Privacy Policy for Varnika Calligraphy Atelier
At Varnika Calligraphy Atelier, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our students, workshop participants, and visitors to our online platform. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you engage with our services, whether through our traditional and modern calligraphy courses, customized workshops, calligraphy supplies and materials, corporate team-building sessions, or online tutorials.
1. Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our services, when you participate in activities on our online platform, or otherwise contact us.
- Personal Identification Information: This includes your name, email address, phone number, and postal address when you register for a course, workshop, make a purchase, or subscribe to our newsletter.
- Transactional Information: Details regarding courses enrolled, workshops attended, and purchases made, but not payment card details which are processed securely by third-party payment processors.
- Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our online platform, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, pages viewed, and the dates and times of visits. This helps us understand user behavior and improve our service.
- Communication Data: Content of communications with us, including inquiries, feedback, and customer support requests.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Provide and Manage Services: To enrol you in courses or workshops, process your orders for supplies, and facilitate online tutorials.
- To Improve Our Services: To understand how our services are used, conduct analytics, and develop new courses, workshops, and features.
- To Communicate With You: To send you administrative information, course updates, promotional materials (if you have opted in), and respond to your inquiries.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: To maintain the safety and security of our online platform and services, and to detect and prevent fraudulent activities.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: To adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties except in the following limited circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our online platform, conducting our business, or serving you, such as payment processors, website hosting providers, and email service providers. These parties are obligated to keep your information confidential.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred as part of the assets.
4. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please be aware that no system of security is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information transmitted over the Internet.
5. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
6. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
7. Links to Other Websites
Our online platform may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your privacy rights, or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Varnika Calligraphy Atelier
2847, Shanti Nagar Main Road, Floor 3
Bangalore, Karnataka, 560027
India