Privacy Policy

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We gather personal information that you willingly share with us in various ways. This includes when you sign up for our services, express interest in learning about our company or products, participate in activities on our website, or get in touch with us directly.

(1) Personal Information Provided by You: The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with our website and services. It includes details like names, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, usernames, contact preferences, and billing addresses. In certain cases, we may also process sensitive information like student data with your consent or as permitted by applicable law. (2) Payment Data: If you make purchases, we collect data necessary for processing payments, such as credit card numbers and security codes. This payment data is stored by trusted payment processors, Razorpay, and Paytm. You can find their privacy notices on their respective websites. (3) Social Media Login Data: We may offer the option to register using your social media account details. If you choose this option, we collect information from your social media account. (4) Information Automatically Collected: When you visit our website, certain information is automatically collected, such as your IP address, browser type, device characteristics, language preferences, referring URLs, country, and other technical information. This data is primarily used for security, analytics, and reporting purposes. We also use cookies and similar technologies, like many other websites, to collect additional information. (5) Log and Usage Data: Our servers automatically collect service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information when you access or use our Services. This includes your IP address, device information, browser type, activity in the Services (such as pages viewed and searches made), and device event information. (6) Device Data: We collect information about your device, such as its identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, and operating system. (7) Location Data: Depending on your device's settings, we may collect location data that can be precise or imprecise. This information helps us provide location-based features. However, you can choose to disable location services if you prefer not to share this information.

Remember, it's important that all the personal information you provide to us is accurate and up-to-date. If there are any changes, please notify us accordingly. Additionally, you have the option to opt-out of sharing certain information, but this might limit your access to certain features of our services.

We use your information for various purposes to provide, improve, and manage our services. Here are some of the reasons we process your personal information: (1) Account Management: We process your information to enable account creation, authentication, and to ensure your account functions properly. (2) Service Delivery: We use your information to provide you with the services you request. (3) Customer Support: We process your information to respond to your inquiries and provide support for the services. (4) Sending Important Information: We may use your information to send you administrative details, such as updates about our products, changes to terms and policies, and other relevant information. (5) Order Fulfillment: When you make purchases through our services, we use your information to manage and fulfill your orders, process payments, and handle returns or exchanges. (6) User Communication: If our services allow for user-to-user communication, we may process your information to enable such communication. (7) Vital Interest: In some cases, we may process your information to protect an individual's vital interests, especially when it comes to preventing harm.

Rest assured that we respect your privacy, and if we need to process your information for any other purposes not listed here, we will seek your consent.

We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.

If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

(1) Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Click here to learn more. (2) Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. (3) Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. (4) Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.

We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.

In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
• If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
• For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
• For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
• If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
• For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
• If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
• If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
• If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
• If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
• If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
• If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations

We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following categories of third parties.

Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents ("third parties") who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:

• Ad Networks
• Affiliate Marketing Programs
• Cloud Computing Services
• Communication & Collaboration Tools
• Data Analytics Services
• Finance & Accounting Tools
• Order Fulfillment Service Providers
• Payment Processors
• Performance Monitoring Tools
• Product Engineering & Design Tools
• Social Networks
• Website Hosting Service Providers
• User Account Registration & Authentication Services
• Testing Tools
• Retargeting Platforms

We also may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• When we use Google Maps Platform APIs. We may share your information with certain Google Maps Platform APIs (e.g., Google Maps API, Places API). To find out more about Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link.
• Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
• Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons and pixels, to collect and store information. Our Cookie Notice provides detailed information about how we use these technologies and how you can choose to refuse certain cookies. You can find more specific details in our Cookie Notice.

If you decide to register or log in to our services using your social media account, such as Facebook or Twitter, we may access certain information about you from that social media platform. The information we receive can include your name, email address, friends list, profile picture, and any other details you have made public on that platform.
We will only use this information for the purposes outlined in our privacy notice or as otherwise explained to you on our services. However, it's important to note that we do not have control over how your social media provider uses your personal information. We recommend reviewing their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and share your data, as well as how you can manage your privacy preferences on their sites and apps. Your privacy and data security remain our priority, and we aim to be transparent about the information we access and how we use it.

We retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned in this privacy notice, unless the law requires or permits us to keep it for a longer period, such as for tax, accounting, or legal reasons. We will not keep your personal information for longer than necessary, and once there is no legitimate business need to process it, we will take appropriate steps to either delete or anonymize it. If it is not feasible to immediately delete your personal information, for example, if it is stored in backup archives, we will securely store it and isolate it from any further processing until it can be deleted safely. We prioritize the security and responsible management of your data, and our retention practices adhere to legal requirements and industry standards.

In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided on our website.

We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are located in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided on our website.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, replying "STOP" or "UNSUBSCRIBE" to the SMS messages that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you — for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
• Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
• Contact us using the contact information provided.

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services. To opt out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Services visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

Some web browsers and mobile operating systems have a feature called Do-Not-Track (DNT), which allows you to indicate that you do not want your online browsing activities to be monitored and collected. However, there is currently no standardized technology for recognizing and implementing DNT signals. As a result, we do not currently respond to DNT signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your preference not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is established in the future that we are required to follow, we will update this privacy notice accordingly and inform you of our practices in response to such signals.

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights related to your personal information under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law.

You can request and obtain, once a year and free of charge, information about the categories of personal information we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of those third parties that we shared personal information with in the previous calendar year.

If you are under 18 years old, reside in California, and have a registered account with us, you can request the removal of any unwanted data that you publicly posted on our services. To do so, please contact us with the provided contact information and include the email address associated with your account and a statement confirming that you reside in California. We will ensure that the data is no longer publicly displayed, but please note that it may not be entirely removed from all our systems, such as backups.

The California Code of Regulations defines a "resident" as someone who is in California for purposes other than temporary or transitory, or someone who is domiciled in California but temporarily outside the state. All other individuals are considered "non-residents."

If you are a resident of California, we must follow certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.

As for the categories of personal information we will collected, specific details will be provided based on the information we will collected about you.

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:

• Receiving help through our customer support channels;
• Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
• Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

How do we use and share your personal information?

Rhythm Dude collects and shares your personal information through:

• Targeting cookies/Marketing cookies
• Social media cookies
• Beacons/Pixels/Tags
More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice.

You may contact us by email at hello@rhythmdude.com, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.

If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt out we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf.

Will your information be shared with anyone else?

We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf.

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal information.

Rhythm Dude will not sell any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose. Rhythm Dude will disclosed the following categories of personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose.
The categories of third parties to whom we disclosed personal information for a business or commercial purpose can be found under "WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?".

Your rights with respect to your personal data

Right to request deletion of the data — Request to delete

You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.

Right to be informed — Request to know

Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
• whether we collect and use your personal information;
• the categories of personal information that we collect;
• the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
• whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
• the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
• the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
• the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights

We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Verification process

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g., phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.

We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.

Other privacy rights
• You may object to the processing of your personal information.
• You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the information.
•You can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
• You may request to opt out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving an opt-out request, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than fifteen (15) days from the date of the request submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at mytalent@talantoncore.in, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.

Yes, we may update this privacy notice as needed to ensure we comply with relevant laws.
If we make any updates to this notice, we will indicate the date of the latest revision, and the updated version will become effective as soon as it is available. If there are significant changes that may affect your privacy rights, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice or directly sending you a notification.
We recommend checking this privacy notice regularly to stay informed about how we protect your information.

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO), Data Protection Officer, by email at hello@rhythmdude.com, by phone at +917973342330, or by post to:

Rhythm Dude
Data Protection Officer
2nd Floor, Thomas Niwas, Near Ravi Dass Gurudwara,
Bahudinpur, Jalbhe,
Jalandhar, Punjab - 144106
India