Privacy Policy

Effective Date 01-Mar-2024

This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Tech Teachs, India, on the collection, use, and disclosure of the information that we collect when you use our website (https://techteachs.com/) (the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Service and your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We, therefore, recommend that you periodically review this page.

Consent:

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information We Collect:

We may collect and process the following personal information about you:

• Name
• Email
• Comments

By submitting personal information to us, you agree to the use of such information, including any disclosures, processing, and transfers of your information to third parties by Techteachs, following this privacy policy. Any consent you provide is entirely voluntary. We do not seek “sensitive personal information” or “sensitive data” as defined under applicable privacy law on this website.

How We Use Your Information:

We will use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes:

•  Targeted advertising

If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only on receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.

How We Share Your Information:

We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:

• Ad service

We require such third party’s to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.

We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order, or other legal process; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.

Retention Of Your Information:

We will retain your personal information with us for 90 days to 2 years after users terminate their accounts or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.

Log Files:

Techteachs follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.

These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement on the website, and gather demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons:

Like any other website, Techteachs uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on the visitor’s browser type and/or other information.

Cookies Policy:

We show a cookie banner on some of our sites to inform visitors that we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to personalize the content we display based on your preferences, provide social media features like sharing pages to your networks, analyze our sites’ performance, and advertise our services to you. We share the information our trackers collect with advertising partners who help us with these use cases.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may not be able to fully experience some of our sites’ functionality. After you finish browsing our sites, you can delete cookies from your system if you choose to do so. More specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes:

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you that amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work without the cookies enabled. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie:

Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based on their visits to other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Google:

Our website is partnered with Google to show ads to our visitors. Google may use cookies for several purposes, such as to stop you from seeing the same ad over and over again, to detect and stop click fraud, and to show ads that are likely to be more relevant (such as ads based on websites you have visited).

We use Google AdSense Advertising On Our Website:

We may use Google Analytics, or similar services, for analytics. These analytics services may use cookies and other tracking technologies to help us analyze website visitors and how they use the website. Information sent by your browser, including your IP address, may be used as anonymous aggregated statistical data to analyze our web traffic, improve the quality of our website, and enhance your browsing experience. View Google’s privacy policy. You can opt out of Google’s advertising features through ad settings, ad settings for mobile, or any other available means. Access Google Analytics’ available opt-outs through Google’s privacy policy.

BY ACCESSING OUR ONLINE SERVICES, YOU AGREE THAT WE, OR A SERVICE PROVIDER ACTING ON OUR BEHALF, CAN PLACE THESE COOKIES ON YOUR INTERNET-ENABLED DEVICE.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies:

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Techteachs.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Techteachs, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Techteachs has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third-party disclosure:

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Your Rights:

Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at contact@techteachs.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.

Security:

The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Children’s Information & Privacy:

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Techteachs does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Third-Party Privacy Policies:

Techteachs’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

GDPR Privacy:

Your Rights under the GDPR:

The Business commits to maintaining the privacy of Your Personal Data and ensuring that you can exercise your rights.

If you reside in the EU, you are also legally entitled to the following under this privacy statement:

• Request access to Your Personal Data: the right to see what data we have about you and to ask for its removal or updating. You can easily view, edit, or request the deletion of Your Personal Data from the area of Your account settings whenever it is possible. Please contact Us to help You if you are unable to do these tasks on your own. Also, this gives You access to a copy of the Personal Data We have about You.
• Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about You: Any missing or incorrect information we may have about you may be rectified upon your request.
• Object to processing of Your Personal Data: This option is available when We are processing Your personal data in reliance on a legitimate interest and You wish to object to this processing because of something specific about Your circumstances. Also, if We are using Your Personal Data for direct marketing, you have the right to object.
• Request erasure of Your Personal Data: When there is no valid reason for Us to continue processing Personal Data, You have the right to request that We erase or remove it.
• Request the transfer of Your Personal Data: We will deliver Your Personal Data to You or a third party of Your choice in a structured, widely accepted, machine-readable format. Please be aware that this privilege only applies to automated information that We used to carry out a contract with You or for which You initially gave Us permission to use it.
• Withdraw Your Consent: You have the option to revoke your agreement to the use of your personal information. We might not be able to give you access to some particular features of the Service if You withdraw your consent.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights:

By getting in touch with Us, you can exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition. Please be aware that before responding to such inquiries, we can ask You to prove your identity. If You submit a request, We’ll do all in our power to get back to You as soon as we can.

Regarding the way we collect and use your personal data, you have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority. If you live in the European Economic Area (EEA), please get in touch with your local data protection authorities for more information.

CCPA Privacy:

Information We Collect:

The Website gathers data known as “personal information” that can be used to identify, contact, describe, refer to, or reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a specific user or device.

In particular, Website has collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last 12 months:

Category	Examples	Collected
A. Identifiers	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.	NO
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).	A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.	NO
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).	NO
D. Commercial information.	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.	NO
E. Biometric information.	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.	NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, and information on a consumer’s interaction with a Website, application, or advertisement.	NO
G. Geolocation data.	Physical location or movements.	NO
H. Sensory data.	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.	NO
I. Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.	NO
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	NO
K. Inferences are drawn from other personal information.	The profile reflects a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.	NO

Personal information does not include:

• Data from public records are kept by the government.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s purview, such as specific health or medical information and other kinds of information covered by distinct laws, as well as de-identified or aggregated consumer information.

The sources from which we get the various types of personal data indicated above are as follows:

• Straight from you. For instance, from the forms you fill out or the goods and services you buy.
• Irrespective of you. For instance, based on what we’ve seen you do on our website.

Use of Personal Information:

For one or more of the following business needs, we might utilize or divulge the personal data we gather:

• To achieve the goal for which you supplied the information. When you ask for a price estimate or a question about our services, for instance, and you also include your name and contact information, we will use that personal information to get back to you. To process your payment and facilitate delivery, we shall utilize the personal information you voluntarily submit when making a purchase of a good or service. Your information might also be saved so that we can process returns or help customers order new products.
• To process your orders, purchases, payments, and transactions while avoiding transactional fraud.
• To assist you, to react to your questions, to look into and resolve any issues you may have, to keep an eye on how we’re doing, and to generally support you.
• In accordance with any applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations, and to answer inquiries from law authorities.
• As explained to you at the time we collected your personal information or in any other manner specified under the CCPA.
• To assess or carry out a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our or our affiliates’ assets in which personal data we or our affiliates have about users of our website is among the transferred assets.

Without giving you prior notice, we will not gather more categories of personal information or use the personal information we already have for significantly different, irrelevant, or incompatible purposes.

Your Rights under the CCPA:

Residents of California have special rights in relation to their personal information under the CCPA. You have the following rights if you live in California:

• The right to notice: You have the right to be informed of the types of Personal Data being gathered as well as the uses to which they are put.
• The right to request: You have the right, under the CCPA, to request that We provide You with information about the personal data that We collect, use, sell, disclose for business reasons, and share. We’ll inform you of the following once We’ve received and verified Your request:

The following are the categories of personal information we collected about you:

• The sources of the personal information we collected about you;
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information;
• The types of third parties with whom we share that personal information;
• The particular pieces of personal information we collected about you;
• If we sell or disclose Your personal information for a business purpose, We will disclose to You:
• The categories of personal information categories sold
• The categories of personal information categories disclosed
• The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data (opt-out): You are free to request that we not sell any of your personal information. Please get in touch with us to make an opt-out request.
• The right to delete Personal Data: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and approve your request, we will delete your personal data from our records (and have our service providers delete it), unless an exception applies. We may deny your request for deletion if retention of the data is necessary for us or our service providers to:
  • To complete a transaction for which we collected personal information, to provide a product or service that you requested, to take steps that are reasonably expected as part of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise fulfill our contract with you.To detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activity.Debugging products to identify and correct errors affecting planned functionality.Exercising freedom of speech, ensuring another consumer’s right to free speech, or exercising other rights as provided by law.To comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (California Penal Code § 1546 et seq.).To conduct public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that complies with all other applicable ethical and privacy laws, where removal of information would likely make it impossible or seriously impair the purpose of the research, subject to your prior informed consent.To permit only internal uses that are reasonably consistent with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.To fulfill a legal obligation.
  • Other internal and legitimate uses of this data that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
• The right not to be discriminated against: You have the right to be treated equally regardless of how you exercise your consumer rights, including when:
  • Goods or services are denied to you.
  • Applying varying pricing or rates, including the use of discounts or other advantages or the imposition of penalties, for goods or services.
  • Offering You products or services of a lower standard.
  • Insinuating that You will be charged a different price or rate for products or services, or that the goods or services would be of lower quality.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights:

If You are a resident of California and would like to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, please get in touch with Us at:

Via email: Only You or a representative you have designated to act on your behalf and who is registered with the California Secretary of State may make a verified request pertaining to Your personal information.

Your request to us must:

• Provide sufficient information to allow us to reasonably verify that you are the individual about whom we have collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request in sufficient detail to enable us to understand, evaluate, and respond appropriately.
• We will not be able to respond to your request or provide you with the information you request if we:
• Are unable to verify your identity or your authority to make the request
• Can confirm that the personal information relates to you.

The requested information will be provided free of charge within 45 days of receipt of your verifiable request. The period for providing the requested information may be extended once for an additional 45 days if reasonably necessary and subject to prior notice.

The information provided will only cover the 12-month period prior to receipt of the reviewable request.

For data portability requests, we will select a format for providing your personal information that is easy to use and allows for the unimpeded transfer of data from one entity to another.

Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law):

California residents with an established business relationship with us are entitled to request information once a year about the sharing of their Personal Data with third parties for the third party’s direct marketing purposes under California Civil Code Section 1798 (also known as the “Shine the Light law” in California).

If you live in California and would like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, you can get in touch with us using the details shown below.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581):

California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of websites, services, or applications are permitted to seek and receive the removal of content or information they have publicly placed under California Business and Professions Code section 22581.

If You Are a California Resident and Would Like to Request the Removal of Such Data, Please Contact Us Using the Information Provided Below and Include the Email Address Included With Your Account.

Be aware that Your request does not ensure that all content or information placed online will be completely or completely removed and that in some cases, the law may not authorize or compel removal.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you 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.

Grievance / Data Protection Officer:

If you have any queries or concerns about the processing of your information that is available with us, you may email our Grievance Officer at Techteachs, India, email: contact@techteachs.com. We will address your concerns in accordance with the applicable law.