensee does not warrant that this Website/app, its servers, or email sent by us or on our behalf are virus free. We will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this Website/app, including, but not limited to compensatory, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special or consequential damages, loss of data, goodwill, business opportunity, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.

Grievance officer

In accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules made there under, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below: support@parentof.com

Consent to this policy

The Terms of Use Agreement is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

Changes to this privacy policy

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. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Privileged/exclusive service

By having a Parentof account, you have explicitly given consent for us to capture images (followed by analysis), camera/mic permissions to make video calls and record the same.

Parentof may disclose information

  • as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process
  • to enforce applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof
  • when we believe in good faith (doctrine of uberrima fides) that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, address security or technical issues or respond to a government request
  • with our trusted service providers who work on our behalf and do not have an independent use of the information we disclose to them and have agreed to and adhered to the rules set forth in this Policy
  • to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of the Application/Website/app or our users or the public as required or permitted by law
  • with third party service providers in order to personalize the Application/Website/app/Services/products for a better user experience and to perform behavioural analysis

Governing law and jurisdiction

In the event of any dispute arising between the parties with respect to this Agreement, the same shall be referred to the Sole Arbitrator and the arbitration shall be in accordance with Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996. The language of arbitration proceeding shall be English. The seat and place of arbitration shall be Bangalore, Karnataka subpoena, India and the decision of the Arbitrator shall be final and binding on both parties herein.

This contract shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Bangalore, Karnataka, India and shall be governed by the Indian laws.