Privacy Policy

In this policy, the words we, our, and us refer to MedicosAdda and the privacy mechanism outlined identifies personally identifiable or personal information that may be collected, how such information is used, and the choices You have regarding our use of this information. In addition to the terms stated in the Terms of Service provided under this Website/mobile application (together Platform), we are committed to protecting Your privacy.

GENERAL

Only authorized representatives of MedicosAdda and on a need-to-know basis only use any information received from You and as consented by You. We constantly review our systems and data to secure Your personal information.

In the event of any identified unauthorized use or disclosure of information or upon Your complaint, we will investigate any such complaint or such actions with a view to prosecuting and/or taking civil proceedings to recover damages against those responsible.


Any User who does not agree with any provisions of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service is required to leave the Platform immediately. You disagree with this Policy (defined below) and continue to access the Platform and provide Your personal information, MedicosAdda disclaim all the liabilities arising therefrom and it shall be assumed by Your continued use of the Platform that You have accepted the Policy and any other online terms and conditions available on the Platform.


If any information You have provided or uploaded on the Platform violates the terms of this Policy, MedicosAdda may be required to delete such information upon informing You of the same and revoke Your access if required without incurring any liability to You.

ADDITIONAL TERMS

Applicability

This privacy policy (Policy) applies to all Users who access the Platform and are therefore required to read and understand the Policy before submitting any Personal Information (defined hereinafter). By submitting Personal Information, You are consenting to the use and processing of such information by this Policy.


If You have inadvertently submitted any Personal Information to MedicosAdda before reading the Policy statements set out herein, or You do not agree with how the Personal Information is collected, stored or used, then You may access, modify and delete all information stored about You by writing to us at support@medicosaada.com.


MedicosAdda is keeping the personal data of the user, and every user is also entitled to require MedicosAdda to delete and destroy all such information (but not that of other Users).
This Policy applies to the Platform and any other services that are owned and operated by MedicosAdda. Third-party websites may place their cookies or other files on the User's computer, collect data or solicit personal information from the Users, for which MedicosAddais not responsible or liable.

Accordingly, MedicosAdda does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms of use of such websites, nor does MedicosAdda guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites.

The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement byMedicosAdda of the website, the website's provider, or the information on the website.


MedicosAdda encourages the User to read the privacy policies of each such website and the User understands that it's solely such third party who is responsible to the User in this regard. MedicosAdda has taken reasonable precautions as per applicable Indian law and implemented industry standards to treat Personal Information as confidential and to protect it from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss of the Personal Information.

Access

To have access to our Platform, a User is required to first create an account on our Platform. To create an account, a User is required to provide Personal Information as may be required during the time of registration. Other information requested on the registration page, including the ability to receive promotional offers from MedicosAdda, is optional. MedicosAdda may, in future, include other optional requests for information from the User to customize the Platform to deliver personalized information to the User.


Without the User's agreement, MedicosAdda will not share, rent or sell any Personal Information with third parties in any way other than what is disclosed in this Policy. MedicosAdda may keep records of telephone calls received and made for making enquiries, counselling information, feedback or other purposes to render services effectively and efficiently.

Personal Information

“Personal Information” shall mean the information which identifies the User’s name, identification number, email address, age, gender, or phone number provided to MedicosAdda at the time of registration or any time thereafter. Personal information may include “sensitive personal information or data” as defined under the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 and in this context, includes passwords or any financial account information provided by You during registration. We request you to not provide us with any Personal Information unless specifically requested by us. In such events, we bear no liability for such Personal Information provided by You.

Automatic Information Collection

Our system collects information that is sent over the Internet without Your control. Some examples of the information we collect and analyse include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect Your computer to the internet; login; email; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; course enrolled history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other users to create features, reports such as popular courses, most used features etc; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, and from our Platform, including date and time; cookie number; courses or videos You viewed or searched for; the email id You used to call our customer service.

During some visits, we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, course and videos, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Information Security

To protect the security of Your Personal information during transmission, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the information You input. To prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information, it is important for You to monitor those who have access to Your password and to Your computer, laptop or any other device through which Your account can be accessed. Be sure to sign off when finished while using a shared computer.

However, please do note that given the nature of internet transactions, MedicosAdda does not take any responsibility for the transmission of information including Personal Information shared by You other than as outlined in this Policy. Any transmission of information on the internet is done at Your risk and shall not be responsible for the circumvention of the privacy settings or security measures either by You or any third party.

Use of your personal information

While availing our services You will provide access to MedicosAddawith Your Personal Information. If that information is wrong, You can request us to modify or delete the same. MedicosAdda will take all reasonable measures to ensure that the Personal Information is modified and used for rendering services to You and as otherwise in compliance with laws.

When editing or deleting Personal Information, we may ask You to verify Your identity before we can act on Your request. MedicosAdda may at its discretion reject any request that is contrary to law or requires unreasonable technical efforts.

We do not assure you that we will delete all residual copies and archives made by any third party without our knowledge and consent. We never retain Your Personal Information longer than it is required to provide services through the Platform or as required by applicable Indian law.

At times, we may also require to transfer Your Personal Information to third-party service providers, for instance, to authorize transactions we may share Your financial data with such third-party providers. You hereby consent to Your transfer of Personal Information in all such instances.

MedicosAdda carries out all such transfers strictly by law.MedicosAdda shall use Your Personal Information to ensure services concerning the Platform are presented to You most effectively, to secure the Platform and make improvements, to carry out our obligations to You, and to communicate with You.

The said communication can either be by calls, text or emails and for purposes which include transactional, service, or promotional calls or messages. If at any time You wish to not receive any communication from our end You can opt-out of the same by writing to us at support@medicosaada.com.

Exceptions

Your Personal Information may be shared with third parties who have a need or authority to receive such information, if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to comply with

(i) in response to any authority having to receive such information under law
(ii) any order of the court (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues
(iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of MedicosAdda, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

USER CHOICES ABOUT ACCESS OF INFORMATION

MedicosAdda does not make any unsolicited calls or otherwise market any products or services, except with the purpose for which such information has been provided or taking any feedback, addressing any complaints, or informing You about new features or free/paid courses. User shall not disclose their Personal Information to any third parties that are not authorised by MedicosAdda and verify the identity of such person who seeks information.


MedicosAdda will communicate with the Users through calls, SMS, email or notices posted on the Platform or through any other means available, which shall include but not be limited to text, other forms of messaging, calls etc. The Users can change their e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into their account or by emailing support@medicosaada.com.

REPORT, ANALYSIS & CONFIDENTIALITY

MedicosAdda may have to use Personal Information without reference to any persona or identity for research, statistical analysis improving the Platform of functionalities offered thereon and business intelligence purposes and may transfer such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates.

All MedicosAdda employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of sensitive personal data or information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of every User's sensitive personal data and information.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

MedicosAdda may also disclose or transfer the User's personal and other information which a User provides, to another third party as part of reorganization or a sale of the assets of MedicosAddacorporation division or company. Any third party to which MedicosAdda transfers or sells its assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that a User provides to us.

To the extent necessary to provide Users with the services on the Platform, MedicosAdda may provide User's Personal Information to third-party contractors who work on behalf of or with MedicosAdda to provide Users with such services, to help MedicosAdda communicate with Users or to maintain the Platform.


Generally, these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information, however, certain contractors who provide services on the Platform, including the providers of online communications services, and online payment gateway services, will have rights to use and disclose the Personal Information collected in connection with the provision of these services by their privacy policies.

Furthermore, please note that we cannot control the actions of other Users of the Platform with whom You may choose to share Your Personal Information, and any such actions on Your behalf shall be solely Your responsibility.

INTEREST-BASED ADS

On unaffiliated sites, MedicosAdda may display interest-based advertising using information You make available to us when You interact with our Platform, content, or services. Interest-based ads, also sometimes referred to as personalised or targeted ads, are displayed to You based on information from activities such as subscription on our Platform, and visiting sites that containMedicosAdda content or ads.

In providing interest-based ads, we follow applicable Indian laws, as well as the Code for Self-Regulation in Advertising by the Advertising Standards Council of India and the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising developed by the Digital Advertising Alliance (a coalition of marketing, online advertising, and consumer advocacy organizations). Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.


Like other online ad networks, we use cookies, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies (collectively, “cookies”). Cookies enable us to learn about what ads You see, what ads You click, and other actions You take on our sites and other sites. This allows us to provide You with more useful and relevant ads. For example, if we know what ads You are shown we can be careful not to show You the same ones repeatedly.


We do not associate Your interaction with unaffiliated sites with Your identity in providing You with interest-based ads. Advertisers or ad companies working on their behalf sometimes use technology to serve the ads that appear on our sites directly to Your browser.

They automatically receive Your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise ad content.

We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that advertisers and third-party sites may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by our Policy.

REVISION OF TERMS & GRIEVANCE REPORTING

MedicosAdda may update or amend this Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way MedicosAdda treats user’s personally identifiable information, MedicosAdda will display a notice on the Platform or send Users an email. MedicosAdda’s current Policy to all information that MedicosAdda has about Users and their accounts. Notwithstanding the above, MedicosAdda shall not be required to notify the Users of any changes made to the privacy policy.


Should You have any concerns or reject the changes in the privacy policy You can refuse to accept the amendments and opt for withdrawing Your Personal Information by writing to us at support@medicosaada.com.