We value your trust. In order to honour that trust and assurance, SMARTUSTAAD adheres to ethical standards in gathering, using, and safeguarding any information you provide. SMARTUSTAAD, is a leading Islamic edtech company, incorporated in India, for imparting Quran learning. This privacy policy governs your use of the learning platform – ‘SmartUstaad’, www.smartustaad.com ('Website') and the other associated Websites, products, websites and services managed by the Company. Please read this privacy policy ('Policy') carefully before using the Website, our services and products, along with the Terms of Use ('ToU') provided on the the Website. Your use of the Website or services in connection with the Website or products ('Services'), or registrations with us through any modes or usage of any services including Books, Digital Content or Notes shall signify your acceptance of this Policy and your agreement to be legally bound by the same. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, do not use the Website, our products or avail any of our Services.
The Website/Services/products obtains the information you provide when you register for the Website or Services or products. When you register with us, you generally provide (a) your name, age, email address, location, phone number, password and your ward's educational interests; (b) transaction-related information, such as when you make purchases, respond to any offers, or download or use Websites from us; (c) information you provide us when you contact us for help; (d) information you enter into our system when using the Website/Services/products, such as while asking doubts, participating in discussions and taking tests. The said information collected from the users could be categorized as “Personal Information”, “Sensitive Personal Information” and “Associated Information”. Personal Information, Sensitive Personal Information and Associated Information (each as individually defined under this Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 (the “Data Protection Rules”)) shall collectively be referred to as 'Information' in this Policy. We may use the Information to contact you from time to time, to provide you with the Services, important information, required notices and marketing promotions. We will ask you when we need more information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. We will not differentiate between who is using the Website or Services or products, so long as the log in/access credentials match with yours. In order to make the best use of the Website/Services/products and enable your Information to be captured accurately on the Website/Services/products, it is essential that you have logged in using your own credentials. We will, at all times, provide the option to you to not provide the Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information, which we seek from you. Further, you shall, at any time while using the Website/Services/products, also have an option to withdraw your consent given earlier to us to use such Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information. Such withdrawal of the consent is required to be sent in writing to us at the contact details provided in this Policy below. In such event, however, the Company fully reserves the right not to allow further usage of the Website or provide any Services/products thereunder to you.
We use the collected Information to analyze trends, to conduct research, to administer the Website/Services and products, to learn about each user's learning patterns and movements around the Website/Services and products and to gather demographic information and usage behaviour about our user base as a whole. Aggregated and individual, anonymized and non-anonymized data may periodically be transmitted to external service providers to help us improve the Website, products and our Services. We will share your information with third parties only in the ways that are described below in this Policy. We may use the individual data and behavior patterns combined with personal information to provide you with personalized content, and better your learning objectives. Third parties provide certain services which we may use to analyze the data and information to personalize, drive insights and help us better your experience or reach out to you with more value added to the Website, products, information and services. However, these third party companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We do not sell, trade or share your Information to any third party (except subsidiaries/affiliates of the Company for related offerings) unless, we have been expressly authorized by you either in writing or electronically to do so. We may at times provide aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third parties, however this information when disclosed will be in an aggregate form and does not contain any of your Personally Identifiable Information. SmartUstaad will occasionally send email notices, messages or contact you to communicate about our Services, products and benefits, as they are considered an essential part of the Services/products you have chosen. We may disclose Information: