Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Scope

Welcome to Brilliant Learning (operated via brilliantlearning.in). We provide academic past examination papers, worked markschemes, grade boundary analyses, revision resources, and personalized 1-on-1 examiner tutoring for international curricula including the International Baccalaureate (IB PYP, MYP, DP), Cambridge IGCSE, and Digital SAT.

We believe that students thrive when their intellectual workspace is secure and respected. This Privacy Policy details how we collect, store, utilize, and safeguard personal and academic information when you browse our website, download study materials, or enroll in our academic mentorship sessions.

2. Information We Collect

To provide high-quality, personalized academic mentoring and seamless paper delivery, we collect the following types of information:

A. Information Provided Voluntarily

• Student & Parent Identifiers: Full student name, parent/guardian name, primary email address, WhatsApp number, and country/city of residence.
• Academic Context: Current school, board/curriculum (IB DP, IB MYP, IB PYP, Cambridge IGCSE, Digital SAT), grade/year level, subjects of interest (HL/SL, Core/Extended), and targeted examination session (e.g., May 2025 or November 2025).
• Diagnostic & Tutoring Records: Diagnostic assessments, student doubt queries, submitted practice mock papers, homework assignments, and teacher mentor notes recorded during 1-on-1 tutoring sessions.
• Career & Faculty Applications: Curriculum vitae (CV), teaching certifications, IB/Cambridge examiner credentials, and pedagogical experience submitted via our Careers portal.

B. Automatically Collected Technical Data

• Browser type, device specifications, operating system, IP address, referral URLs, and pages accessed for site stability, caching, and anti-fraud monitoring.

3. How We Use Academic Data

We process your data strictly to fulfill educational and service obligations, including:

1. Delivering Learning Materials: Providing authorized access to curated past paper archives, verified markschemes, formula sheets, and subject question banks.
2. Academic Mentorship Coordination: Pairing students with verified curriculum-specialist tutors, scheduling live online sessions, and monitoring subject progression.
3. Diagnostic Progress Reports: Sharing detailed diagnostic feedback, marking criteria evaluations, and predictive grade estimates directly with parents and students.
4. Administrative Communication: Sending class schedules, session reminders via WhatsApp/email, billing receipts, and essential curriculum update alerts.
5. Platform Security & Integrity: Preventing unauthorized bulk scraping of repository assets and maintaining student account authentication security.

4. Minors & Parental Safeguards

Given that a substantial number of students preparing for IB MYP, IB DP, and Cambridge IGCSE examinations are under 18 years of age, Brilliant Learning takes child digital privacy with the utmost seriousness:

• All tuition enrollments, counseling calls, and financial transactions require direct parental or legal guardian consent and oversight.
• We do not solicit more information from minor students than is reasonably necessary to facilitate their educational tutoring and paper access.
• Parents and legal guardians retain the right at any time to review the academic records and tutoring notes associated with their child and may request modification or deletion.

5. Data Security & Encryption

We implement enterprise-grade technical and organizational safeguards to ensure that student records and diagnostic submissions remain confidential:

• End-to-End Encryption: All web traffic is encrypted using industry-standard TLS/SSL (HTTPS) protocols.
• Access Control: Only assigned academic tutors and authorized coordinators have access to specific student performance logs, governed by strict confidentiality agreements.
• Secure Cloud Infrastructure: Data is hosted on high-availability, ISO 27001-certified cloud infrastructure with regular backups and vulnerability scanning.

6. Third-Party Disclosures

We do not share your personal information with external parties except under the following strict educational and operational circumstances:

• Assigned Academic Mentors: Sharing subject goals and contact coordinates with the certified tutor conducting your private sessions.
• Essential Infrastructure Service Providers: Secure payment gateways (e.g., Razorpay/Stripe for tuition fees), email delivery providers, and messaging gateways (official WhatsApp Business API) solely for service delivery.
• Legal Compliance: When mandated by applicable Indian or international law, court summons, or regulatory authorities.

7. Cookies & Local Storage

Brilliant Learning uses limited, necessary cookies and local storage tokens to provide a seamless browsing experience:

• Authentication & Session Cookies: To remember your login state, recent paper searches, and user preferences.
• Performance & Analytics: Anonymized metrics to assess page load speeds, popular curriculum repositories, and search queries to continually improve our repository.
• You may disable non-essential cookies via your browser settings; however, certain portal features may function with diminished convenience.

8. Student & Parent Rights

In accordance with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 and international standards such as the GDPR, you enjoy comprehensive data rights:

• Right to Access: Request a copy of all personal and diagnostic academic information stored in your student profile.
• Right to Correction: Rectify inaccurate contact information, school details, or curriculum enrollment records.
• Right to Erasure: Request the deletion of your account and associated tutoring logs upon completion of your examination cycle.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Opt out of non-essential academic notifications or counseling updates at any time.

9. Data Retention

We retain student diagnostic records and tutoring session logs for the duration of the student’s active examination cohort (typically 12 to 24 months) to ensure continuity across semester transitions. Financial and transaction records are retained in compliance with statutory Indian accounting regulations.

10. Grievance Redressal & Contact Details

For privacy inquiries, parental data requests, or grievance redressal, please contact our designated Data Privacy Officer: