MindStick Training PRIVACY POLICY

MindStick Training collects information from you when you create an MindStick Training account and/or sign up to receive more information about courses offered on the MindStick Training Site. For example, we require your name, contact number, email address and country of residence when you create an account. (You can voluntarily choose to share additional information in your profile, but this is not required.) We also require your contact details when you sign up to receive more information about courses, otherwise we cannot send you this information, and we collect information from you when you send messages to us (whether on the MindStick Training Site or on other platforms, e.g., social media sites). You may unsubscribe from MindStick Training promotional emails at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” on the emails you receive from us.

MindStick Training also automatically collects information about your visit to the MindStick Training Site when you browse courses on the MindStick Training Site, as explained in our Cookie Policy.

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

In order to use certain features (like applying for a program), you need to create a user account. When you create or update your account, we collect and store the data you provide, like your Name, email address, password, city, program/courses you like to learn, IP address, work experience, industry where you work, phone number, and assign you a unique identifying number (“Account Data”).

MindStick Training also automatically collects information about your visit to the MindStick Training Site when you enroll in courses on the MindStick Training Site, as explained in the Cookie Policy.

When you enroll in a course on the MindStick Training Site, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information from your MindStick Training account profile.

When you access content, we collect certain data including which courses, assignments, labs, 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.

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, MindStick Training does not collect or store sensitive cardholder data, such as full credit card numbers or card authentication data.

We may obtain certain if you log in to MindStick Training via Google platform or service, we ask for your permission to access certain information about that other account. For example, depending on the platform or service we may collect your name, profile picture, account ID number, login email address, location, physical location of your access devices, gender, and birthday.

Those platforms and services make information available to us through their APIs. The information we receive depends on what information you (via your privacy settings) or the platform or service decide to give us.

If you access or use our Services through a third-party platform or service, or click on any third-party links, the collection, use, and sharing of your data will also be subject to the privacy policies and other agreements of that third party.

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, MindStick Training user ID, refund transaction IDs, and any other data you provide or that we collect through automated means (which we cover below). We use this data to respond to you and research your question or concern, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Technical data about your computer or device, like your IP address, device type, operating system type and version, unique device identifiers, browser, browser language, domain and other systems data, and platform types.

Usage statistics about your interactions with the Services, including content accessed, time spent on pages or the Service, pages visited, features used, your search queries, click data, date and time, referrer, and other data regarding your use of the Services.

An approximate geographic location, including information like country, city, and geographic coordinates, calculated based on your IP address.

If you are a company visiting MindStick Training Portal with the aspect of hiring purpose or any other corporate prospect, in addition to information you submit to us, we may collect certain business contact information like (Company Name, Firm Registration Number, Company Type, Department, and others).

We use methods like 1- cookie acceptance, 2- directly inserted by the user in the MindStick Training Website. Here all the Data/Information shared by the user is totally to enhance the understanding between the MindStick Training Website and Users.

We use cookies, which are small text files stored by your browser, to collect, store, and share data about your activities across websites, including on MindStick Training Portal. They allow us to remember things about your visits to MindStick Training Website, like your preferred language, and to make the site easier to use. To learn more about cookies, visit .

We may use your data based on your website use to:

• Provide and administer the Services, including to facilitate participation in educational content, issue completion certificates, display customized content, and facilitate communication with other users (Account Data; Shared Content; Learning Data; System Data; Usage Data; Approximate Geographic Data);
• Process payments to instructors and other third parties (Student Payment Data; Instructor Payment Data);
• Process your requests and orders for educational content, products, specific services, information, or features (Account Data; Learning Data; Student Payment Data; System Data; Communications and Support);
• Communicate with you about your account by (Account Data; Shared Content; Learning Data; Communications and Support):
• Responding to your questions and concerns;
• Sending you administrative messages and information, including messages from instructors, students, and teaching assistants; notifications about changes to our Service; and updates to our agreements;
• Sending you information, such as by email or text messages, about your progress in courses and related content, rewards programs, new services, new features, promotions, newsletters, and other available instructor-created content (which you can opt out of at any time);
• Sending push notifications to your wireless device to provide updates and other relevant messages (which you can manage from the “options” or “settings” page of the mobile app);
• Manage your account and account preferences and personalize your experience (Account Data; Learning Data; Student Payment Data; System Data, Usage Data, Cookie Data);
• Facilitate the Services’ technical functioning, including troubleshooting and resolving issues, securing the Services, and preventing fraud and abuse (Account Data; Student Payment Data; Instructor Payment Data; Communications and Support; System Data; Approximate Geographic Location);
• Verify the identity of instructors (Account Data; Instructor Payment Data);
• Solicit feedback from users (Account Data; Communications and Support);
• Market products, services, surveys, and promotions (Account Data; Learning Data; Sweepstakes, Promotions, and Surveys; Usage Data; Cookie Data);
• Market Subscription Plans to prospective customers (Account Data; Learning Data; Cookie Data);
• Learn more about you by linking your data with additional data through third-party data providers and/or analyzing the data with the help of analytics service providers (Account Data; Data About Your Accounts on Other Services; Usage Data; Cookie Data);
• Identify unique users across devices (Account Data; System Data; Cookie Data);
• Tailor advertisements across devices (Cookie Data);
• Improve our Services and develop new products, services, and features (all data categories);
• Analyze trends and traffic, track purchases, and track usage data (Account Data; Learning Data; Student Payment Data; Communications and Support; System Data; Usage Data; Approximate Geographic Data; Cookie Data);
• Advertise the Services on third-party websites and applications (Account Data; Cookie Data);
• As required or permitted by law (all data categories); or
• As we, in our sole discretion, otherwise determine to be necessary to ensure the safety or integrity of our users, employees, third parties, the public, or our Services (all data categories).

We may share your data with third parties under the given situations or conditions or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

• With Your Instructors- We share data that we have about you (except your email address) with instructors or teaching assistants for educational content you access or request information about, so they can improve their content for you and other students. This data may include things like your country, browser language, operating system, device settings, the site that brought you to MindStick Training Website, and certain activities on MindStick Training portal, like enrolled courses and course review. We will not share your email address with instructors or teaching assistants. (Account Data; System Data; Usage Data; Approximate Geographic Data)
• With Hiring Companies- We have the collaboration with companies who are involved in the hiring system and keep looking for intellectual minds. With such registered companies we can share your all the data like- Name, Mobile Number, Email ID, Course Purchased, certification, Address, Education, and any other.
• To Administer Promotions and Surveys- We may share your data as necessary to administer, market, or sponsor promotions and surveys you choose to participate in, as required by applicable law (like to provide a winners list or make required filings), or in accordance with the rules of the promotion or survey. (Account Data; Sweepstakes, Promotions, and Surveys)
• For Advertising- If we decide to use an advertising-supported revenue model in the future, we may use and share certain System Data and Usage Data with third-party advertisers and networks to show general demographic and preference information among our users. We may also allow advertisers to collect data to use this data to offer you targeted ad delivery to personalize your user experience (through behavioral advertising) and to undertake web analytics. Advertisers may also share with us the data they collect about you.
• For Security and Legal Compliance- We may disclose your data (all data categories) to third parties if we (in our sole discretion) have a good faith belief that the disclosure is-
• Requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, order, or proceeding;
• Reasonably necessary as part of a valid subpoena, warrant, or other legally-valid request;
• Reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and other legal agreements;
• Required to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, misuse, potential violations of law (or rule or regulation), or security or technical issues;
• Reasonably necessary in our discretion to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of MindStick Training Website, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services;
• We may also disclose data about you to our auditors and legal advisors in order to assess our disclosure obligations and rights under this Privacy Policy; or
• Required or permitted by law.
• During a Change in Control: If MindStick Training Website undergoes a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of its assets, we may share, disclose, or transfer all of your data to the successor organization during such transition or in contemplation of a transition (including during due diligence). (All data categories)
• After Aggregation/De-identification: We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified data for any purpose.
• With Your Permission: With your consent, we may share data to third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy. (All data categories)

MindStick Training Portal takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal data that we collect and store. These measures vary based on the type and sensitivity of the data. Unfortunately, however, no system can be 100% secured, so we cannot guarantee that communications between you and MindStick Training Portal, the Services, or any information provided to us in connection with the data we collect through the Services will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Your password is an important part of our security system, and it is your responsibility to protect it. You should not share your password with any third party, and if you believe your password or account has been compromised, you should change it immediately and contact our Support Team with any concerns.

You have certain rights around the use of your data, including the ability to opt out of promotional emails, cookies, and collection of your data by certain third parties. 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.

You can choose not to provide certain data to us, but you may not be able to use certain features of the Services-

• To stop receiving promotional communications from us, you can opt out by using the unsubscribe mechanism in the promotional communication you receive or by changing the email preferences in your account. Note that regardless of your email preference settings, we will send you transactional and relationship messages regarding the Services, including administrative confirmations, order confirmations, important updates about the Services, and notices about our policies.
• If you’re located in the European Economic Area, you may opt out of certain Data Collection Tools by clicking the “Cookie settings“ link at the bottom of any page.
• The browser or device you use may allow you to control cookies and other types of local data storage. To learn more about managing cookies, visit . Your wireless device may also allow you to control whether location or other data is collected and shared.
• To get information and control cookies used for tailored advertising from participating companies, see the consumer opt-out pages for the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance, or if you’re located in the European Economic Area, visit the Your Online Choices site. If you’re located in Japan, visit the Digital Advertising Consortium. To opt out of Google’s display advertising or customize Google Display Network ads, visit the Google Ads Settings page. To opt out of Taboola’s targeted ads, see the Opt-out Link in their Cookie Policy.
• Apple iOS, Android OS, and Microsoft Windows each provide their own instructions on how to control in-app tailored advertising. For other devices and operating systems, you should review your privacy settings on that platform.
• If you have any questions about your data, our use of it, or your rights, contact us at contact@mindstick.com.

You can access and update your personal data that MindStick Traininig portal collects and maintains as follows-

• To update data you provide directly, log into your account and update your account at any time.
• To terminate your account:
• If you are a student, visit your profile settings page and follow the steps detailed here.
• If you are an instructor, follow the steps detailed here .
• If you have any issues terminating your account, please contact our Support Team.
• Please note: even after your account is terminated, some or all of your data may still be visible to others, including without limitation any data that has been (a) copied, stored, or disseminated by other users (including comments on content); (b) shared or disseminated by you or others (including in your shared content); or. Even after your account is terminated, we retain your data for as long as we have a legitimate purpose to do so (and in accordance with applicable law), including to assist with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may retain and disclose such data pursuant to this Privacy Policy after your account has been terminated.
• To request to access, correct, or block your personal data, please access our FAQs page here. You can also submit these requests by emailing contact@mindstick.com. For your protection, we may require that the request be sent through the email address associated with your account, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. Please note that we retain certain data where we have a lawful basis to do so, including for mandatory record-keeping and to complete transactions.

We recognize the privacy interests of children and encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Individuals younger than 18 years of age, but of the required age for consent to use online services where they live (for example, 13 in the US or 16 in Ireland), may not set up an account, but may have a parent or guardian open an account and help them access appropriate content. Individuals younger than the required age for consent to use online services may not use the Services. If we learn that we’ve collected personal data from a child under those ages, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Parents who believe that MindStick Training Portal may have collected personal data from a child under those ages can submit a request that it be removed to contact@mindstick.com.

Our MindStick Training Portal can transfer your data including personal and course details outside India only for hiring and other beneficiary purpose like referring your name to any organization for placement and career help. Clearly stated that MindStick has no unfair motive while transferring your data outside the country. We do not hold any responsibility for data transfer, so we don’t accept any legal action under any circumstances. We assume you accept our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy if you are using our website, if you have any problem with them you are requested to stop further website use.

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

Any capitalized terms not defined in this policy are defined as specified in MindStick Training’s Terms of Use. Any version of this Privacy Policy in a language other than English is provided for convenience. If there is any conflict with a non-English version, you agree that the English language version will control.

In case of any question/query or confusion/disputes regarding our Privacy Policy, you are free to communicate with our privacy tem and mailing at contact@mindstick.com . You can also contact us using the given mail ids in the website and given address of the company.