Privacy Policy

Effective date: [DD Month YYYY] · Version 1.0

This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") explains how CA Monk, including through www.camonk.com, collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information of users of the platform. This Policy applies to all learners, visitors, customers, mentors, applicants, and other users of the platform ("Learners", "you", and "your"). It covers our website, account system, login and signup flows, course purchases, learning management system (LMS), 1:1 mentorship sessions, resume builder, cover letter builder, job board, AI interview tools, interview and placement preparation programs, assessment products, including versant-style and other evaluation tools, and related support or communication channels.

By accessing or using the platform, providing personal information, purchasing any service, or otherwise indicating your consent where presented, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of information as described in this Policy and our Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with this Policy or the Terms and Conditions, do not use the platform. If any information you provide violates this Policy or our Terms and Conditions, we may remove that information or restrict access to the platform where reasonably necessary.

Who we are

Legal entity
[REGISTERED COMPANY NAME PRIVATE LIMITED]
Trading as
CA Monk
CIN
[CIN]
Registered office
[Registered office address, City, State, PIN]
Email
[email protected]
Phone
+91 90227 20882

1. Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information

"Personal Information" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can reasonably be associated with you, including your name, email address, phone number, age, gender, location, account credentials, photograph, education or career details, identification numbers where required, billing details, learning preferences, submitted documents, and information you provide while using the platform.

"Sensitive Personal Information" may include passwords, payment-related information, financial details, official identity information, health information, biometric information, and any other data treated as sensitive under applicable law. References to Personal Information in this Policy include Sensitive Personal Information where the context requires.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect both personal and non-personal information in a variety of ways, including when you visit the platform, register, sign in, buy a course, book a mentorship session, use the LMS, build a resume or cover letter, apply through the job board, complete tests, submit assignments, contact support, or otherwise interact with our services.

We generally collect the following categories of information:

  • Account and identity data such as your name, email address, phone number, username, password, photograph, and profile details.
  • Transaction and billing data such as purchase details, payment status, invoices, and limited payment identifiers provided by payment processors.
  • Learning and service usage data such as enrolled courses, mentorship bookings, attendance, test submissions, scores, assignment activity, progress tracking, certificates, and LMS interaction data.
  • Career and document data such as resumes, cover letters, job preferences, interview answers, AI interview inputs, job board activity, and files uploaded by you.
  • Device and technical data such as IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, language preferences, referring pages, access timestamps, and approximate location.
  • Communications data such as emails, messages, support requests, feedback, mentorship notes, and community-related interactions.
  • Diagnostic and error data such as error messages, stack traces, the page or feature you were using, browser and operating system details, IP address, and the technical context of a failed request. When you are signed in, this includes your user ID, email address, and name so that we can identify which accounts were affected by a fault. See section 5 for the provider we use.
  • Analytics and product-usage data such as pages viewed, features used, referring campaign, approximate location derived from IP address, and the identifiers our analytics providers assign to a browser or account.
  • Enquiry data submitted through forms embedded on our pages, such as the hiring enquiry form, which collects first name, last name, email address, phone number, and company name.

3. Cookies, Analytics, and Similar Technologies

We use cookies, local storage, analytics tools, and similar technologies to keep you signed in, remember your preferences, understand how the platform is used, measure campaign effectiveness, prevent misuse, and improve performance. Some of these technologies are necessary for the platform to work and cannot be switched off. Others are optional.

Our Cookie Policy lists the technologies we use across the CA Monk platform, including the tools application at tools.camonk.com, and explains which categories are optional and how to change your choice. You can also control cookies through your browser settings, although blocking necessary cookies will prevent parts of the platform from working.

4. How We Use the Information Collected

We may use your information for the following purposes:

  • To create, maintain, and secure your account and verify your identity.
  • To deliver courses, mentorship, assessments, AI interview simulations, resume and cover letter tools, job board access, interview preparation resources, and other platform features.
  • To process payments, issue invoices, manage refunds where applicable, and maintain financial records.
  • To track learning progress, improve content quality, support mentor interactions, and personalize your learning or career journey.
  • To communicate with you about purchases, schedules, support, updates, offers, product launches, reminders, and important notices.
  • To monitor, investigate, prevent, and address fraud, unauthorized access, abuse, suspicious activity, and security incidents.
  • To improve the platform, develop new features, analyze usage, and maintain safety, performance, and reliability.
  • To comply with legal obligations, enforce contracts, resolve disputes, and protect our rights, users, mentors, partners, and the public.

Depending on the context, our legal basis may include your consent, performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations, and our legitimate interests in operating and improving the platform.

5. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information in the ordinary course of our business. We may, however, share information with the following categories of recipients where reasonably necessary:

  • Service providers supporting hosting, storage, analytics, communications, scheduling, payments, platform operations, content delivery, and security.
  • Mentors, instructors, evaluators, or career-support personnel where access is necessary to deliver a service you requested.
  • Hiring partners or recruiters only where you choose to apply, share materials, or otherwise participate in job-related opportunities through the platform.
  • Corporate affiliates, professional advisors, auditors, and legal or compliance consultants.
  • Government authorities, regulators, law enforcement, courts, or other third parties where required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, and platform integrity.

We may also share aggregated or de-identified data that does not reasonably identify you.

Service providers we use

  • Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) for error and performance monitoring. When you are signed in, we send Sentry your user ID, email address, and name together with the technical details of the error, including the page address, browser and device information, IP address, and diagnostic request context. We do this so we can find out which users a fault affected, reproduce it, and contact you where necessary. We do not use error-monitoring data for advertising or profiling, and we clear your identity from this service when you sign out.
  • Zoho for forms embedded on our pages and for handling the enquiries submitted through them.
  • YouTube (Google) and, where used, Vimeo or Wistia, to deliver video content embedded on our pages.
  • Sanity for managing and publishing the content shown on our pages.
  • Amazon Web Services and our content delivery network for hosting and delivering the platform and its media.
  • Payment providers including [payment gateway names] to process payments for courses, events, and mentorship bookings.
  • PostHog, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Meta for product analytics, usage measurement, and marketing measurement in our tools application at tools.camonk.com. These are described in the Cookie Policy.

Most of these providers act on our instructions and are permitted to use the data only to provide their service to us. Where a provider uses the data for its own purposes, that is stated in the Cookie Policy.

6. Payments and Transaction Data

Payments may be processed by third-party providers. We generally do not store full payment card data on our own systems unless expressly stated otherwise. We may receive transaction confirmations, payment status, billing references, and related records necessary for accounting, fraud prevention, customer support, refunds, audits, and compliance.

7. Your Choices

You may have the following choices:

  • You may choose not to provide certain information, although some features may not function without it.
  • You may update or correct account information through your account or by contacting us.
  • You may opt out of certain promotional communications by using unsubscribe instructions or contacting us directly. Opting out of marketing does not stop service messages about your purchases, schedules, security, or account.
  • Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it and does not affect anything we did before you withdrew it.
  • You may change your cookie and analytics choices at any time using the cookie settings control on our website, or through your browser settings. See our Cookie Policy. Blocking necessary cookies will limit platform functionality.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to access, confirm, correct, update, port, restrict, object to processing of, or request deletion of certain personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent and the right not to be subject to certain automated decisions.

These rights apply only to your own information. Where required by law, we may ask for additional details to verify your identity before acting on a request.

9. Protection of Your Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Access to information is limited to personnel, contractors, mentors, and service providers who need it for legitimate business or service-delivery purposes and who are expected to keep it confidential. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

10. Legal Disclosure and Platform Protection

We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with law, respond to court orders or lawful requests, enforce our agreements, detect or investigate fraud or misuse, protect our rights and property, or protect the safety of users, mentors, partners, or others.

To the extent permitted by law, we may attempt to give prior notice before disclosure where appropriate.

11. Third-Party Websites and Tools

The platform may contain links to third-party websites, embedded services, payment gateways, scheduling tools, analytics tools, communication providers, and other external platforms. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this one. We are not responsible for the content, security, or data handling practices of third-party services that we do not control.

12. Cross-Border Data Transfers

Your information may be stored, processed, or transferred in India and in other jurisdictions where our service providers, infrastructure providers, affiliates, or partners operate. These jurisdictions may have privacy laws that differ from those in your place of residence.

Where we transfer personal information outside India, we do so in accordance with applicable Indian law, including any restrictions notified by the Government on transfers to particular countries. Where we transfer personal information out of the UK or the European Economic Area, we rely on the safeguards permitted under applicable law, such as the standard contractual clauses agreed with the relevant provider.

13. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy. The periods we apply are set out below.

  • Account and learning records: for the life of your account and [retention period] after it is closed.
  • Payment, invoicing, and accounting records: for the period required under Indian tax and company law, currently eight years.
  • Error and diagnostic data: [retention period].
  • Analytics data: [retention period].
  • Enquiry and support correspondence: [retention period].
  • Marketing suppression lists: kept indefinitely so that we can continue to honour your opt-out.
  • Records of your cookie and consent choices: [retention period], kept so that we can show what you agreed to and when.

Where deletion is requested, some information may be retained where required by law, or for fraud prevention, accounting, audit, backup, or recordkeeping purposes. Public or shared content may remain in de-identified or anonymized form where appropriate.

14. Children's Privacy

The platform is intended for users aged 18 and over. Where a user is under 18, we process their personal information only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian, verified in the manner required by applicable law.

We do not carry out behavioural tracking, profiling, or targeted advertising directed at users we know to be children, and we do not process children's personal information in a way that is likely to cause a detrimental effect on their well-being. If you believe a child has provided personal information in a manner that is not permitted, please contact our Grievance Officer using the details in section 17 so that we can review and take appropriate action.

15. Country-Specific Additional Rights

Learners in certain jurisdictions may have additional rights under applicable data protection laws.

  • India: Subject to applicable Indian law, you may have the right to obtain a summary of the personal information we process and the identities of those we have shared it with, the right to correction, completion, updating, and erasure, the right to nominate another person to exercise your rights if you die or become incapable of doing so, and the right to a readily available means of grievance redressal. You may raise a grievance with our Grievance Officer using the details in section 17. If your grievance is not resolved, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India once the relevant provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 are in force.
  • UK, EU, and EEA: You may have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, complaint to a supervisory authority, and protection against certain automated decision-making.
  • California: To the extent applicable under the CCPA or similar laws, you may have rights to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected about you, request deletion, opt out where applicable, and receive equal service without unlawful discrimination.

If you are in one of these jurisdictions and wish to exercise a right available under applicable law, please contact us using the details below. We may verify your identity before taking action.

16. Changes to This Policy

We may modify, revise, or update this Policy from time to time. When we do, the updated version will be posted on this page unless otherwise stated. Your continued use of the platform after changes become effective means you acknowledge the revised Policy.

17. Contact and Grievances

If you have questions about this Policy or want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at [email protected]. If you have a privacy-related grievance, please contact our Grievance Officer using the details below.

Grievance Officer

In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made under it, and the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, the contact details of our Grievance Officer are set out below.

Name
[Full name of nominated officer]
Designation
Grievance Officer
Email
[email protected]
Address
[Registered office address, City, State, PIN]
Phone
+91 90227 20882

We acknowledge complaints within 48 hours of receipt and aim to resolve them within 30 days.

By accessing or using Camonk.com, you confirm that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

Back to Home