Who we are

As you know, TeachersAroundMe is an online digital EdTech platform that helps you source, screen and connects you with professional educators (Teachers, Linguists, Counsellors and Skill Trainers) near you.

And our website address is: www.TeachersAroundMe.com.

We appreciate the time you spend in trying to learn more about us, what we do, and how we do it; as we continually make efforts to make you get unquantifiable value for your resources (time and money).

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) is established to help you understand how TeachersAroundMe Limited (“TAM” “Us’, “Our” or “We”) collect, transmit, store and use information about our Users. The term “You” or “Your” or “User” or “Users” shall refer to Clients, Professionals or any person or entity who views, uses, accesses, browses or submits any content or material to the Platform (defined below). Providing your information is voluntary and your use of the Platform after the effective date of this Policy constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, do not use or access the Platform with immediate effect.

The TeachersAroundMe service (collectively, “TeachersAroundMe”, “the Site”, or “the Service”) is operated by TeachersAroundMe Limited. By accessing any of these Platforms, you are agreeing to be bound by the Platforms Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site, and the company’s service. The materials contained on these Platforms are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect via e-mail, telephone, the website (“Site”), mobile applications, electronic devices and other interactive services, including any mobile applications, web applications, affiliated websites and services (the “Platform”). In order to help you get the most out of our service, we collect User submitted personally identifiable information (“PII”) when you use the Platform. We ask Users only to submit the minimum amount of information necessary to use our service. Such information may include your name, address, password, zip code, email address, account details and phone number for communication purposes. Information may be submitted to the Platform or via form submission or email when communicating with a TeachersAroundMe’s representative. For Clients and Professionals, we may collect information related to your documentation and payment for professional sessions, national identification card and date of birth, to complete a background check or for tax purposes. As detailed in the “Data Transmission and Storage” section below, we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption on any page of the Platform where we ask you to submit personally identifiable information and encrypt all such information for safe storage in our system.

Such data is compiled in aggregate and includes things like the referring URL and the type of browser you may be using to access the Platform. This data is used to better understand and enhance the User experience on the Platform. TeachersAroundMe may publish these statistics or share them with third parties only for purposes relevant to the objectives stated in the Terms of Use. You hereby grant TeachersAroundMe unequivocal and unconditional consent to share your data in the manner stipulated below.

User generated content posted through certain social networking preferences (e.g. pages you “like” or “follow”) may be viewed by the general public. Accordingly, TeachersAroundMe cannot ensure the privacy of any personal identifiable information (PII) included in such User generated content and you understand that you use this Platform at your own risk.

Registration Data; Account Security

If you subscribe to any of TeachersAroundMe’s services, you will have an account and might have a password. For you to gain Access to password protected portions of this Site, you must have paid all required fees to TeachersAroundMe Limited. It is your responsibility to make confidential your account and password; as well as restricting access to TeachersAroundMe’s material to anyone other than yourself. You are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password. TeachersAroundMe reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel subscriptions at its sole discretion.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site and or any of its platform, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the TeachersAroundMe’s website and or any of her platform, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

TeachersAroundMe uses cookies to help create a better User experience. A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your browser from a web server and may be stored on your computer’s hard drive. TeachersAroundMe uses cookies to better customize your experience on the Platform . If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies could last for a year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, or clear your browser data, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

No personally identifiable information is stored in our cookies. While you may elect to disable or delete cookies from your browser at any time, please note that this action may limit your use of TeachersAroundMe services that require cookies. You also can control advertising cookies from Google, by using its Ads Preference Manager. Please note that to the extent advertising technology is integrated into the Platform, you may still receive advertisements even if you opt-out of tailored advertising. You can, however, block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Platform. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Platform, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors/Users and to see how visitors/Users move around our Platform when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Platform works, for example, by ensuring that Users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Platform. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Platform, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Platform and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. You also understand and agree that we may share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We keep your data confidential, and may only share it with partners; and could also share with the authorities, if the need arise.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

TeachersAroundMe does not disclose or sell your PII without your consent. We may use PII or other personal information you specifically give to us: a) to provide services to you through the Systems, b) to process billing and transactions, c) for identification and authentication purposes, d) to communicate with you concerning the System, transactions, security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of the System, e) to improve your response to and interaction with the System, f) to give you information or notify you of services that we think may be of interest to you; and g) for marketing and promotional purposes, h) for administration purpose. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of the System may need access to such information from time to time but are not permitted to disclose such information to others. TeachersAroundMe shares a minimum amount of information between Professionals and Clients in order to facilitate the arrangement of professional sessions. We reserve the right to release non-personally identifiable information collected in aggregate, however subject to the use as reserved in this Terms. However, TeachersAroundMe does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide your personally identifiable information or contact information to TeachersAroundMe. If you are the parent or guardian of someone under the age of 13 who may have provided us with information without your consent, please contact us to have the information removed. Pending this notification in the foregoing, you understand that TeachersAroundMe has not knowingly collected the information from the minor and you hereby agree not to take any legal action against TeachersAroundMe in its regard. All contacts, including professional sessions, between a professional and any minor should, of course, take place only in a supervised setting.

Data Transmission and Storage

TeachersAroundMe uses industry-standard 128-bit SSL encryption when collecting and transmitting your information through the Platform and the TeachersAroundMe’s network (collectively, the “System.”) Once information has been collected, we encrypt sensitive data in our database for added security. TeachersAroundMe also uses hardware monitoring and firewalls across our System to protect against unauthorised access. However, even with these measures, TeachersAroundMe cannot 100% guarantee the security of PII. By using the Platform , you acknowledge and agree that you use the Platform at your own risk.

Your role

To further help keep the Platform secure for your use, you are to never share your username or password. If you think your password may have been compromised, please change it immediately or contact TeachersAroundMe for additional assistance.

TeachersAroundMe may periodically call or text you with the company’s line (ONLY), stated on the website, send you email communications with the …@TeachersAroundMe.com domain (ONLY), detailing new features or promotions about the company. You may unsubscribe from these messages by using the link at the bottom of the email. We may also send you email messages about the status of your account or any notices. You may not opt-out of receiving these administrative emails so long as you continue to use this voluntary service. If you wish to terminate your account, please send us a mail.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our platform we also store the personal identifiable information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).

We will only retain your data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, tax or reporting requirements. We may retain your data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Use License

Permission is granted to a terminable non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use TeachersAroundMe’s Platforms for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

  1. modify or copy the materials

  2. use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial)

  3. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on TeachersAroundMe’s Platforms

  4. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials or

  5. transfer the materials to another person or “clone” the materials on any other server

  6. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any personal, and or commercial purposes, any portion of the Service use of the Service, or access to the Service.

  7. It is to your acceptance that should TeachersAroundMe uses its discretion, or based on information, findings and or observation, or due to misconduct of any kind, terminates a professional and or client’s appointment/contract/service from its platform or from other party, with or without prior warning or notification, either parties have no right to retain such service(s) with each other.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by TeachersAroundMe at any time.

Trademarks

TeachersAroundMe’s logos, graphics, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other Company’s content and service names are registered trademarks, including domain names, in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion and should not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the Company.

Site Terms of Use Modifications

TeachersAroundMe reserves the right to revise these terms of use due to modifications on the company’s policy and or the Platform’s features and functionality at any time with or without prior notice. We will post any changes here and indicate the new effective date of the Privacy Policy at the top of the document. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy for any updates while you are an active User of the Platform. By using this Platform(s) you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use

You consent to the collection, processing and storage by TeachersAroundMe of your personal information in accordance with the terms of TeachersAroundMe’s Privacy Policy, which is available at www.TeachersAroundMe.com/privacy. You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and the terms of TeachersAroundMe’s Privacy Policy, with respect to any access, use and or submission by you of any personal information in connection with this platform.

Governing Law

Any claim relating to TeachersAroundMe’s Platforms shall be governed by the laws of the State without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Proprietary Rights

You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service contain proprietary and confidential information that are protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that content contained in information presented to you through the Service is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless TeachersAroundMe, its directors, employees, officers, agents, vendors, other service providers, or customers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees resulting from any violation of these Terms and Conditions of Use by you or any harm you may cause to anyone in connection with your use of the Service; for clarity, your use, or the use by any of your affiliates, the Service for competitive purposes.

Entire Agreement

The Terms and Conditions of Use governs your use of the Service and constitutes the entire agreement between you and TeachersAroundMe. It’s in addition to any prior agreements between you and TeachersAroundMe. Additional terms and conditions may apply when you use the services of service providers and others. These additional terms will not reduce, diminish, or eliminate any rights TeachersAroundMe possesses with respect to these Terms and Conditions of Use.

Waiver and Severability of Terms

Should TeachersAroundMe fail to exercise any right(s) or enforce any of the terms of these Terms and Conditions of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or terms. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use or its application in a particular circumstance is held to be invalid or unenforceable to any extent, the remainder of these Terms and Conditions of Use, or the application of such provision in other circumstances, shall not be affected thereby, and each provision hereof shall be valid and enforced to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Financial information & Subscription Period

You will be entitled to receive the Service only during the subscription period (“Subscription Period”) specified by your payment confirmation.

If you elect to pay for any of our services with a debit card, we do not store any of your card details associated with the account. All financial information is collected and encrypted by the third-party payment processor – financial institution (bank and or other payment gateway tool) used on the Platform.

Electronic Communications

When you visit this Platforms and when you communicate with us electronically, for example by calling, texting, sending us an email or ordering our products/services online, you consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by call. text, email or by posting notices on the Platforms. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in verbal or writing.

Warranties & Disclaimers

  • The materials on TeachersAroundMe’s Platforms are provided “as is”. TeachersAroundMe makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. TeachersAroundMe does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet Platforms or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.

  • TeachersAroundMe and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, partners and licensors make no warranty that

    • the service will meet your requirements;

    • the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free;

    • the results that may be obtained from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable;

    • the quality of any products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained by you through the service will meet your expectations; and

    • any errors in the software will be corrected.

  • The Service may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. TeachersAroundMe assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, or alteration of, communications.

  • Under no circumstances will TeachersAroundMe be responsible for any loss or damage, to any User or personal injury or death, resulting from anyone’s use of the Site or the Service, any User Content or Third-Party Applications, Software or Content posted on or through the Site or the Service or transmitted to Users, or any interactions between users of the Site, whether online or offline.