Privacy Policy Page | Bio Smart Notes

Last Updated: April 1, 2024

Welcome to Bio Smart Notes! Our Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and disclose your information when you interact with our services. It also explains your privacy rights and how we ensure legal compliance with regulations such as CPRA, CCPA, and GDPR. You agree to the terms that are outlined in this privacy policy, simply by using our services.

Table of Contents

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

Throughout this Privacy Policy, terms with initial capitalization have specific meanings defined under certain conditions. These definitions apply regardless of whether the terms appear in singular or plural form.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account: Refers to the unique account created by users to access our services.
Affiliate: An entity that is controlled by, controls, or is under common control with us. “Control” refers to ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities with voting rights.
Company: Referred to as “Bio Smart Notes,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in this policy.
Cookies: Cookies are small files stored on your devices by websites, which may include details of your browsing history. These files can be on mobile devices, computers, or other devices, and serve various purposes beyond browsing history.
Country: Refers to Karnataka, India.
Device: Any device that can access our services, including but not limited to computers, cellphones, or digital tablets.
Personal Data: Any information related to an individual.
Service: Our website, Bio Smart Notes.
Service Provider: A legal person who will be processing the data for the Company. This includes third-party companies or individuals engaged by us to facilitate our services, provide services on our behalf, perform services related to our services, or assist us in analyzing how our services are used.
Third-party Social Media Service: Any website or social network through which a user can log in or create an account to use our services.
Usage Data: Any data that is generated from or by our services (e.g., duration of page visits).
Website: Refers to Bio Smart Notes, accessible from https://biosmartnotes.com.
You: The individual accessing or using our services, or the legal entity on whose behalf such individual is accessing or using our services, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our services, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to:

Usage data
Email address
First name and last name

Usage Data

When you use our services, we collect the Usage data automatically. This information may include the Device’s Internet Protocol, the type and version of your browser, our service pages that you visit, the date and time of your visit, the duration of your visit on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you use our services with the help of a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically. This may include but is not limited to, the type of device, the mobile device’s unique ID, mobile IP address, operating system, the type of internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We might gather data that your browser sends each time you visit our services or access them through a mobile device.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

We allow you to create an account and log in to our services using various Third-party Social Media Services such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you choose to register through or grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, we may collect Personal Data already associated with your Third-Party Social Media Service’s account, such as your email address, name, activities, contact list associated with that account etc.

There could also be some additional information which you have shared with us through your Third-Party Social Media Service account. By providing such information and Personal Data during registration or otherwise, you authorize us to use, share, and store it, following this Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We utilize Cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our services and store specific information. These tracking technologies, which may consist of beacons, tags, and scripts, are employed to gather and monitor data to enhance and analyze our services. Among these technologies are:

Cookies or Browser Cookies: These are small files in your Device. You may reject these cooking in your browser or configure your to notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, if you decline cookies, certain parts of our services may not be accessible to you. Unless you adjust your browser settings to reject cookies, our services may utilize them.
Web Beacons: These are small electronic files such as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs which are parts of our services and emails. These files enable the Company to track user visits to specific pages or email openings, as well as other website statistics such as recording section popularity and ensuring system and server integrity.

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies stay on your personal computer or mobile device even when you’re offline, whereas Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We use both these types for the purposes mentioned below.

Necessary / Essential Cookies: These cookies are crucial for providing you with services offered through the Website and enabling you to utilize some of its features. Without these cookies, the requested services cannot be provided, and we solely employ them for that purpose.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies: These cookies determine whether users have agreed to the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable us to remember your choices when using the Website, such as your login details or language preference. Their purpose is to offer you a more personalized experience and to save you from re-entering your preferences each time you use the Website.

Use of Your Personal Data

We might utilize your Personal Data for the following objectives:

To deliver and sustain our services, which includes monitoring the usage of our services.
To fulfil contractual obligations: This involves developing, complying with, and executing purchase contracts for products, items, or services you have acquired or any other contract with us via the service.
To communicate with you: We may reach out to you through email, phone calls, SMS, or other electronic means, such as push notifications from mobile applications, regarding updates or informative messages related to the features, products, or contracted services. This includes security updates when deemed necessary or reasonable for implementation.
To furnish you with updates, exclusive offers, and general details regarding additional goods, services, and events similar to those you’ve previously purchased or shown interest in unless you’ve chosen not to receive such information.
To handle your inquiries: We address and oversee any requests you direct to us.
To manage your requests: For managing and attending to your queries and requests to us.
For business transfers: We might utilize your information to assess or execute a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as an ongoing concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings, where Personal Data held by us regarding our service users is included among the transferred assets.
For additional purposes: We may employ your information for various other objectives, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, gauging the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and assessing and enhancing our services, products, marketing, and your overall experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the usage of our services, or to contact you.
For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
With Affiliates: Your information may be shared with our affiliates. In such cases, we will need those affiliates to abide by this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
With Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
With Other Users: If you share personal information or engage with other users in public areas, this information may be visible to all users and could potentially be publicly disseminated beyond our platform.Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service will be able to see your name, pictures, profile, pictures, and description of your activity if you register through a third-party social media service or interact with other users. Likewise, fellow users can access descriptions of your activity, engage in communication with you, and view your profile.
With Your Consent: We may divulge your personal information for any other purpose only with your explicit consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

Retention of your Personal Data will only be to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations such as to comply with applicable laws, enforce our legal agreements and policies and resolve disputes.

Your Usage Data may be retained just for internal analysis, that too for a shorter period. The only exception to this may be when it is used to improve the functionality or strengthen the security of our services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your personal data and other information may be maintained on or transferred to computers in our operating offices, wherever the parties involved are located. It means that this transfer of information may be to a place outside your state, province, country, and governmental jurisdiction where there may have different data protection laws.

By submitting such information, you represent that you agree to the data transfer and thereby consent to this Privacy Policy.

We will be taking all necessary reasonable steps to ensure your data is secure and treated in accordance to this Privacy Policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to an organization or a country unless there are required controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the Personal Data that we have collected about you.

Our services may empower you to delete specific information about yourself from within the service.

You can update, modify, or delete your information anytime by signing into your Account (if applicable) and navigating to the account settings section, where you can manage your personal information. Additionally, you may reach out to us to request access to, rectify, or delete any personal information you’ve shared with us.

However, please be aware that, we may be required to retain some information in case there is a a lawful basis or legal obligation to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale involving the Company, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will inform you before the transfer of your Personal Data to become a subject to another Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

We may need to disclose your personal data if required under the law or in response to valid requests by public authorities such as a court or a government agency.

Other Legal Requirements

When we need to disclose your Personal Data, we will do so in the good faith belief that it is required to:

Comply with a legal obligation
To defend and protect the property of or the rights of the Company
To investigate or to prevent a possible wrongdoing related to our services
Protect the personal safety of users of our services or the public
Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

Ensuring the security of your Personal Data is paramount to us. However, it’s essential to understand that no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing it electronically can be entirely foolproof. While we will be employing all acceptable measures to safeguard your Personal Data, absolute security is not something that we can guarantee.

Children’s Privacy

Our service is not intended for individuals under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under this age bracket. If you become aware that your child has shared their Personal Data with us, as a parent or guardian, you may please contact us immediately. If we discover that we have collected Personal Data from a child under 13 without parental consent verification, we will take steps to promptly remove that information from our servers.

In cases where consent is required as a legal basis for processing Personal Data, and if your country mandates parental consent, we may require authorization from a parent or guardian before collecting and using such information.

Links to External Websites

There may be links to external websites in our services, which are not operated by us. Clicking on a third-party link will direct you to their site. We strongly recommend that you review the Privacy Policies of the respective websites you may visit, as we have no control over and assume no responsibility for the privacy policies, content or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

We may periodically update our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in regulations, technologies, or our services. Any modifications will be effective when posted on this page, with the “Last updated” date reflecting the most recent revision. We will also notify you via email or a prominent notice on our service before such changes take effect, giving you the opportunity to review the updated policy. We advise reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

Contact Us

If you have any queries regarding this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by visiting this page on our website: https://biosmartnotes.com/contact-us/