Privacy Policy
Teaching Storm (TS) respects and understands the importance of your privacy – and is therefore committed to affording complete protection to the personal information of our customers who use our products and services or visitors of our website, and of the learners whose information we may have access to and when you apply on our website for an open position.
It is in recognition of this need for security, our commitment to DPDPA and Secured management of any information received /collected by us that Teaching Storm has established this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is applicable to our website, to the products through which we cater the services to our customers and our marketing and advertising practices. We ensure transparency in all our dealings.
Personal information collected on our website:
The information that we collect from the visitor is more of general information on the website.
As a general practice, no personal Information is collected about a visitor to the website, apart from the personal information submitted by the visitor himself/herself in ‘registration form’ or ‘contact us’ or ‘apply now’ link. We shall use such Personal Information for the purpose you share it with us. However, at times, certain information may be collected from you when you visit the website. Such information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the website, pages viewed etc. This gives us an idea of which parts of our website users are visiting, in order that we may improve the content to offer you better services. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user’s session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous.
Information collected while activation and automatic updates on our website:
When our product/application is used information may be collected on how it is used. We may collect information (like an IP address, or the type of device used) that your browser or device typically sends to our servers whenever you use our website, product or application. We may use information that led you to our website – for example the search terms used or the device being used – through cookies and similar technologies. Often this information is anonymous and if associated with you kept strictly confidential. If you do not want us to collect this information, you can tell us by opting out or by either declining or customising cookie settings on our website
Information collected for support and maintenance
When you register with us, the system creates your ID with us or uses our services for development or support we collect information that is unique to you and identifies you. This may include your name, email address, phone number, parent phone number or payment information all in accordance with applicable law. Some information is required and other information is optional. Sometimes information regarding eligibility may be required. At times we may rely on information from public sources.
TS cold emails
We do contact organisation or executives as a part of our marketing campaigns. We do so, as we believe we have legitimate interest to promote our products and services and it also benefits our prospects. We do not do any mass mailing and carefully reach out to selected professional with a personalised approach. The emails we send you as part of our marketing campaigns allow us to know if you have received or opened the email, or clicked a link within the email. If you do not want us to collect this information from marketing emails, you can opt out of receiving such emails by clicking on the unsubscribe button.
Other company and social media links or buttons or tools on our website
Our websites may include links or buttons or tools that link to other companies’ services (such as Facebook or Instagram or X or YouTube buttons or links). We may collect information about your use of these features. In addition, when you see or interact with these links, buttons, tools or services, or view a TS web page containing them, some information from your browser may automatically be sent to the other company. Please read that company’s privacy policy for more information, as these sites may have their own privacy statements in place, which we recommend you review if you visit any linked Web sites. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites or any use of the sites or for the privacy practices of those other Web sites.
We may collect information when you interact with our social networking pages or use the sign-on features.
Services Provided by TS
We provide services to many companies that may sometimes require the collection of information through cookies and other technology to collect analytic data required by the product and to understand our users and their likely interests. No information is collected without consent.
Storing your data
Information and data files are stored on our servers and the servers of companies we hire to provide services to us. We do not share, sell or lease any kind of information collected to any third parties for their marketing uses.
Gathered information is used to:
- To fulfil our contractual commitment and to enhance the performance of our contract with you.
- Allows you to use of our products and applications and respond to your requests
- Provide you with the services, support and monitor effectively
- Improve our website’s user experience and communicate better to engage users
- Enhance the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and sending marketing emails or related messages of our products and services
- Process your job application for an open position.
- Analyse, diagnose and fix issues in our products and service offerings.
In all cases, this information is not shared with any third party. It is used by TS as above or to prevent/respond to protection of our websites or applications. We may be required to share information with law enforcement or other third parties when compelled to do so by court order or other legal process, to comply with statutes or regulations.
If we merge with or are acquired by another company, and if all of our assets are acquired by another company, this information will most likely be one of the assets to be transferred.
Your information is secure
We understand that the security of your information is vital and have in place strong administrative, technical, and physical security controls and measures to keep data safe and secure. Our privacy practices are designed to provide protection for your personal information, all over the world.
To protect information stored in our servers, through Cloud Server infrastructure at various locations like the India, Middle East, US access is limited (through user/password credentials and two factor authentication) to those employees who require it to perform their job functions. We use industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to safeguard the account registration process and sign-up information.
Caution awareness
We would like to caution our visitors about phishing attacks, wherein unscrupulous third parties seek to extract sensitive and confidential information from you by posing as a genuine website or by sending an email misrepresenting it to be from a genuine source. Please be aware that we never seek sensitive or confidential information such as regarding your financial or health record through emails or through our websites. If you receive such a message claiming to be from TS then please do not reply to it and immediately bring it to our attention by contacting the ‘Contact us’.