This document is published by virtue of a legal requirement under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 that requires ‘intermediaries’ to publish the rules and regulations, privacy policy, and terms for access or usage of the website. It is primarily governed by Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 and Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.
Your Consent
By accessing www.instanthometutor.com (“our Website”) and using it on a continued basis, you expressly consent and confirm to InstantHomeTutor collecting, maintaining, using, processing, and disclosing your personal and other information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
What type of information does InstantHomeTutor collect from you?
If you are a parent, student, tutor, teacher, lecturer, instructor, or coaching institution (“TutorXP Professional”) InstantHomeTutor requires you to register on our application by providing your name, email ID, personal phone number, password, location, and gender. The application also prompts you to share a photograph that may help better identify you amongst the prospective customers and which you may share at your own discretion. Such information is published on the application as a part of the ‘search’ results of the search functionality developed by us. If you are a prospective customer looking to get connected with InstantHomeTutor professionals, our application collects your name, email ID, personal phone number, details of personal interest, and location. Such information is shared on a limited basis by us with InstantHomeTutor Professionals in order to facilitate a faster connection between the parties. Further, in order to consummate certain transactions, our application may also require you to submit your bank account details through a secure Third Party Payment Gateway provider. We may collect your bank details in certain circumstances, where money needs to be transferred to you via NEFT to your bank account. Such information is kept strictly confidential. InstantHomeTutor also collects your other personal details including your name, email ID, personal phone number, etc.
Non-Personal Information
You also agree that InstantHomeTutor may gather usage statistics and usage data from your use of our application to evaluate your use of our products/services, and to improve our products/services. The statistics and data collected may or may not be aggregated. These statistics contain no information that can distinctly identify you.
We may in the future also share this information with third-party service providers or third-party advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming, and for other bonafide purposes as we may desire. By usage of our Application, you expressly permit InstantHomeTutor to access such information for one or more purposes deemed fit by InstantHomeTutor.
Other
We may from time to time add or enhance products/services available on our Application. To the extent these products/services are provided to and used by you, we will use the information you provide in this regard to facilitate the products/services requested. For example, if you email us with a question, we will use your email address, name, nature of the question, etc. to respond to your question. We may also store and publish such information to assist us in making the app better and easier to use.
Promotional Initiatives
InstantHomeTutor’s presence on social networking Applications including but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Plus, etc. is only a promotional initiative to invite registrations and participation of prospective customers located in different parts of the country. InstantHomeTutor in this regard fully disclaims any liability(ies) or claim(s) which may arise by use/misuse of your feedback, suggestions, views, etc. on any of the aforementioned networking Applications or blogs, by any third party whether or not known to InstantHomeTutor.
How does InstantHomeTutor protect my Personal Information?
InstantHomeTutor is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. Whenever InstantHomeTutor obtains personal information from you, our Application uses commercially reasonable efforts and general industry standards to protect it from any unauthorized access or disclosure. Save as otherwise provided herein, access to your personal information is limited to InstantHomeTutor’s personnel and such authorized third parties who may host your data on our behalf or may assist us in providing the products and services requested by you. InstantHomeTutor uses its best endeavors to maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that aim to protect your information against loss, misuse, damage, modification, and unauthorized access or disclosure. However, InstantHomeTutor assumes no liability whatsoever for any disclosure of personal information due to unauthorized third-party access or other acts of third parties, or any other acts or omissions beyond the reasonable control of InstantHomeTutor.
Does InstantHomeTutor secure the content posted by its users?
The content that you store, post, or transmit on or through our Application, such as forum postings, your profile page, the images you upload to our Application, may be accessed by other users (registered or unregistered), including people that you do not know. The purpose of making such content public is to enhance your overall experience and to provide you with a platform where users meet and interact on a one-to-one basis. However, the content/images that you post/share on our Application may be prone to misuse by a party not known to you. InstantHomeTutor fully disclaims any liability(ies) or claim(s) which may arise by use/misuse of such content, by any third party or any party not known to InstantHomeTutor. We suggest that you exercise care and caution in communicating with other users and only disclose your information to other users that you know to be trustworthy. You should not assume that your content will be kept private.
What security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?
InstantHomeTutor makes every reasonable effort to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of your information shared with us. We implement standard measures and mechanisms compliant with the applicable laws to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception of your personal information. However, no Internet site can fully eliminate security risks. We reserve the right to disclose the information collected from you without your consent (express or implied) and without any liabilities to you when required or permitted by law and we have a bonafide belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us orto conform to the legal requirements, compliance/reporting to administrative and judicial authorities, as may be required
protect and defend the rights or property of the Application owners of InstantHomeTutor, or the users of InstantHomeTutor,
person(s) or company(ies) who provide certain support services to us, and
person(s) or company(ies) who share certain responsibilities/obligations of InstantHomeTutor.
person(s) or company(ies) who share certain responsibilities/obligations of InstantHomeTutor.
I have more questions about the privacy policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at instanthometutor@gmail.com
Will InstantHomeTutor change its privacy policy in the future?
This policy provides a general statement of the ways in which InstantHomeTutor aims to protect your personal information. You may, however, in connection with specific products or services offered by InstantHomeTutor, be provided with privacy policies or statements that substitute or supplement this policy. The terms and conditions of this policy may be changed from time to time, without your consent (express or implied) to reflect changes in our practices concerning the collection and use of your personal information. The revised policy will be effective immediately upon posting to our application unless otherwise mentioned. This version of the policy is effective from January 1, 2016. You shall be bound by the revised Privacy Policy and it is your sole responsibility to check the same from time to time. You acknowledge that no knowledge of the revised Privacy Policy shall be a defense in any proceedings with regard to the Privacy Policy.