InovarTech Private Limited ("Inovar," "we," "us," or "our") is the owner of the Platform https://www.skolasti.com. At Inovar, we prioritize your privacy and are committed to safeguarding your personal information. Please review this Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, process, disclose, and manage personal data through our Platform, products, Services, marketing communications, and social media interactions. It also outlines how to exercise any rights you as visitors, customers, and registered users of this Platform (Skolasti.com) and the Services (as defined in the Terms of Use) may have with respect to this information.

Please carefully read this Privacy Policy, which is an integral part of our Terms of Use, before using our Platform and/or Services. If you do not agree with the Terms of Use and/or this Privacy Policy, you must refrain from using our Platform and/or Services. By accessing or using our Services, you acknowledge your acceptance of the practices and policies outlined below. You also consent to our collection, use, and sharing of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. If you are a representative of an organization and provide information about yourself or another person within the organization, it shall be deemed that you have obtained the necessary approval to do so. Personal information or personal data is any data that may identify you as a person, either directly or indirectly. This Privacy Policy applies only to information that you provide to us through this Platform and the Services.

Our Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, and we will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Platform and revising the "Effective starting" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy whenever you use this Platform to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

This Privacy Policy applies to the information that we obtain through your use of the Platform via a "Device" or when you otherwise interact with the Platform and the Services. A "Device" includes any computer used to access the Platform and the Services, including without limitation a desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, or other consumer electronic devices. "Platform" refers to Skolasti.com and the Services but does not include any third-party products or services for which a separate privacy policy is provided. These third-party products or services may be integrated with the Platform or the Services at your discretion. You should always review the policies of third-party products and services to ensure you are comfortable with the ways they collect and use your information.

OUR SERVICES

Skolasti is a cloud-based eLearning platform designed to facilitate the delivery and management of training programs. It provides features for creating and managing training content, tracking learner progress, conducting assessments, generating reports, and integrating with other systems. Skolasti is intended to assist organizations in improving training efficiency, enhancing learner engagement, making data-driven decisions, and scaling their training programs to meet their evolving need.

A.            INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect Your following personal information either directly from you or from any third party:

1.      ACCOUNT AND LOGIN INFORMATION: We collect and process your username, password, email address, name, contact information, and any associated account details necessary to provide you with access to our Platform and Services.

2.      PROFILE INFORMATION: To tailor our Services to your needs, we gather information such as your job title, department, company, interests, preferences, and other relevant details related to your role and responsibilities within the organization.

3.      ACTIVITY DATA: We may monitor and record your interactions with the Platform, including course enrolments, progress, completion status, test scores, assignments submitted, and other activity data to enhance your learning experience and track your achievements.

4.      LEARNING PREFERENCES: To better serve you, we collect information about your learning style preferences, accessibility needs, language preferences, and other data related to your individual learning requirements.

5.      DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: If provided, we may collect demographic data such as age, gender, and location to help us understand and serve our users better.

6.      PERFORMANCE DATA: We collect detailed performance metrics, including time spent on courses, quiz scores, assignment grades, and overall progress to evaluate and improve our training programs.

7.      FEEDBACK AND SURVEYS: Your responses to surveys, feedback forms, or other methods of collecting user feedback are processed to understand your experience and make improvements to our services.

8.      COURSE CONTENT: We collect and store course titles, descriptions, outlines, materials, assessments, and any other proprietary content created or uploaded by our customers to facilitate the delivery of training services.

9.      INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Any copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property rights associated with the course materials are respected and protected as per our policy and applicable law.

10.  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: We acknowledge that any sensitive or proprietary information shared by the customer or their employees related to the training program will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.

11.  USAGE DATA: We collect data on how your organization uses the Platform, including course enrolments, completion rates, and user activity to provide insights and improve our services.

12.  COOKIES: Cookies are small data files stored by your browser on your device for record-keeping purposes, capturing information like your IP address, browser type, and browsing history. Some cookies, known as first-party cookies, are set by the website owner, while third-party cookies are set by external entities. We use cookies for various purposes: necessary cookies ensure the site functions properly, preferences cookies enhance performance and functionality (though they're non-essential and may result in limited features if not accepted), analytics cookies help us understand how our site is used by collecting aggregated data, and marketing cookies are employed by third-party providers to deliver targeted ads. When you visit our site, you’ll be prompted to consent to these cookies, and you can modify or withdraw your consent anytime through the Cookies Manager or your browser settings.

Kindly note that our services are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children. If we become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the contact information below.

B.     PURPOSES FOR WHICH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND USED BY US 

We use your information for a number of legitimate interests, including to provide and improve our Services, administer our relationship with you and our business, for marketing, and in order to exercise our rights and responsibilities. More detailed information about these legitimate interests is set out below:

1.      FOR PROVIDING OUR SERVICES - We process information on behalf of our customers who use our Services to read or write data. The legal basis for handling your personal information is that it's necessary to fulfil our contract with these customers. We use your information to provide access to the Platform's features, such as course enrolment, content delivery, assessment tools, and communication functions. Your data helps us customize the platform’s interface, recommendations, and notifications to fit your individual preferences and learning style. We also track user behaviour, such as course completion rates, time spent on the Platform, and search queries, to identify areas for improvement and enhance platform performance. Additionally, your information allows us to troubleshoot issues, offer assistance, and resolve any technical problems you might face.

2.      FOR ADMINISTERING THE RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR CURRENT AND PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMER - We process personal information to administer our relationship with our current and prospective customer. This routinely includes: contacting you to discuss matters for which you have engaged us or those for which you may engage us to handle on your behalf. This also includes due diligence, fraud prevention, processing payments, accounting, auditing, billing and collection, and support services. 

3.      FOR COMPLIANCE WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS - We also process your personal information in order to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. We also process personal information to establish, exercise, and defend our legal rights and any legal proceedings which may arise; and to prevent, detect and respond to actual or potential fraud or other illegal activities.

4.      FOR MARKETING PURPOSES - We also may process personal information to send you information about new developments or our activities in the form of newsletters, event invitations, alerts, blog postings, or other similar communications. Depending upon the nature of the communication, these messages may be sent to you with your consent or pursuant to our legitimate interests. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you can opt-out of receiving future messages by email by opting-out using the link in the message or by contacting the Point of Contact provided in this policy.

C.     INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURES 

To facilitate the purposes set out above, we may transfer, disclose, grant access to or share your personal information with:

1.      USERS: We will display your personal information in your profile page and elsewhere on the Site according to the preferences you set in your account. Any information you choose to provide should reflect how much you want other Users to know about you. We recommend that you guard your anonymity and sensitive information, and we encourage you to think carefully about what information you disclose in your profile pages. You can review and revise your profile information at any time. You should be aware that the administrator, as well as specially designated support personnel in order to provide support for technical issues you may face, may be able to: access information in and about your account; access communications history, including file attachments, for your account; disclose, restrict, or access information that you have provided or that is made available to you when using your account, including your content; and control how your account may be accessed or deleted.

2.      THIRD PARTIES: We do not sell your personal information or content and will not share or disclose any of your personal information or content with third parties except as described in this policy. We do not share personal information about you with third parties for their marketing purposes (including direct marketing purposes).

3.      SERVICE PROVIDERS, BUSINESS PARTNERS AND OTHERS: For security, service operation and management purposes, we also uses third-party services that provide hosting, storage backup and disaster management. Third-party vendors and providers supply the necessary hardware, software, networking and storage to run our Services namely user data, access logs, analytics, error logging etc.  These third parties have access to your personal information only for purposes of performing these tasks on our behalf.

4.      COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT: We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of InovarTech or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical, inappropriate or legally actionable.

5.      BUSINESS TRANSFERS: We may share or transfer your Information (including your Personal Information) in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. You will be notified on any change in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.

C.     DATA RETENTION

We collect and process personal data in a transparent manner, to the extent necessary for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, and do not process it further in a manner incompatible with those purposes. We take care that the data we collect are accurate and, when necessary, updated. We take all reasonable steps to immediately delete or rectify personal data, if inaccurate. We process data in a way that guarantees their security, including their protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction or degradation, using appropriate technical or organizational measures. We take the appropriate technical and organizational measures for the security, confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data. Each domain’s data are retained for as long as the Customer’s paid subscription to the service lasts. If Customer elects not to renew a Subscription, Customer’s account is permanently deleted after 6 months period. We will provide reminder notifications before deleting Customer’s account.

D.     YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, and request data portability of your personal information. To exercise these rights, please contact us at hello@skolasti.com. We may request additional information to verify your identity and process your request. Please note that we may deny or limit your request if it violates another person's rights or is not otherwise permitted by applicable law.

E.     DATA OWNERSHIP

Inovar owns the code, databases, and all rights to the Services, Customers retain ownership, control and all rights to their records and data which are their property.

F.     THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our Platform may contain links to third-party websites and services. We have no control over such third-party services, which are provided by persons or companies other than Us. We are not responsible for any collection or disclosure of Your information by such companies or persons thereof. Further, We are not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by You as a result of the collection and/or disclosure of Your information via third-party services. We shall not be liable for any disputes arising from or in connection with such transactions between You and the aforementioned third parties. Such third-party websites and external applications or resources, accessible via the Platform may have their own privacy policies governing the collection, storage, transfer, retention, and/or disclosure of Your information that You may be subject to. We recommend that You exercise reasonable diligence before committing to any transaction or exchange of information, including but not limited to reviewing the third-party website or application’s privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is published in compliance with inter alia:

• Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”);

• Rule 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 (“SPDI Rules”); and

• Rule 3(1)(a) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

In the event of a change in the law applicable to data protection in India, You hereby expressly consent to Our continued use, storage, collection and disclosure of Your information including personal information to the fullest extent permitted under such applicable law. We may reach out to You for obtaining additional consents and approvals as required under the amended law and You will be required to comply with such requests. Should You choose to not provide Us with such additional consents and approvals, We may have to discontinue your access to the Platform.

GRIEVANCE OFFICER AND CONTACT INFORMATION 

In accordance with the IT Act and rules made thereunder, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below:

Email at hello@skolasti.com

This Privacy Policy forms an integral part of the Terms of Use appearing on the Platform and must be read together at all times.