This privacy policy is for the exclusive use of this website only.
We value your privacy while you visit our website, provide information, avail our services and interact with the contents and products on our site. The Registered users share their accomplishments or their children accomplishments along with their personal profile and may find career and business opportunities. You are the cornerstone of our website and hence we provide you with the greatest security measures on how we collect, distribute, use or retain your personal information which you provide us. Except as this Policy, we do not disclose your personal or sensitive personal information to any third party without your express consent and therefore, we set out the detailed policy below and your use of this website signifies your acceptance of this Privacy Statement.
In the event that you protest any terms or modifications to this Agreement, you may close your Account and discontinue the use of the site. Keeping on utilizing our Services after we distribute or impart a notification about any changes to this Privacy Policy implies that you are consenting to the changes.
We collect your personal information which helps us personalize and improve our services, assisting third party affiliates or operators to provide you with uninterrupted timely services, process payments, update our records and interact with you on a continuous basis. Personal information or personally identifiable information has been defined in the privacy and security laws of countries and it signifies any information or data that can be used to identify a particular person or an individual in context. It may include any information that may be used to trace a users identity such as persons name, gender, demographic details, contact address, credit information, consumption preferences, educational background, racial/political affinity and such other details which may include sensitive information also.
While availing our services, users may be needed to register on our website or fill out a form requesting technical assistance or IT services. For such purposes, the website collects Information which may be classified as follows:
Personal Information varying from your Name, Contact Address, Postal Code, Email Address, Phone number, Educational details, academic and professional achievements, Credit Details, Passwords and such other information may be actively collected during the registration process or through e-mails prompting you to subscribe for our services. Additionally, we store information about users contacts when users manually enter contact e-mail addresses or transfer contact information from other online social networks.
Profile Information: We collect information when you sign-up or sign-in through Registration process on the website or through any other social networking websites (which is referenced by us) such as Facebook or LinkedIn and share your details (accomplishments, pictures, attributes or the likes). We further collect the information about the users who are a community of college or institutions and join our portal to interact and tie up with other users. Such users may share and upload their institutional affinity with other institutions, background details about their students or teachers, details about events or the like. We further store data about the behavior, frequency and quality of previous user interactions which is essential for improving the performance of our services.
Address book and such other services: You may use our website to form an address log and connect with the users, send messages, chat, upload or tag with other users or third parties in other social networking websites which our website gives access to. We save such information and help you better leverage your connections by prompting you to connect with other users having similar profiles or educational qualifications. This will help you grow academically and professionally.
If you correspond with us by e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages, your e-mail address, and our responses. If you do not want to receive e- mail or other mail from us, you may adjust your Customer Communication Preferences. We may collect sensitive personally identifiable information on your consent and follow the disclosure requirements as is elaborated in the policy.
We may collect the domain name and Internet Protocol address (IP) to understand the usage of our website and for other legal/administrative compliances. Such information is not linked to any personal or sensitive information collected and hence may be retained in our records for necessary future references. We may do an internal behavioral study of our users/frequent visitors to better understand and protect them. Such information is compiled and disbursed in an aggregated manner even to the third party.
Certain information may be collected passively through tracking/ data navigation etc assuming an implied consent on your part without you submitting it voluntarily. It will be stored with us based on business and marketing needs of the website and may also be used to process your requests, send you promotional offers and it will be assumed that you have accepted this policy before using any of the features. Please note that you can choose to opt-out of providing information that is collected through express consent and which is not necessary for completing any transaction. The website cannot use the information for any other purpose at a later time without taking express consent of the customer.
Device/Usage Information: We collect information about the computers, laptops, phones or other devices from where you access our services including without limitation IP addresses, geographical location, access times and other information that may be needed to comply with any law or regulation or which may be needed to enhance our security. We collect information about the posts, uploads, messages or graphics that you upload on your public portfolio or exchange with others on the website. Information about the messages including time, details of sender and receiver and the frequency of with which friends/persons you share or exchange more information.
Third Party: We get data about you and your exercises on and off the website from outsider accomplices/ third-parties, for example, data from a party when we mutually offer services or from an advertiser about your encounters or experiences with them.
Also note that we are not responsible for the sensitive personal information that you may choose to disclose through any other channels such as blogs, newsletters etc.
We wish to secure any and every information that we possess, store, deal or handle and ensure that such information is available according to the lawful contract entered by you by accepting the Terms of Use of this website. We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data based on CONSENT, REASONABILITY AND NECESSITY. This means that the information is collected only for the purpose for which it is collected from you and retained only when it is reasonably required for future use, website security or legal compliances. The security measures are designed to prevent unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
We use your personal information to improve and personalize our services, conduct research towards increasing your contacts, find anonymous persons matching your profile, sending promotional communications, grouping you according to academic/professional preferences and such customization or reporting as may benefit you.
We collect your name, address, designation, network information, contact number and address so that with any communications you make with other users, they can identify such details as the header of the message or chat you send them.
We collect your other e-mail addresses or contact information where you consent to us that we shall send you application related notices including those related to law. We may also prompt you with any additional services or features, in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We may use your e-mail address to send you other messages, such as newsletters, changes to our features, or other information.
You acknowledge and agree that we may share your personal information with the third-party affiliates or such affiliates that may recommend you with better content. Also any information that you put on your public portfolio may be seen and accessed by other or used/downloaded by others unless you change the privacy settings related to these posts or updates. We do not provide any of your non-public information to any third party without your consent. Anyone may further find your profile information through other search engines or networking websites such as Google or Twitter and connect with you. The website provides you with an option to customize your profile and make your personal information invisible to public.
All the conversations you send or receive through our website shall be stored on our server and if the user deletes a particular post/message, it is stored on the temporary cache for some time and then it deleted eventually on a periodic basis.
We have engaged certain affiliate developers to develop the platform of our website which you impliedly consent for usage and storage of your information. You may revoke using certain features of the website and cancel permission to them for access to your information.
On termination/de-activation or deletion of your account, we may retain part of your personal information such as your identity, contact details etc which may be reasonably required for future references for protecting any legal harm to the website or its owner or its affiliates and for any administrative/legal compliances. We will not publicly disclose any of your personally identifiable information other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to access, review, and/or monitor the content you record or send using our application, at our sole discretion, for any reason or no reason at all, and we reserve the right to remove any such content or messages in our sole discretion, including, but not limited to, if we believe such action is necessary (a) to conform to the contemporary legal practices, notice, subpoena or rules/regulations, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to enforce this policy, to take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; or (c) to exercise or protect any proprietary or intellectual rights or personal safety of the app, our users, or other third parties.
We may offer premium services to potential recruiters, colleges, other institutions or governmental organizations, who may be used to communicate and connect with the users and offer business or academic opportunities.
We may disclose your personal information if required by legal or enforcement agencies or as is required by the Terms of Use of our website due to any fraudulent, illegal or unethical nature on your part and which may expose you or us to any liability in the particular context in any jurisdiction.
With your consent, your resume and profile information may be made discoverable to verified recruiters on HaiTalent, our affiliated recruitment platform. Recruiters may view your information only within HaiTalent for legitimate hiring purposes. Your data will not be sold or shared outside the HaiTalent system.
Visibility controls: You can choose Entire Resume Visible (default) or Skills & Experience Only (skills, years of experience, location, and summary without your name or contact details). You can change this at any time; changes apply prospectively. Recruiters who have already accessed your information may retain cached copies as part of lawful processing.
Independent controllers: When recruiters access your resume in HaiTalent, they act as independent data controllers responsible for their own lawful processing of candidate data under applicable laws.
Access logging: KudosWall/HaiTalent logs recruiter access for transparency and security.
When you affirmatively consent to share your resume for a particular job opportunity or recruitment process (for example, by responding to an invitation or otherwise agreeing to share your resume), we provide that resume file to the relevant recruiter through HaiTalent for that defined purpose only. HaiTalent logs this consent and limits the recruiter’s use of your data to that specific process.
If you later withdraw consent or delete your account without an ongoing direct working relationship, we will notify the recruiter and request that any previously downloaded copy be deleted. We do not sell or otherwise distribute these resumes to third parties outside HaiTalent.
Direct working relationships: If you choose to continue working directly with a recruiter or organization after establishing contact through HaiTalent, that relationship may continue outside our platform at your discretion. In such cases, subsequent exchanges of data are managed between you and the recruiter directly, subject to applicable laws and the recruiter’s privacy practices.
We take the confidentiality and integrity of your information seriously and employ industry-standard safeguards—including encryption, secure data storage, access controls, and regular audits—to protect it from unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse.
Once we receive your data, we make commercially reasonable efforts to secure our systems. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we learn of a data breach that may affect you, we will attempt to notify you electronically and provide guidance on protective steps.
We may preserve or disclose personal information when necessary to comply with legal or enforcement requests, protect the rights and safety of others, or resolve technical or operational issues.
These are the identifiers which help us analyze our web page flow, promotional effectiveness and customer frequency and these are launched at your web-page and tracks your IP address. Our website may offer certain features only through a cookie and they do not compromise with you privacy or security. We request your browser to store cookies or selectively opt-out based on your browser or preferences.
You are free to decline consent to a cookie if your browser permits and disable them, however in such a case you may not be able to use some peculiar features of our website.
As a third party, Google uses cookies to serve advertisements on our website and links other sites to connect with the users and visitors. You may choose to opt-out of the use of such cookies when prompted by reviewing the Google ad settings page and content network privacy policy.
Our website may use your geographical/demographical location for assessing market of the website, legal compliances, troubleshoot problems, collect money and so on. To the extent the information is not mandatory for our works, you have an option of opt-out and decline consent to the retention or collection of such information.
We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 and we do not target our websites to children below 13 years of age. Children below the age of 13 years are not supposed to use the content of the website without a guardian/parental consent.
We do not seek to collect personal information about children through our Online Network. If a child submits information through any part of the Network, and we become aware that the user submitting the information is a child, the information is not used for any purpose, nor is it disclosed to third parties. We will comply with all regulations set forward by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). To learn more about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may disclose personal data to the following categories of recipients:
Service providers / processors: Vendors that help us operate our services (e.g., hosting, analytics, payments, email, AI processing) under contracts that restrict their use of data to our instructions.
Recruiters on HaiTalent (with your consent): If you opt to make your resume visible or you consent to share/apply for a specific opportunity, we share only the data necessary to facilitate that process. Recruiters act as independent controllers for their own compliance obligations.
Legal and compliance: When required by law, subpoena, or to protect rights, safety, and the integrity of our services.
Business transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, where permitted by law and with appropriate safeguards.
We implement technical and contractual safeguards with all recipients and maintain logs of access within HaiTalent for transparency and security.
Some pages on KudosWall may contain affiliate links. This means that when you click on such links and make a purchase or sign up for a service, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. These links help support our platform and allow us to offer free or discounted services to users.
We only promote products or services that we believe provide value to our users. However, you should always conduct your own due diligence before signing up for any third-party services.
These affiliate programs may use tracking technologies such as cookies or UTM parameters to identify when a user has clicked a link from our site. You may choose to decline non-essential cookies using your browser settings or the cookie preferences shown on our site.
You can reach out to us at [email protected] if you have questions about affiliate links.
Our website may advertise/share some third party links/connectors as a medium to promote their services/products as an advertisement strategy and we do not disclose any of your personal information including your search history, opinions on our services, surveys conducted, your personal contact details etc with such third parties except on your express approval. These websites may use technological tools such as cookies, JavaScript etc to track your IP and such personal information. However, we do not have access to any of their features and do not guarantee your security against the use of such information by these websites. You may find their respective privacy policy on their websites or you may contact the operator, for which we are not responsible.
We may allow third party to serve advertisements and they may use identifiable information such as browse type, subject of advertisements scrolled over and so on. You may opt-out of providing any information to them.
Exception: The website may disclose your personal information to any third party or non- party in the event: Firstly, when it is requested or required by law or enforcement agencies to disclose some information for prevention of any kind of fraud, punishment of offenses or in good faith; Secondly, it is reasonably necessary to protect proprietary or intellectual rights of the website or affiliated third parties and it is being infringed and Thirdly, if you have consented us for any other purpose.
The users have a right to delete, modify, access or correct any personal information that they have provided to the website. You may also discontinue using the account or delete the account which you may re-activate within a specified period.
The users have a choice to update their personal information which they want to disclose to the website and third party affiliates for any purpose. We make continuous efforts to identify any personal or sensitive personal data or information and rectify any defect/deficiency in it. We may deny to process requests that may infringe privacy of others or would be prima facie impractical.
If you want to modify/update your personal information retained in our records, you may write to the Privacy Officer of our Department (address as given in Contact Us page) and such request shall be processed in the seven (7) business days.
Users are obliged not to post or share any vulgar, obscene, pornographic, sexually provoking remark or graphic or post or message on the website for which serious legal actions shall be taken. Users are also not allowed to introduce or encrypt any harmful viruses, computer programs or damaging files which shall cause inconvenience to the operators and users of the website.
The content of this website shall not be duplicated/copies/printed/downloaded/transmitted without written prior approval of the operator. Violation of any intellectual property of any product/design/document on the website shall be deemed illegal and appropriate action shall be taken forthwith.
KudosWall is committed to protecting your privacy. While we are not currently required to appoint a formal Data Protection Officer under applicable data protection laws, we have designated a Privacy Contact who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at [email protected].
To operate and improve our platform, KudosWall uses select third-party services. These providers may process certain personal data, such as IP address, device information, or interactions, in accordance with their respective privacy policies.
For AI-powered features, we rely on select providers to process the inputs you supply solely to deliver the requested functionality; we do not sell your data, and where supported we disable provider training on your content.
While we carefully vet all third-party tools, their data processing practices are governed by their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review them for more details.
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the services you request, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.
Your KudosWall content: Stored until you delete it or close your account, subject to reasonable backup and audit retention.
HaiTalent visibility & access logs: We retain logs of recruiter access events for security and transparency for up to 12 months unless a longer period is required by law or to investigate abuse.
Support and transactional records: Maintained as required by law and for fraud prevention, chargeback defense, and tax/audit compliance.
We may process and store information in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate. When we transfer personal data internationally, we use appropriate safeguards permitted by applicable laws (such as contractual clauses) to protect your information.
United States (CCPA/CPRA): We do not “sell” or “share” personal information as those terms are defined under California law. You may exercise your rights using the contact in the “Privacy Contact” section.
India (DPDP Act): You may exercise rights of access, correction, and grievance redressal using the contact in the “Privacy Contact” section. We respond in accordance with applicable timelines.
By using our services, you consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. Where required by law, we will request your explicit consent before collecting any sensitive personal data or using your data for marketing or analytics purposes.
Depending on your location and applicable laws (including GDPR, CCPA, or India’s DPDP Act), you may have the following rights:
To exercise these rights, contact us at [email protected].
The website may update and change its privacy policy at its discretion and hence it is strongly suggested that you periodically view the policy before using any of the features of the website.
Please contact [email protected] for questions about privacy policy or terms of use
