privacy policy

THIS DOCUMENT IS PUBLISHED BY VIRTUE OF A LEGAL REQUIREMENT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000 AS WELL AS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIGITAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT, 2023 AND THE RULES MADE THEREUNDER AND THE AMENDED PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS / RECORDS IN APPLICABLE STATUTES ACROSS JURISDICTIONS. THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY PHYSICAL, ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL SIGNATURE. 

We understand that the privacy of your information is important to you, and we are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we use, share, and protect your information. To help further our commitment, we have developed this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to help you better understand the types of information we collect, why we collect it, how we will use it, and the various options you have to manage the privacy of your personal information. We are committed to processing your information in accordance with the applicable Data Protection Laws. 

By accessing, browsing and using our website or any of our applications through the website, mobile application, desktop or any other platform (“Platform”) and/or by using any of Auster Fund’s (“we”, “our” and “us”) services, you indicate that you understand, agree and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Platform. Your continued use of the Platform following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed as your acceptance of those changes. We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy frequently, hence you should check this page from time to time. 

For the purpose this Privacy Policy, all capitalised terms shall have the meaning ascribed to it under respective clauses, sections and sub-sections of this Privacy Policy. 

For the purpose this Privacy Policy, “you”, “your”, “User” shall collectively mean the “User” accessing and/or visiting the Platform, its contents and/or availing Services offered through the Platform. 

1. SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY 
1.1. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices for the personal information we collect in the usual course of business, including, but not limited to through our services, sites, mobile applications, platform, desktop applications, software, or any other platform, which may be communicated from time to time (collectively, “Services”). 

1.2. This Privacy Policy is also applicable the Users, including, inter alia, the registered users, users utilising our Services, users who merely visit or access the Platform. We may collect data from such users to analyse trends, browsing behaviour, tracking number of visits, etc. 

1.3. This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between you and us. The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the Terms of Use or by your use of our Services and will govern the relationship between us and you with respect to the collection and treatment of information shared by you. 

2. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT 
2.1. We collect information in multiple ways including when you provide information directly to us, when you permit third parties to provide information to us, and when we passively collect information from you, such as information collected from your browser or device. The list mentioned below is illustrative, not exhaustive. We collect and process two main types of personal information and data: 
Personally Identifiable Information and Data 
Non - Personally Identifiable Information and Data 

2.2. Collection of Personally Identifiable Information 
We collect personal information relating to You (“Personal Information”) as follows:

2.2.1. Information You Give Us 
a. Creating an Account. When you create an account with us, we collect information that allows us to set up or open your account, including but not limited to your name, address, email, phone number(s), photograph, Aadhaar card details, username, password, profession, about your business, education details and other registration information, including but not limited to financial status, credit information, payment information such as credit/debit card details, bank account details, your resume, which may contain details about your employment history and qualifications. During your interaction with our Services, we may further collect your profile picture, country code, mobile number, email address or location information from such resumes. Based on the activity, we may ask you to provide some additional information mandatory for that activity. If you do not provide the information identified as mandatory for a particular service, you will not be permitted to engage in that activity. 

b. Using our Services. We receive information from you when you use our Services. We may also collect additional information from you when you sign-in or otherwise use our Services. For example, you may choose to sync your account with other third-party accounts. To sync your account information, we must access various information including your financial account data, as applicable. During your interaction with our Services, we may further collect your profile picture, country code, language preference, time zone or location information from your account. 

c. Event registrations and other form submissions. We record information that you submit when you (i) register for any event, including webinars or seminars, (ii) subscribe to our newsletter or any other mailing list, (iii) submit a form in order to download any product, whitepaper, or other materials, (iv) participate in contests or respond to surveys, or (v) submit a form to request customer support, get a quote or to contact us for any other purpose. 

d. Customer Support, Product Research, Trainings, and Feedback. When you reach out to us for support, give us feedback, participate in optional surveys, contests or promotions; product research or trainings, we may also collect information that you choose to share. 

e. Testimonials: When you authorize us to post testimonials about our products and services on websites, we may include your name and other personal information in the testimonial. You will be given an opportunity to review and approve the testimonial before we post it. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at the details given hereinunder or as may be available on our Platform. 

f. Social Media Information. We have pages on social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Medium, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, Brevo, Substack, Mixcloud and Google. When you interact with our social media pages, we will collect Personal Information that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details. In addition, the companies that host our social media pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics about our social media activity. 

g. Other Information You provide. We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when participate in our events or surveys or provide us with information to establish your identity .

2.2.2. Information We Get When You Use the Service 
When you access or use our Services, we may automatically collect certain information about you and how you use the Services. This may include: 

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a. Platform. The information gathered on the Platform generally includes company names, locations, times and dates of access, and the web pages viewed while visiting. Additionally, information is collected on the search engines and search phrases used to find our Platform. We may also collect the name of Internet Service Providers and the operating system of your computer. User registration may be required to access some of the features on our Platform, for which you may be required to provide your name, title, company, e-mail address, and phone number. 

b. Location Information. When you enable location-based functions through permission settings on your mobile device, we will collect and process your location information to enable certain functions, such as pairing with your smart devices. Also, we may collect information about your real-time precise or non-precise geo-location when you use our specific Services. Based on your consent, when you enable the geo-fence feature on the Services, your location information will be generated and shared with Google Map services. Please note that Google has corresponding data protection measures, which you may refer to Google Data Protection Terms for more details. You may reject such use of your location information by managing the permission settings in the Services, upon which we will cease to collect and use your location information. 

Please note that one cannot identify a specific individual by using Device Information or Log Information alone. However, these types of non-personal information, combined with other information, may be used to identify a specific individual, such non-personal information will be treated as personally identifiable data. Unless we have obtained your consent or unless otherwise provided by data protection laws and regulations, we will anonymize and desensitize such non-personal information. 

2.3. Collection of Non- Personally Identifiable Information 

2.3.1. Sources of Collection of Non-Personally identifiable Information 
We may also collect data from non-personally identifiable information sources such as web browsers, operating systems, bookmarks, page views. This may include browser name, specific device or computer, technical information such as connection to our Platform such as the operating system and the Internet service providers and such other information. 
When you access or use our Services, we may automatically collect certain information about you and how you use the Services. This may include: 

a. Device information. We may collect device information such as the MAC address of your devices, Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, log information, error messages, device type, wireless connection information, operating system type and version, application version number, push notification identifier, log files, and mobile network information and unique device identifiers. For example, we may collect IP addresses from you when you log into the Services as part of our log-in and security features. 

b. Usage Information. We may collect usage information such as the pages you viewed, the features you use, your browser type, visits, clicks, downloads, messages sent/received, and any links you click on to leave or interact with our Services. 

c. Log Information. Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use our Services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with our Services. 

d. Content. We may also collect content that you provide through the Services or content that is automatically collected in the background, such as information about your business such as your invoices, expenditures or customer details; time spent on various activities on your devices where you have installed our software; content you post on our community pages; content you provide to our customer care agents; and feedback you provide about the Services. 

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e. Information from Cookie and other Technologies. We and our service providers may use commonly used tools such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, local shared objects, and similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) to provide the Services you requested, recognize your visit, track your interactions with our Services, and improve your and other clients’ experience. Data collected through Cookies will help us in understanding consumer behaviour and analysing website traffic. If Cookies are disabled, certain areas of our products, services and features on our Platform may not work properly. You have control over some of the data we collect from Cookies and how we use it, you may manually accept, decline or ignore the pop-up displayed. 
Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Platform and the overall website experience. We may also analyse information that does not contain Personally Identifiable Information and Data for trends and/or statistics. 

f. Tracking Devices. We may use other industry standard technologies like pixel tags and web beacons to track your use of our Platform pages and promotions, or we may allow our third party service providers to use these devices on our behalf. Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on certain pages on our Platform, or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an email, pixel tags and web beacons generate a Non-Personally Identifiable notice of that action. Pixel tags allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor traffic and behaviour on our Platform, as well as give us a way to measure our promotions and performance. We may also utilize pixel tags and web beacons provided by our affiliates and/or marketing partners for the same purposes. 

g. Local Storage. We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device. 

2.4. Required Information 
Some of the functionalities in our Service may require you to provide information in order for you to use the Service. If you do not wish to provide the required information, you may not be able to use certain features or the Service. We will try to let you know what information is required and what information is optional. We may also combine information that you provided us with information about you that we get from other sources, in accordance with applicable law. 

3. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION 
We use your information in various ways, including to: 

3.1. Provide, Improve, Protect, and Deliver the Services 
To provide you with the Services that you have purchased, accessed or requested; to personalize your experience; to improve customer service; to provide technical support; to protect the security and safety of the Services, our clients, us, and others; to improve our Platform; or to otherwise operate our business. 

3.2. Improve Our Services 
We process your device information, usage data, location information and smart device related information to ensure the functions and safety of our Services, to develop and improve our products and Services, to analyse the efficiency of our operations, and to prevent and trace fraudulent or inappropriate usage. 

3.3. Communicate with you 
From time to time we may communicate with you to: 

a. Send emails and other communication. 

b. Provide you with important information about the Services or your accounts, such as subscription related information, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information, because this information may be important, you may not opt-out of receiving such communications. 

c. Give you offers for third-party products and services that we think may be of interest to you. 

d. Provide marketing and promotional materials to you on our Services. if we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to opt-out of receiving future communications of that nature. 

e. Send you information about us. 

f. Run a promotion, contest, survey or any other Platform feature. 

g. Customer Support 

3.4. Personalization 
We may process your account and profile data, usage data, device information to personalize product design and to provide you with services tailored for you, such as recommending and displaying information and advertisements regarding products suited to you, and to invite you to participate in surveys relating to your use of our Services. 

3.5. Protect Ourself and Others 
To protect us, our clients, and others such as for the purpose of combatting fraud. 

3.6. Analyse your Information 
We may use both manual and automated systems, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, to analyse your information to improve our Services; personalize your experience; automate certain aspects of the Service; aggregate, de-identify or anonymize your information; provide you certain features; and protect our safety and security, our Services, our clients and others. 

3.7. Improvement in our Services 
We may use your information to provide products and Services to you, administer sweepstakes and contests, enhance the operation of the Platform, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyse the Platform use and improve our product and service offerings. 

3.8. Analyse Trends 
We may use your information to troubleshoot, administer the Platform, analyse trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement departments. We may also share this information with our authorized third-party service providers and advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming. 

3.9. Evaluation Purposes 
We may share this information to market our Services with our authorized third-party service providers and advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming. 

3.10. Responding to Inquiries 
It may also be used to respond to inquiries, questions, and/or other requests. If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact us via our Platform. 

3.11. Vendors and Service Providers 
To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may provide Personal Information to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, email communication software, web analytics services, and other information technology providers, among others. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Information only in the course of performing their duties to us. 

3.12. Business Transfers 
If we are involved in strategic transactions, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of service to another provider (collectively, a “Transaction”), your Personal Information and other information may be disclosed in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets. 

3.13. Legal Requirement(s) 
We may process and/or share your Personal information, data as we believe to be necessary or appropriate with government authorities, industry peers or other third parties: (a) to comply with applicable laws and regulations; (b) to comply with legal processes; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations, business and systems; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of other users, including you; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. 

3.14. Affiliates 
We may disclose Personal Information to our affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with us. Our affiliates may use the Personal Information we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. 

3.15. How we use Other Data 
As a policy, we us sensitive information only in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by an individual. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that sensitive information is relevant to its intended use, is accurate, complete, and current. We do not provide any of the information we collect to third parties other than to market our Services. However, your data may be used to set up product demos or send marketing and promotional materials. We may also update you with new features, events etc that may take place from time to time. 

4. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION 
From time to time, we may need to share your information, but we will only share your personal information for the following reasons: 

4.1. With your consent 
We may share your personal information with your consent. 

4.2. With third parties 
We may share your personal information with third parties, but only for the following reasons: 

a. To our third-party service providers who perform certain business-related functions for us, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment and credit card processing, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer support service, e-mail delivery services, and other similar services to enable them to provide services to us. 

b. To our customers and other business partners who provide you, directly or indirectly, with your smart devices, and/or networks and systems through which you access and use our Platforms and Services. 

c. To an affiliate or other third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including without limitation in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). 

d. As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable laws and regulations; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations, business and systems; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of other users, including you; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. 

e. To provide functions and services on our behalf. we may share your information with third parties who provide various functions on our behalf and enable us to provide our Services and operate our business, such as service providers and business partners. 

f. For Research. We may share your information with third parties for research purposes or to publish academic or policy-related materials. We only share combined, unidentifiable client data, but only in a way that would not allow the client or any person to be identified. 

g. For Joint Sales, Promotions, and Events. We may share your information with third parties who are jointly providing sales initiatives, promotions or events with us. 

h. With our Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may share your information with and among our affiliates and subsidiaries. 

5. PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION 

5.1. Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy will depend on the type of personal information and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you, including details of any legitimate interest we rely on to process your personal information. 

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION COLLECTED 

6.1. Your personal information may be collected, stored and transferred by us in the United States of America and/or by our affiliates in other countries. We assure you that we have implemented adequate contractual safeguard mechanisms to ensure security of your personal information. 

7. TRANSMISSION/SHARING OF INFORMATION 
7.1. We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. 

7.2. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Platform or administer activities on our behalf. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission. 

8. DATA RETENTION 
8.1. We retain your information as long as is necessary to provide you with our Services. Once you have terminated your account or otherwise cease to use our Services (including if we determine your account has gone inactive), we will no longer retain your information except to the extent necessary, including but not limited to: 

8.1.1. to send you marketing communications in accordance with your marketing preferences; or 

8.1.2. for our legal or regulatory compliance (e.g., maintaining records of transactions you have made with us), to exercise, establish or defend legal claims, and to protect against fraudulent or abusive activity on our Services. 

8.2. If we no longer need your information for the above purposes, we will generally delete or de-identify and anonymize it in accordance with our standard data retention practices. However, there may be occasions where we are unable to fully delete or de-identify your information due to technical or other operational reasons, for example, where your information has been archived onto back-up systems. Where this is the case, we will take reasonable measures to securely isolate your information from any further processing until such time as we are able to delete or de-identify it. The length of time for which we retain personal information depends on the purposes for which we collect and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws. Where there are technical limitations that prevent deletion or anonymization, we safeguard personal information and limit active use of it. 

9. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION 
We understand that the security of your information is important to you. We take reasonable care and precaution and provide appropriate technical and organizational security controls to protect your information. We implement security controls to prevent breaches of unauthorised access to User data, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Platform. But, even with our best efforts, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of your information. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, keeping your log-in and password private, and not recycling passwords from other websites or accounts. We will not be responsible for the unauthorized use of your information nor for any lost, stolen, compromised passwords, or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity. 

10. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MANAGE YOUR PRIVACY 
10.1. You have choices when it comes to managing the privacy of your personal information. 

a. Update your Privacy Setting 
You may update your privacy settings directly through the Services by visiting your account settings. 

b. Manage Marketing Communications from Us 
We honour your choices when it comes to receiving marketing communications from us. To update your preferences (including to opt-in or opt-out of marketing communications) you can unsubscribe using an ‘unsubscribe’ or ‘opt-out’ (as the case maybe) link on marketing emails. 

c. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies 
You can find information on changing your browser settings to opt-out of optional Cookies in your browser settings. If you disable some or all of the Cookies, some of the Services, or parts of the Services may not work. 

d. Right of Access and Transparency 
You have the right to obtain information about Personal Information which includes, inter alia (i) summary of Personal Information collected from You and processed by Us; (ii) purpose for processing such Personal Information; and (iii) list of third party(ies) with whom the Personal Information is shared. 

e. Right of Accuracy and Rectification 

You have the right to request rectifications and/or modification and/or updation with respect to any incorrect or incomplete Personal Information in case of errors in your Personal Information collected by us.  

f. Right of Erasure and Control 
You have the right to request erasure of your Personal Information, object and/or restrict the processing of any or all parts of the Personal Data collected, provided that we may not be able to provide our Services to you upon such request. 

g. Right to Nominate 
You shall have the right to nominate any other person to exercise on your behalf the rights and remedies available to you, the User as per the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy as well as the rights and remedies enshrined in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 

11. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, LINKS & INTEGRATIONS 
11.1. Third-party products, services and applications may use or integrate with our Services, or otherwise be offered through our Services (“Third-Party Services”). 

11.2. Users may find advertising or other content on our Platform that link to the websites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. Third-party advertisement servers or advertisement networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that may appear on the Platform, which are sent directly to Users’ browser. You hereby note that such servers/networks automatically receive your IP address when this occurs where such technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. We do not control the content or links that appear on these websites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Platform. You agree that we are not liable for any damage or loss incurred by you due to the availability of such advertising content available on our Platform. 

11.3. In addition, these external websites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These websites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Platform is subject to that website's own terms and policies. 

12. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY 
You may provide information and content on our platform, applications, or software as part of and through our Services. This information that you input may pertain to, belong to or owned by you or any other third party. you hereby agree and acknowledge that with respect to any information that you input into our platform, applications, or software as part of availing our Services, whether belonging to you or any third party, you provide the requisite consent to us for its collection, use and storage in accordance with this Privacy Policy and that you have the requisite authorization from such third party to provide such information. We shall not be liable or responsible for any liabilities arising out of the sharing of any such data or information by you on our platform, application, or software and we expressly excludes and disclaim any such liability. You, the provider of information and data shall be solely liable for providing such information and any liabilities arising out of any claims made by such third parties. 

13. SECURITY PRECAUTIONS 
We maintain reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information. Whenever you access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession, we adhere to our security guidelines to protect it against unauthorized access. However, by using the Platform, the User accepts the inherent security implications of data transmission over the internet and the world wide web which cannot always be guaranteed as completely secure, and therefore, there would always remain certain inherent risks regarding use of the Platform. The User understands these inherent risks and agrees that we shall not be responsible for any unauthorised access, breach of security and/or the unauthorised usage of Users’ data. 

14. HOW TO CONTACT US 
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at : info@auster.fund

15. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY 
We have the discretion to update this Privacy Policy for the Platform at any time. When we do so, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of modifications. Your continued usage of our Platform and Services shall be your deemed acceptance to the revised/ amended policy. 

16. COLLECTION AND USE OF CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION 
As a standard practice, we do not knowingly or specifically collect, use, or require any information about minors under the age of 13 (thirteen) years. The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 13, and we request that these individuals do not provide any personal information to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 (thirteen) unless we first obtain permission from the child’s parent or legal guardian. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected such information, please notify us so that we may delete the information from our servers. 

17. ADDITIONAL TERMS 
17.1. Legal basis for processing. Our legal bases for processing your Personal Information include: 

17.1.1. Performance of a contract with you when we provide and maintain our Services. When we process Non – Personally Identifiable Information and Data solely to provide our Services to you, this information is necessary to be able to provide our Services. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to provide our Services to you. 

17.1.2. Our legitimate interests in protecting our Services from abuse, fraud, or security risks, or in developing, improving, or promoting our Services, including when we train our models. This may include the processing of Non – Personally Identifiable Information and Data. Read this Privacy Policy on how you can opt out of our use of your information to train our models. 

17.1.3. Your consent when we ask for your consent to process your Personal Information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. 

17.1.4. Compliance with our legal obligations when we use your Personal Information to comply with applicable law or when we protect our or our affiliates’, users’, or third parties’ rights, safety, and property. 

17.2. Data transfers. Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for transferring Personal Information outside of certain countries. We will only transfer Personal Information pursuant to a legally valid transfer mechanism. 

17.3. Grievance Redressal Officer. You can contact our grievance redressal officer at the email ID, in matters related to any grievance regarding the collection, processing and/or sharing of your Personal Information. 

THIS DOCUMENT IS PUBLISHED BY VIRTUE OF A LEGAL REQUIREMENT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000 AS WELL AS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIGITAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT, 2023 AND THE RULES MADE THEREUNDER AND THE AMENDED PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS / RECORDS IN APPLICABLE STATUTES ACROSS JURISDICTIONS. THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY PHYSICAL, ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL SIGNATURE. 

We understand that the privacy of your information is important to you, and we are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we use, share, and protect your information. To help further our commitment, we have developed this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to help you better understand the types of information we collect, why we collect it, how we will use it, and the various options you have to manage the privacy of your personal information. We are committed to processing your information in accordance with the applicable Data Protection Laws. 

By accessing, browsing and using our website or any of our applications through the website, mobile application, desktop or any other platform (“Platform”) and/or by using any of auster.fund’s (“we”, “our” and “us”) services, you indicate that you understand, agree and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Platform. Your continued use of the Platform following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed as your acceptance of those changes. We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy frequently, hence you should check this page from time to time. 

For the purpose this Privacy Policy, all capitalised terms shall have the meaning ascribed to it under respective clauses, sections and sub-sections of this Privacy Policy. 

For the purpose this Privacy Policy, “you”, “your”, “User” shall collectively mean the “User” accessing and/or visiting the Platform, its contents and/or availing Services offered through the Platform. 

1. SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY 
1.1. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices for the personal information we collect in the usual course of business, including, but not limited to through our services, sites, mobile applications, platform, desktop applications, software, or any other platform, which may be communicated from time to time (collectively, “Services”). 

1.2. This Privacy Policy is also applicable the Users, including, inter alia, the registered users, users utilising our Services, users who merely visit or access the Platform. We may collect data from such users to analyse trends, browsing behaviour, tracking number of visits, etc. 

1.3. This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between you and us. The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the Terms of Use or by your use of our Services and will govern the relationship between us and you with respect to the collection and treatment of information shared by you. 

2. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT 
2.1. We collect information in multiple ways including when you provide information directly to us, when you permit third parties to provide information to us, and when we passively collect information from you, such as information collected from your browser or device. The list mentioned below is illustrative, not exhaustive. We collect and process two main types of personal information and data: 
Personally Identifiable Information and Data 
Non - Personally Identifiable Information and Data 

2.2. Collection of Personally Identifiable Information 
We collect personal information relating to You (“Personal Information”) as follows:

2.2.1. Information You Give Us 
a. Creating an Account. When you create an account with us, we collect information that allows us to set up or open your account, including but not limited to your name, address, email, phone number(s), photograph, Aadhaar card details, username, password, profession, about your business, education details and other registration information, including but not limited to financial status, credit information, payment information such as credit/debit card details, bank account details, your resume, which may contain details about your employment history and qualifications. During your interaction with our Services, we may further collect your profile picture, country code, mobile number, email address or location information from such resumes. Based on the activity, we may ask you to provide some additional information mandatory for that activity. If you do not provide the information identified as mandatory for a particular service, you will not be permitted to engage in that activity. 

b. Using our Services. We receive information from you when you use our Services. We may also collect additional information from you when you sign-in or otherwise use our Services. For example, you may choose to sync your account with other third-party accounts. To sync your account information, we must access various information including your financial account data, as applicable. During your interaction with our Services, we may further collect your profile picture, country code, language preference, time zone or location information from your account. 

c. Event registrations and other form submissions. We record information that you submit when you (i) register for any event, including webinars or seminars, (ii) subscribe to our newsletter or any other mailing list, (iii) submit a form in order to download any product, whitepaper, or other materials, (iv) participate in contests or respond to surveys, or (v) submit a form to request customer support, get a quote or to contact us for any other purpose. 

d. Customer Support, Product Research, Trainings, and Feedback. When you reach out to us for support, give us feedback, participate in optional surveys, contests or promotions; product research or trainings, we may also collect information that you choose to share. 

e. Testimonials: When you authorize us to post testimonials about our products and services on websites, we may include your name and other personal information in the testimonial. You will be given an opportunity to review and approve the testimonial before we post it. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at the details given hereinunder or as may be available on our Platform. 

f. Social Media Information. We have pages on social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Medium, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, Brevo, Substack, Mixcloud and Google. When you interact with our social media pages, we will collect Personal Information that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details. In addition, the companies that host our social media pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics about our social media activity. 

g. Other Information You provide. We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when participate in our events or surveys or provide us with information to establish your identity .

2.2.2. Information We Get When You Use the Service 
When you access or use our Services, we may automatically collect certain information about you and how you use the Services. This may include: 

2a. Platform. The information gathered on the Platform generally includes company names, locations, times and dates of access, and the web pages viewed while visiting. Additionally, information is collected on the search engines and search phrases used to find our Platform. We may also collect the name of Internet Service Providers and the operating system of your computer. User registration may be required to access some of the features on our Platform, for which you may be required to provide your name, title, company, e-mail address, and phone number. 

b. Location Information. When you enable location-based functions through permission settings on your mobile device, we will collect and process your location information to enable certain functions, such as pairing with your smart devices. Also, we may collect information about your real-time precise or non-precise geo-location when you use our specific Services. Based on your consent, when you enable the geo-fence feature on the Services, your location information will be generated and shared with Google Map services. Please note that Google has corresponding data protection measures, which you may refer to Google Data Protection Terms for more details. You may reject such use of your location information by managing the permission settings in the Services, upon which we will cease to collect and use your location information. 

Please note that one cannot identify a specific individual by using Device Information or Log Information alone. However, these types of non-personal information, combined with other information, may be used to identify a specific individual, such non-personal information will be treated as personally identifiable data. Unless we have obtained your consent or unless otherwise provided by data protection laws and regulations, we will anonymize and desensitize such non-personal information. 

2.3. Collection of Non- Personally Identifiable Information 

2.3.1. Sources of Collection of Non-Personally identifiable Information 
We may also collect data from non-personally identifiable information sources such as web browsers, operating systems, bookmarks, page views. This may include browser name, specific device or computer, technical information such as connection to our Platform such as the operating system and the Internet service providers and such other information. 
When you access or use our Services, we may automatically collect certain information about you and how you use the Services. This may include: 

a. Device information. We may collect device information such as the MAC address of your devices, Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, log information, error messages, device type, wireless connection information, operating system type and version, application version number, push notification identifier, log files, and mobile network information and unique device identifiers. For example, we may collect IP addresses from you when you log into the Services as part of our log-in and security features. 

b. Usage Information. We may collect usage information such as the pages you viewed, the features you use, your browser type, visits, clicks, downloads, messages sent/received, and any links you click on to leave or interact with our Services. 

c. Log Information. Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use our Services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with our Services. 

d. Content. We may also collect content that you provide through the Services or content that is automatically collected in the background, such as information about your business such as your invoices, expenditures or customer details; time spent on various activities on your devices where you have installed our software; content you post on our community pages; content you provide to our customer care agents; and feedback you provide about the Services. 


3e. Information from Cookie and other Technologies. We and our service providers may use commonly used tools such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, local shared objects, and similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) to provide the Services you requested, recognize your visit, track your interactions with our Services, and improve your and other clients’ experience. Data collected through Cookies will help us in understanding consumer behaviour and analysing website traffic. If Cookies are disabled, certain areas of our products, services and features on our Platform may not work properly. You have control over some of the data we collect from Cookies and how we use it, you may manually accept, decline or ignore the pop-up displayed. 
Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Platform and the overall website experience. We may also analyse information that does not contain Personally Identifiable Information and Data for trends and/or statistics. 

f. Tracking Devices. We may use other industry standard technologies like pixel tags and web beacons to track your use of our Platform pages and promotions, or we may allow our third party service providers to use these devices on our behalf. Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on certain pages on our Platform, or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an email, pixel tags and web beacons generate a Non-Personally Identifiable notice of that action. Pixel tags allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor traffic and behaviour on our Platform, as well as give us a way to measure our promotions and performance. We may also utilize pixel tags and web beacons provided by our affiliates and/or marketing partners for the same purposes. 

g. Local Storage. We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device. 

2.4. Required Information 
Some of the functionalities in our Service may require you to provide information in order for you to use the Service. If you do not wish to provide the required information, you may not be able to use certain features or the Service. We will try to let you know what information is required and what information is optional. We may also combine information that you provided us with information about you that we get from other sources, in accordance with applicable law. 

3. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION 
We use your information in various ways, including to: 

3.1. Provide, Improve, Protect, and Deliver the Services 
To provide you with the Services that you have purchased, accessed or requested; to personalize your experience; to improve customer service; to provide technical support; to protect the security and safety of the Services, our clients, us, and others; to improve our Platform; or to otherwise operate our business. 

3.2. Improve Our Services 
We process your device information, usage data, location information and smart device related information to ensure the functions and safety of our Services, to develop and improve our products and Services, to analyse the efficiency of our operations, and to prevent and trace fraudulent or inappropriate usage. 

3.3. Communicate with you 
From time to time we may communicate with you to: 

a. Send emails and other communication. 

b. Provide you with important information about the Services or your accounts, such as subscription related information, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information, because this information may be important, you may not opt-out of receiving such communications. 

c. Give you offers for third-party products and services that we think may be of interest to you. 

d. Provide marketing and promotional materials to you on our Services. if we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to opt-out of receiving future communications of that nature. 

e. Send you information about us. 

f. Run a promotion, contest, survey or any other Platform feature. 

g. Customer Support 

3.4. Personalization 
We may process your account and profile data, usage data, device information to personalize product design and to provide you with services tailored for you, such as recommending and displaying information and advertisements regarding products suited to you, and to invite you to participate in surveys relating to your use of our Services. 

3.5. Protect Ourself and Others 
To protect us, our clients, and others such as for the purpose of combatting fraud. 

3.6. Analyse your Information 
We may use both manual and automated systems, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, to analyse your information to improve our Services; personalize your experience; automate certain aspects of the Service; aggregate, de-identify or anonymize your information; provide you certain features; and protect our safety and security, our Services, our clients and others. 

3.7. Improvement in our Services 
We may use your information to provide products and Services to you, administer sweepstakes and contests, enhance the operation of the Platform, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyse the Platform use and improve our product and service offerings. 

3.8. Analyse Trends 
We may use your information to troubleshoot, administer the Platform, analyse trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement departments. We may also share this information with our authorized third-party service providers and advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming. 

3.9. Evaluation Purposes 
We may share this information to market our Services with our authorized third-party service providers and advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming. 

3.10. Responding to Inquiries 
It may also be used to respond to inquiries, questions, and/or other requests. If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact us via our Platform. 

3.11. Vendors and Service Providers 
To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may provide Personal Information to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, email communication software, web analytics services, and other information technology providers, among others. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Information only in the course of performing their duties to us. 

3.12. Business Transfers 
If we are involved in strategic transactions, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of service to another provider (collectively, a “Transaction”), your Personal Information and other information may be disclosed in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets. 

3.13. Legal Requirement(s) 
We may process and/or share your Personal information, data as we believe to be necessary or appropriate with government authorities, industry peers or other third parties: (a) to comply with applicable laws and regulations; (b) to comply with legal processes; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations, business and systems; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of other users, including you; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. 

3.14. Affiliates 
We may disclose Personal Information to our affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with us. Our affiliates may use the Personal Information we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. 

3.15. How we use Other Data 
As a policy, we us sensitive information only in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by an individual. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that sensitive information is relevant to its intended use, is accurate, complete, and current. We do not provide any of the information we collect to third parties other than to market our Services. However, your data may be used to set up product demos or send marketing and promotional materials. We may also update you with new features, events etc that may take place from time to time. 

4. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION 
From time to time, we may need to share your information, but we will only share your personal information for the following reasons: 

4.1. With your consent 
We may share your personal information with your consent. 

4.2. With third parties 
We may share your personal information with third parties, but only for the following reasons: 

a. To our third-party service providers who perform certain business-related functions for us, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment and credit card processing, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer support service, e-mail delivery services, and other similar services to enable them to provide services to us. 

b. To our customers and other business partners who provide you, directly or indirectly, with your smart devices, and/or networks and systems through which you access and use our Platforms and Services. 

c. To an affiliate or other third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including without limitation in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). 

d. As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable laws and regulations; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations, business and systems; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of other users, including you; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. 

e. To provide functions and services on our behalf. we may share your information with third parties who provide various functions on our behalf and enable us to provide our Services and operate our business, such as service providers and business partners. 

f. For Research. We may share your information with third parties for research purposes or to publish academic or policy-related materials. We only share combined, unidentifiable client data, but only in a way that would not allow the client or any person to be identified. 

g. For Joint Sales, Promotions, and Events. We may share your information with third parties who are jointly providing sales initiatives, promotions or events with us. 

h. With our Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may share your information with and among our affiliates and subsidiaries. 

5. PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION 

5.1. Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy will depend on the type of personal information and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you, including details of any legitimate interest we rely on to process your personal information. 

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION COLLECTED 

6.1. Your personal information may be collected, stored and transferred by us in the United States of America and/or by our affiliates in other countries. We assure you that we have implemented adequate contractual safeguard mechanisms to ensure security of your personal information. 

7. TRANSMISSION/SHARING OF INFORMATION 
7.1. We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. 

7.2. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Platform or administer activities on our behalf. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission. 

8. DATA RETENTION 
8.1. We retain your information as long as is necessary to provide you with our Services. Once you have terminated your account or otherwise cease to use our Services (including if we determine your account has gone inactive), we will no longer retain your information except to the extent necessary, including but not limited to: 

8.1.1. to send you marketing communications in accordance with your marketing preferences; or 

8.1.2. for our legal or regulatory compliance (e.g., maintaining records of transactions you have made with us), to exercise, establish or defend legal claims, and to protect against fraudulent or abusive activity on our Services. 

8.2. If we no longer need your information for the above purposes, we will generally delete or de-identify and anonymize it in accordance with our standard data retention practices. However, there may be occasions where we are unable to fully delete or de-identify your information due to technical or other operational reasons, for example, where your information has been archived onto back-up systems. Where this is the case, we will take reasonable measures to securely isolate your information from any further processing until such time as we are able to delete or de-identify it. The length of time for which we retain personal information depends on the purposes for which we collect and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws. Where there are technical limitations that prevent deletion or anonymization, we safeguard personal information and limit active use of it. 

9. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION 
We understand that the security of your information is important to you. We take reasonable care and precaution and provide appropriate technical and organizational security controls to protect your information. We implement security controls to prevent breaches of unauthorised access to User data, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Platform. But, even with our best efforts, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of your information. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, keeping your log-in and password private, and not recycling passwords from other websites or accounts. We will not be responsible for the unauthorized use of your information nor for any lost, stolen, compromised passwords, or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity. 

10. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MANAGE YOUR PRIVACY 
10.1. You have choices when it comes to managing the privacy of your personal information. 

a. Update your Privacy Setting 
You may update your privacy settings directly through the Services by visiting your account settings. 

b. Manage Marketing Communications from Us 
We honour your choices when it comes to receiving marketing communications from us. To update your preferences (including to opt-in or opt-out of marketing communications) you can unsubscribe using an ‘unsubscribe’ or ‘opt-out’ (as the case maybe) link on marketing emails. 

c. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies 
You can find information on changing your browser settings to opt-out of optional Cookies in your browser settings. If you disable some or all of the Cookies, some of the Services, or parts of the Services may not work. 

d. Right of Access and Transparency 
You have the right to obtain information about Personal Information which includes, inter alia (i) summary of Personal Information collected from You and processed by Us; (ii) purpose for processing such Personal Information; and (iii) list of third party(ies) with whom the Personal Information is shared. 

e. Right of Accuracy and Rectification 

You have the right to request rectifications and/or modification and/or updation with respect to any incorrect or incomplete Personal Information in case of errors in your Personal Information collected by us.  

f. Right of Erasure and Control 
You have the right to request erasure of your Personal Information, object and/or restrict the processing of any or all parts of the Personal Data collected, provided that we may not be able to provide our Services to you upon such request. 

g. Right to Nominate 
You shall have the right to nominate any other person to exercise on your behalf the rights and remedies available to you, the User as per the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy as well as the rights and remedies enshrined in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 

11. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, LINKS & INTEGRATIONS 
11.1. Third-party products, services and applications may use or integrate with our Services, or otherwise be offered through our Services (“Third-Party Services”). 

11.2. Users may find advertising or other content on our Platform that link to the websites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. Third-party advertisement servers or advertisement networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that may appear on the Platform, which are sent directly to Users’ browser. You hereby note that such servers/networks automatically receive your IP address when this occurs where such technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. We do not control the content or links that appear on these websites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Platform. You agree that we are not liable for any damage or loss incurred by you due to the availability of such advertising content available on our Platform. 

11.3. In addition, these external websites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These websites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Platform is subject to that website's own terms and policies. 

12. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY 
You may provide information and content on our platform, applications, or software as part of and through our Services. This information that you input may pertain to, belong to or owned by you or any other third party. you hereby agree and acknowledge that with respect to any information that you input into our platform, applications, or software as part of availing our Services, whether belonging to you or any third party, you provide the requisite consent to us for its collection, use and storage in accordance with this Privacy Policy and that you have the requisite authorization from such third party to provide such information. We shall not be liable or responsible for any liabilities arising out of the sharing of any such data or information by you on our platform, application, or software and we expressly excludes and disclaim any such liability. You, the provider of information and data shall be solely liable for providing such information and any liabilities arising out of any claims made by such third parties. 

13. SECURITY PRECAUTIONS 
We maintain reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information. Whenever you access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession, we adhere to our security guidelines to protect it against unauthorized access. However, by using the Platform, the User accepts the inherent security implications of data transmission over the internet and the world wide web which cannot always be guaranteed as completely secure, and therefore, there would always remain certain inherent risks regarding use of the Platform. The User understands these inherent risks and agrees that we shall not be responsible for any unauthorised access, breach of security and/or the unauthorised usage of Users’ data. 

14. HOW TO CONTACT US 
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at : info@auster.fund

15. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY 
We have the discretion to update this Privacy Policy for the Platform at any time. When we do so, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of modifications. Your continued usage of our Platform and Services shall be your deemed acceptance to the revised/ amended policy. 

16. COLLECTION AND USE OF CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION 
As a standard practice, we do not knowingly or specifically collect, use, or require any information about minors under the age of 13 (thirteen) years. The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 13, and we request that these individuals do not provide any personal information to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 (thirteen) unless we first obtain permission from the child’s parent or legal guardian. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected such information, please notify us so that we may delete the information from our servers. 

17. ADDITIONAL TERMS 
17.1. Legal basis for processing. Our legal bases for processing your Personal Information include: 

17.1.1. Performance of a contract with you when we provide and maintain our Services. When we process Non – Personally Identifiable Information and Data solely to provide our Services to you, this information is necessary to be able to provide our Services. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to provide our Services to you. 

17.1.2. Our legitimate interests in protecting our Services from abuse, fraud, or security risks, or in developing, improving, or promoting our Services, including when we train our models. This may include the processing of Non – Personally Identifiable Information and Data. Read this Privacy Policy on how you can opt out of our use of your information to train our models. 

17.1.3. Your consent when we ask for your consent to process your Personal Information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. 

17.1.4. Compliance with our legal obligations when we use your Personal Information to comply with applicable law or when we protect our or our affiliates’, users’, or third parties’ rights, safety, and property. 

17.2. Data transfers. Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for transferring Personal Information outside of certain countries. We will only transfer Personal Information pursuant to a legally valid transfer mechanism. 

17.3. Grievance Redressal Officer. You can contact our grievance redressal officer at the email ID, in matters related to any grievance regarding the collection, processing and/or sharing of your Personal Information. 

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