Semester A.I App Privacy Policy by Bawano Technologies

We at Bawano Technologies (“Bawano”, “we”, “our” or “us”), the developers of the Semester A.I app(“the app”, “our app”) respect and hold your privacy at the highest regard and are strongly committed to safeguarding any information you provide us. This Privacy Policy describes our practices with respect to the information you provide or we collect from or about you when you use our app.

By accessing and using our app, you acknowledge and agree to all the practices stated in this privacy policy.

1. Information we collect

Account Information: When you create an account on our app, we will collect information associated with your account, including your first and last name, contact information like email and phone numbers and study information like University, course of study, year of study and semester of study.
Feedback and collaboration requests: If you choose to provide feedback about the app or request to collaborate with us, we collect your name, contact information, and the contents of any messages you send us..

Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of our app, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, the app version, type of mobile device, and your current network connection.
Device Information: Depending on the type of device you use and its settings we might collect some data which includes the name of the device, operating system and other device identifiers.
Analytics: We use a variety of online analytics service providers that help us analyse how users use our app and how to enhance your experience when you use the app.

We utilise third-party service providers such as Google Play Services, AdMob, Google Analytics for Firebase, and Firebase Crashlytics, which may collect data to provide service analytics, advertisement targeting, and crash reporting. A comprehensive list of third-party service providers and their privacy policies are available upon request.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information you provide us or the information we collect for the following purposes:

To personalise the learning experience for our users.
To communicate with you about your account, our app, responding to inquiries and sharing information about new features and offerings that may be of interest, policy changes and events. You may opt-out of certain communications in accordance with our opt-out policy.
To manage your account and provide you with customer support.
To develop new features, apps and services.
To provide, administer, analyse and maintain our app, including monitoring its usage.
To research, analyse and understand the app inorder to improve it.
To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our app, and to protect the security of our underlying systems.
To carry out business transfers
To comply with legal obligations, enforcement and legal processes and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or other third parties.

3. Sharing of information

We take the utmost care to protect the personal information you provide to us. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. This section explains circumstances in which we may disclose personal information with third parties.

We may disclose personal information:

To other users of our app, if you use features that enable you to share your information or content with (or make it accessible to) others in the app or outside the app through links.
with vendors, consultants and other service providers working on our behalf to assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions.
in connection with business transfers (due to mergers and acquisitions) or strategic transactions, reorganisation, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of our app to another provider .
for compliance purposes, such as when reasonably necessary to protect the security and safety of our users or Service, or when permitted by law.

We may also disclose de-identified or aggregated information that does not reasonably identify any individual, for analytics to analyse the effectiveness of our app, to improve and add features to our app, to conduct research, anomaly studies, and error detection and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may analyse the general behaviour and characteristics of users of our app and share aggregated information like general user statistics with third parties.

4. Your Rights and Choices

Access your personal information we hold about you.
Request correction or deletion of your personal data.
You can restrict how we process your personal data and request data portability.
Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
Object to how we process your Personal Information.
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at bawano@gmail.com.

You can exercise some of these rights through your Semester A.I app account. If you are unable to exercise your rights through your account, please submit your request through bawano@gmail.com.

A note about accuracy: Language model services such as the ones used in the app for teaching purposes generate responses by reading a user’s request and, in response, predicting the words most likely to appear next. In some cases, the words most likely to appear next may not be the most factually accurate. For this reason, you should not rely on the factual accuracy of output from these models.

5. Data Security and Retention

We implement measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and unauthorised access,misuse, use, alteration, and disclosure. All data is encrypted in transit and we do not use cookies or similar technologies. However it is important to understand that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other types of misuse.

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy, or for other legitimate business purposes such as resolving disputes, safety and security reasons, or complying with our legal obligations. After which the personal information is either deleted or anonymized.

6. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction with different privacy laws from those in your jurisdiction.

7. Children’s Privacy

Our Service is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we are notified that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will promptly investigate the matter and if true we will delete that information.

8. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the “effective date” at the top of this policy.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

9. Contact Us

For further information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at bawano@gmail.com