Avileen Academic Services Private Limited (“Aas Vidyalaya”) is a company which endeavors to provide online school services.

Our privacy policy is designed to provide greater transparency into our privacy practices and principles, in a format that is easier to navigate, read and understand. We continue to treat your personal information with care and respect.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes the treatment of information provided or collected on the website/app (www.vidyalaya.org.in / App – AASVIDYALAYA) (“Website/app”) where this Privacy Policy is posted. It also explains the treatment of information provided or collected on this Website/app that we make available on third-party sites or platforms if disclosed by you in connection with use of the Website/app. We follow this Privacy Policy in accordance with local law in the place where we operate.

By using our Website/app, you are hereby consenting to collection of your information by us and the said information in some cases may include Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information. In case of collection of Sensitive Personal Information, you will be required to click on the box below, confirming your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. By accepting this Privacy Policy you are representing that you are eighteen (18) years of age or above. In case you are under the age of eighteen (18) years, then you are requested to not share any Sensitive Personal Information or Personal Information with us without having your Parents to accept this Privacy Policy on your behalf.

1. Types of Information We Collect

At the outset, you are free to refrain from sharing your information with us. We may collect two basic types of information – personal information and anonymous information – and we may use personal and anonymous information to create a third type of information, aggregate information. We may also collect information which may be Sensitive Personal Information. We collect the following categories of information:

• • Registration information you provide when you create an account, including your first name and surname, country of residence, gender, date of birth, email address, username and password;
  • Transaction information you provide when you request information or purchase a product or service from us on our Website/app, including your postal address, telephone number and payment information;
  • Information you provide in public forums on our Website/app;
  • Information sent either one-to-one or within a limited group using our message, chat, post or similar functionality, where we are permitted by law to collect this information;
  • Information you provide to us when you use our Website/app, our Website/app on third-party sites or platforms such as social networking sites, or link your profile on a third-party site or platform with your registration account;
  • Location information when you visit our Website/app, including location information either provided by a mobile device interacting with our Website/app, or associated with your IP address, where we are permitted by law to process this information;
  • Usage, viewing and technical data, including your device identifier or IP address, when you visit our Website/app on third-party sites or platforms or open emails we send.

2. How and Why We Collect Your Information

• • We collect information you provide to us when you request products, services or information from us, register with us, participate in public forums or other activities on our Website/app, respond to customer surveys, or otherwise interact with us. Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform (for example, via our Website/app), the information you provide may be separately collected by the third-party site or platform. The information we collect is covered by this Privacy Policy and the information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on the third-party site or platform will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our Website/app.
  • We collect information through technology, such as cookies, Flash cookies and Web beacons, including when you visit our Website/app or use our Website/app on third-party sites or platforms.
  • We acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you provided or we collected automatically. Local law may require that you authorize the third party to share your information with us before we can acquire it.
  • The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at the Website/app. We use your information for internal record keeping, to assist sellers in handling orders, deliver products and services, process payments, communicate with you about orders, products, services and promotional offers, update our records and generally maintain your accounts with us, display content such as wish lists and customer reviews and recommend merchandise and services that might be of interest to you. We also use this information to improve our platform, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website/app, for market research purposes and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.

3. Information that cannot be uploaded

You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information on the Website/app that:

• • belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right to;
  • is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever;
  • harms minors in any way;
  • infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
  • violates any law for the time being in force;
  • deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
  • impersonates another person;
  • contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource;
  • threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation.

4. Your Controls and Choices

We provide you the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use and sharing of your information. In accordance with local law, your controls and choices may include:

• • You may correct, update and delete your registration account;
  • You may change your choices for subscriptions, newsletters and alerts;
  • You may choose whether to receive from us offers and promotions for our products and services, or products and services that we think may be of interest to you;
  • You may choose whether we share your personal information with other companies so they can send you offers and promotions about their products and services;
  • You may choose whether to receive targeted advertising from many ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics and other service providers;
  • You may request access to the personal information we hold about you and that we amend or delete it and we request third parties with whom we have shared the information do the same.

You may exercise your controls and choices, or request access to your personal information, by contacting on contact details provided, or following instructions provided in communications sent to you. Please be aware that, if you do not allow us to collect personal information from you, we may not be able to deliver certain products and services to you, and some of our services may not be able to take account of your interests and preferences. If you have questions regarding the specific personal information about you that we process or retain, please contact on contact details provided.

5. Children’s Privacy

Use of the Website/app is available only to persons who can form a legally binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you may use the Website/app only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

However, we recognize the need to provide further privacy protections with respect to personal information we may collect from children on our Website/app. Some of the features on our Website/app are age-gated so that they are not available for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children in connection with those features. When we intend to collect personal information from children, we make best endeavors to take additional steps to protect children’s privacy, including:

• • Notifying parents about our information practices with regard to children, including the types of personal information we may collect from children, the uses to which we may put that information, and whether and with whom we may share that information;
  • In accordance with applicable law, obtaining consent from parents for the collection of personal information from their children, or for sending information about our products and services directly to their children;
  • Limiting our collection of personal information from children to no more than is reasonably necessary to participate in an online activity;
  • Giving parents access or the ability to request access to personal information we have collected from their children and the ability to request that the personal information be changed or deleted.

6. Data Security and Integrity

The security, integrity and confidentiality of your information are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures that are designed to protect guest information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use and modification. From time to time, we review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

However, we may be required to share the aforesaid information with government authorities and agencies for the purposes of verification of identity or for prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution and punishment of offences. You agree and consent for the Website/app to disclose your information, if so required under the applicable law.

7. Data Transfers, Storage and Processing Globally

We operate globally and may transfer your Personal Information and/ or Sensitive Personal Information to third parties in locations around the world for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and by accessing our services on our Website/app you hereby provide consent for such transfer. Wherever your Personal Information and/ or Sensitive Personal Information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy to accommodate new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements or for other purposes. We will provide notice to you if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent.

9. Contact in case of Grievances

If you have any concern about privacy or grievances at the Website/app, please contact us with a thorough description and we will try to resolve the issue for you.

Contact Information

• • Name: VIKAS KAKWANI
  • Address: 513, IJMIMA COMPLEX, MALAD WEST, MUMBAI 400064
  • Email: VIKAS.KAKWANI@VIDYALAYA.ORG.IN
  • Phone Number: +91-9768199555

10. Comments and Questions

If you have a comment or question about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the above provided contact details. Our Website/app may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Website/app and to read the privacy policies of other sites that may collect your personal information.

Contact Information

• • Name: VIKAS KAKWANI
  • Address: 513, IJMIMA COMPLEX, MALAD WEST, MUMBAI 400064
  • Email: VIKAS.KAKWANI@VIDYALAYA.ORG.IN
  • Phone Number: +91-9768199555

Definitions

Aggregate Information. Aggregate information means information about groups or categories of guests, which does not identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual guest.

Anonymous Information. Anonymous information means information that does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, an individual guest.

Children. Children means individuals who we have identified are not of legal age to consent to the collection and processing of their personal information. In the United States and Latin America, the term “children” refers to individuals under 13 years of age. In India, the term “children” refers to individuals under 18 years of age.

IP address. An IP address is associated with the access point through which you enter the Internet, and is typically controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your company, or your university. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests visit various parts of our Website/app, and we may combine IP addresses with personal information.

Notice. Notice may be by email to you at the last email address you provided us, by posting notice of such changes on our Website/app, or by other means, consistent with applicable law.

Parents. Parents mean a parent or legal guardian of the Children.

Personal information. Personal information means and includes information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) and Sensitive Personal Information. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, this anonymous information also is treated as personal information.

Public Forums. Our Website/app may offer message boards, conversation pages, blogs, chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other forums that do not have a restricted audience. If you provide personal information when you use any of these features, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. To request removal of your personal information from a public forum on our Website/app, please contact the contact details provided.

Sensitive Personal Information. Sensitive Personal Information shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the applicable law and is presently defined to mean such personal information which consists of information relating to (i) passwords; (ii) financial information such as bank accounts or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details; (iii) physical, physiological and mental health conditions; (iv) sexual orientation; (v) medical records and history; (vi) Biometric information; (vii) any detail relating to the above clauses as provided to body corporate for providing service; and (viii) any of the information received under above clauses by body corporate for processing, stored or processed under lawful contract or otherwise; provided 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 sensitive personal information.

Website/app. Website/app means service operated by us (or on our behalf) that may be displayed on various online, mobile or other platforms and environments, including those operated by third parties, which permits us to interact directly with our guests.

Communication Choices

1. 1. Accessing Your Registration Account 

      • You can access and update the contact information you gave us during registration (that is, your postal address, email address, or any other information that would directly enable us to contact you) or delete your registration account, here. [link to local account management page(s)]

   2. Accessing Your Child’s Registration Account

      • To request access and update the information your child gave us during registration or to request that we delete your child’s registration account, please contact the contact details provided.

   3. Exercising Marketing Choices

      • To modify a general marketing permission that you provided when you registered and set up your account (or any later changes to that permission), please contact the contact details provided. Following our receipt of your request to cease using your personal information for marketing purposes, we may require a reasonable period of time to update our systems to fully implement your request.

   4. Choices for Subscriptions, Newsletters and Alerts

      • In addition to the general marketing choices managed above, you may choose to subscribe or unsubscribe to a number of communications covering a variety of topics.

Online Tracking and Advertising

1. Online Tracking and Advertising

   • We and certain service providers operating on our behalf collect information about your activity on our Website/app using tracking technologies such as cookies, Flash cookies and Web beacons. Definitions for the tracking technologies listed, as well as information regarding how to disable them, are available below. This tracking data is used for many purposes including, for example, to:

• Provide useful features to simplify your experience when you return to our Website/app; for example, remembering your shipping information for future purchases
• Deliver relevant content based on your preferences, usage patterns and location
• Monitor and evaluate the use and operation of our Website/app
• Analyze traffic on our Website/app and on the sites of third parties

We may associate this tracking data with your registration account, in which case we will treat it as personal information. Service providers that collect tracking data on our behalf may provide an opportunity for you to choose not to be tracked online. Advertisers and third parties also may collect information about your activity on our Website/app and on third-party sites and applications using tracking technologies. Tracking data collected by these advertisers and third parties is used to decide which ads you see both on our Website/app and on third-party sites and applications, but does not identify you personally and is not associated with your registration account. You may choose not to receive targeted advertising from many ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics and other service providers.

2. Online Tracking Technologies

Examples of online tracking technologies include:

• • Cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website/app places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit the website/app. Cookies may involve the transmission of information from us to you and from you directly to us, to another party on our behalf, or to another party in accordance with its Privacy Policy. We may use cookies to bring together information we collect about you. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your guest experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
  • Flash cookies. We may use local shared objects, sometimes known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our Website/app to personalize your visit. Our advertisers and third-party service providers also may use Flash cookies to collect and store information. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. If you disable Flash cookies, you won’t have access to many features that make your guest experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
  • Web beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of sites. Web beacons may involve the transmission of information directly to us, to another party on our behalf, or to another party in accordance with its Privacy Policy. We may use web beacons to bring together information we collect about you.