Privacy policy
Last Updated on 24th January 2023
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This Privacy Policy explains Stars School, a product of Shoshin Tech Private Limited (“Shoshin Tech” or “we” or “our” or “us”) privacy practices for visitors to our proprietary Internet site at Stars.School (the “Website”). We created this Privacy Policy to explain what information we gather from you when you visit our Website and how we may use and disclose this information. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and made a part of Shoshin Tech’s and by extension Star School’s Terms of Use.
By using our Website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post a new policy on the Website and update the “last updated” date set forth above. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through our Website and not to information collected offline.
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What Information Do We Collect?
For the purposes of providing you with the best services, we will collect the following information:
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​Personal Information You Provide to Us – We only have access to and collect personal information (such as your name, date of birth, social, and financial data including bank details, mailing or billing address, telephone number, or email address, and email preferences (collectively, “Personal Information”)) that you voluntarily give us via Website or email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to anyone. We are the sole owners of the Personal Information collected on this Site.
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Information Collected by Automated Means – Whenever you use the Site, we, as well as any of our third-party advertisers and/or service providers, may use a variety of technologies that automatically collect information about how the Site is accessed and used (“Usage Information”). Usage Information may include, in part, browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, how many users visited the Site, and the website you visited immediately before the Site. This statistical data provides us with information about the use of the Site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. Usage Information helps us to keep the Site fresh and interesting to our visitors and to tailor content to a visitor’s interests. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we treat it as Personal Information.
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Registration Data – The Data provided to us about your child when you register with us including but may not be limited to Name and surname of the child, email address of child’s parents / guardians and their IP address, email address, postal address, phone number, ID card number, username and password, age, gender, date of birth, allergy and medical information, relationship to child, emergency contact details. This to ensure that we have all information necessary, to provide the best care for the child and the said data is significant for the performance of the contractual obligations and is in the legitimate interest of the child.
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Device Identifiers – In the course of collecting Usage Information we may also collect your IP address, other unique identifier (each a “Device Identifier”) for the computer, mobile device, Wi-Fi card, or other technology (collectively, “Device”) you use to access the Site. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device when you access a web site or its servers. Our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. When you visit the Sites, we may view your Device Identifier. We use this information to identify repeat visitors to our Site. We also may use this information to send you targeted advertisements and to enhance the Site. We may associate your Device Identifier with your Personal Information.
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Cookies – Cookies are data files placed on a Device when it is used to visit the Site. We may use cookies to collect and store certain information about you. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them).
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Web Beacons – We may also include web beacons (also known as web bugs, Internet tags, pixel tags, tracking pixels and clear GIFs) with the content and ads that we deliver to you, which we will use to collect information regarding your interaction with our content and ads. A web beacon is a transparent graphic image placed on a web page or in an email, which indicates that a page or email has been viewed or that an email has been forwarded. In addition, a web beacon allows third parties to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the third party. A web beacon may also tell your browser to get content from another server.
Cookies and web beacons (together, “Site Cookies”) may enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site, track user actions/behavior on our Site, and track the effectiveness of ads.
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How Do We Use Your Information?
We may use the information that we collect from you when you register to use the Website, purchase services from the Website, surf the Website or use certain features of the Website in the following ways:
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To publish the data on the Website for statistical purposes;
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To contact the users of the site and apprise them of new products or services;
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To operate and improve the Website;
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To contact the users for feedback and improving the user experience;
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To analyse the pattern of the user on the Website to enhance the utility and design
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To send promotional and marketing emails from Us via SMS, email, snail mail or third-party communication services such as WhatsApp, Facebook etc.
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Analysing anonymized practice information for commercial use.
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To process payment instructions including those through independent third-party service providers such as payment gateways, banking and financial institutions, pre-paid instrument and wallet providers for processing of payment transaction or deferral of payment facilities
(collectively referred to as “Purpose(s)”)
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What about the retention of data?
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We keep your personal data no longer than strictly necessary for the following purposes:
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To realize the purpose for which your personal data was originally collected;
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As required by a specific law which we may be subject to;
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To manage any legal claims in relation to which such data may be required as evidence.
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We shall store Your Personal Information at least for a period of three years from the last date of use of the Services, Website for such period as may be required by law
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Do We Disclose the Information We Collect to Outside Parties?
We generally do not sell to, trade with or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described herein. The term "outside parties" does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
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You hereby consent and authorize Us to publish feedback obtained by You on Our Website.
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User’s financial information are transacted upon secure sites of approved payment gateways which are digitally under encryption, thereby providing the highest possible degree of care as per current technology. However, User is advised to exercise discretion while saving the payment details.
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You acknowledge that we may be obligated to by law to disclose or transfer your Personal Information with Courts and Government agencies in certain instances such as for verification of identity, or for prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution, and punishment for offenses, or in compliance with laws such as intimation of diagnosis of an epidemic disease. You hereby consent to disclosure or transfer of Your Personal Information in these instances.
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Notwithstanding the above, We are not responsible for the confidentiality, security or distribution of Your Personal Information by third-parties outside the scope of Our Agreement. Further, We shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third-parties or events that are beyond the reasonable control of Us including but not limited to, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorized access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, poor quality of Internet service or telephone service of the User etc.
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We may share Your Personal Information with Our other corporate and/or associate entities and affiliates to (i) help detect and prevent identity theft, fraud and other potentially illegal acts and cyber security incidents, and (ii) help and detect co-related/related or multiple accounts to prevent abuse of Our Services.
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What do you do with personal data related to minors?
In accordance with industry standards, all data relating to a minor provided to us, are processed under the strictest of controls.
It is a parent and/or legal guardian’s responsibility to ensure that persons under the age of 18 do not complete any registration forms of any means through our Website. If you think that your child provided any kind of information on our Website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will make it a priority to promptly remove such information from our records. If we have reason to believe that we hold unauthorised Personal Data of a person under the age of 18, we will delete it immediately.
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Safeguarding Your Personal Information
The security of Your Personal Information is important to Us. We have adopted reasonable security practices and procedures including role-based access, secure communication, password protection, encryption, etc. to ensure that the Personal Information collected is secure. You agree that such measures are secured and adequate. We restrict access to Your Personal Information to Our and Our affiliates’ employees, agents, third-party service providers, partners, and agencies who need to know such Personal Information in relation to the Purposes as specified above in this Policy, provided that such entities agree to abide by this Privacy Policy.
We follow generally accepted industry security standards to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security and correctly use personal identification and financial information. However, no commercial method of information transfer over the Internet or electronic data storage is known to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of such information during its transmission or its storage in our systems, and you should always take care to safeguard your personal information.
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Third-Party Links
During Your interactions with Us, it may happen that We provide/include links and hyperlinks of third-party websites not owned or managed by Us (“Third-party Websites”). It may also happen that You or other Users may include links and hyperlinks of Third-party Websites. The listing of such Third-Party Websites (by You, other Users, or by Us) does not imply endorsement of such Third-party Websites. Such Third-party Websites are governed by their own terms and conditions and when You access such Third-party Websites, You will be governed by the terms of such Third-party Websites. You must use Your own discretion while accessing or using Third-party Websites. We do not make any representations regarding the availability and performance of any of the Third-party Websites. We are not responsible for the content, terms of use, privacy policies and practices of such Third-party Websites. We do not bear any liability arising out of Your use of Third-party Websites.
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Where Do I Direct Questions About this Privacy Policy?
We welcome your questions, comments and concerns about our Privacy Policy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to this Privacy Policy to legal@stars.school