Educate Online Inc. (“we,” “our,” and “us”) respects the privacy of our online customers and visitors to this website (www.start.educate-online.org), and any affiliated pages and websites. This privacy notice explains what information we collect when you visit or otherwise interact with our websites, how we use it, and when we may share it.

Our websites may link to third party services or apps that we don’t control, including social media sites (collectively “Third Party Sites”). You should be aware that Third Party Sites may have different privacy practices from our websites. The choice to access a Third Party Site is yours, at your sole discretion.

What Information Do We Collect and How Do We Collect

We collect and receive certain information about you when you access our websites. What we receive, and how we receive it, in part depends on what you do when you access websites.

We Collect Personal Information You Disclose to Us

We collect personally-identifiable information (such as your name, address, or phone number) and non-personally-identifiable information when you provide it to us. For example, if you request to receive offers and alerts or when you complete an online survey or submit the registration form. In addition, our business partners and service providers may give us information about you. Please note that, except for the limited instances where you choose to interact with us and provide us with your personally-identifiable information directly, you are not required to submit personally-identifiable information. You can browse our websites and review the content without having to submit such information.

Payment Data

We may collect data necessary to proceed your payment if you make purchases, such as payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Stripe and Razorpay. You may find their privacy notice on their websites: https://stripe.com/privacy and https://razorpay.com/privacy/.

We Collect Information Automatically When You Access Our Websites

We may also automatically collect personally-identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information about you when you access our websites

Tracking Technologies

When you access websites we may use technology to automatically collect:

• Log and Usage Data: We may automatically collect certain details of your access to and use of websites, including traffic data, logs, IP address, browser type and other communication data and the resources
• Device Data: We may collect information about your mobile device and an internet connection, including the device’s unique device identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, system configuration information - depending on the device used.
• Location Data: We collect location data such as your device’s location. However you can disable your location setting on your device but you may not be able to use certain aspects of our services.

We or our service providers may also automatically collect non personally-identifiable information about you when you access our websites The websites and some emails that we may send to you may also use common tracking technologies like:

• Cookies: A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device to distinguish you from other visitors to our websites.
• Web Beacons: A web beacon (also referred to as a “pixel tag”) is a small block of code that is placed on a Site page or within an email to help distinguish you from other visitors to our websites, assess traffic patterns, and measure your engagement with our website or email.
• Google Analytics and Google AMP Client ID API: A service which tracks a user’s journey across website pages.

Educate Online uses these features to collect non-personally-identifiable information about you. This type of information may include (but is not limited to) your IP address and/or domain; the type and version of the Internet browser that you use; the date, time and duration of your visit to our websites, and the specific pages, buttons, images, videos or other content that you may access during your visit. These tools enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on and off our websites.

Your browser may enable you to block or (in the case of cookies) delete some of the means by which we automatically collect information when you visit our websites, but doing so may affect your experience on websites. You should refer to your browser about what options might be available to you. Educate Online does not process or respond to Do Not Track signals or other similar signals whereby a visitor to a website requests that it disables collection of information about the visitor’s online activities over time and across different websites. By visiting and using our websites you consent to the use of these tracking technologies and related services.

Behavioral Advertising

We or our service providers may use information about your activities on our websites (such as the pages that you visit and the key words that you use to search for content) to help determine what advertisements or offers might be of interest to you. These advertisements may be on our websites or on Third Party Sites. The use of information in this manner is referred to as “online behavioral advertising.” We believe that online behavioral advertising helps to provide you with more relevant advertising based on the websites that you visit.

You may opt-out of online behavioral advertising by following the instructions in the “Your Options” section of this Online Privacy Statement. Please note that opting out of online behavioral advertising will not stop you from receiving advertisements. However, the advertisements that you see may not be as relevant to you.

How Do We Process Your Information

Information that we collect about you and your web browsing behavior is used to optimize your online experience. Among other reasons, we may use the information that you provide or that we collect when you visit our websites to:

• Verify your identity and/or remember your personal settings or preferences when using our websites;
• Determine your interests and needs in order to recommend relevant products and services;
• Qualify you for products and services that you request and to process your transactions;
• Post advertising content on Third Party Sites, along with web beacons and pixel tags to provide information to us and to third parties about the pages you visit after seeing our ads or offers;
• Analyze the quality and performance of our websites and marketing campaigns;
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• Notify you when service updates are available, and of changes to any products or services we offer or provide though it;
• To deliver services to the user;
• To respond to users requiries;
• To send administrative information to you;
• To fulfill and manage your orders;
• To request feedback;
• To deliver targeted advertising to you;
• To post testimonials;
• To evaluate and improve our services, products and marketing;
• To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional activities;
• To comply with our legal obligations.

We may also use data that we collect on an aggregate or anonymous basis (such that it does not identify any individual customer) for various business purposes, which may include offering products or services, research, marketing or analyzing marketing trends consistent with applicable law.

When and with Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information

We may share the personally-identifiable information that you provide to us or that we receive from our business partners and/or service providers with our service providers. For example, we share your email address with service providers who send emails on our behalf. We may also share non-personally-identifiable information with third parties who perform advertising services on our behalf and with companies that operate or analyze our websites. We do not authorize these third parties to collect, use, or disclose this information except as necessary to perform services for us or to comply with law. These third parties may not use the information that we provide to them to independently market to you unless you consent.

There may be other instances in which we may share either your personally-identifiable or non-personally-identifiable information with a third party. For example:

• To respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order or other official governmental actions that are served upon us, and then in conformity with their terms or as we are otherwise permitted or required by law;
• To respond to our regulators or other governmental authorities;
• To protect or defend Educate Online or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries, or their directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, or independent contractors in any legal proceeding;
• Where we suspect fraud or for other risk management purposes;
• As required or permitted by law; or
• As otherwise instructed or authorized by you.

The categories of third-parties: ad networks, payment processors, retargeting platforms, social networks and more.

What are Your Privacy Rights

To stop receiving promotional emails and WhatsApp messages follow the instructions in any promotional message you receive from Educate Online. Even if you opt out of getting marketing messages, we may still send you transactional messages, including responses to your questions or information about your application or payments.

Cookies and similar technologies: most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies or to reject cookies.

Online Security

Educate Online has developed and maintains security standards that are designed to protect information as it is transmitted from your computer to the network that hosts our websites.

However, you also have a significant role in maintaining the security of your information. For example, you should ensure that you have up-to-date anti-virus and anti-malware software installed on your computer. You should also understand that Educate Online will never send you electronic communications (whether they be email or requests made over the Internet) to request sensitive personal information. Similarly, you should never send us your sensitive personal information through a non-secure email channel.

If you communicate with us electronically you consent for us (or our service providers) to reply to you in that medium.

You are also in control of the information that you share with Educate Online, either directly or indirectly. If you are uncomfortable with sharing your personally-identifiable information with us, the easiest option is not to do so. However, you understand that if you do not share such information with us, we may be unable to assist you with certain transactions.

Additionally, if you find information about Educate Online on a Third Party Site — such as a social media site like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram — you understand that if you share information about you on such a Third Party Site that it will not be governed by this Online Privacy Statement and, depending on the Third Party Site, may be visible to all users of that Third Party Site. You should review the privacy policies and practices of Third Party Sites before providing information to them.

Personal Information of Children

Our websites and the products and services described on websites, are intended for use by individuals who are at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of 13 you should not be visiting our websites. We do not knowingly collect or retain personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13 and are visiting or otherwise using our websites you are advised not to disclose or provide any personally-identifiable information.

Policy for NDNC

By using the Website and/or registering yourself at Educate-online.org you authorize us to contact you via email or phone call or sms or WhatsApp and offer you our services or ask questions, imparting product knowledge, offer promotional offers running on website & offers offered by the associated third parties, for which reasons, personally identifiable information may be collected. And irrespective of the fact if also you have registered yourself under DND or DNC or NCPR service, you still authorize us to give you a call from Educate Online for the above mentioned purposes till 365 days of your registration with us. This Privacy Policy covers Educate Online's treatment of personally identifiable information that Educate Online collects when you are on the Educate Online sites, and when you use Educate Online's services. This policy also covers Educate Online's treatment of personally identifiable information that Educate Online's business partner shares with Educate Online. This policy does not apply to the certain Educate Online products or services, when you visit Educate Online pages, and when you enter promotions. Educate Online may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners. When you registered with Educate Online, we ask for your first name, last name, contact number, email. Once you register with Educate Online and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. Also during registration, you may be requested to register your mobile phone and email id, pager, or other device to receive text messages, and other services to your wireless device. By registration you authorize us to send sms/email alerts to you for your login details and any other service requirements or some advertising messages/emails from us.

Do We Make Updates to This Notice

We may make changes to this privacy notice at any time and without notice to you. It is your responsibility to review this privacy notice from time to time to understand whether any changes have been made. If you use our websites following any update to this privacy notice it constitutes your acceptance of the modifications.

Educate Online Inc is located at 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958, USA