At VIDYASETU ED TECH PRIVATE LIMITED publicly operated as Finstreets AI ("we", "us," "our"), we value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and share information from individuals who engage with our websites https://finstreets.ai, applications, tools, services, or purchase our products (collectively referred to as the "Services").
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, we act as the data controller, and references to "you" and "your" indicate any user accessing our Services, whether as a customer, website visitor, job applicant, business representative, or any other individual whose data is gathered under this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not extend to our API or enterprise-level solutions where we function solely as a data processor. Such services are governed by the relevant Terms and Conditions, including an incorporated Data Processing Agreement, which users accept upon subscribing to these business services.
By utilizing our Services, you acknowledge and consent to the collection, usage, and sharing of your data as described in this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of this policy, kindly refrain from using our Services.
We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.
1. Policy Updates and Revisions
We may revise this Privacy Policy periodically and will reflect any modifications by updating the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of this document. If significant changes are made regarding how we collect or share your data, we will make reasonable efforts to inform you through appropriate channels, such as an email notification, an update notice on our Services, or other legally compliant methods. If you do not agree with any modifications, please discontinue the use of our Services.
2. Collection and Use of Your Information
When you access or use our Services, we gather specific categories of information from various sources.
Information You Provide to Us
Certain features within our Services require you to share specific details. While you may choose not to provide this information, opting out may restrict your ability to access certain functionalities.
Basic Contact Details: Includes your name, address, phone number, and email (“Contact Information”). We collect this information to fulfill our agreement with you in providing the Services and to communicate with you, including sending promotional updates with your consent when required.
Account Credentials: Includes your name, username, email, and password (“Account Information”). This information is necessary for account creation, management, and security. If you register an account, it is your responsibility to keep your credentials safe. If you suspect unauthorized access, contact us immediately at support@finstreets.com .
Payment Information: Includes billing details, such as credit or debit card information, collected through third-party payment processors (“Payment Information”). This data is used strictly for processing transactions and delivering the Services.
Application Data: If you apply for a role at our company, we may collect details from your resume, references, and work history (“Applicant Information”). This information is used to evaluate your candidacy and process your job application in line with our business requirements.
Service Interaction Data: Includes any input, such as questions, prompts, or other content uploaded or submitted while using our Services, along with generated outputs (“Service Interaction Information”). If you share content publicly, be aware that it may be stored, displayed, or reused by third parties without our control.
Other Information You Share: Includes any additional details you provide during communication with us, such as messages through our Services or size preferences for product purchases (“Other Information You Provide”).
Information Collected Automatically
We, along with selected third parties, automatically gather certain details regarding your interaction with our Services (“Usage Data”) through cookies, tags, pixels, and other tracking technologies (“Tracking Technologies”). This data includes:
Device Details:Information such as device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and IP address.
Location Data: Your approximate location based on your interaction with our Services.
Service Interaction Data: Information about your engagement with the platform, including browser type, log records, time stamps, clickstream activity, interactions with marketing emails, and ad impressions.
TWe collect Usage Data to enhance your experience, customize content, perform analytics, and improve overall service functionality. In some cases, third-party partners may also use this data for similar purposes. For further details on our use of Tracking Technologies and how you can manage your preferences, please refer to the section below, Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Information Collected From Other Sources
We may also obtain information about you from external sources, including data we receive directly from third parties or that you choose to share with us. Such data includes:
Analytics Information:Data provided by analytics platforms like Google Analytics, which we use to understand user engagement and enhance the Services.
Employment Data:Information from career platforms such as LinkedIn, Monster, or Indeed, used for processing job applications and assessing potential candidates.
Marketing and Advertising Data: Information from consumer databases or third-party marketing providers to tailor advertising and promotional content.
tner-Provided Information:Data from businesses we collaborate with to offer free or discounted access to our Services.
Third-Party Platform Information: If you link an external platform (e.g., Google or Apple) to your account, we may access basic details like your name, profile picture, and email address to facilitate account management and authentication.
Publicly Available Information:Information sourced from publicly accessible materials, such as online publications, research articles, or business directories.
We use this information to operate, enhance, and secure our Services, ensure smooth functionality, perform internal research, and comply with applicable legal requirements. Additionally, we may de-identify or anonymize your data to use it for analytical or research purposes while ensuring that it cannot be traced back to you.
If you choose to sync your email or calendar (e.g., Gmail or Google Calendar) with our Services, we will have access to relevant contacts and event details, including email content (“Email Service Information”). However, we strictly use this data only for providing Services and comply with applicable privacy standards, such as Google’s API Services User Data Policy.
Any information obtained from third parties is managed in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, we do not take responsibility for the accuracy of third-party-provided data or their respective privacy policies and practices. For further details, see Third-Party Websites and Links. If applicable laws in your region require explicit consent for data collection, your continued use of our Services will constitute your consent to such processing.
3. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you have the ability to manage how Tracking Technologies function on your devices. If you prefer, you can block or delete cookies through your browser settings or limit cross-site tracking. However, doing so may impact the performance and functionality of certain features within our Services.
If you have any questions regarding the specific data we collect, retain, or how we use it, you can reach out to us using the contact details provided below.
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking, click here.
Some browsers allow users to send a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal to websites, indicating a preference to opt out of tracking. However, like many online platforms, our website does not currently recognize or respond to DNT signals. To learn more about these signals, visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information with third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These disclosures include, but are not limited to, the following:
Company Group: We may share information with our affiliates or entities within our corporate structure for internal administration, operational support, and as required to fulfill our contract with you. This is done to ensure seamless service delivery and efficient business operations.
Service Providers:We collaborate with external vendors who assist in providing essential functions such as system management, cloud storage, AI-powered content generation, security measures, transaction processing, customer relationship management, marketing outreach, web analytics, and payment handling.
Business Partners:If you access our Services through a promotion, discount, or partnership program, we may share necessary details with our business partners to facilitate this access.
Other Third Parties, including Users:If you choose to interact with third-party services, such as social media integrations, third-party logins, or external purchases through our platform, we may disclose information as needed. This also applies when you opt to share content with others, including other users of our Services.
Advertising Partners:We may collaborate with third-party advertisers to display targeted ads on our platform or assist in the delivery of advertising content.
Professional Advisors:In specific situations, we may share your information with auditors, legal representatives, or financial consultants when necessary.
Business Transactions: In the event of a corporate restructuring, merger, asset transfer, sale, acquisition, or bankruptcy, your information may be shared with the relevant parties involved in these transactions.
5. Social Features
Our Services may include Social Features that enable interactions with third-party platforms such as Discord, X (formerly Twitter), and other social networks. These features allow you to:
Access our official pages on third-party platforms.
‘Like’ or ‘Share’ content from our Services to your social media profiles.
Engage with our content on external platforms.
When you use these Social Features, third parties may collect and use your information. Additionally:
Any information you post or make accessible via Social Features may be publicly displayed on the third-party platform.
Both we and the third party may have access to data related to your interactions, activities, and usage across our Services and the third-party platform.
6. Third-Party Websites and Links
Our Services may include links to third-party websites or platforms, such as Discord and X (formerly Twitter). These external sites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for their privacy policies, security practices, or the content they provide. If you choose to follow links to third-party sites, you should review their privacy policies and terms before providing any personal information. Any information you share on public or semi-public venues, such as social media platforms, may be visible to other users both on our Services and on those third-party platforms. Additionally, the inclusion of third-party links within our Services does not imply our endorsement of their content, policies, or operators.
7. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use the Services, and we do not seek or knowingly collect any personal information about children, particularly those under 13 years of age or in the case of a region where the minimum age for processing personal information differs, such a different age. For users above the age of 13 but below the age where you are able to consent to the processing of your personal information, please obtain your parent or guardian’s consent prior to using the Services.
If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected information about a child under 13 years of age or the relevant minimum age in your jurisdiction, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under the relevant minimum age who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the below information to request that it be deleted.
8. DATA SECURITY AND RETENTION
Despite our reasonable efforts to protect your information, no security measures are impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Any information you send to us electronically, while using the Services or otherwise interacting with us, may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use insecure channels to send us sensitive or confidential information.
We retain your information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. When determining the length of time to retain your information, we consider various criteria, including whether we need the information to continue to provide you the Services, resolve a dispute, enforce our contractual agreements, prevent harm, promote safety, security and integrity, or protect ourselves, including our rights, property, or products.
9. Indian Residents
This section supplements the other parts of this Privacy Policy and applies to you only if you are a resident of India and the applicable Indian data protection laws require specific privacy disclosures. For the purpose of this section, references to “personal information” shall include “sensitive personal information,” as defined under the relevant Indian data protection laws.
Processing of Personal Information
In the past 12 months, Finstreets has collected and disclosed for business purposes the following categories of personal information and sensitive personal information (marked with *) about Indian residents:
Identifiers – such as name, e-mail address, and IP address.
Personal information categories under Indian laws – such as name, address, and telephone number.
Commercial information – such as records of products or services purchased.
Internet or other similar network activity – such as Usage Data, including browsing activity on our Services.
Geolocation data – such as IP address and other location information collected from your device.
Professional or employment-related information – such as job title, employer details, professional background, and information provided by you when you apply for a position with us.
Educational information – such as education records that you provide when you apply for a position with us.
Account access credentials* – for accessing the Services.
Communications data* – including the contents of messages or communications sent through Finstreets’ Services or stored in accounts connected to Finstreets.
The specific business or commercial purposes for which we have collected and disclosed your personal information, along with the categories of sources from which we collect your personal information, are detailed in the section above titled Collection and Use of Your Information. T The third parties to whom we have disclosed your information are described in Section 4 (Disclosure of Your Information) above.
We only use and disclose sensitive personal information for the purposes specified under the applicable Indian data protection laws or as per your consent. The criteria we use to determine how long we retain your personal information are explained in the section above,Data Security and Retention.
Selling and/or Sharing of Personal Information
Finstreets does not "sell" or "share" (as defined under Indian data protection laws) personal information, nor have we done so in the past 12 months. Further, we do not have actual knowledge that we "sell" or "share" personal information of residents under 16 years of age.
Indian Account Holders Under 18
If you are an Indian resident under the age of eighteen (18) who has registered to use the Services and have posted content or information visible to others on the Services, you may request that such content or information be removed by contacting us at the email address provided in the How to Contact Us section below. Your request must confirm that you personally posted the content or information and specify where it is located on the Services. We will make reasonable efforts, in good faith, to either remove the content from public view or anonymize it so that you cannot be individually identified. However, we cannot guarantee complete or permanent removal of the content. For instance, third parties may have copied or republished the post, and archived versions may be stored by search engines or other platforms beyond our control.
10. Data Transfers
The personal information that we collect will be transferred to, stored at, processed in, or accessed from countries outside the jurisdiction in which you are based for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including countries where our service providers or other third parties described in Section 4 (Disclosure of Your Information) are located. Specifically, we have servers for the Service in the United States. We also have support, engineering, and other teams who may support the Service, including from the United States.
We process the personal information that you provide to us by creating an account and using our Services in countries outside the relevant jurisdiction where you reside in order to perform our contract with you and provide you with our Services. By using the Services and acknowledging this Privacy Policy, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to third parties (if any), which may include the cross-border transfer of your information to any country or region where we have databases or affiliates, and in particular, to the jurisdictions specified herein.
For such transfers of data outside the relevant jurisdiction, we will use applicable safeguards. For instance, for UK and EEA users, we rely on the European Commission’s model contracts for the transfer of personal information to third countries (i.e., the standard contractual clauses) (“Model Clauses”) or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as applicable, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined by the European Commission or the relevant UK authorities to provide an adequate level of protection for individuals’ rights and freedoms regarding their personal information. Please contact us at support@finstreets.com should you wish to inquire further about such data transfer mechanisms, including to examine a copy of the Model Clauses.
For EU and UK Users
For EU and UK Users We comply with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce (collectively, the “DPF”) and have certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that we adhere to the DPF Principles with regard to the processing of personal data received from the European Union and UK (and Gibraltar) in reliance on the DPF.
If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern to the extent applicable to the information at issue. The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over our compliance with the DPF, and in accordance with the DPF, we are responsible for onward transfers to third parties that process personal information subject to the DPF in a way that does not follow the DPF Principles. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework program and to view our certification, please visit the Data Privacy Framework website.
We commit to resolving DPF Principles-related complaints about our collection and use of personal information. Individuals in the EU and UK with inquiries or complaints regarding our compliance with the DPF should first contact us at support@finstreets.com. If you have an unresolved complaint concerning our handling of personal information received in reliance on the DPF that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third-party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov. Under certain conditions (more fully described on the DPF website), you may be entitled to invoke binding arbitration to resolve your complaint.
In compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, we commit to cooperate and comply respectively with the advice of the panel established by the EU data protection authorities (DPAs) and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) regarding unresolved complaints concerning our handling of personal data received in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF.
11. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to personal information that we have collected about you. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
Right to Access / Know:You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, or to request information about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information, such as the categories of personal information we have collected or disclosed for a business purpose.
Right to Delete: You may have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Correct: You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right of Portability: You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party.
Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop, suspend, or restrict our processing of personal information.
Objection: You may have the right to object to our processing of personal information.
Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent at any time by contacting us at support@finstreets.com. Please note that the withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal, and that where you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to deliver the expected service to you.
Opt-Out of Personalized Advertising and MarketingYou may choose to stop receiving personalized advertising or marketing promotions from us when using the Services by contacting us at our email address provided below.
You may exercise any of these rights by contacting us using the information provided below. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address and government-issued ID, before providing a substantive response to the request.
You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney document, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authoriz
If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us using the information provided below.
You may opt out of information collection for AI (which would prohibit us from using your search information to improve our AI models) in your settings page if you are logged into the Services. You may also request to delete your account through the settings page or by contacting us at support@finstreets.com. If you delete your account, we aim to delete your personal information from our servers within 30 days. Please contact us at support@finstreets.com to request deletion.
12. COMPLAINTS
If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us at support@finstreets.com and/or your local representative’s contact details as set out above, and we will respond to your request as soon as possible.
If you think we have infringed data protection laws, you can file a claim with the data protection supervisory authority in the country in which you live or work, or where you think we have infringed data protection laws, or with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or other relevant data protection authority as applicable to you.
13. HOW TO CONTACT US
Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please email us at support@finstreets.comand/or your local representative’s contact details as set out above.
14. LANGUAGE
Except as otherwise prescribed by applicable law, in the event of any inconsistency between the English language version and any local language version of this Privacy Policy, the English language version will prevail.