Iceboat Studio takes your privacy and data protection seriously. We work hard to make sure our use of personal data is transparent and to make your rights and choices easy to understand. Hence, we wrote this Privacy Policy to help you understand what information we collect, how we use it and what choices you have about it. Because we are a technology-based website, some of the concepts below are a little technical, but we have tried our best to explain things in a simple and clear way. We welcome your questions and comments on this Privacy Policy.
You will appreciate that it is extremely difficult to cover exhaustively all matters concerning privacy in every detail. However, we have ensured that we cover all important and relevant matters to make you understand how we collect, store and share information and enable you to make an informed judgment before you use our Services. We want to ensure that you understand how we collect, store, secure, retain, use, disclose, share, transfer and dispose of your information.
Remember that your use of the Services is at all times subject to the Terms of Service on website which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Privacy Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms. The general provisions as outlined in the Terms shall be applicable to this Privacy Policy as well.
Our mission is to provide a world class technology-based training that: (i) offers a high-quality online courses for learners in the AEC industry to access courses and resources that meet their needs and interests; (ii) help learners acquire new knowledge, skills, and competencies that can improve their professional lives; (iii) enables learners to connect with peers and instructors, including through online forums and discussion groups, providing a sense of community and support; and (iv) support learners in achieving their career goals, including by connecting them with reputable employers and job opportunities that match their skills and interests.
In order to accomplish our mission and objectives, we are required to collect, store and process personal data of our Students, Hiring Partners and other Users.
Our commitment is not only to provide our Services, but also to secure your personal data in full compliance with the applicable laws in the jurisdictions we operate (collectively “Data Protection Laws”).
This Privacy Policy describes the privacy and security practices that Iceboat Studio employs when collecting, using and handling (processing) personal data and information about you in connection with our Services. It also explains the choices you have in relation to these processing activities.
Personal data or information means any data about an individual who is identifiable by or in relation to such data i.e. all information that relates to an identified individual or to an identifiable individual. For example, your name, address, or email address.
It is important to point out that we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please just visit this page if you want to stay up to date, as we will post any changes here.
This Privacy Policy applies in relevant countries where we do business, although different countries may approach data privacy in slightly different ways and so we also have country specific parts to this Privacy Policy.
As part of our Services, we may send you text messages. This section specifically addresses our SMS/text messaging practices and your related rights:
We have explained below the reasons why Iceboat Studio needs to collect your personal data and this forms our legal basis for processing your personal data and information.
Your Consent
Your use of the Services and the processing of information about you for the purposes providing our Services are based on your consent. Any processing of your personal data in connection with your use of the Services is based on your explicit consent. Please note that you can always close your account and withdraw your consent, although this may affect our ability to provide you, our Services.
In certain circumstances, we are required to obtain your consent to process your personal data in relation to certain activities. Depending on exactly what we are doing with your information, this consent will be opt-in consent or soft opt-in consent. The Data Protection Laws require that consent should be freely given, should be specific and unconditional and be based on informed and unambiguous indication of the individual’s wish by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her. In plain language, this means that: (i) you have to give us your consent freely, without us putting you under any type of pressure; (ii) you have to know what you are consenting to – so we will make sure we give you enough information; (iii) you should have control over which processing activities you consent to and which you don’t; and (iv) you need to take positive and affirmative action in giving us your consent. We will obtain your consent in a document when the subscribe to our Services or provide a tick box for you to check so that this requirement is met in a clear and unambiguous fashion. We may also provide for such other methods by which the above requirement can be met. As we have mentioned, you have the right to withdraw your consent to these activities.
Performance of Contract
Iceboat Studio enables its learners to purchase the Courses offered by Iceboat Academia and enhance their knowledge and skills and also get placed with reputed employers and our User contractual obligation towards our Students is based upon terms and conditions published by Iceboat Studio from time to time on its Website. These terms and conditions set out the essential provisions that govern: (i) its relationship with the Users and clearly define and document our rights, responsibilities and obligations; (ii) a User’s access to and use of the Services; and (iii) the transactions and activities undertaken by a User pursuant to the Services. We may have to process your information to perform our contractual obligations towards you. For example, where you have purchased a course from us and we need to use your contact details and payment information in order to process your order and deliver your services.
Legitimate Interests
If you are a Student and have enrolled to our Courses and Services, we feel its reasonable to expect that you are happy for us to collect and use personal data about you to help you provide our Courses and Services. We need to do these things so that we can function as a business, and provide and help you with availing our Courses and Services.
The processing of information about you as part of our Services is based on our legitimate interest to enable you to effectively enroll and avail our Courses and Services.
Simply put, our processing of information about you for business operations purposes is based on our legitimate interest in operating our business in an efficient and appropriate manner. We have to make sure our business runs smoothly, so that we can carry on providing Services to our Users.
Establishing, Exercising or Defending Legal Claims
Sometimes, it may be necessary for us to process personal data in connection with exercising or defending legal claims. The Data Protection Laws allow this when the processing "is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity." This may arise, for example, when we need to take legal advice in relation to legal proceedings or are required by law to preserve or disclose certain information as part of the legal process.
Communications
In order to communicate adequately with you and to respond to your requests, we need to process information about you and therefore have a legitimate interest in processing your information.
When you provide your phone number through our website contact forms, the following applies:
While we may share certain personal information with third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, we specifically exclude SMS/text messaging consent and phone numbers collected for messaging purposes from such sharing. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties.
We are extremely transparent about the information we collect from our Users and we allow all our Users to choose what information they wish to provide us. When you access or use the Services, we collect various types of information about you through different means as described below. Here's a more detailed look at the information we may collect and process. The information described below is, of course, in addition to any personal data we are required by law to process in any given situation.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity & Contact
When you visit the website, you can browse without submitting any personal information about yourself. We will, however, receive and store some non-personally identifiable information about your visit, as described below. In order to participate in certain functionalities, you may be asked to provide personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information is information that can identify you, including, for example your name or email address. It will always be your choice, or the choice of anyone acting for you, to provide personally identifiable information.
When you ernroll for our Course or use our Services, we collect information that you provide voluntarily during your enrollment. This includes information such as:
In addition to the above, you may also choose to add more details and information about yourself. These may include the following:
Please note that you do not have to provide additional information to enroll for course and it is solely at your choice to do so, including whether or not to include any personal information. We collect information that only you choose to give us.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Transaction Data
This includes details about payments to and from you and other details of Services you have purchased from us.
Communications
If you contact us for customer support or otherwise communicate with us, we collect the content of these communications.
Location Information
When we provide our Services, we may ask you for, access, or track geo-location-based information from your device while downloading from or using our website. If you choose to engage with these Services, we will receive certain information about your location, which may include country, state, city, or more specific location information, in order to provide you with the requested Services including geographically relevant features, offers, applications, and application recommendations.
Technical & Usage Data
When you access the or use the Services, certain information is stored in our servers automatically. The information captured automatically includes the following:
As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We may also collect information about your visit including the pages you visited, frequency of your visits, what you searched for, length of visits and methods used to browse away from the page. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive technical data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.
We also collect anonymous information through our use of cookies and web beacons.
The Website uses persistent and session cookies and other similar technologies to offer you a personalised experience and to remember your browsing preferences, including your log in details and choice of language. Cookies are stored primarily to ensure that in the event you return to the Website, it shall personalise your browsing. This information may, where permitted by Applicable Law, also be combined with other information we hold about you. The cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be accessed by your web page server in our domain. You can disable our cookies or all cookies through your browser settings. Upon the beginning of each of your visits to the Website, the Website also provides the choice to turn off all cookies which are not strictly necessary for the provision of Services. Please be advised that disabling cookies through either method may impact many of the Website’s features. In addition to cookies, we and/or our third-party advertising partners may use technologies that help us better manage and analyse content.
Technical service partners
We sometimes receive information about you from technical service partners.
When we ask you to supply us with personal data, we will make it clear whether the personal data we are asking for must be supplied so that we can provide the Services to you, or whether the supply of any personal data we ask for is optional.
We generally use your information for the purposes described below:
Providing Services
We may use your personal data to fulfil a contract or take steps linked to a contract and to provide our Services to you. We may use your personal data to: (i) administer the Website; (ii) improve your browsing experience by personalising the Website; (iii) enable your use of the Services available on the Website; (iv) supply to you the Services purchased via the Website; (v) send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you; and (vi) send you email notifications which you have specifically requested.
We may also use your personal data to: (i) review your activity on our Services to detect spam or activity that poses a risk to our community or the public; (ii) analyse your log data and device information to identify and investigate suspicious behaviour or violations of our policies or Terms; (iii) conduct any verification, as appropriate; (iv) conduct analytics and research on who is using our Services and what they are doing; (v) improve our products and services and those of our group companies and offer new features; (vi) create aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you (we process, maintain, and use this information only in a de-identified fashion for the purposes of this Privacy Policy and will not attempt to re-identify such information).
Communications & Administrative Support
Consent
Where you have given your express permission to receive marketing communications, we may use your personal data to send you newsletters, surveys, information about our awards and events, examinations, offers and promotions, related to our services which may be of interest to you.
Where required by law
We may also process your personal data if required by law or to comply with applicable laws and regulations, including responding to requests by government or law enforcement agencies or for the prevention of crime or fraud.
Marketing
We may use personal data to send direct marketing communications about our products and services that we feel you will be interested in. This may be in the form of email, or by SMS or any other electronic message. We may also send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, where you have specifically agreed to this. You can always choose to opt out of receiving direct marketing as all our marketing communications include unsubscribe links, alternatively, you can contact us to stop further communications. We will not share your personal data with anyone else for their own marketing purposes unless we have your permission to do this.
Statistical Purposes
We may use personal data for statistical purposes such as analysing the performance of our sites and apps and to understand how visitors use them. We may look at what you have viewed on our sites and apps and what services you have bought to better understand what your interests and preferences are.
Security of the Website
We may use personal data to maintain the security of the Website and our systems and networks. For example, we may process information about you when investigating suspicious activity on our sites, systems and networks.
Where appropriate and in accordance with laws and requirements, we may share your personal data, in various ways and for various reasons, with the following categories of people. Any organisation which accesses your data in the course of providing services on our behalf will be governed by strict contractual restrictions to make sure that they protect your data and comply with all data privacy laws that apply. We will ensure there is a contract in place with the categories of recipients listed below which include obligations in relation to the confidentiality, security and lawful processing of any personal data shared with them. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. We may also independently audit these service providers to make sure that they meet our standards.
Employees of Iceboat Studio
We may share your personal data with the employees, personnel and members of staff within Iceboat Studio when you provide Iceboat /studio with your information. We take all reasonable steps to ensure that our employees, personnel and staff protect your personal data and are aware of their information security obligations. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a business need to know it.
Third Parties
We may also share your personal data with trusted third parties including:
Law Enforcement Agencies & Prevention of Unlawful Acts
We may disclose your personal data:
Successors
We may reveal your personal data to any other organisation that buys, or to which we transfer all, or substantially all, of our assets and business. If this sale or transfer takes place, we will use reasonable efforts to try to make sure that the organisation we transfer your personal data to uses it in line with our privacy policy. If we were to engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the information described in this Privacy Policy, we would share your information with a party involved in such a process (for example, a potential purchaser).
Iceboat Studio is a worldwide service. By using our products or services, you authorize us to transfer and store your information outside your home country for the purposes described in this policy.
Data we collect may be transferred to, stored and processed in any country or territory where one or more of our group companies or service providers are based or have facilities. While other countries or territories may not have the same standards of data protection as those in your home country, we will continue to protect personal data that we transfer in line with this Privacy Policy.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of India, we ensure similar protection and put in place at least one of these safeguards:
The term for which we shall be retaining your personal information depends solely on the nature of the information. The storage periods are determined on a case-by-case basis. We keep account information, like your name, email address, and password, for as long as your account is in existence because we need it to operate your account.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we cannot use it to identify you.
We may, however, retain your personal information for: (i) accounting purposes for such time period as is prescribed under Applicable Law; and (ii) for legal purposes till the completion of statutory limitation for bringing any suit, if any. We will also retain your information for the purposes and for such time periods as may be prescribed under Applicable Laws.
Under certain circumstances, we alter the personal information collected from Users to render it anonymous so that it could no longer be personally identifiable. In the event of such anonymization of data, we shall have the right to retain such data for as long as we require and use such data without intimating you of such use and for any lawful purposes of whatsoever nature, whether mentioned in this Privacy Policy or not.
To the extent permitted or required by law, Iceboat Studio may delete your personal data at any time. As a result, you should retain your own copy of any information you submit to us.
Retention of your personal and sensitive data by a third party shall be governed by their privacy policies and Iceboat Studio is neither responsible nor could be held liable for any breach or non-compliance from such party’s part.
Iceboat Studio has implemented appropriate technical, physical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, damage, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access as well as all other forms of unlawful processing or further processing.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict protocols and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
You are responsible for the personal data that you provide or make available to Iceboat Studio, and you must ensure it is relevant, truthful, accurate and not misleading in any way. Please ensure that you do not suppress any material information while providing your personal data. You shall not impersonate another person while providing your personal data. Further, if you provide any personal data concerning any other person, such as individuals you provide as references, you are responsible for providing any notices and obtaining any consents necessary for Iceboat Studio to collect and use that information as described in this Privacy Policy. While we are taking all possible measures to secure your personal data in full compliance with the applicable laws, we too expect you to not register false or frivolous grievances or complaints against us.
You have legal rights under the Data Protection Laws in relation to your personal data. For information about you collected by us or as otherwise required by law, you may request to exercise some or all of the following rights and choices regarding how we process your personal data.
We may ask you for proof of identity when making a request to exercise any of these rights. We do this to ensure we only disclose information or take any action when we know we are dealing with the right person.
We will not charge you for any of these requests unless we think your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Where a fee is necessary, we will inform you before we proceed with your request
We aim to respond to all valid requests within 30 (thirty) days. It may however take us longer if the request is particularly complicated or you have made several requests. We will always let you know if we think a response will take longer than 30 (thirty) days. To speed up our response, we may ask you to provide more details about what you want to receive or are concerned about.
We may not always be able to do what you have asked, for example, if it would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others, or if we are otherwise legally entitled to deal with the request in a different way.
We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise your rights or options related to your personal information. You have choices regarding your information with Iceboat Studio.
The Website is not for minors and we do not collect personal information of minors. If you are under the age of 18 (eighteen) years, you shall not access and use the Website and the Services.
This Privacy Policy on management and confidentiality of personal data may be periodically updated to reflect changes in our personal data confidentiality practices. In case of substantial changes, we will notify you with a clearly visible message on our Website, indicating the date of the last update in the beginning of the Privacy Policy.
We ensure compliance with Applicable Laws by periodically updating this Privacy Policy. Hence, you are strongly advised to read this Privacy Policy carefully from time to time.
Iceboat Studio has appointed a Grievance/Data Protection Officer, as identified below. If you believe Iceboat Studio has used information about you in a way that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy or if you have questions or comments related to our privacy practices or other grievances, please contact the Grievance/Data Protection Officer.
INDIA
Name: Utkarsh Kankariya
Registered Address: Westport, Suite 407, Pancard Club Road, Baner - 411045, Pune, India
Email: support@iceboatacademia.com
Contact Number: +91-7744007411
Last Updated: September 25, 2025
