Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At StudyChat, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (studychat.app) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Data We Collect

We collect and process the following data:

• Identity Data: This includes your first name, last name, username or any similar identifier that helps us identify you.
• Contact Data: This primarily includes your email address which we use for communication purposes.
• Technical Data: This includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform. This data helps us understand your technical specifications and improve our services accordingly.
• Usage Data: This includes information about how you use our website and services. This data helps us understand your preferences and tailor our services to suit your needs.

3. Usage of Your Data

Your data is utilized to:

• Deliver and uphold our service
• Inform you about modifications to our service
• Enable your participation in interactive features of our service, given your consent
• Offer customer assistance
• Collect analytical data to enhance our service
• Track the usage of our service
• Identify, avert and tackle technical issues

4. Safeguarding Your Data

We employ suitable data collection, storage, and processing practices along with robust security measures to safeguard your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and other data stored on our site from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

All sensitive and private data exchanges between the site and its users occur over a secured communication channel (SSL) and are encrypted and protected with digital signatures.

5. Use of Third-Party Services

We utilize Google OAuth for authentication and Stripe for payment processing. These third-party services maintain their own privacy policies that detail how they use such information.

6. Your Rights Regarding Data Protection

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights include the ability to:

• Object to the processing of your personal data
• Request the restriction of processing your personal data
• Request the correction of your personal data if it is inaccurate
• Request the erasure of your personal data under certain conditions
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third party
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data
• Request access to your personal data and receive a copy of it

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor the activity on our service and store certain information. You have the option to instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the 'Last updated' date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at aayush@studychat.app.

Last updated: July 12th, 2024