Privacy Policy

A. Basic Authentication

When you access our platform and authenticate via Google Secure Sign-In, we obtain basic profile information:

• Google Account Full Name
• Registered Email Address
• Profile Photo URL (if available)
• Basic browser and device indicators

B. Course Registration Details

When registering for our learning cohorts, we collect standard administrative details:

• Full Legal Name (for certificate generation)
• Email Address & Contact Number
• Gender
• Location (City, State, and Country)

C. Technical Prerequisites & Compatibility

To place you in compatible cohorts and ensure your hardware supports specific course curriculum:

• For Android Development Course: Mobile model name and Android OS version, ensuring your hardware supports modern app testing and compilation.
• For Web & Software Development: Basic details regarding whether you own a laptop or desktop computer, letting us tailor the developer environment setup instructions.

D. Program Eligibility & Special Audits

To verify eligibility for specialized accessibility programs, subsidised cohorts, or special training grants, we may ask for:

• Disability Status Verification: A Disability Card or Unique Disability ID (UDID) number. This is requested strictly when necessary, handled with elevated encryption, and accessed only by senior administrators.

E. Payment Information

For fee-based or premium classes, we verify payments through:

• Payment Method used
• Transaction ID
• Payment Timestamp

Note: We do not process, store, or see your raw credit card numbers or banking passwords. Payments are handled via securely integrated third-party payment gateways.

Every data point collected serves a specific administrative or educational function within our platform:

• Secure Authentication: Utilizing Google Login credentials to confirm identities, manage dashboard access, and protect your user profile from unauthorized access.
• Academic Placement & Customization: Enrolling you in the correct cohort levels, assigning qualified mentors, and adjusting lesson plans based on device parameters (e.g. laptop availability).
• Important Notifications: Sending updates on schedule changes, online class links, assignment releases, and certification announcements.
• Certificate Issuance: Rendering your verified completion certificates with correct spellings and registration numbers.
• Service Optimization: Reviewing enrollment trends and course feedback to make our accessibility websites and screen-reader accommodations perform better.

We maintain a strict zero-sharing policy with regards to marketing agencies:

• No Commercial Monetization: We do not rent, sell, trade, or share your personal details with third-party advertisers or external marketing networks under any circumstances.
• Strict Internal Operations: Your data is accessed only by authorized team administrators, tutors, and developers who need the information to organize courses and issue credentials.
• Service and Support Only: Data is used solely for educational support, secure logins, group announcements, and direct communications regarding your learning experience.

We employ standard cybersecurity practices to secure your profile and class registration logs:

• Transport Encryption (HTTPS): All visual inputs, logins, and registrations on this website are transmitted via secure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections, preventing packet interception.
• Access Restrictions: Permissions inside our databases are sandboxed. Only designated administrators have credentials to read registration logs or process files.
• Active Audit Safeguards: We inspect connections regularly to guard against unauthorized database access, code injections, and credential exploits.

To exercise any of the rights listed below, please send a brief request from your registered email address to [email protected]:

• Access and Export: You can request a summary of the personal details we have stored for your account profile.
• Rectification and Updates: You can request corrections to spelling mistakes in your name, updates to mobile numbers, or changes to geographical details.
• Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You can ask us to permanently delete your student records, account bindings, and class history. Note that removing this details will revoke access to certificates and future updates.

Our tracking stance is clean and direct:

• Zero Tracking Cookies: We do not deploy advertising pixels or tracking cookies to monitor your web activity across the internet.
• Secure Local Storage: Rather than sending tracking codes to servers, our application uses native browser local storage for functional preferences. This remembers if you chosen dark or light mode, and maintains your secure Google token session.

We may revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect shifts in technology, compliance requirements, or course administration workflows.

When modifications are published, we will immediately adjust the Effective Date located at the top of this page. We suggest reviewing this page occasionally to stay fully up-to-date with our privacy practices.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, or want to make inquiries about how your profile data is handled, feel free to reach out to our team:

The Blind Tech Community is dedicated to preserving your data privacy while delivering a highly accessible and secure learning ecosystem.