Introduction

“We”, “Us”, “Our” shall mean the Company.

“Terms”, “Terms and conditions”, “Policy”, “T&C” shall mean the entire Agreement and all parallel policies that you agree to in mutual agreement by using our website.

“You”, “Your”, “User” refers to the user of the site. “User” is anyone who is visiting, accessing, browsing or registering on the Website.

“Content” refers to any text, image, graphics, video, audio, location or all forms of data which are made available on the Website.

“Your Content” refers to any content submitted by way of registration/membership or interaction by means of publishing or uploading content on the Website.

“Third Party” refers to any person other than the “User”, “Company”, or the “Website”.

The Website is an e-learning platform specializing in algorithmic & quantitative trading, online training courses, career guidance and other courses in the form of videos, audios, presentations, multiple choice questions and interactive exercises (hereinafter the “Services”). The Website offers the following:

• Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading (EPAT^®)
• Self-paced Online courses on Quantra^®
• Certificate In Sentiment Analysis And Alternative Data For Finance (CSAF)
• Trading simulator on Blueshift
• Blogs
• Placement Services
• Webinars
• Glossary
• Community
• Any other related service(s)

The Website also contains certain exclusive features and contents including but not limited to original contents of the Company. We reserve the right to cancel, interrupt or reschedule any course or modify the content of any of the course without any intimation.

Users must register in order to avail some of the Services of the Website by providing certain information, which includes, but is not limited to, Name, Phone Number, Email ID, Date of Birth, Profession, Skype id, academic background, etc.

The Website also offers a Sign Up process with platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google (hereinafter the “Social Networking Sites”). The Website uses the Social Networking Sites as a medium for signing up only. The user data collected by the Website shall only be through the above mediums which will be provided by the intended user through their profile on the Social Networking Sites, no other data shall be collected/used by the Website apart from those that were permitted during Sign Up process. However, kindly note that the manner in which the Social Networking Sites uses, stores and discloses Your information is governed solely by their own policies, and the Website bears no liabilities/responsibility for its privacy practices and/or other actions of any third party site or service that may be enabled within the Service.

At any time during Your use of this Website, including but not limited to the time of registration, You are solely responsible for protecting the confidentiality of Your username and password, and any activity under your registered account shall be deemed to have been done by You. In the case that You provide Us with false and/or inaccurate details or the Company has reasons to believe You have done so, We hold the right to permanently suspend Your account.

In addition to this, You would be required to comply with the following:

• You will not provide any false personal information.
• You will not create/register an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
• You will not create more than one registered account/user profile.
• If Your registered account is suspended/disabled by Us, You will not create another account/user profile without our prior permission.
• You will not use our Website if you are under the age of 18 years.
• If the user is below the age of 18 years, his/her account can be registered and operated by the parent with prior permission from Us.
• You will not share Your registered account/user profile or let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.

Information collected

We are committed to respecting Your online privacy. We further recognize Your need for appropriate protection and management of any Personal Information You share with us. We may collect the following information:

• Personal data such as, but not limited to, Name, Location, Password, Email ID, Mobile Number, Skype id, academic qualification, professional experience, etc.
• Tracking Information such as, but not limited to the IP address of your device and Device ID when connected to the Internet.

External links on the website

The Website may include advertisements, hyperlinks to other websites, applications, content or resources. We have no control over such external links present in the Website, which are provided by persons or companies other than Us. These external websites and resource providers may have their own privacy policies governing the collection, storage, retention and disclosure of Your Personal Information that You may be subject to. We recommend that You enter the external Website and review their privacy policy.

Our use of your information

The information provided by You at the time of registration shall be used to contact You when necessary. We also use your personal information to update you about our product, services, and any promotions related to our products & services as well as for the ones related to our associates. For more details about the nature of such communications, please refer to our Terms of Service. Further, Your personal data and Sensitive Personal data may be collected and stored by Us for internal record.

We use Your tracking information such as IP addresses, and or Device ID to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.

We will not sell, license or trade Your personal information. We will not share your personal information with others unless they are acting under our instructions or we are required to do so by law.

Information collected via Our server logs includes users’ IP addresses and the pages visited; this will be used to manage the web system and troubleshoot problems.

We also use third-party analytics, tracking, optimization and targeting tools to understand how visitors engage with our website so we can improve it and cater personalized content/ads according to your preferences.

Cookies

Our Website uses session cookies to ensure that you have a good experience. These cookies contain a unique number, your ‘session ID’, which allows our server to recognise your computer and ‘remember’ what you’ve done on the site. The benefits of this are:

• You only need to log in once if you’re navigating secure areas of the site
• You are able to use interactive elements of the site
• Our server can distinguish between your computer and other users, so you can see the information that you have requested.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.

We also use various third-party cookies for usage, behavioral, analytics and preferences data.

• Authentication cookies: To identify the user and share the content that he or she requested for.
• Functionality cookies: For customized user experience and resuming past course progress.
• Tracking, optimization and targeting cookies: To capture usage metric on device, operating system, browser etc. To capture behavioral metrics for better content delivery. To cater and suggest most suited products and services.

Confidentiality

Your information is regarded as confidential and therefore shall not be divulged to any third party, unless if legally required to do so to the appropriate authorities, or if necessary to ensure Users may fully avail of the services of the Website.

We shall not sell, share, or rent your personal information to any marketing agencies or any other such companies that indulge in unsolicited communications without Your permission. Any communication by Us to You shall be undertaken in accordance with Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Your rights

Unless subject to an exemption, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• The right to request a copy of your personal data which we hold about you;
• The right to request for any correction to any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
• The right to request your personal data being erased when it is no longer necessary for Us to retain such data;
• The right to withdraw Your consent to the processing at any time;
• The right to object to the processing of personal data;
• The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
• The right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organization.

Accessing, reviewing and changing your profile

Following registration, You can review and change the information You submitted at the stage of registration, except Email ID. An option for facilitating such change shall be present on the Website and such change shall be facilitated by the User. If You change any information, We may keep track of Your old information.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, or to remove Your profile so that others cannot view it, the User needs to remediate, and promptly correct any such incorrect information.

Security

We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by members inside and outside the Company. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to Us and information that we have accessed.

Severability

Each paragraph of this privacy policy shall be and remain separate from and independent of and severable from all and any other paragraphs herein except where otherwise expressly indicated or indicated by the context of the agreement. The decision or declaration that one or more of the paragraphs are null and void shall have no effect on the remaining paragraphs of this privacy policy.

Amendment

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at the Website.

Consent withdrawal, data download & data removal requests

To delete your data with us, please login to your account and go to "Account Settings", click here for fast access. For any other inquiry related to your rights and information, kindly write to us at privacy.update@quantinsti.com

Our Website will incorporate information and ads from third party websites and applications including but not limited to social media websites as well as various payment gateways, which will be incorporated on the Website from time to time. Before accessing any of these third-party websites, You are requested to read their terms and policies.

The User undertakes to fulfill the following obligations. Failure to satisfy any of these obligations gives Us the right to permanently suspend Your registered account or user profile and/or claim damages for any losses that accrue to Us or additional costs that may be imposed on us.

• You agree to comply with all local laws and regulations governing the use of the Website and its services, including, without limitation, any usage rules set forth in this Terms of Service.
• You understand and agree that You will be liable for any damage or loss caused by Your Content uploaded on the Website and that such damage or loss will also be borne by You. The Company shall in no way whatsoever be held responsible for any violations caused by Your Content.
• You undertake not to:
  • Cut, copy, distribute, modify, recreate, post, publish or create derivative works from (except for using that particular service or platform as per the terms of services offered by us), transfer, or sell any information or content obtained from the Website. For the removal of doubt, it is clarified that unlimited or wholesale reproduction, copying of the content for commercial or non-commercial purposes and unwarranted modification of data and information within the content of the Website is not permitted. Should You want to engage in one or more such actions, prior permission from Us must be obtained.
  • Access (or attempt to access) the Website and/or the Contents or Services offered on the Website by any means other than through the interface that is provided by the Website. The use of deep-link, robot, spider or other automatic devices, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Website or Content, or to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information, or contents through any means not specifically made available through the Website is prohibited. You acknowledge and agree that by accessing or using the Website, You may be exposed to content from other Users or Third Parties Ads that You may consider offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable. We disclaim all liabilities arising in relation to such offensive content on the Website. Further, You may report against such offensive contents to Us.
  • Use the Website in any manner that may impair, overburden, damage, disable or otherwise compromise
    • (i) Company’s services;
    • (ii) any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Company’s services; or
    • (iii) the contents of any Third Party.
  • Use the Company’s Services for any unlawful purposes or to conduct any unlawful activity, including, but not limited to, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering or identity theft.
  • Abuse, harass, threaten, defame, disillusion, erode, abrogate, demean or otherwise violate the legal rights of others.
  • Engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts access to the Website or the Company’s Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Website).
  • Upload or distribute files and contents that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of the Website.
  • Download any file or content posted on the Website that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
  • Probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Website, or any network connected to the Website, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Website, or any network connected to the Website. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user, or visitor of the Website, or exploit the Website or information or contents made available or offered by or through the Website, in any way whether or not the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification information, other than Your own information, as provided for by the Website.
  • Disrupt or interfere with the security of, or otherwise cause harm to, the Website, systems resources, servers or networks connected to or accessible through the Website, or any affiliated or linked Websites.
  • Use the Website, or any material or Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Service, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes our rights, or the rights of other Third Parties.
  • Violate any applicable laws or regulations for the time being in force within or outside India.>
  • You are recommended to not share your personal identifiable information on the blog, community, reviews, or any other content generated by you. The user-generated information is retained on the platform and may not be deleted when the user is deleted from the system.
  • Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines, which may be applicable for or to any particular Service provided by Us.
  • Threaten the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense or prevents investigation of any offense or is insulting any other nation.
  • Disseminate information through the Website that is false, inaccurate or misleading, or violates any applicable laws or regulations for the time being in force in or outside India.
• You are recommended to not share your personal identifiable information on the blog, community, reviews, or any other content generated by you. The user-generated information is retained on the platform and may not be deleted when the user is deleted from the system.

We strongly discourage you from availing any service, including promotional offers and discounts, from individuals or entities that may be pretending or masquerading as the Company's representative/ partner/ affiliate (hereinafter referred as "actors") in any manner or otherwise, as this is not endorsed or permitted by the company and you run the risk of fraud by indulging in the same. We are not responsible for any activity or transactions that you undertake with such fraudulent actors and we are not liable for any charges/payments that you might have paid to them.

In these terms and conditions, ‘your user content’ means content (including but not restricted to text, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, etc.) that you submit to this platform, for whatever purpose.

You grant to QuantInsti a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You likewise concede to QuantInsti the privilege to sublicense these rights, and the right to bring an action for encroachment of these rights.

Special note for Blueshift: Notwithstanding anything above in this clause (User Content), any strategies developed by the user on Blueshift for simulation or any other purpose would remain the intellectual property of the user. We do not extend claim any rights on the strategy codes developed by the user.

Your user client content must not be illicit or unlawful, must not encroach any one’s lawful rights, and should not be fit for offering ascend to legal action whether against you or QuantInsti or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the platform that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaints. Keep in mind the following while submitting the content:

• Upload your own content: Don’t steal and respect copyright!
• Be respectful: Don’t use abusive or foul language. You are solely responsible for your content and communications with others.
• Don’t
  • show nudity in your profile pictures
  • use sexually inappropriate language or content
  • copy-paste
  • upload illegal or prohibited content
  • post promotional content

QuantInsti maintains all authority to alter or remove any material submitted to this platform, whether saved on its servers or hosted or published upon this platform.

QuantInsti does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this platform.

Browsing and use of this Website are free of cost, including the creation of registered user profiles as well as uploading and sharing Your Content on the Website. However, subscription charges will be paid for enrolling in the courses as per this Terms of Service. The Pricing Policy is separately available on the Website.

We provide utmost data security and protection through reasonable securities and practices as defined by law from time to time. We provide adequate data security for the information collected by us. For further information on privacy and security of data please refer to the Privacy Policy on the Website.

These Terms will remain in full force and effect while you are a User of the Website. You may cease to be a User at any time, for any reason, effective upon receipt by the Company of your written or email notice of termination, sent to the postal or e-mail address. The Website may at any time by giving you reasonable notice, terminate the agreement with you, deny you access to the Website and/or suspend or delete your User Profile and/or any content you have submitted on the Website. The Website may immediately terminate the agreement with you, deny you access to the Website and delete your User Profile and any other Content you have submitted on the Website in the event that you have breached any of these Terms of Service. The company may also, at its discretion, deny services, blacklist, or restrict access to the Website for any user.

There shall be no refund of the enrollment fees paid by Users. If a User chooses to deactivate his/her account and/or the Company deactivates/suspends a User’s account, the enrollment fee paid for shall not be subject to refund.

EPAT^®

We provide an opportunity to clear all your doubts about the programme prior to enrollment. Also, you get access to a dedicated team support even before your EPAT^® programme starts. Therefore, we follow a no refund policy.

Quantra

We respect your time and hence, we offer concise but effective short-term courses created under professional guidance. We try to offer most value within the shortest time. Once a purchase is made, we offer complete course content. We follow no refund policy.

We place great emphasis on intellectual property. We own the trademarks and the User interface of our Website are all proprietary and the copyright belongs to us. All third-party information and trademarks displayed on our Website are protected under the laws relating to copyrights, trade dress, trademarks and is owned by the respective third party. Unless otherwise expressly mentioned, all other content on our Website shall be reserved and use of any such intellectual property without prior consent or permission from the respected owners will amount to infringement will be subject to legal action by owners of such intellectual property.

We are not liable for any reviews, comments, and feedbacks made on third party applications which are displayed on our Website, which are illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing on intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties. This clause shall be read in consonance with the Grant of License clause of this Terms of Service.

Special note for Blueshift: Notwithstanding anything above in this clause (Intellectual Property), any strategies developed by the user on Blueshift for simulation or any other purpose would remain the intellectual property of the user. We do not extend claim any rights on the strategy codes developed by the user.

“Confidential Information” shall mean and include any and all information and content whether commercial or technical including the confidential and proprietary information, technology know-how, commercialization strategies, marketing strategies and/or any other proprietary information. We undertake not to reveal to any third party the user’s confidential information. For further information refer to the Privacy Policy.

You expressly understand and agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Website, services and other materials and contents provided by this Website are on an “as is” basis without warranty of any kind, express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including the implied warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company makes no warranty that:

• Your requirements will be met or that services provided will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free;
• Materials, information, and contents obtained will be effective, accurate or reliable;
• Data collected by the Company is verified by the Company and the authenticity of the data shall not be the Company’s responsibility;
• Any wrongdoing by the User including theft, sexual abuse shall not be the Company’s responsibility;
• Any errors or defects in the Website, services or other contents will be corrected to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. We will have no liability related to your content arising under intellectual property rights, libel, privacy, publicity, obscenity or other laws. The Company also disclaims all liability with respect to the misuse, loss, modification or unavailability of Your Content. The User understands and agrees that any material, content or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the Website is done entirely at his/her own discretion and risk and he/she will be solely responsible for any damage to his/her electronic systems or loss of data that results from the download of such material, content or data. The Company accepts no liability for any errors or omissions, with respect to any information provided to you whether on behalf of itself or third parties.
• In the event of any issues with online transactions performed on the Website, we shall not take up any liability and any transaction related issues shall directly be dealt between the Users and the concerned payment gateways and/or the concerned Banks.
• We shall not be liable for any third party product or services. The advertisement available on E-mail, or Website with respect to the third party website or the products and services are for information purpose only.
• Nothing on this Platform constitutes or is meant to constitute, an advice of any kind.

The services we provide are solely limited to the description provided under the “Services” section of this Terms of Service. We will not be liable for information and errors from third party websites and applications.

QuantInsti will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contract, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this platform:

• for any direct loss;
• for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
• for the accuracy, profitability or any direct or indirect use of the information provided on this Platform or the course.
• The content on this website is for informational purposes only and should not be interpreted as an offer to sell, or solicitation to buy, or a recommendation for any security or strategy, nor should it be interpreted as an offer to provide any investment advisory service by QuantInsti.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless our Company including but not limited to its agents and employees from and against any and all losses, liabilities, claims, damages, demands, costs and expenses (including legal fees and disbursements in connection therewith and interest chargeable thereon) asserted against or incurred by Us that arise out of, result from, or may be payable by virtue of, any breach or non-performance of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made or obligation to be performed by you pursuant to these Terms of Service. Further, you agree to hold us harmless against any claims made by any third party due to, or arising out of, or in connection with, your use of the Website, any claim that your material/content caused damage to a third party, your violation of the Terms of Service, or your violation of any rights of another, including any intellectual property rights.

In no event shall our Company, its officers, directors, employees, partners or suppliers be liable to you or any third party for any special, incidental, indirect, consequential or punitive damages whatsoever, including those resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether or not foreseeable or whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages, or based on any theory of liability, including breach of contract or warranty, negligence or other tortious action, or any other claim arising out of or in connection with your use of or access to the Website, services, contents or materials.

The limitations and exclusions in this clause apply to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Arbitration: These Terms of Service including the privacy policy shall be governed by Indian law. Any disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Service shall be governed by the laws of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The arbitration proceedings shall be in the English language.

Applicable Law: You agree that the laws of the State of Maharashtra, India, excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Agreement and/or the Services. We both agree that all of these claims can only be litigated in the courts of Mumbai, Maharashtra and we each agree to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

Any provision of these Terms of Service which is, or maybe, void or unenforceable shall, to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability, be deemed severable and shall not affect any other provision of these terms and conditions.

You agree that our Company automatically assigns this Agreement and information incorporated herein to a User. You may not assign your obligations under these terms to another entity.

The Company is not an agent, employee or partner of the User or third parties.

Modification of the Terms of Service: These Terms of Service may be modified from time to time to deliver better services. It shall be the obligation of the User to acquaint himself or herself with the modified Terms of Service from going to the Website from time to time.

Waiver: A decision not to act against any User for any improper conduct does not prevent the Company from acting in any future case against the same or other Users.

If you have any questions about this Agreement, the practices of the Company, or your experience with the Website, you can email us at help@quantinsti.com.