Privacy Policy

Thank you for using Takbir!

Thank you for joining us. At Takbir, we take privacy seriously and we want to ensure that you are aware of how we collect, use, and share data about you. Our Privacy Policy outlines our data collection practices and also provides information on your rights regarding your personal data. Please note that unless we link to a different policy or state otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies when you visit or use any of the Services offered by Takbir, including our websites, mobile applications, APIs, and related services.

By using our Services, you agree to the terms set forth in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy or any other agreements that govern your use of the Services, we kindly request that you refrain from using them. Thank you for choosing Takbir. We look forward to providing you with exceptional service while respecting your privacy.

Thank you for choosing Takbir. We look forward to providing you with exceptional service while respecting your privacy.

What information we collect:

We obtain various types of information from you, including the data you input, your content usage history, and information from third-party platforms you link to Takbir. We also automatically gather specific information about your device and how you interact with our Services. The information we collect about you may vary depending on how you use our Services.

To provide you with a better understanding of the information we gather, here are some examples:

To access certain Services, you must create an account, which necessitates us collecting and retaining your email address, password, and account preferences. We collect and store your name, email address, password, and account preferences to create an instructor account. If you use particular site features, we may ask for additional information, such as your occupation and government-issued ID, a photo of yourself, date of birth, and phone number.

Your profile information, including photos, bio, language, social media profiles, country, and other details, can also be added. It will be publicly visible to others who use the Services.
Certain features of the Services allow for public communication and content sharing, such as uploading educational content, sending messages to learners or instructors, posting reviews or questions, and sharing photos or other contributions. Depending on where this information is posted, it may be visible to others.

Additionally, when accessing content, we collect specific data, such as courses, assignments, workspaces, and quizzes that you have begun or completed, purchases of content or subscriptions, earned certificates of completion, interactions with instructors and learners, as well as any essays or materials submitted for course requirements or related content.

When a purchase is made, we gather specific details about it, such as the customer's name, billing address, and zip code, which are needed to process the order. This information may be stored to streamline future orders.

To make a payment, customers must provide their payment and billing information, including their name, credit card information, billing address, and zip code, to our payment processors.
We may also require additional information from payment service providers, such as the last four digits of the card, to facilitate payment. For security reasons, we do not collect or store sensitive cardholder data, such as whole credit card numbers or card details.

If you wish to receive payments, you can link your Stripe account to our services. However, you should refer to the Stripe Terms of Services and Privacy Policy for more information.
As an instructor, when you connect a payment account, we collect and use certain information, including your email address, account user, address, or other data necessary to send payments to your account.
We work with trusted third parties to collect tax information required by appropriate laws, which may include residency information, tax identification numbers, and other personal information necessary for tax purposes.

For security reasons, we do not collect or store sensitive bank account information. The collection, use, and disclosure of your payment, billing, and tax information are subject to the payment account provider's privacy policy and other terms and conditions.

We may obtain certain details regarding your social media or other online accounts that are linked to your Takbir account. If you sign in to Takbir using a third-party platform such as Facebook, we will request permission to retrieve specific information about your other accounts. This may include your name, profile photo, phone number, login email address, location, the physical location of your login devices, gender, date of birth, number, and friends or contact list, depending on the forum or service you are using.

These platforms and services transmit information to us via their APIs, and the information we receive is contingent upon what you or the platform or service providers have authorized.
If you utilize our services via a third-party platform or service or click on links provided by third parties, your data's collection, usage, and exposure are governed by the privacy policy and other contracts of that third party.

If you reach out to us for assistance or to report an issue or concern, we gather and retain your contact information, messages, and other data that you have provided us, including but not limited to your name, email address, notes, location, Takbir user ID, and transaction ID for refunds. Additionally, we may collect other information about you automatically or that you voluntarily provide to us. We use this information in accordance with our Privacy Policy to investigate your concerns and respond to your queries.

When you use our Services, we also automatically collect certain information, including technical details about your device or computer, such as your IP address, browser, operating system, device type, domain, and other similar details about platform and system types.
Information on your interactions with the Services, such as the content you accessed, the time you spent on Pages or the Service, the pages you viewed, the features you used, the search terms you entered, the clicks you made, the dates and time stamps of your activities, the referrers that led you to the Services, and other data pertaining to your use of the Services.

Your IP address is used to estimate your general geographic location, including your country, city, and geographic coordinates.

Third-Party Data

In addition to the information you provide, we may gather some business contact details from third-party sources that pertain to your company or potential customers if you are affiliated with Takbir Business.

How we collect data about you

The information mentioned earlier is gathered through the utilization of various tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, and similar tools. Certain tools offer the option to refrain from data collection.

Cookies and Data Collection Tools

Our platform, Takbir, utilizes cookies to collect, store, and share information regarding your online activity, which enables us to remember your preferences and enhance your user experience.

Additionally, we may utilize transparent email pixels to monitor email delivery and open rates. Our team and third-party service providers may use a range of automated data collection tools such as beacons, scripts, and web beacons (also known as "Data Collectors") to track and collect specific information related to your device or browser usage when utilizing our Services. We may also combine data gathered through these tools with other information we collect as outlined in our Privacy Policy.

Why do we use data collection tools?

Takbir uses the following types of tools for the following purposes described:

Strictly Necessary: ​​By utilizing these data collection tools, you can gain access to the Website and utilize its fundamental features such as logging in or accessing content. Additionally, these tools assist in securing the Website, preventing fraudulent access, and identifying and thwarting any inappropriate use of your account information. They are an essential component for the Services to operate correctly. Disabling them may cause certain sections of the site to malfunction or become inaccessible.

Functional: The data collection instruments keep track of your browser and preferences, enhance site functionality, personalize content to suit your needs, and save settings that affect how the Services appear and behave, such as your preferred language or video playback volume level.

Performance: The tools for collecting data aid in the measurement and enhancement of the Services by offering insights on usage and performance metrics, visitor volume, traffic origin, and the location of application downloads. Through these instruments, we can evaluate Takbir to determine the user-preferred features and content, as well as which emails are being accessed.

Advertising: The tools used for gathering data enable targeted advertising that is based on information we have about you, including your communication, system, and usage data. This information is obtained by advertising service providers through tracking data, and ads may be tailored to your recent or long-term activity across various websites and services. To offer personalized ads, we may share an anonymous and encrypted version of your email address and public content from the Services with these service providers.

Social Media: Using these data collection tools, you can engage in social media activities such as sharing content with your friends and networks. However, these cookies have the ability to monitor you or your device on other websites and generate profiles of your interests, which can be used for personalized advertising.

It is possible to set up your web browser to alert you when there are efforts to store cookies on your device, restrict the kinds of cookies permitted, or reject cookies entirely. However, if you choose to do this, there is a possibility that certain functions of the Services may not be accessible to you or that your experience may be altered or less effective.

What We Use Your Data For:

The information you provide is utilized by us for various purposes such as offering our Services, keeping in touch with you, resolving any technical problems, preventing any fraudulent or abusive activities, and enhancing and upgrading our Services. We maintain your information for the duration necessary to accomplish the goals for which it was gathered.

The data that we gather from your usage of the Services is utilized for the following reasons:
To facilitate your involvement in educational content, issue certificates of completion, display personalized content, help you communicate with other users, process payments to instructors and other third parties, and fulfill your requests and orders for educational content, products, specific services, information, or features.

Whom we share your data with

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in various situations, including but not limited to when you order educational content, products, specific services, information, or features.

These third parties may include faculty, other learners, service providers, business partners, analytics and data enrichment providers, social media platforms, promotion and survey vendors, and advertising companies that help us promote our services. We may also share your information in compliance with security or regulatory requirements or in the event of business restructuring. Additionally, we may share your information in aggregated or anonymized form or with your consent.

Privacy Policy

We may provide your instructors or teaching assistants with information regarding your use of educational content or any requested information, to help them enhance the content for you and other learners. This information may consist of details like your location, browser language, device settings, operating system, the website that led you to Takbir, and specific actions you take on Takbir, such as browsing course registrations and evaluations.

With other Learners and Instructors

Your shared content and profile information may be visible to the public, including other learners and instructors, depending on your privacy settings. If you interact with an instructor or teaching assistant, your information, including your name, may also be publicly displayed. It's important to note that any public forum such as chat rooms, message boards, or newsgroups can be seen by other participants, so refrain from sharing confidential or proprietary information through these channels. This includes your account and profile data.

Service Providers and Contractors

Your information may be shared with third-party companies that provide services on our behalf, such as, fraud prevention, abuse prevention, data analysis, marketing and advertising (including retargeting advertising), courier and hosting services, customer service, and support. These service providers may have access to your information and are only authorized to use it as instructed by us in order to fulfill the Service you have requested.

With business partners

Our services are available on various websites and platforms, and we have established agreements with them to promote Takbir and increase its online presence. Depending on your location, we may share your account data, training data, communication and support, and system data with our reliable partners

Continuing Education Credit Organizations

In the event that you are enrolled in a course to meet your continuing professional development obligation, we may disclose this information to the Continuing Education Credit Organization if requested.

With data enrichment and analytics services

We utilize third-party analytics tools like Google Analytics and data enrichment services such as ZoomInfo, which involve the sharing of certain contact or anonymous information. Anonymous data is information that has been stripped of personal identifiers, like your name and email address, and replaced with a token identifier. This enables vendors to provide analytics services or match your information with publicly available data in their database, including social and contact information from other sources. Our aim in doing so is to improve our communication with you by making it more efficient and personalized.

To improve social media features

When using our Services, you may encounter social media features like the Facebook Like button. These features may permit a third-party social media provider to obtain certain data from you, including your IP address, location, and the specific page you are visiting on our Services. To facilitate this feature, a cookie may be set by the third party. Please note that your use of these features is governed by the privacy policy of the third party provider.

For security and legal compliance

We reserve the right to share your information, including all categories of data, with third parties if we believe in good faith (in our sole discretion) that such disclosure is necessary for the following reasons:

1. To comply with a judicial, regulatory, or legal investigation, warrant, or process;
2. To satisfy a valid subpoena, court order, or other valid request;
3. To enforce our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and other legal agreements;
4. To detect or prevent fraud, abuse, potential violations of law or regulations, or security or technical issues;
5. To protect the rights, property, or safety of Takbir, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services, as determined in our sole discretion;
6. To allow our auditors and legal counsel to assess our obligations and rights to disclose information under this Privacy Policy as required or permitted by law.

If Takbir is involved in a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, assignment, dissolution, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, we may share, disclose or transfer all of your information to the other organization involved in that transition or change review (including due diligence).

We may use aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, and with your consent, we may share information with third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.

Security:

We implement appropriate measures to protect data based on its nature and sensitivity. Despite our efforts, there is always a risk of unauthorized access, as with any online system. It is your responsibility to safeguard your password and notify us if you suspect any unauthorized activity on your account.

To ensure the security of personal information collected and stored by Takbir, we take appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures are customized to the sensitivity and nature of the data.

However, no system is entirely impervious to breaches, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized parties will not have access to communications between you and Takbir or the information you provide through our services.

Your password plays a crucial role in our security system, and it is your responsibility to protect it. You should not share your password with anyone, and if you suspect any compromise of your account, you should change it immediately and contact our support team for assistance.

Your rights:

You are entitled to certain rights in relation to the use of your information. These rights include the ability to opt out of receiving promotional emails, cookies, and data collection by specific third parties. Additionally, you can manage your account on our Services and reach out to us if you have any requests regarding your information. If you are a parent and believe that we have unintentionally collected personally identifiable information about your child, please contact us so that we can assist you in deleting it.

To access and modify the information collected and stored by Takbir, please log in to your account and make changes as needed. Please note that even if you close your account, other people may still be able to view some or all of your information. As per our Privacy Policy, we may retain and disclose such information even after your account has been closed.

Updates and Contact details

In case there is a significant alteration to this policy, we will inform users through email, in-app alerts, or any other legally mandated means. Such changes will take effect from the day they are made public. If you have any queries, apprehensions, or disagreements, feel free to reach out to us via email or postal service.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and in case of a significant change, we will inform you through email or by posting a notice on the Services. A summary of the major changes will also be provided.

The changes will come into effect on the day they are posted, unless stated otherwise. If you continue to use the Services after the effective date of any change, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy. The new policy will replace all previous privacy policies, subject to applicable law.

Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 3/10/23. If you would like further information in relation to your rights or would like to exercise any of them, you may also contact us via Takbir