Privacy Policy - Cherrypicked for you

Updated on 21^st May 2021

Dear user, thank you for joining the cherryposts.com portal. We at cherryposts.com (“CherryPosts”, “our”, “we”, “us”) respect your privacy and want you to understand how we collect, use, and share personal information about you. This Privacy Policy covers our data collection practices and describes how you can exercise your privacy rights.

This Privacy Policy is applicable when you visit and use the CherryPosts website. By using the resources of the website either through personal computers or mobiles, you signify that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

CherryPosts reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Policy at any time. CherryPosts recommends that you review this Policy from time to time to ensure that you are aware of the current privacy policy.

1. What data we collect

CherryPosts may collect the following two types of information:

Account Data: We collect personal information that you provide to us when you sign up to create a user account, to access and use the Site or Services, when you consult with customer support or send us an email or communicate with us in any way (for example, to make a support request). Your personal information we collect may include: your contact information (such as your name, email address, password, gender, location); If you communicate directly with us, we may maintain a record of those communications and responses, we use this data to respond to you and research your question or concern, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Profile Data: You can also choose to provide profile information like a photo, name, website link, or other data. Your Profile Data will be publicly viewable by others. If you choose to create an account with us you will also be asked to create a username, which will be assigned as a unique identifier to your profile. There is no expectation of privacy when posting content and we have no control over how other users use the information you make public.
We encourage children to use our Site & Services and we have created sections in our Site to specially appeal to children. However, we consider it the responsibility of parents to monitor their children’s use of our Site & Services and the personal details shared thereof.
Location Information: We collect information about your general location (country, city) using different types of technologies. We also collect IP addresses and device identifiers that may provide location information.
Non-Personal Information: this is information that does not identify you or any other user of the Site & Services, and includes session, and usage data, log data and aggregate information. We use this information to improve the quality of our Site & Services; provide you content based on your interest; measure traffic to our application from different geographic locations; provide information to our advertisers so that they can provide tailormade contents.
Cookies: CherryPosts may install cookies or other similar data collection software in your computer system/device for the purpose of collection of such information and you hereby consent to the same. We use cookies only to collect non personal information. When you visit third party sites from links provided in our Site, they may also use cookies in your browser of which we have no control.

You agree that all the information or data that you provide periodically is and shall be correct, current, and updated and you have all the rights, permissions and consents to provide such information or data. The information or data that you provide shall not be in violation with any third-party agreement, judgments, or decrees and CherryPosts will have rights to storage, collection, usage, transfer, access, or processing of the same.

2. What is this Data used for?

CherryPosts may use the collected information and data in the following ways:

To process your requests for service, information, or features.
To communicate with the user regarding account details, including:
- Answering to your questions, complaints, concerns, and related activities.
- Sending you administrative messages like information regarding our Services or Sites, and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- Sending you information regarding new services, new features, promotions.
- Assist you with operational requests such as password reset requests, etc.
Manage your account preferences.
Facilitate the Services’ technical functioning, including troubleshooting and resolving issues, securing the Services, and fraud monitoring and prevention.
Enhancing, improving, or modifying our Site and Services, identifying usage trends, and expanding our business activities.
Learn more about you by linking your data with additional data through third-party data providers or analysing the data with the help of analytics service providers.
Personalizing your experience while using the Site & Services by presenting advertising, products and offers tailored to you.
Improve our Services and develop new products, services, and features.
Analyse trends and traffic, and track usage data.
Advertise the Services on third-party websites and applications.
Protecting the integrity of the Site & Services.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process.
As we, in our sole discretion, otherwise determine to be necessary to ensure the safety or integrity of our users, employees, third parties, the public, or our Services. To allow us to pursue available legal remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
For other reasons that we describe to you at the time of getting your details.

Further, with respect to the Non-Personal Information automatically collected and stored by CherryPosts, we use this information to understand and analyse trends, user behaviour on the Site, measure traffic patterns, and gather demographic information about the users. CherryPosts may use this information in its marketing and advertising services. As Non-Personal Information does not personally identify the user, CherryPosts may use and disclose Non-Personal Information for any purpose deemed necessary by us.

3. How is this Data shared?

CherryPosts does not sell Personal Information. We may share your data with third parties as detailed in the points below or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

Service Providers: In order to provide our Services to you, it is necessary for us to disclose your information, under confidentiality restrictions, to service providers and support who perform certain functions of our Services on our behalf. This include cloud hosting providers (to provide data storage and processing services); communications providers (to process new queries and to manage our emails and SMS), data analysis, IT Services and other similar services. We may also share information we collect as you access and use our Site & Services, including device information, location, and network carrier, with our Service Providers.
CherryPosts may provide your information or data to its service providers, partners & associates, advertising partners, or other third parties to provide, advertise or market their products and services which you may be interested in. You will have the choice at any time to opt out from such communications and campaigns.
Links: We may present links to the user to third party Sites (for example to get the details and purchase books referred in an Instructor’s course). Clicking on links may take you to sites outside our domain. Your data will then be subject to the Privacy Policies and other agreements of that third party.
The Site may display advertising content and may collect data about traffic and usage via Google Analytics or any equivalent analytical tool, demographics and interest reporting features. Advertisements form the core of our business, therefore permissions to use and process your personal information in regard to personalized advertisements is essential to provide services to you. Use of personal information for ad-serving is a binding criterion for using our Site & Services. So, you agree that CherryPosts will not be able to provide you with our Services if you fail to authorise us to use your personal information for the purpose of personalized advertisements and related activities.
To Support Social Media Features: When you are visiting the linked social media sites from CherryPosts and use the features therein (like clicking the Facebook Like button); this may allow the third-party social media provider to collect information like your IP address etc and to set a cookie to enable the feature. Your interactions with these features are governed by the third-parties privacy policy.
For Security and Legal Compliance: We may disclose information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law; To comply with legal process whether local or foreign; Requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, court order, or proceeding; Reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and other legal agreements; Required to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, misuse, potential violations of law (or rule or regulation), or security or technical issues; or Reasonably necessary in our discretion to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of CherryPosts, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services. We may also disclose data about you to our auditors and legal advisors in order to assess our disclosure obligations and rights under this Privacy Policy.
With Your Consent: with your permission, we may share data to third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy is part of the Terms and Conditions through which CherryPosts will provide you access to our Site & Services. Your consent to collecting and sharing Personal and Non-Personal Information may be implied or through your usage.

4. Keeping Your Personal Data Secure:

You can access and update your personal data that CherryPosts collects and maintains as follows: To update your personal data, log into your account and update your account at any time; To terminate your account, please mail us at support@cherryposts.com from your registered email address and we will do the needful, please note, even after your account is terminated, some or all of your data may still be visible to others, including without limitation any data that has been (a) copied, stored, or disseminated by other users (including in course review comments); (b) shared or disseminated by you or others (including in your shared content); or (c) posted to a third-party platform. Even after your account is terminated, we retain your data for as long as we have a legitimate and legal purpose to do so (and in accordance with applicable law), including to assist with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may retain and disclose such data pursuant to this Privacy Policy after your account has been terminated. Please note that we retain certain data where we have a lawful basis to do so, including for mandatory record-keeping and to complete transactions. We recognize the privacy interests of children and encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests.

In case you have any query regarding your accessing, editing or deleting your personal data, please write to us at support@cherryposts.com and we will resolve it at the earliest.

5. Security from Unauthorized Access:

We at CherryPosts take the utmost measures to ensure that your personal details and usage patterns are safe with us; however, no data transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical, and administrative safeguards against unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure or destruction of personal information in our custody and control. However, CherryPosts shall not be liable for any breach in protection of personal details which are beyond our reasonable control, and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes, riots, war, acts of government, computer hacking, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, etc. Any personally information provided by you will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available or accessible in the public domain. Further and such information posted or communicated by you in the Site or Services in any formats like, comments, messages, blogs etc. will be consider as published content and is not considered private personally information subject to this Policy. There is no third-party access to your personal data in our Services. Since your password is an integral part to keep your data secure, it is in your interest to keep is secure and maintain a strong password.

In case you feel your account has been compromised in any way, please contact us at support@cherryposts.com from your registered email id with the details immediately.

6. International Users

The Site and Services that are provided are hosted in India. If you are using the Site or Services from outside India, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by other entities and service providers with whom we share your personal information in India, including entities to process transactions, facilitate payments, and provide support services. The data protection laws here may be different to the laws of your country of residence. By using the Sites or Services, you consent to the collection, international transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information where permitted by law.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy:

CherryPosts will review and update this Privacy Policy periodically and will note the date of its most recent update above. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by prominently posting a notice on our Site. We also encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently and be informed of how CherryPosts is using your personal information.

The latest revised version of the Privacy Policy will be taken into consideration over all previous Privacy Policies. In case of any doubt or concern please contact us at support@cherryposts.com.

When contacting our support team, please ensure the following details are shared: your full name, address, phone number, and email address, and indicate the specific nature of your request, inquiry, or concern.

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Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy Updated on 21^st May 2021

CherryPosts understands and respects your privacy and so we would like you to understand the technologies we use store and share your information. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies and similar technologies are used to facilitate your use of the CherryPosts website. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser as you browse the internet. They can be used to collect, store, and share data about your activities across websites through computer or mobile devices, including on CherryPosts. Cookies also allow us to remember things about your visits to CherryPosts and are used to enhance your user experience.

2. Types of cookies used.

We use both session cookies, which expire after a short time or when the browser is closed, and persistent cookies, which remain stored in your browser for a given period of time. Session cookies are used during a single browsing session to identify and authenticate a user during login. Sessions cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close the browser window.

Persistent cookies are used where we need to identify you over a longer period, like when you request that we keep you signed in to CherryPosts, or when we record your accepting our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you visit the Site.

Apart from the cookies set by CherryPosts which are called are called “first party cookies”, there may be cookies set by parties other than CherryPosts which are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and when it visits certain other websites.

3. Why does CherryPosts use cookies?

We use cookies for the following purpose of authentication and security: (i) To log you into CherryPosts; (ii) To protect your security; (iii) To help detect and fight spam, abuse, and other activities that violate CherryPosts agreements; (iv) To provide non-personalized or personalized advertisements; (v) For analytics and research. Cookies may also be saved by social media tools if you use these functionalities (e.g. Facebook, Google, Instagram & Twitter).

The data collected through cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. The following are the different types of cookies we use:

First Party Cookies (Internal Cookies): These are used to provide you the Services from the CherryPosts website.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how our campaigns work and how you interact with our Site in order to improve the user experience.
Google Double Click: When you click on an advert provided by Google on our Site these tracking cookies enable us to understand if you complete certain actions on our website. Based on the content you have engaged with on our websites Google are able to deliver some targeted adverts across other Google partner websites.

Cookies identify users based on Device ID and IP address and they generally do not store personal information, like email id or phone number.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser settings to decline cookies by consulting your browser’s support articles. But if you decide to decline cookies, please note that some features may not work properly. If you want to remove previously stored cookies, it can be easily removed from your Internet browser settings.

4. How often will you update this cookie notice?

We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Notice regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. If you have more queries on our cookie policy or usage, please mail us at support@cherryposts.com for more information.