Objective and Scope

The Youth Edge(“we”, “us”, “our”, “The Youth Edge”) values the trust placed in us by data subject (“you”, “your”, “user”, “subscriber”) and therefore, we follow the highest standards of privacy guidelines to protect the information shared by you with us.

This privacy policy describes the usage of information provided or collected by The Youth Edgeand/or its subsidiary (ies) and/or affiliate(s) (collectively referred to as the “Company“), which operates various Websites/Mobile applications & other services including but not limited to delivery of information and content via any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (collectively the “Services“). We follow this privacy policy in accordance with applicable law in the places where we operate. In some cases, we may provide additional data privacy notices specific to certain services or regions. Those terms are to be read in combination with this policy.

theyouthedge.com here in after referred as auxiliary of  Arising Youth Pvt. Ltd., an Indian Company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 having its corporate office at Building No. 65/1/1 kalidas marg, maxi road ujjain – 456010..

This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction and together with the Terms of Use applicable to the The Youth Edge Service that you are using.

What does this privacy policy cover?

The objective of the privacy policy is to inform you regarding the processing of your personal information which is collected during your visit to our website/application. This policy applies to current and former visitors of the website/application, users who register on The Youth Edge in connection with use of our services, or whose information The Youth Edg eother wise receives in connection with its services (such as but not limited to contact information of individuals associated with The Youth Edge including partner colleges/ institutes).

I. Collection and Use of Personal Information

Personal information (PI) – means any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person (‘data subject’ here in referred as you/your’). In particular using a common identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person or any other piece of information as per applicable laws and regulations.

The Company respects the privacy of the users of the Services and is committed to reasonably protect it in all respects. The information about the user as collected by the Company is:

A. Information you provide to us

Information Collected when you use our Website
We may hold personal information about you including, but not limited to the following:

• Name/User name
• Date of Birth
• E-mail id
• Contact Number
• Age
• Gender
• Occupation
• Interests
• Location
• User Address (street address, city, state/province, zip/postal code, country)
• Photographs
• IP Address

We may also collect payment related data for subscription services, however we do not store any card data in our environment.

To add certain content, like pictures, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album

Information you provide to us voluntarily

We may collect additional information at other times, when you provide feedback(s), modify your content or email preferences, respond to surveys, or communicate with us by posting a comment on our website/application or asking us a question through or e-mail. This information may include personal information such as, but not limited to, your name, e-mail id, mobile number, comment, message etc.

B. Information Automatically Collected/Tracked while Navigation

Log File Information

We automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, mobile number, including, but not limited to, your IP address, browser software ,operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed, whenever you visit(s) our website(s), application(s) or services.

Clear GIFs
We may use “clear GIFs” (Web Beacons) when you use our websites, to track the online usage patterns in an anonymous manner, without personally identifying the user. We may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by them. We also collect information from you passively using Google Analytics and Google search console for collecting information about your usage of our website.

C. Inferred Information through usage and log data

We may collect and track certain information about you based upon your behaviour on the The Youth Edge Services We use this information for conducting internal research on our users’ demographics, devices, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our users.

We may also collect your Information to track user behaviour and preferences for internal analytics and research. We may also use your information:

• To evaluate your interest for various genres of content, services, offers;
• To perform analytics and conduct customer research, to determine your interest, for identifying content that generate sales and to analyse traffic patterns.

If you choose to post messages on social media accounts, message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the The Youth EdgeServices, we may collect and store such information.

1. II. Processing of personal information

We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful basis. Lawful basis on which we would process our personal information includes obtaining explicit consent from you for processing your personal information or processing for “legitimate interests” where processing is necessary by us to provide you with services (For e.g. processing your information by our group companies/affiliates).

• If you no longer wish to receive a specific newsletter, follow the “”unsubscribe”” instructions located near the bottom of each newsletter .
• We use information collected from cookies and other technologies, like pixel tags, Google Ads to improve your user experience and the overall quality of our services. When showing you tailored ads, we will not associate an identifier from cookies or similar technologies with sensitive categories, such as those based on race, religion, sexual orientation or health.”
• Send alerts and newsletter(s) to you (Provided you subscribe to the same).You may also raise a request to the The Youth Edge.
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• Communicate with you concerning our service (for example by email, push notifications), so that we can send you news about The Youth Edge , details about new features and content available on the The Youth Edge Services,promotional announcements, marketing purposes and surveys, other services of The Youth Edge affiliates and to assist you with operational requests such as password reset requests.
• Send notification(s) to you on your handheld devices (To turn off the notifications, please visit your account settings)
• Improve our website/application and its content to provide better features and services
• Conducting market research and surveys with the aim of improving our products and services.
• Preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting crimes (including but not limited to fraud and other financial crimes) in any jurisdiction, identity verification, government sanctions screening and due diligence checks
• Establishing, exercising or defending legal rights in connection with legal proceedings (including any prospective legal proceedings) and seeking professional or legal advice in relation to such legal proceedings.
• Our automated systems analyse your content to provide you customised search results, recommendations and specific promotions and offers
• To help advertisers understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites or applications, (however it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site)
• Notify you about changes in terms of service or privacy policy
• Allow you to participate in interactive features offered through our Services
• Sharing with our customer support team to resolve your queries/concerns related to your rights or services provided to you.

IV. Children

To use the Site/Application you agree that you must be the minimum age (described in this paragraph below) or older.

The minimum age for these purposes shall be 16, however if local laws require that you must be older in order for The Youth Edgeto lawfully provide the services in the Site/ Application to you then that older age shall apply as the applicable minimum age. In all jurisdictions outside the European Union, if you are under the age of 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must use The Youth Edgeunder the supervision of your parent, legal guardian or responsible adult.

V. Information Sharing

We restrict access to your Personal Information to employees who we believe reasonably need to know/or that information in order to fulfil their jobs to provide, operate, develop, or improve our products or services.

The Youth Edge does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with ‘Arising Youth ’ under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help The Youth Edge communicate with you about offers from The Youth Edge and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of ‘The Youth Edge terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if ‘The Youth Edge is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, ‘The Youth Edgewill notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• Retention of personal information

Your personal information processed by The Youth Edge are kept in a form which permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal information are processed in line with legal, regulatory, contractual or statutory obligations as applicable.
At the expiry of such periods, your personal information will be deleted or archived to comply with legal/contractual retention obligations or in accordance with applicable statutory limitation periods.

VII. Monitoring

To the extent permitted by law, The Youth Edge may record and monitor your communications with us to ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies. This may include the recording of telephone conversations.

Complaints

If you have any complaints regarding processing of your personal information you may contact our privacy officer at contactus@youthedge.com. You have the right to complaint about the data processing activities carried out by The Youth Edge before the competent data protection authorities.

1. Security and Compliance with Laws

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. All information gathered is securely stored within the Company controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall on the cloud; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. If you know or have reason to believe that your The Youth Edge Services account credentials have been lost, stolen, altered, or otherwise compromised or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your account, please contact us by contacting our customer support team.

1. Social media

The Youth Edge operates channels, pages and accounts on some social media sites to inform, assist and engage with you. The Youth Edge monitors and records comments and posts made on these channels about The Youth Edge in order to improve its products and services.
Please note that you must not communicate with The Youth Edge through such social media sites the following information:

• Changes in the Policy

The Youth Edge reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification.

XII. Contact Information

Support
If you require any information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or this privacy policy or grievances with respect to use of your personal information, please email us at “ contactus@theyouthedge.com”

Postal Address
The Arising Youth Pvt. Ltd.
Building No 65/1/1, kalidas marg maxi road Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh – 456010

XIII. Disclaimer

The Youth Edge shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user’s account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise

Any other personal information shared by you which is not asked by The Youth Edge during registration, either mandatorily or optionally; accounts to wilful and intentional furnishing; and The Youth Edgewill not be liable for breach of such information.