PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 18.11.2024

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Fitnearn. This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information while using our app, and any associated websites, mobile applications, and services (collectively called the 'Service').

This Policy details the critical aspects governing your personal data relationship with 'FitnEarn' which is owned and operated by Fit Earn Meditate having its registered office at 395, Purav Deen Dayal, Old Railway Road, Veer Bhawan Nagar, Roorkee-247667.

This policy document serves as an electronic record in adherence with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and outlays the various agreements mandatory for access or usage of the services through the FitnEarn Mobile Application (hereinafter referred to as “Mobile Application”) and Website –[ www.fitnearn.com ] (hereinafter referred to as "Website") and our related Website, Application, Services, Products, Devices and content (together with the Mobile Application and Website, collectively referred to as “Services”).

AGREEMENT TO TERMS

User Agreement: These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ('you' or 'user' or 'client') and FitnEarn (Fit Earn Meditate), concerning your access to and use of the Website and FitnEarn Mobile Application as well as any other media form, media channel, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

ELIGIBILITY

You must be at least 18 to register on the Platform. If you are below the ages of 18 ("Minor"), you may use our Services only under the supervision and consent of a parent or guardian.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

User TypeRegistered, Non-premiumRegistered & Premium
User Information
  • We ask for your email ID and/or contact information for creating your account or registering you on our platform
  • We ask for your name, age, weight, gender & medical history to personalise your fitness journey on our app
  • Your IP & Location services if you have allowed access
  • Integration with third party apps such as Google Fit, Samsung Health, Apple Health to access information including your heart rate, number of steps taken etc.
  • We ask for your email ID and/or contact information for creating your account or registering you on our platform
  • We ask for your name, age, weight, gender & medical history to personalise your fitness journey on our app
  • Credit card/debit card/other payment mode information to facilitate payments for our Services
  • Integration with third party apps such as Google Fit, Samsung Health, Apple Health to access information including your heart rate, number of steps taken etc.
Purpose of Information Collection

• We analyse your information to understand your behaviour and improve your interactions with the website. By sharing your details and consenting, you allow us to use your data for emails/newsletters, targeted FitnEarn ads, and service remarketing through third-party platforms like Meta and Google.

• Additionally, we leverage this data to handle your requests, inquiries, and complaints, providing customer services and related activities. Additionally, we use it for communication about existing or new offers, content, advertisements, surveys, key policies, or other administrative information. The data also serves in offering informative features and services as we develop them, and for providing, testing, improving, or recommending the Services.

• If you provide consent, we may send you newsletters and emails to promote other products and services we offer.

• Furthermore, your health data, collected through the integration with Google Fit, is utilised to furnish personalized insights and recommendations, aiding in improving your well-being and accessing relevant health-related offerings through our app.

• We analyse your information to understand your behaviour and improve your interactions with the website. By sharing your details and consenting, you allow us to use your data for emails/newsletters, targeted FitnEarn ads, and service remarketing through third-party platforms like Facebook and Google.

• Additionally, we leverage this data to handle your requests, inquiries, and complaints, providing customer services and related activities. Additionally, we use it for communication about existing or new offers, content, advertisements, surveys, key policies, or other administrative information. The data also serves in offering informative features and services as we develop them, and for providing, testing, improving, or recommending the Services.

• If you provide consent, we may send you newsletters and emails to promote other products and services we offer.

• Furthermore, your health data, collected through the integration with Google Fit, is utilised to furnish personalized insights and recommendations, aiding in improving your well-being and accessing relevant health-related offerings through our app.

• We utilize this information to facilitate your payments for our Services, employing a third-party service provider solely for secure payment processing. This provider is strictly prohibited from storing, retaining, or utilising your data for any purpose other than payment processing on our behalf.

Device Information

We collect information about the device you use to access our app. We also use third parties to provide you with the best experience, we ask you to link your 'Google fit' or 'Samsung Health' for Android and 'Google Fit' or 'Apple Health' for iOS with our app.

Push Notifications: We might seek permission to send push notifications related to your account or the mobile application. If you prefer not to receive such communications, you can disable them in your device settings.

We use your information to provide and enhance our fitness app, including delivering personalized content, improving features and optimising user experience. Hence, we respect your data privacy and do not misuse it in anyway.

We collect information about the device you use to access our app. We also use third parties to provide you with the best experience, we ask you to link your 'Google fit' or 'Samsung Health' for Android and 'Google Fit' or 'Apple Health' for iOS with our app.

Push Notifications: We might seek permission to send push notifications related to your account or the mobile application. If you prefer not to receive such communications, you can disable them in your device settings.

We use your information to provide and enhance our fitness app, including delivering personalized content, improving features and optimising user experience. Hence, we respect your data privacy and do not misuse it in anyway.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

A. Information Shared Voluntarily

Account Creation

When you create an account, we may collect information such as name, email address, password, and log-in/display name.

Purchases

We may collect personal information and details associated with your purchases, including payment information. Any payments made via our Services are processed by third-party payment processors. We do not directly collect or store any payment card information entered through our Services, but it may receive information associated with your payment card information (e.g. your billing details).

Your communication with Us

We may collect personal information, such as name, email address, phone number, mailing address, date of birth, gender, interests, product, operating system, order number, or details of your request when you ask for information about our Services, register for our newsletter or mailing list, request customer or technical support, or otherwise communicate with us.

App based Activity Challenges

You may receive invitations to engage in app-based activity challenges, some of which may offer rewards. Should you choose to take part, you might be required to share specific information, potentially including personal details. We may aggregate and present this data, in the form of grouped statistics derived from users' responses, to our advertisers and partners.

Interactive features

We and others who use our Services may collect personal information that you submit or make available through our interactive features (e.g., Community Sharing features, commenting functionalities, forums, blogs, and social media pages). Any information you provide using the public sharing features of the Services (referred to herein as “User Content”) will be considered “public,” unless otherwise required by Applicable Laws, and is not subject to the privacy protections referenced herein. Please exercise caution before revealing any confidential information on the public forum.

Share Content with Friends or Colleagues

Our Services may offer various tools and functionalities. For example, we may allow you to provide information about your friends through our referral services. Our referral services may allow you to forward or share certain content with a friend or colleague, such as an email inviting your friend to use our Services. Please only share with us contact information of people with whom you have a relationship (e.g., relative, friend neighbour, or co-worker).

B. Information Collected Automatically

We may collect personal information automatically when you use our Services:

Automatic Data Collection

We may collect device details automatically, including your mobile device ID, model, manufacturer, operating system, version information, and IP address.

Location Information

We may collect your precise location information to provide you with localised services.

Analytics

We may use Technologies and other third-party tools to process analytics information on our Services. Some of our analytics partners include:

Google Analytics

For more information, please visit Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy. To learn more about how to opt-out of Google Analytics’ use of your information, please click here.

Social Media Platforms.

Our Services may containsocial media buttons such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, rest and YouTube (that might include widgets such as the “share this” button or other interactive mini programs). These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Services, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. We may also participate in co-branding and other relationships to offer e-commerce and other services and features to our users. Your interactions with these platforms are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Manage Downloads

The FitnEarn App is a software application installed on your device, overseeing downloads, including automatic app updates and security patches. While your IP address is linked to your file segment, other users will not have access to any additional personal information about you.

Share Content with Friends or Colleagues

Our Services may offer various tools and functionalities. For example, we may allow you to provide information about your friends through our referral services. Our referral services may allow you to forward or share certain content with a friend or colleague, such as an email inviting your friend to use our Services. Please only share with us contact information of people with whom you have a relationship (e.g., relative, friend neighbour, or co-worker).

C. Information Collected from Other Sources

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and organizations. For example, if you access our Services through a third-party application, such as an app store, a third-party login service, or a social networking site, we may collect basic account information about you from that third-party application or social media provider (such as your name, address, phone number and e-mail address, and other demographic information, like your date of birth, gender, age and interests) that you have made available via your privacy settings. We may also use personal information and other information about you to create de-identified and/or aggregated information, such as de-identified demographic information, de-identified location information, information about the device from which you access our Services, or other reports and analyses we create. If we create or receive de-identified information, we will not attempt to reidentify such information, unless required to comply with Applicable Laws or unless we are otherwise permitted to do so by Applicable Laws.

Subject to Applicable Laws, we use personal information for a variety of business purposes, including to provide our Services, for administrative purposes, and to market our products and Services, as described below:

  1. 1. Provide Our Services
    • We use personal information to fulfil our contract with you and provide you with our Services, such as:
    • Managing your information and accounts;
    • Providing access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of our Services;
    • Answering requests for customer or technical support;
    • Communicating with you about your account, activities on our Services, and policy changes;
    • Processing your financial information and other payment methods for products or Services purchased;
    • Processing applications if you apply for a job we post on our Services; and Allowing you to register for events.
  2. 2. Administrative Purposes
    • We use personal information for various administrative purposes, such as:
    • Pursuing our legitimate interests such as direct marketing, research and development (including marketing research), network and information security, and fraud prevention;
    • Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
    • Measuring interest and engagement in our Services;
    • Short-term, transient use, such as contextual customization of ads;
    • Improving, upgrading or enhancing our Services;
    • Developing new products and Services;
    • Ensuring internal quality control and safety;
    • Authenticating and verifying individual identities, including requests to exercise your rights under this policy;
    • Debugging to identify and repair errors with our Services;
    • Auditing relating to interactions, transactions and other compliance activities;
    • Sharing information with third parties as needed to provide the Services;
    • Enforcing our agreements and policies;
    • Complying with our legal obligations; and
    • To provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
  3. 3. Marketing and Advertising our Products and Services
    • We may use personal information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements. We may provide you with these materials as permitted by Applicable Laws.
    • Some of the ways we market to you may include email campaigns, custom audiences advertising, and “interest-based” or “personalized advertising,” including through cross-device tracking.
    • If you have any questions about our marketing practices or if you would like to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, you may contact us at any time as in “Contact Us” below.
  4. 4. Other Purposes

    We also use your information for other purposes as requested by you or as permitted by Applicable Laws.

    • Consent.We may use personal information for other purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or with your consent. As a business entity, we do not intentionally gather, retain, or utilize any personal data from children. Individuals under the age of 18 (or any other minimum age stipulated by the law of the relevant territory) should obtain parental consent before sharing any information about themselves, their parents, or other family members on our Services.
    • Automated Decision-Making. We may engage in automated decision-making, including profiling. FitnEarn’s processing of your personal information will not result in a decision based solely on automated processing that significantly affects you unless such a decision is necessary as part of a contract we have with you, we have your consent, or we are permitted by law to engage in such automated decision-making. If you have questions about our automated decision-making, you may contact us as in “Contact Information” below.
    • Manage Downloads. The FitnEarn App is a software application installed on your device, overseeing downloads, including automatic app updates and security patches. While your IP address is linked to your file segment, other users will not have access to any additional personal information about you.
    • De-identified and Aggregated Information. We may use personal information and other information about you to create de-identified and/or aggregated information, such as de-identified demographic information, de-identified location information, information about the device from which you access our Services, or other reports and analyses we create. If we create or receive de-identified information, we will not attempt to reidentify such information, unless required to comply with Applicable Laws or unless we are otherwise permitted to do so by Applicable Laws.
    • Share Content with Friends or Colleagues. Our Services may offer various tools and functionalities. For example, we may allow you to provide information about your friends through our referral services. Our referral services may allow you to forward or share certain content with a friend or colleague, such as an email inviting your friend to use our Services. Please only share with us contact information of people with whom you have a relationship (e.g., relative, friend neighbour, or co-worker).

How We Disclose Personal Information

We disclose information solely with your explicit consent, in adherence to applicable Indian laws, to deliver services, safeguard your rights, or fulfil our business obligations.

Disclosures to Provide our Services

The categories of third parties with whom we may share your information are described below.

  • Service Providers:We may share your personal information with our third-party service providers who use that information to help us provide our Services. This includes service providers that provide us with IT support, hosting, payment processing, customer service, and related services.
  • Business Partners: We may share your personal information with business partners to provide you with a product or service you have requested. We may also share your personal information to business partners with whom we jointly offer products or services.
  • Affiliates: We may share your personal information with our company affiliates.
  • Other Users/Website Visitors: As described above in “Person Information we collect,” our Services allow you to share your profile and/or User Content with other Users/publicly, including to those who do not use our Services.
  • Advertising Partners:We do not share personal data, including health-related information, with any third-party advertising partners. FitnEarn strictly adheres to the principle that user data, especially sensitive health data, is utilized solely for the purpose of providing and enhancing the application's functionality and user experience. We do not engage in the transfer of data to advertising platforms, data brokers, or information resellers for any purpose, including targeted advertising or other commercial activities. Our commitment lies in safeguarding the privacy and confidentiality of user information, ensuring that it is used exclusively to fulfill the intended functionalities of the FitnEarn application.
  • APIs/SDKs: We may use third-party Application Program Interfaces (“APIs”) and Software Development Kits (“SDKs”) as part of the functionality of our Services. For more information about our use of APIs and SDKs, please contact us as set forth below.

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Your Privacy Choices. The privacy choices you may have about your personal information are determined by Applicable Laws and are described below.

  • Email Communications:If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email to opt out of receiving future emails. Note that you will continue to receive transaction-related emails. We may also send you certain non-promotional communications regarding us and our Services, and you will not be able to opt out of those communications (e.g., communications regarding our Services or updates to our Terms or this Privacy Policy).
  • Text Messages: You may opt out of receiving text messages from us by following the instructions in the text message you have received from us or by otherwise contacting us.
  • Mobile Devices: We may send you push notifications through our mobile application. You may opt out from receiving these push notifications by changing the settings on your mobile device. With your consent, we may also collect precise location-based information via our mobile application. You may opt out of this collection by changing the settings on your mobile device.
  • Cookies and Personalized Advertising: You may stop or restrict the placement of Technologies on your device or remove them by adjusting your preferences as your browser or device permits. However, if you adjust your preferences, our services may not work properly.

Data Protection

All the information shared or access granted by the users is used explicitly for application purposes to run smoothly on your device, it helps us make it more user-friendly and compatible with your device. All the information provided by a user (E.g:- medical history, height, weight, age etc) is strictly encrypted and private.

We implement diligent security practices and procedures to protect your personal information within our control from unauthorized access. It's important to recognize that no Internet transmission, system, or server can be guaranteed 100% secure. Despite our commitment to taking all reasonable steps to secure your personal information, we do not assure or guarantee absolute security. Therefore, it is advisable not to expect that your personal information or other communications while utilising the Platform will always be impervious to breaches. Caution should be exercised when providing, sharing, or disclosing your personal information on the Platform.

Additionally, Fitnearn has all the copyrights to its content and will not appreciate data theft or illegal uploading of our content in any circumstances.

Policies for data breaches include the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act of 2023. This is the first cross-sectoral law on personal data protection in India and has been enacted after more than half a decade of deliberations. And the Content Security Policy (CSP) data theft under section 43(b) read with Section 66 of the IT Act is always associated with Section 379, 420 of IPC.

Data Deletion Information

Within our app, you have the ability to manage and delete your personal information through the "Delete Account" feature located in the Platform settings. It's important to note that we do not retain any personal information of our users. However, certain information may be kept for record-keeping purposes as required by law. This retention is essential for preventing fraud, enforcing our Platform Terms and Conditions, protecting the integrity of our Platform, and complying with legal obligations. Users have the right to access, modify, or delete their personal information stored within the FitnEarn application. To exercise these rights, users can navigate to the settings section within the application, where they will find options to modify, manage and delete their account data. Additionally, users can contact our support team at help-support@fitnearn.com for assistance with data deletion requests.

Contact Information

All privacy-related complaints or concerns should be exclusively communicated through email to our designated address at help-support@fitnearn.com or call us at +91-8630222654.We value your privacy and are dedicated to addressing any issues raised with the utmost diligence. By centralising privacy-related communications through this specified email channel, we aim to streamline the resolution process and ensure that your concerns are handled promptly and effectively. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we work to maintain the highest standards in protecting your privacy.

Your Choices and Controls

Account Information

You can review and update your account information by accessing your account settings in the app. All the information will be modified as you change it every time. The provided mobile number, email ID and information are most important for us to register you on our platform.

Opting Out

You can opt out of receiving promotional emails by following the instructions provided in the emails. You can contact us if there are any issues with marketing email and promotional activities.

Security

We employ industry-standard security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. The exchange of information even from a third party is secure and is shared with us with your consent.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Fitnearn reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately, informed and marketed. The user must obey all our privacy policies to access our application and its services.

By using the FitnEarn app/website, users acknowledge that they have read, understood, and agreed to these privacy policies.

Last updated on 4th Feb 2024