We recognize that your privacy is very important and will take it seriously. Hence, we strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Policy describes WeMakeScholars.com’s policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information. The terms "we", "us", "our", and "WeMakeScholars" refer to WeMakeScholars Edtech Private Limited, incorporated in India. The terms “Site”, “this website” refers to “wemakescholars.com”.
WeMakeScholars reserves the right to change the privacy policy of the site, at any time and in its sole discretion. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting on the Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will constitute your acceptance of such changes. We encourage you to review the Site Privacy Policy whenever you visit this website.
While this Privacy Policy states our standards for maintenance of data, we will make efforts to meet them. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in disclosure of data. As a consequence, we disclaim any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of data. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.
We directly collect the information shared by you while creating your account on the website including but not limited to name, email-id, phone no. and the information provided to WeMakeScholars staff over phone calls. We also store the documents shared by you for the purpose of financial services. Refer to the “Data storage and destruction” section for more information.
We also collect information about you when you fill your profile and your profile picture as well. Some of the Information submitted by you will be publicly available to all users such as your name and profile pic. We use your information for the purpose of determining your potential interest in various products and services. Your email-id and mobile number would only be used by WeMakeScholars.com to send some notifications or promotions. You can also control receipt of few messages by changing your email notification preferences in your Settings page. We store only your current profile picture on wemakescholars.com account, your previous pictures will not be stored by us.
In addition we may indirectly collect information about you when you use certain third party services on this website. We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of our Site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, device type, unique device identifier, browser type, domain names, numbers of pages viewed, length of time spent, date and time and referring or exit websites. We may also capture other data, such as search criteria and results. We also use log files to build pictures of how our Site is used that help us to monitor and improve the service. We cannot identify you from your log files. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather additional information through other methods.
Like many websites, we use "cookies" to enable us to personalize your visits to this website, simplify the signing-in procedure, keep track of your preferences and to track the usage of this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored in the hard drive of your computer by your browser. Your browser will have the option to prevent websites using cookies (your browser's help screen or manual will tell you how to do this), but please note that this may reduce the functionality of this site and other websites.
You also provide us information in the form of user content you publish as posts, comments, and other contributions, and metadata about them (such as when you posted them), are publicly viewable on the website, along with your name and basic information. This information may be searched by search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Web. You own complete right on the information you post on this website. But WeMakeScholars has the rights to use this content for promotional or other related purposes.
If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our responses.
Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of WeMakeScholars, such as in discussion forums, such information may be collected and used by others over whom Wemakescholars has no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of this website.
Access to and correction of personal information
Users can access and alter their personal profiles at any time through editing options in their profile section. Users also have rights of access to, and correction of, personal information that WeMakeScholars holds about them. Members can request for deletion of their account by writing an email to hello[at]wemakescholars[dot]com. With this deletion we destruct your personally identifiable data.
We protect the stored data of users by using data encryption. All standard data protection measures are followed.
All the data of users is stored and processed in India ONLY.
You may upload your personal documents on WeMakeScholars.com to avail financial services or otherwise. These documents are stored on WeMakeScholars servers and are only accessed by authorized WeMakeScholars team members and authorized financial services providers including financial institutions such as banks and NBFCs.
WeMakeScholars archives and subsequently destructs all the uploaded documents after 12 months of uploading.
For this period, WeMakeScholars puts all the efforts to keep your documents safe, but in no circumstances WeMakeScholars is liable for any action for unintentional loss of your documents.
We primarily share your information only with the financial institutions and universities. But as we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, mobile number and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer or assign such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution.
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property.
We may share the non-personally identifiable information including the information submitted by you or automatically collected, publicly in the aggregated forms for any purpose including, but not limited to, research and marketing purposes, and our use and disclosure of such information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy.
We may allow third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve advertisements on the Service and on third- party services. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on WeMakeScholars.com. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content. WeMakeScholars does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks WeMakeScholars to show an advertisement to a certain audience and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. Our privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, third-party advertisers. Please consult the respective privacy policies of such advertisers for more information.
Wemakescholars is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are over thirteen, but under the legal age of majority, your parent or legal guardian must consent to this Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and affirm that they accept this Agreement on behalf of, and bear all legal and financial responsibility and liability for the actions of, any child between the age of 13 and majority, and expressly ratify and confirm any acts of any such child and all users of the account.
If your information is submitted to us through our Service when applying for a position with our company, the information will be used to consider your application. We may retain your information for any period of time. This information may be shared with other companies for the purpose of evaluating your qualifications for the particular position or other available positions, as well as with third-party service providers retained by us to collect, maintain and analyze candidate submissions for job postings.
WeMakeScholars follows a double opt-in policy where after submitting your email address you need to verify it by clicking on a verification link that we would send to you over a given email address. Until the email is verified, you would not receive any communication or newsletter or marketing material from us.
Every newsletter and promotional communication from WeMakeScholars contains an 'edit email preferences' link that you can click to change what you want to receive from us on your email.
Our Site may contain links to other website over which we have no control and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other websites to which you choose to link from this website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other websites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to the information we collect on Wemakescholars.com and not to information collected otherwise.
Any dispute or issues arising out of any activity regarding the use of this website will be governed by the laws of India and subject to exclusive jurisdiction of courts in the State of Telangana.
If you have any questions about our cancellation and refund policy or our Site as a whole, please feel free to contact us at hello@wemakescholars.com
We protect the stored data of users by using data encryption. All standard data protection measures are followed.