Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how Abhinaya Kala Kendra collects, uses, and discloses information when you use our website and services, including acting workshops, screen acting courses, theatre training, voice modulation, movement training, audition techniques, portfolio building, acting for camera, and stage performance coaching. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data openly and transparently. This policy complies with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where it applies.
Who We Are
We are Abhinaya Kala Kendra. You can reach us at:
Abhinaya Kala Kendra
4th Floor, Crystal Plaza,
Veera Desai Road, Andheri West,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400053,
India.
Information We Collect
We collect information to provide and improve our services. The types of information we collect include:
Information you provide to us directly: This includes information you give us when you register for a course or workshop, make a purchase, contact us, respond to surveys, or otherwise interact with our service. This may include your name, contact details (such as address), payment information, and any other information you choose to provide.
Information we collect automatically: When you visit our site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage of our service. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and visit times. This information helps us understand how our service is used and improve it.
Information from other sources: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as payment processors, service providers, or partners, where this is necessary to provide our services or for legitimate business purposes.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
To provide and deliver the services you request, such as processing your registration for workshops and courses.
To process transactions and send you related information, including purchase confirmations and invoices.
To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide customer support.
To personalize your experience on our site and enhance our service offerings.
To improve and develop our services, website, and operations.
To send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative messages.
To detect, prevent, and address fraud, security risks, and illegal activities.
To comply with legal obligations and enforce our policies.
Legal Basis for Processing
We process your information based on the following legal grounds:
Performance of a contract: We need to process your information to provide the services you have requested from us.
Consent: We may process certain information based on your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your information for our legitimate business interests, such as improving our services, marketing, and fraud prevention, provided these interests do not override your data protection rights.
Legal Obligation: We may process your information to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information with third parties only in the following circumstances:
Service Providers: We may share information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These third parties are required to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, your information may be transferred as part of the transaction.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
The right to withdraw consent: Where we process your information based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in this policy.
Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our site may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about how you use our site. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
Children's Privacy
Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Abhinaya Kala Kendra
4th Floor, Crystal Plaza,
Veera Desai Road, Andheri West,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400053,
India.