This Privacy Policy relates to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data, including special or sensitive personal data, by InterviewBit Software Services Private Limited and InterviewBit Technologies Pvt Ltd. (“InterviewBit“, “Scaler”, “we“, or “our“). Personal Data is information relating to an individual (“you“ or “your“) as more fully defined herein below. InterviewBit is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that you have a secured experience on our website and while using our products and services (collectively, “Products“).

This policy covers the InterviewBit website and all the subdomains under interviewbit.com and scaler.com . Please refer to the following link to read our terms of service Terms of service.

This policy outlines InterviewBit's, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies handling practices and how we collect and use the information you provide in the course of your use or access of our systems through online interfaces (e.g. website, mobile applications etc.) (collectively “Company Systems“). In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” means any information that can be used to individually identify a person and may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, postal or other physical addresses, title, and other personally identifiable information. By using our services or products, it will be deemed that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by this policy detailed hereunder

We will be the processor of the Personal Data that is provided, collected and/or processed pursuant to this policy, except where otherwise expressly stated.

We will only collect information which you share with us. You can choose what information you want to share with us. We will collect your information only if you choose to share it through the Company Systems. We will collect the following information about you or related to your use of the Company’s Systems:

• Any personal or PII that you may submit or may be required to submit for registration and continued use of the Company Systems or receive the services by InterviewBit;
• Your name, title, gender, date of birth, email address, father’s name, telephone number (Home/work/mobile telephonic number), profile/display picture, login name, screen name, nickname, or handle, country/state/postcode or city of residence, postal or other physical address, name(s) of the school/university (including grades and graduation year),name(s) of the workplace, job position/designation (including salary), resume/CV, information related to social profiles, such as Facebook, Google, GitHub etc., IP addresses and other information collected passively (as further detailed in the “Passive Collection” section below), may be collected; and
• Any other information you may choose to further provide us, without limitation, any information to update your account and profile, if required, to fill out any forms, provide your feedback to surveys, write any articles on the Company Systems, or to use any features of Company Systems.

We collect and/or process your Personal Data as a part of the following activities related to our Products:

• Account registration, use of certain Product features, creating or taking tests, generating reports based on information collected from use of our Products.
• Requesting service and support for our Products and providing such support, registering for an event, participating in an online survey, participating in discussion groups or forums.
• Registering for newsletter subscriptions, customizing the content you see as per relevance.

Please do not include any personal information, personally identifiable information or sensitive personal information unless specifically requested by InterviewBit as part of the registration or other applicable processes. If InterviewBit determines that any information you have provided or uploaded violates the terms of this policy, InterviewBit shall have the right, in its absolute discretion, to delete such information without incurring any liability.

We may also periodically use your information received from your affiliated entities, business partners and other third-party sources and combine it with your account information. For example: if you access or login to our Company Systems via a third-party source like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, we may receive your registration information, updated information and combine that with information we collect through our Company Systems or add it to your account information on our Company Systems.

If You are governed by the United States laws, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may obtain reports from public records of credit history checks, criminal databases checks including National Criminal Database and county courts in each state, national government restricted lists, sex offender registrations. If you are outside of the United States, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, InterviewBit may obtain reports of the respective criminal background or registered sex offender checks. To obtain such reports as stated herein, we may use your information, like your full name and date of birth.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is designed to give EU citizens more control over their data. It aims to use an all-encompassing privacy and security law to safeguard Personal Data. Irrespective of their location, GDPR applies to all the relevant controllers or processors who deal with the Personal Data of EU citizens.

For more information, please refer to GDPR

Your decision to provide Personal Data to InterviewBit is at your sole discretion and is deemed obtained when you register and create your account on our Company Systems. Please note that you may not be able to access certain options, offers, and services if they require Personal Data that you have not provided. You can sign-up, and therefore consent, to receive email or newsletter communication from us. If you would like to discontinue receiving this communication, you can update your preferences by using the ‘Unsubscribe’ link at the end of such emails or by contacting us through email on support@interviewbit.com.

• AWS Relational Database - Main database storing all User information.
• ElasticSearch - Indexed resumes. We use it to query on text written in a user's resume.
• Sentry - Used to monitor errors.
• New Relic - Stores server logs which are used in optimization of our services.
• S3 - Server logs and User resume files.
• Google Analytics - The third-party services described in this section enable InterviewBit to monitor and analyze Website and Service traffic. Google Analytics (Google Inc.) Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google utilizes the information collected to track and examine the use of the Websites and Services to prepare reports that may be used for optimization of the Websites and Services. Information collected: Cookies and usage data.
• Place of processing: United States.

Your data is retained with InterviewBit as long as you have an active account on the Company Systems. You can request that we delete some or all of your Personal Data from our systems. While this will be done within thirty (30) days from the date of such request, residual data may be saved in certain logs and this will be purged within a year after deleting your data. Once your data is deleted, you will no longer have an account with InterviewBit.

Please contact info@scaler.com for any data or account delete requests.

• InterviewBit uses cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Further, we may use cookies or other tracking technologies to analyze trends, track users’ movements around the website, and gather information about our user base, such as location information based on IP addresses.
• You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
• If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled. It won't affect the user's experience that makes your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
• InterviewBit may collect information related to visitors and machines. Such information includes cookies, IP addresses, pageview activities, and geolocation data. The details of user activities on our website such as number of visits, time spent on our website, and pages clicked are also collected.

The information that you provide, subject to disclosure in accordance with this policy, shall be maintained in a safe and secure manner. Your information shall be protected, to a commercially reasonable extent, against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Our databases and information are stored on secure servers with appropriate firewalls. Further, we use vulnerability scanning and scanning to PCI standards annually and our Company Systems are subject to regular Malware Scanning. Additionally, we use SSL certificate to encrypt all the data being transferred.

As a user of the Company Systems, you have the responsibility to ensure data security. You must not disclose to any person the authentication parameters that are assigned to you including Your username or password for your use of the Company Systems. You acknowledge that you will be solely responsible for all acts committed by use of your username /other authentication parameters.

Given the nature of internet transactions, InterviewBit does not take any responsibility for the transmission of information collected from you or are generated by your use of the Company Systems or the services. Any transmission of such information over the internet is done at your sole risk. InterviewBit does not take any responsibility for you or any third party circumventing the privacy settings or security measures contained on the Company Systems.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, while InterviewBit will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that any information collected from you or are generated by your use of the Company Systems or the services is safe and secure, it offers no representations or warranties that the security measures are adequate, safe, fool proof or impenetrable.

Our Website may use third party network advertisers to display advertisements about our Products on third party websites, based on your visits to our site as well as other websites. This enables us and these third parties to target advertisements by displaying ads for our Products which might interest you.

Third party network advertisers’ services may use cookies, JavaScript, and other technologies to make their ads effective and to personalize them to connect to you. These third-party cookies and other technologies are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, and not this one. We may provide these third-party advertisers with anonymized and aggregated information about your usage of our website and our Products; however, we do not share your Personal Data with these third parties. You also have the option of denying the access of data to such third-party ad networks.

You explicitly agree you are 18 years of age or older, unless represented by a parent or legal guardian, provided that where collection of any information becomes necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations, or when required under the concerned law, we shall notify you in a time-bound and appropriate manner, informing the purposes and reasons for such collection and seek your explicit consent, and where applicable, parental authorization, prior to the processing of such data. If InterviewBit determines that it is in possession of any information belonging to an individual below 18 years of age which is submitted, collected or generated in breach of the terms of this Policy, it will delete the same without any notice to the individual to whom such information belongs to.

If you have any issue or grievance with respect to our policy or with the manner in which we collect or store your information, or in any respect related to your personal information provided to us, please contact hello@scaler.com. We will do everything we reasonably can to ensure that your grievance is attended to and addressed within a period of 30 days from the date of receipt of Your grievance.