Privacy Policy

Thank you for joining “ABK TEACHLY ACADEMY”. We at ABK TEACHLY ACADEMY PVT LTD respect 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 regarding your personal data.

This Privacy Policy applies when you use ABK TEACHLY ACADEMY PVT LTD websites. It also applies to prospective customers of our business and enterprise products.

By using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. You shouldn’t use the Services if you don’t agree with this Privacy Policy or any other agreement that governs your use of the Services.

What Data We Get

We collect certain data from you directly, like information you enter yourself, data about your consumption of content, and data from third-party platforms you connect with ABK Teachly Academy Pvt Ltd.

When you create an account and use the Services, including through a third-party platform, we collect any data you provide directly, including:

• Account Data: In order to use certain features (like accessing content), you need to create a user account, which requires us to collect and store your email address, password, and account settings. As you use certain features on the site, you may be prompted to submit additional information including occupation, government ID information, verification photo, date of birth, race/ethnicity, skill interests, and phone number. Upon account creation, we assign you a unique identifying number.

Legal Basis for Processing: Performance of contract.

Legitimate interests (service provisioning, identity verification, fraud prevention and security, communication)

• Profile Data: You can also choose to provide profile information like a photo, headline, biography, language, website link, social media profiles, country, or other

Legal Basis for Processing: Performance of contract.

Legitimate interests (enhanced platform functionality, convey content source information)

• Shared Content: Parts of the Services let you interact with other users or share content publicly, including by uploading courses and other educational content, posting reviews about content, asking or answering questions,

sending messages to students or instructors, or posting photos or other work you upload. Such shared content may be publicly viewable by others depending on where it is posted.

Legal Basis for Processing: Performance of contract.

Legitimate interests (service provisioning, enhanced platform functionality)

Learning Data: When you access content, we collect certain data including which courses, assignments, workspaces, and quizzes you’ve started and completed; content and subscription purchases and credits; subscriptions; completion certificates; your exchanges with instructors, teaching assistants, and other students; and essays, answers to questions, and other items submitted to satisfy course and related content requirements.

Legal Basis for Processing: Performance of contract

Legitimate interests (service provisioning, enhanced platform functionality)

• Student Payment Data: If you make purchases, we collect certain data about your purchase (such as your name, billing address, and ZIP code) as necessary to process your order and which may optionally be saved to process future orders. You must provide certain payment and billing data directly to our payment service providers, including your name, credit card information, billing address, and ZIP code. We may also receive limited information, like the fact that you have a new card and the last four digits of that card, from payment service providers to facilitate payments. For security, ABK Teachly Academy Pvt Ltd does not collect or store sensitive cardholder data, such as full credit card numbers or card authentication data.

Legal Basis for Processing: Performance of contract, Legal obligation.

Legitimate interests (payment facilitation, fraud prevention and security, compliance).

• Sweepstakes, Promotions, and Surveys: We may invite you to complete a survey or participate in a promotion (like a contest, sweepstakes, or challenge), either through the Services or a third-party platform. If you participate, we will collect and store the data you provide as part of participating, such as your name, email address, postal address, date of birth, or phone number. That data is subject to this Privacy Policy unless otherwise stated in the official rules of the promotion or in another privacy policy. The data collected will be used to administer the promotion or survey, including for notifying winners and distributing rewards. To receive a reward, you may be required to allow us to post some of your information publicly (like on a

winner’s page). Where we may use a third-party platform to administer a survey or promotion, the third party’s privacy policy will apply.

Legal Basis for Processing: Performance of contract.

Legitimate interests (promotions administration, prize delivery, compliance)

• Communications and Support: If you contact us for support or to report a problem or concern (regardless of whether you have created an account), we collect and store your contact information, messages, and other data about you like your name, email address, messages, location, ABK Teachly Academy Pvt Ltd user ID, refund transaction IDs, and any other data you provide or that we We use this data to respond to you and research your question or concern, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
• Legal Basis for Processing: Legitimate interests (customer and technical support).

What We Use Your Data For

We use your data to do things like provide our Services, communicate with you, troubleshoot issues, secure against fraud and abuse, improve and update our Services, analyze how people use our Services, serve personalized advertising, and as required by law or necessary for safety and integrity. We retain your data for as long as it is needed to serve the purposes for which it was collected.

Who We Share Your Data With

We share certain data about you with instructors, other students, companies performing services for us, our business partners, analytics and data enrichment providers, your social media providers, companies helping us run promotions and surveys, and advertising companies who help us promote our Services. We may also share your data as needed for security, legal compliance, or as part of a corporate restructuring. Lastly, we can share data in other ways if it is aggregated or de-identified or if we get your consent.

Security

We use appropriate security based on the type and sensitivity of data being stored. As with any internet-enabled system, there is always a risk of unauthorized access, so it’s important to protect your password and to contact us if you suspect any unauthorized access to your account.

Your Rights

You have certain rights around the use of your data, including the ability to opt out of promotional emails. You can update or terminate your account from within our Services, and can also contact us for individual rights requests about your personal data. Parents who

believe we’ve unintentionally collected personal data about their underage child should contact us for help deleting that information.

Updates & Contact Info

When we make a material change to this policy, we’ll notify users via email, in-product notice, or another mechanism required by law. Changes become effective the day they’re posted. Please contact us via email or postal mail with any questions, concerns, or disputes.

Modifications to This Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. If we make any material change to it, we will notify you via email, through a notification posted on the Services, or as required by applicable law. We will also include a summary of the key changes. Unless stated otherwise, modifications will become effective on the day they are posted.

As permitted by applicable law, if you continue to use the Services after the effective date of any change, then your access and/or use will be deemed an acceptance of (and agreement to follow and be bound by) the revised Privacy Policy. The revised Privacy Policy supersedes all previous Privacy Policies.