1.
Overview:
We are WooStudy, “we”, “our” and “us” and we
respects your privacy. In this Privacy Policy we tend to explain the kind of
information WooStudy collects, use and share information. Also, how you may exercise
your rights with regard to this information. By using our site, products, services, dashboards,
and any other services or applications offered by WooStudy (the “Services”),
you confirm you have understood and agreed to our Terms of Service and
Privacy Policy.
The Definitions herein have the meaning of some of the
terms used in this Privacy Policy. Unless specifically defined, any capitalized
terms used throughout this Privacy Policy (but not defined herein) shall have
the same meaning attributed to it in Woostudy’s Terms and Conditions. Please
read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the Platform (and/or Services)
or submitting any information to us. If you do not agree to any part of this
Privacy Policy, you shall immediately cease from accessing our Platform or
using any of our Services.
Definitions:
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“Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation” means processing your Personal Data where
it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we
are subject to.
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“Data” means personal and non-personal User’s data that is
submitted, generated, featured and displayed through the Platform, collected
from the use of the Service and stored on Woostudy’s servers.
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“Legitimate Interest” means the interest of our business in conducting and
managing our Services to enable us to give you the best Service and the best
and most secure experience. We consider and balance any potential impact on you
and your rights before we process your Personal Data for our legitimate
interests.
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“Woostudy’s Terms and Conditions” means
all of the terms, conditions and notices contained or referenced in Woostudy’s
Terms and Conditions and all other Woostudy rules, policies available at
http://www.Woostudy.com, as amended from time to time.
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“Performance of our Services” means processing your Data where it is
necessary for the performance of our Services.
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“Personal Data” means information that
specifically identifies an individual (such as a name, address, photo,
telephone number, mobile number, e-mail address, birthday, office location,
professional and personal interests, company name, title department, spoken
languages) or information about that individual that is directly linked to
personally identifiable information.
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“Platform” means any online tool
provided, processed and/or maintained by Woostudy (including, but not limited
to, all subpages and subdomains, all content, Services and products available
at or through Woostudy’s website located at and/or its mobile
application, and/or any other related domain offering access to, or
facilitating the provision of, the Services);
·
“Privacy Policy” means all of the
privacy policies, practices and notices contained or referenced in this
document (as amended from time to time) and all other Woostudy rules, policies
available on the Platform that may be published from time to time on the
Platform.
·
“Service” means the online and/or
offline services provided by Woostudy for the provision and use of the
technology that Woostudy has developed to facilitate the acquisition of the
Student Goods;
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“Services” means all eligible services
that can be purchased by Customers using the Services;
·
“User”, “you” and “your”
collectively mean the person, company, or organization that has visited or is
using the Platform and/or the Service. A User may be a Customer, a student,
both or neither.
·
“Merchant”
means, Schools, University and counselor.
2.
Privacy
Notice:
This Privacy Policy only applies to Personal
Information that is collected by us in the capacity of a “business” and terms
applicable under data protection laws. This Privacy Policy does not apply to
personal information of our employees or job applicants, except to the extent
employees or job applicants are Users. As our customer please check in with the
privacy policies of WooStudy’s Service providers as they may vary and
understand how they will use your information.
3.
Personal
Information We Collect:
“Personal Information” is any information
related to an identified or identifiable person. The word “Processing” in this
privacy policy will be your information means commencing the task upon your
command with the help of your personal information. The Personal Information we
collect and Process depends upon the relationship you have with us and the
requirement of the law.
We may collect the Information you provide us
directly. Which personal details and transaction information such as account
information, name, phone number, email address, and credit card number. When
you create a WooStudy Account, we collect your contact information when you communicate
with us, and information you may provide to us in connection with surveys,
contests, or sweepstakes. We collect the contents of those communications,
including recording the call time, call duration, and contents of telephone
calls.
When you make a purchase from your account,
we collect the information of your purchase such as purchase information, the
location, order updates, frequency of using the account, and any discounts applicable
to your purchase. We may also get your information through other sources such
as any information that is commercially or publically available or through
third party partners or service providers. Third party partner information related to how you use
our third party partners, such as your reviews of our student partners or other
service providers.
We may collect information
through your networks and connections made available to us, depending on
the permissions you have granted, from your mobile and desktop devices’ address
book contacts, and other social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
We also collect, use and share
aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic Data for any purpose.
Aggregated data may be derived from your Personal Data but is not considered
Personal Data as this Data does not directly or indirectly reveal your
identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the
percentage of Users accessing a specific Platform feature.
We do not collect any Personal
Data about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual
orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, and genetic. Nor do we
collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
There is also Automatic Data Collection
through your use of our services which includes our websites with your Internet
protocol (IP) address, Mobile carriers, cookie identifier, IMEIs and other
device identifiers that are automatically assigned to your device, browser type
and language, geo-location information, hardware type, operating system,
Internet service provider, mobile operator or ISP, connection speed, the web
page you visited before coming to our sites, and identifiers associated with
your devices. Your devices, depending on their settings, may also transmit
location information to the Services. We use device information to detect abuse
and identify and troubleshoot bugs, the date and time of your visit, the amount
of time you spend on each page, information about the links you click and other
information about actions taken through use of the Our Services. We use
technologies like cookies and pixel tags in order to protect and promote our
Services. For example, cookies help us with things like remembering your
username for your next visit, understanding how you are interacting with our
Services, and improving the Services based on that information. You can choose
to set your browser to not reject cookies, which will limit your ability to
consume our Services.
4.
Why
we collect your Personal Data:
We process your information usually to fulfil our
contractual demands like for processing your order by Merchants or for a business
reasons related to their business. Under European law these reasons are
mentioned as “legitimate interests.”
Such “Legitimate interests” includes:
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For prevention of risk and
fraudulent activities. Your identity verification to approve transactions, and
monitor your online activities to avoid fraudulent, prohibited or illegal
transactions through our automated decision making technologies.
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To process payments for purchases
from Merchants.
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For day to day
administrative work such as enforcement of agreements.
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To answering your queries
and assist you. Communication with you regarding your transactions and
purchases, including shipping and returns details check-ins.
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In order to provide and improve
our services for you. To give you an improved and personalized shopping
experience with Us.
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For legal compliance, such
as to comply with applicable legal requirements including tax and other
government regulations;
·
To provide reports, analytics,
statistics by test our features.
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For marketing, advertising,
or other communications purposes. We may also analyse your online interactions
with on other services so we can introduce you to in the advertisement of the product
you might like.
We only process personal information for these
“legitimate interests” mentioned above. We are transparent into our privacy
practices. We offer you control over your personal information where it is appropriate,
where you can limit the information we hold, upon the usage of that
information, your data retention, data transfer or upon any technical measure
we take to protect your data.
We help merchants to use WooStudy with the technique,
which is refer to as “automated decision-making”. By using this technique, we
use help of human being as a resource in the process hence, we are not fully
“automated”. This technique is used where there is no significant privacy
implications.
As a controller, we can collect personal data based on one
of the following legal basis:
·
consent;
·
processing is the necessary
for the performance of a contract we have with the data subject;
·
processing is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation;
·
we need to protect the vital
interest of the data subject or of another person;
·
We or any third party have a
legitimate interest to process personal data and this is not overridden by the
interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject.
We
Process Personal Information for other various reasons, including:
To Provide the Our Services or Information on
your command. We will use your Personal Information to provide the Services.
Which means that it will be used to process your transactions with Our
Merchants, including:
·
process payments for booking
or purchasing services from Merchants;
·
Your identity verification
to approve transactions, and monitor your online activities to avoid
fraudulent, prohibited or illegal transactions through our automated decision
making technologies;
·
Communication with you
regarding your transactions, including returns details check-ins.
·
The improved and
personalized shopping experience with WooStudy.
Personal
Information for our managerial or administrative purposes, including:
·
to respond to your queries
and process your request through our customer services or attend any technical
issues you might be having;
·
to process your SMS login
code;
·
to give an access to you to
Woostudy’s featured services and functionalities of different areas of Our
services;
·
We may also analyse your online interactions
with on other services so we can introduce you to in the advertisement of the
salon or service you might like;
·
for handling quality control
issues;
·
For day to day
administrative work such as enforcement of agreements;
·
to administer surveys,
contests, and similar promotions;
·
for legal compliance, such
as to comply with applicable legal requirements including tax and other
government regulations;
·
to enforce our contracts;
and
·
to comply with law
enforcement requests.
Marketing
and promotional purposes permitted by the applicable law:
·
notifying you about offers
and services that may be of interest to you;
·
tailoring content,
advertisements, and offers for you;
·
conducting market research
or surveys;
·
developing and marketing new
services and measuring interest in the Services; and;
·
other purposes disclosed at
the time you provide personal information as you otherwise consent;
·
If you use Our Services, we may send you
promotional emails about sales and marketing related stuff. You may opt out
through unsubscribing the corresponding mails. We may opt out to advertise our
Services on a social media site if you already signed up for our Services, or
we may choose to serve you a particular advertisement based on what we think
may interest you.
De-identified
and Aggregated use of Information
We may use Personal Information and other
information about you to create de-identified and/or aggregated information.
De-identified or aggregated information cannot be identified as Personal
Information which we may use it in many ways such as to analyse the interest of
visitors by their use of our features, for research, internal analysis,
analytics, and any other legally permissible purposes.
Cookies
and Similar Technologies
We, as well as third parties that provide
content, advertising, or other functionality on the Our Services, may use
cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other technologies to automatically
collect information through Our Services. We use Technologies that are
essentially small data files placed on your device that allow us to record
certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with Our Services.
If you would like to opt out of the Technologies we employ on the Services, you
may do so by blocking, deleting, or disabling them as your browser or device
permits. Consult with our Cookie Policy for more information.
5.
Sharing
Your Information.
We may share your information with our:
·
Merchants:
We may share any information we receive from
you with the Merchant from whom you purchase or seek to purchase products or
services in order to facilitate and support your transaction. Your Personal
Information will also be subject to the Merchant’s privacy policy. We are not
responsible for the privacy and security practices of Woostudy’s Merchants.
·
Service
Providers:
We may share any information we receive with
service providers that help us provide the Our Services. The types of service
providers to whom we entrust Personal Information include service providers
for:
(i) The provision of the Our Services;
(ii) The provision of hosting, IT and related
services;
(iii) The provision of information and
services you have requested;
(iv) payment processing; and
(v) Customer service activities.
·
Affiliates:
We may share Personal Information with our
Affiliates for our and our Affiliates’ internal business purposes or to provide
you with a service that you have requested. “Affiliate” means any entity that,
directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control
with WooStudy.
·
Business
Partners:
We may also provide Personal Information to
business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services, or whose
products or services we believe may be of interest to you. WooStudy requires
our affiliates and business partners to agree in writing to maintain the
confidentiality and security of Personal Information they maintain on our
behalf and not to use it for any purpose other than the purpose for which
WooStudy provided them.
·
Advertising
Partners:
We share information regarding your
activities, such as your IP address, cookie identifier, pages visited, and time
of day, with our or Seller’s or Content Provider’s third-party advertising partners,
or allow them to use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to collect such
information. These advertising partners may use this information, and similar
information collected from other sites, for purposes of delivering targeted
advertisements to you when you visit other related sites within their networks.
If you prefer that we do not share this information with third-party
advertising partners, you may opt out of such sharing by following the Disclosures to Protect Us or Others. We disclose your
personal information if we determine that such disclosure is reasonably
necessary to comply with the law, protect our or other party’s rights, property
or interests (such as enforcing our Terms of Service) or prevent fraud or
abuse of us or our Users or Sellers. In particular, we may disclose your
personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, such
as to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
·
Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers:
If we are involved in a reorganization,
merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your personal information may be
transferred as part of that deal or the negotiation of contemplated deals.
·
International Data Transfers:
All personal information
collected by us will be transferred to and stored in the United States of
America. By choosing to visit our site, utilize the Services or otherwise
provide information to us, you acknowledge that your personal information may
be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, which may
have different data protection rules to those of your country.
·
Data transfers outside of
the EU/EEA:
The
GDPR does not require that data processing activities are limited to the EU,
but rather regulates the transfer of personal data outside of the European
Economic Area (EEA). In order to do that, the GDPR provides for different
transfer mechanisms. We are a United States company, but we work with and
process data about individuals across the world. To operate our business, we
may send your personal information outside of your state, province, or country,
including to the United States. This data may be subject to the laws of the
countries where we send it. When we send your information across borders, we
take steps to protect your information with techniques such as tokenization and
pseudonymization. In accordance with PCI security and card network rules, and
we try to only send your information to countries that have strong data
protection laws. When we send your personal information outside of Europe, we
do so in accordance with European law.
6.
How
to Exercise Your Rights
We handle your information with utmost careful. We analyse the
information before and offer to provide our services. We minimise and restrict
the limit the information we collect. We delete, encrypt, anonymize,
pseudonymize your information if we feel that it is no longer needed. We give
you right to elect to limit the use of your information.
You can elect to use your right to limit the
use of your personal information through the following ways:
·
If you believe that you are receiving unnecessary email from us then you
may be able to unsubscribe them from the link provided on the bottom of the
mail. This button will stopped the emails. Upon your request we will process it
within a reasonable time after receipt. We may also other non-promotional
emails regarding our services which you may not be able to unsubscribe.
·
You may use Do Not Track. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference
that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform
websites and services that they do not want certain information about their
webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services.
Please note that we do not respond to or honour DNT signals or similar
mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.
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To exercise Your Privacy Rights In accordance with applicable law, you may request
to access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the
information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or
request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within your account settings
section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us
to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we
hold about you.
·
To make correction or to update your personal
data, you have to make a request. You have the right to have any incomplete or
inaccurate information we are holding about you corrected.
·
You may request for the erasure of Your
Personal Data. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data
when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
·
The right to object on your personal data
does exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis
for our processing and there is something about your particular situation,
which makes you want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this
ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing Your Personal
Data for direct marketing purposes.
·
You may elect to request us to transfer all
your personal data. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have
chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable
format. Please note that this right only applies to automate information which
you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information
to perform a contract with you.
·
You have a right to withdraw your consent to
process your personal data at any time. If you do so we will immediately stop
the access for the specific service.
7.
Data
Retention and Security:
We only retain your personal information as
long as you have an account with us or keep using our services. We also will
retain personal information for compliance with applicable law in order to
protect our and all the other party’s rights, to resolve disputes, and for
enforcement of our terms and conditions. In some circumstances we may anonymise
your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for
research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information
indefinitely without further notice to you.
For your data protection we have
worked tirelessly towards certain security measures to avoid security breaches,
accidents, fraudulent activities or unauthorized use of your personal
information. Furthermore, we have limited the access to your personal data to
those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a
business need to know. They can only process your personal data upon our
command which is also protected through confidentiality agreements. Where
possible, we employ mechanisms that allow us to automatically remove data after
it is no longer needed to offer our services.
For more protection we have
installed in procedures to catch any suspicious data breach. We are legally
obliged to send information to law regulators about the breach.
8.
Links to Other
Websites
Our Service may
contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a
third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly
advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no
control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or
practices of any third party sites or services.
9.
Children’s
Privacy
We do not offer our services to children
below the age of 16. We also do not intentionally collect and store the
information of minors below 16. If you become aware that you child is using our
services without your consent please inform us through contacting our customer
services and we will immediately remove your child’s personal information and
delete their Account.
10.
Amending and Altering Our
Privacy Policy:
WooStudy reserves the right to revise its
privacy policy to upon our sole discretion. Upon any material change we will
inform you about the alteration required by law. We will post any Privacy
Policy revisions on this web page, and the revised version will be effective
immediately when it is posted. The revised policy will be available on our web
page.
11.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or
suggestions about our privacy practices, this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to
submit a request to exercise your rights as detailed in this Privacy Policy,
please contact WooStudy customer service by emailing us. We will address your
concerns and attempt to resolve any privacy issues in a timely manner.
You may also contact us by mailing us at: