Privacy Policy
inKstall is committed to protecting your personal data. We tried to write down this Privacy Policy in the most clear and plain language possible. Likewise, we tried to provide you with our privacy commitments in a transparent and easily accessible way. That said, we hope you will get all needed details to be assured your personal data is safe with us.
Before you give us your consent on the processing of your personal data or provide us with your personal data within any form on our website, we kindly ask you to read carefully this Privacy Policy, so we can be sure that you completely understand the conditions under which we would cooperate.
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the Services of inKstall, as defined in our Terms of Service. inKstall offers you options concerning data we process, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.
This Privacy Policy explains when, where, and why we process personal data about people who use inKstall, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, your rights in respect of your personal data, as well as how we keep it secure. As regards the use of inKstall Blog, this Policy is further specified through the inKstall Blog Privacy Policy.
GENERAL
Anyone can access our Website without the necessity to register an account. Therefore, limited use of the Services is always possible without the provision of your personal details (for example, browse the Website, check how inKstall works, look through the list of tutors, read the inkstall Blog, review the variety of services etc.). However, whenever you access the Website we collect log information and put cookies on your device, by which we track your activity on the Website. You can always opt out from cookies except from those, without which the Website cannot work.
When you are a registered User inKstall may collect from you and process Cookie identifiers and those data you specifically provide us with upon registration, including first name, last name, email, phone number, Skype ID or social network ID (if assigned through Facebook or Google+ or if accessing Google Calendar), time zone, interface language, IP address, and device type, as well, whereas in case of Telegram subscription, your Telegram ID may also be processed by inKstall.
Specifically, if you are a tutor, we may also collect and process, besides the aforementioned information, the other data provided by you, including zip-code, gender, year of birth, city of living, and education experience.
Registered Users may additionally provide us with added profile pictures as well as chosen currency to perform actions pursuant to our Refund and Payment Policy.
You can find out more about the specific cases of data collection and the purposes of processing of such data in separate section of this Privacy Policy.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please check this page to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. We will post those changes on this page and update the Privacy Policy modification date at the top of this page. The additional notifications on any amendments will be sent to your email.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our services should be sent to [email protected].
- What is personal data and what is processing of personal data. Main definitions
Personal data is any information relating to you and that alone or in combination with other pieces of information gives the opportunity to a person that collects and processes such information to identify you as an individual.
Processing of the personal data means any operation with your personal data, whether or not by automated means, as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing; means you as a user of inKstall.
Consent of the data subject/user is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject/user’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
2. inKstall’s lawful bases for processing
inKstall processes your personal data only when we have lawful bases. Specifically, inKstall processes your personal data if:
- processing is based on the consent you have As such our newsletters, collection, analysis, and publication of user feedback and reviews, analysis of video lessons, and placement of different types of cookies is based on your consent;
- processing is necessary to provide our services to you according to our Terms of Service which constitute a contract between you and us as regards to information services of inKstall;
- processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests. Those legitimate interests are:
- compliance with the U.S. financial and accounting legislation;
- the assessment of inKstall’s business efficiency by analyzing website traffic and financial performance indicators;
- promotion of inKstall through social media networks, media outlets, and affiliates, such as bloggers or influencers;
- performance of the contracts with enterprise clients and provision of reports on their employees’
- user session control and fraud prevention, ensuring the appropriate protection of personal data;
- tutor verification and development of high-quality learning programs with
- where necessary, compliance with applicable legislation (e.g., data subject request processing);
- in exceptional cases, to protect your vital interests or vital interests of another natural person; or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in
In all cases, we will notify you about the applied legal basis for processing and other relevant details, before we start processing of your personal data on the specific legal basis, unless we are not able to do so in accordance with our obligations under any applicable legislation.
3. Data We Collect: Scope
inKstall collects from you only the following information and only for the stated below purposes:
(1) Account for students
inKstall collects and processes personal data submitted by you upon registration and further editing of settings in your Account. For the registration purposes, you submit your login credentials (username and passwords), first name, last name and email. You may edit your Account with additional information at your sole discretion. Additional information may help you to get more from the Services, for instance, finding a necessary tutor. At the same time you are not required to provide additional information, not specifically necessary for the registration, it is your choice.
(2) Account for tutors
inKstall collects and processes personal data submitted by you upon registration and further editing of your Profile. For the registration purposes, you submit your login credentials (username and passwords), first name, last name and email. You may edit your Profile with additional information at your sole discretion. Additional information may help you to get more from the Services, for instance, finding students. At the same time, you are not strictly required to provide additional information, not specifically necessary for the registration. Therefore, it is your choice whether to include additional data to your profile, or not, such as zip code, country, language skills, education and work experience.
Some personal data, such as users’ names, and location that is listed in your user profiles or derived from IP Addresses may be publicly visible to other users on the Services or to the web. We may implement a feature that permits you to choose what information is made public by changing your privacy setting in “Edit My Profile” within the Service.
(3) Posting of Information
We process personal data freely submitted to you on inKstall. This may be survey you fill in on inKstall or feedback you provide us with. Irrespective of whether you are a registered user or not, this shall also cover situations when you post an article(s) or comment(s) on the inKstall Blog.
inKstall may also process information provided by you (including content and messages) that you post on/through our Website, including personally identifiable information. By so doing, you acknowledge that any information you share through the Services will be available to inKstall and to other users of the Services (students/tutors). You also acknowledge that parts of your content cannot be deleted from the Service as it may be connected to the Lessons created by you and used by other users (students/tutors).
From our turn and unless you opt-out, we retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with the Terms of Service.
(4) Service Use, Cookies and other Similar Technologies
When you use our Services, we monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of your behavior while using our Services. We may receive the information about your IP address, proxy server and operating system, the web browser or your mobile carrier and location based on phone settings.
Please, specifically refer to our Cookies Policy for further details as to our use of cookies and similar technologies.
(5) Billing information
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website (as ID, date and time of transaction).
(6) Enterprise
When you wish to share your contact details for more information regarding inKstall Enterprise one-on-one online language training for international teams, as name, email, company name and phone number.
(7) Sensitive data
Unless you expressly agree, inKstall does not process your sensitive data.
(8) Pages on social networks and inKstall Tutors Community on Facebook (For Tutors only)
We maintain inKstall’s official pages in social networks, such as Facebook or LinkedIn. When you make interactions with our social network pages, such as subscribe to the pages, leave comments or preferences (e.g., ‘like’ our posts), we can analyze these data for measuring our efficiency and conduct an analysis of our social media marketing in our legitimate interests.
We maintain a “inKstall Tutors Community” group on Facebook. To join the group you shall provide your email address, with the one you are registered at inKstall, and answer the questions of the Tutors Community rules. As this group is deployed on Facebook, we will process your Facebook profile information.