Iyoungsphere Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 having registered office at Flat No. C 902, Marvel Bounty, Nr. Suzlon Company, DSK Sundarban0608, Pune – 411028, Maharashtra, India. (“IYoung” or “Company” or “we” or “our” or “us”), is a social media platform connecting youngsters interested in upskilling and contributing meaningfully to the platform and society through its website available at www.IYoung.social (referred to as “Website” or “Platform”). Any services of the Platform used by the visitors who visit this Website (hereinafter referred to as “you”, “your” or “user”) or your visit/use of this Website is conditioned upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions contained in Terms and Conditions as available on the Website and this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
IYoung is fully committed to respecting your privacy and want you to understand how we collect, use, and share data about you. This Privacy Policy covers our data collection practices and describes your rights to access, correct, or restrict our use of your personal data. We are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes: (a) what is the Information that we collect; (b) how do we collect your Information, and (c) how we use your collected Information; and (d) other relevant information such as security of your Information etc. Thus, it is important that you review this privacy policy.
This Privacy Policy has been drafted and published in accordance with the Information Technology Act 2000; The Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008; and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011. This Privacy Policy constitutes a legal agreement between you, as a user of the Website and us, as the owner of the Website. You must be a natural person who is at least 18 years of age.
You signify that You have read, understood and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any provisions of this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions, then you may not use/access this Website.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the Capitalised Terms shall have the meaning assigned as below:
“Act” shall mean the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules thereunder as amended from time to time.
“Information” shall mean and include Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Data and Information as may be collected by IYoung.
“Personal Information (PI)” shall have the same meaning as under Rule 2 (i) of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 as amended from time to time.
“Rules” shall mean the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 as amended from time to time.
“Sensitive Personal Data and Information (SPDI)” shall have the same meaning as under Rule 3 of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 as amended from time to time.
This policy does not cover information you may choose to provide to third party websites we advertise or to social media sites where we have a profile. These will be governed by the privacy policies on those sites.
By providing us with your Personal Information you expressly consent to us processing your Personal Information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, including a material change in the way we use your Personal Information, it will be deemed to be notified to and read and agreed by you on your using the Website and/or related services once we post the same on our Website. Your continued usage will constitute express consent to us continuing to process your Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our revised policy.
Last update date: [08] [06], 2021.
We collect the following data from the Users in the manner stated in this Privacy Policy:
Upon registration on our Website, personally identifiable information such as your name, physical address, email address, phone number, date of birth and/or other similar information is collected.
Date and time of your visit on our website along with the navigation details such as webpages visited and time spent on each webpage, and the details of the referring site.
Data regarding your device such as the type of device, type of operating system, type of web browser, and IP (internet protocol) address is collected.
Demographic information such as your gender, age, interest, language, city, country is also collected,
Account details: these include your username and password and preferred account settings such as the language and time zone etc.
Billing details: shall mean and include billing details such as name, address, email id and other financial information that corresponds to your mode of payment including but not limited to, credit card/ debit card details, net banking information, bank details etc. Please note that confidential information such as the CVV/ PIN number and the net banking credentials will not be stored by us.
Finally, we may collect additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here.
1. Through Google Analytics:
We use a third-party JavaScript plug-in provided by Google Inc. called "Google Analytics" to provide us with useful traffic statistics and to better understand how you use our Website. We do not have direct access to the information obtained from Google Analytics, but Google provides us with a summary through their dashboard.
Google does not provide us with direct access your Personal Information and therefore we cannot see this information.
We may share the information obtained from Google Analytics with business partners who are interested in advertising on our website. The information shared with these business partners will not contain any Personal Information.
You can opt-out of having your information collected by Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on provided by Google. This will prevent your information being used by Google Analytics. Doing this will not affect your ability to use our Website in any way. We also honour the Do Not Track header and will not track visitors who have Do Not Track switched on.
2. Through Facebook Pixel
Information collected by third-party: We may collect information about you from third-party sources, including but not limited to, the following channels:
public databases;
marketing partners and resellers;
advertising partners and analytics providers.
Automatic collection by IYoung: Most of the PI or SDPI that we collect is directly provided by you. In the following situations, we will collect and process the information about you:
Where you register yourself on the Platform as a user/mentor. We collect and store your personal information you voluntarily provide such as name, email address, phone number, gender, geographical information such as city, linguistic compatibility, and other information such as education qualifications, work experience etc. as may be collected at the time of registration on the Website.
where you log in or visit IYoung, or opt to use any such services of IYoung, which is available only to registered users.
where you provide information regarding yourself when you make an enquiry through the enquiry form
where you provide PI/SDPI directly to IYoung over telephone. IYoung may make and keep a record of such information shared by you.
where you voluntarily complete any user survey or provide feedback to us via email or any other channel.
where you provide Personal Information to IYoung in physical form whether sent through post or courier or handed over to a IYoung representative in person.
other situations where we may automatically collect your information as mentioned in this Privacy Policy or our Terms & Conditions.
If you register or log into your account through a third-party social media service such as Google, Facebook or any other social media login that we may allow in future, we shall have access to some of your third-party account information from such third party social media service, such as your name and other information including information regarding your network in that account, as permitted by that service. You have the ability to disable the connection between our Website and/or the Mobile App and third-party account at any time.
By using Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, or any other social login we may allow in the future, you adhere to our Privacy Policy and Terms, as well as the privacy policies and terms of service of Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. Please read the terms of service and privacy policy for any social media login you might be using to understand how data is collected and used.
We use the information we collect about you for the following purposes or in the following manner:
To provide and maintain IYoung services: We use the information collected to deliver, maintain and provide better services (including but not limited to processing transactions, communicating with the users) and verify users' identities. We use the IP address and unique identifiers stored in your device's cookies to help us authenticate your identity and activities and provide services. Given our legal obligations and system requirements, we cannot provide you with all or some of our services without data like identification information, supervision information, service usage information, communication information, and transaction information.
To protect our users: We use the information collected to protect our Platform, users' accounts, and archives. We use IP addresses and cookies to protect against automated abuse such as spam, phishing, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Further, we analyse browsing activities with the goal of detecting suspicious behaviours as early as possible to prevent potential fraud and loss of funds to bad actors.
For other business purpose: By registering on the Website, you give us your express consent to receive promotional emails about our services and emails announcing changes to, and new features on, the Website. If at any time, you decide that you do not wish to receive any such emails, you can opt out of receiving such emails. Additionally, we do use comments made by you about the Website for marketing purposes and by making such comments you expressly consent to our using such comments for marketing purposes.
IYoung will share some or all of your Information with another business entity should we (or our assets) plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity. Should such a transaction occur then the other business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this privacy policy with respect to your Information.
Legal obligation: We may need to disclose your Information to law enforcement agencies, government agencies or other third parties where we are compelled so to do by court order or similar legal procedure; where we are required to disclose your Information to comply with law; where we are cooperating with an ongoing law enforcement investigation or where we have a good faith belief that our disclosure of your Information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity or to investigate a possible violation of our Terms and Conditions.
We do not sell or rent any of your Information to third parties in the normal course of doing business and will only share your Information with third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small amounts of data that are sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our Website, we can automatically collect information from you through cookies or similar technologies. For more information, please visit:www.allaboutcookies.org
2. How Do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies in a range of ways to make your experience on our Website more enjoyable, including but not limited to:
3. to keep you signed in;
to record your habits and preferences when browsing our Website;
to record our performance and verify the effectiveness of online advertising through third-party services with cookies.
4. What Types of Cookies Do We Use?
We use different types of cookies, including but not limited to:
Functional Cookies: We use such cookies to help us identify you and remember your previous preferences and settings, which may include your device, your operating system, your preferred language, your location, and other session data. We use a mix of first-party and third-party cookies.
Marketing Cookies: We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our Website, the content you view, the links you follow, and other information about your browsers, devices, your IP addresses and referral URLs. We sometimes share certain parts of the collected information with third parties for marketing purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our marketing partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may also be shown advertisements based on your browsing patterns on Servii.
5. How to Manage Cookies?
Most browsers are preset to accept cookies. You can adjust your browser setting to prevent cookies or to notify you as soon as cookies are loaded. However, stopping all cookies might mean that you cannot access or use some features of the IYoung.
The Website contains links to other websites/apps/platforms and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites/apps/platforms. IYoung encourages its users to read the privacy policies of all websites/apps/platforms. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by IYoung.
We hold your Personal Information on secure servers. By providing us with Personal Information, you consent to the transfer of your Personal Information to, and its storage on, our secure servers. We take every precaution to safeguard all your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, the internet is not a secure medium and we cannot guarantee the privacy of your Personal Information.
You must enter your username and password each time you want to access your account or make transactions on the Website.
Choose your password carefully using unique numbers, letters and special characters. Never share your username and password with anyone.
If you are concerned that your username or password has been compromised, please contact our customer support team immediately and ensure you change your password by logging onto the user settings section of the Website.
The information provided by the user is stored in access-controlled facilities with restricted access. Personal Information transmitted over the internet is protected through the use of encryption, using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or equivalent protocols.
We shall use generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and upon receipt. However, please be advised that, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, even though we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, We cannot guarantee its absolute security and your use of the Website is at your sole risk and discretion. We also cannot warrant that such Personal Information may not be misused in the event our safeguards and protocols are breached by a malicious third-party. Further, we are not liable to nor can we fully control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your information.
It is the responsibility of the user to keep the password confidential. You have to ensure that you always log out, before sharing the device with a third party and it is advised that the user utilize a service to protect access to the user’s device.
The collection, usage, and sharing of user information by us shall be in compliance with the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 and other applicable laws.
Where PI/SPDI is required to be shared, arising out of any contractual obligation, IYoung shall part with such PI/SPDI only in accordance with your consent for the same. To the extent necessary to provide you the requested Services or to the extent required under applicable law, we may provide your PI/SPDI to the following Third Parties without notice to you:
Consultants (including auditors, authorized vendors) on a ‘need to know’ basis under a Non-Disclosure Agreement;
Governmental authorities, in such manner as permitted or required by applicable law;
RETENTION AND REVOCATION OF INFORMATION
Your PI/SPDI will be retained with IYoung as long as you avail our services or for such period as may be necessary under applicable law. In the event, you wish to no longer avail our Services or intend to request that IYoung no longer retain your PI/SPDI or where you intend to modify the current PI/ SPDI, you may contact IYoung as provided here in below.
In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder, any questions, disputes, opt-out requests, grievances with respect to the processing of PI or SPDI can be referred to the Data Privacy and Grievance officer designated by IYoung as below:
Name:
Designation:
Contact Number:
Email ID:
