It is our mission to help middle school students explore the professional world. To achieve this, we have designed a year-long, structured fellowship where students will get hands-on exposure to the world of work and personalised coaching. It is hence critical that we create a safe and secure environment where teachers, children, and parents freely share content and ideas. Creating such a safe and secure environment is central to the success of our endeavours.

Last Updated: October 8, 2023

Introduction

This Privacy Policy governs the use of data collected by our website www.odyssey.school and our Odyssey Fellowship Program (hereafter, collectively referred to as “the Service”, “Odyssey”, or “the Odyssey Fellowship”).

By using Odyssey, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please refrain from using Odyssey. You can contact us anytime with queries about this Privacy Policy at privacy@odyssey.club.

Definitions

Profile:
This includes personally identifiable information that we collect when you register for the Service. This may include First Name, Last Name, Email, and Phone Number of the user.

Student Data: Any data collected by Odyssey that can be linked back to an individual student. This contains name, age, Email ID, name of parents, school name, phone number and the assessment data.

Odyssey Program Data: Information related to the students’ participation, progress, and performance within the Odyssey Fellowship Program.

“Program Insights”
Odyssey analyses the Odyssey Program Data and converts them into actionable points to support teachers in teaching and learning. This set of actionable data-points is collectively referred to as Insights.

What is Odyssey?

Odyssey is a year-long fellowship program for middle school students, designed to explore the world of work, discover passions, and acquire vital interdisciplinary skills. It combines live online and in-person sessions, providing exposure to various career domains and personalized coaching.

Odyssey is committed to safeguarding the privacy of student information, ensuring responsible stewardship, protection, and transparent handling of student personal information.

Odyssey and Privacy Certifications

Odyssey is committed to safeguarding the privacy of student information, ensuring responsible stewardship, protection, and transparent handling of student personal information.

Parental Consent

We collect parental consent for all students who participate in the Odyssey program. If you discover an instance where Odyssey is collecting information from a student without parental consent, please contact us immediately at privacy@odyssey.club.

Compliance with Data Protection Laws

Odyssey adheres to applicable data protection laws and regulations, ensuring the privacy and security of the data we handle.

Data Collected by Odyssey

We collect data necessary for providing Odyssey services, minimizing the data we collect about our users. This includes information from students, parents, and schools.

What is the data NOT collected for?

We do not allow advertising or sharing data for advertising for any data collected through Odyssey
We never display ads, share data for the purpose of displaying ads, or allow data collection by advertisers or data brokers
We never sell data to anyone for any purposes
We never allow profiling of our users for targeted online ads

Data Retention

Odyssey will keep your data for only as long as it is required or as mandated by law or as requested by the 3rd party. Before deleting your data, Odyssey will send out 3 reminders to you.

Cookie Policy

We use Cookies and other similar services (such as Local Storage) to keep you logged in to Odyssey, customize your Odyssey experience, understand how you use Odyssey, and promote Odyssey to relevant teachers and schools. You can remove or disable cookies via your browser settings, in which case your experience with Odyssey will not be optimal.

Abandoned accounts

We consider an account to be abandoned if it has not been accessed for over a year. We will delete an account and all content associated with such accounts. However, to prevent accidental deletion, we will notify the teacher, the school and any other email IDs associated with the account and provide an opportunity to download the data of the abandoned account.

Viewing, editing or Porting your information

Parents are encouraged to work directly with teachers and school to make any changes in your data. If however, you need to get in touch with us, you can write to privacy@odyssey.club and we will work with the school and do our best to make the required changes.

Teachers, administrators and parents can directly edit their information in their Odyssey profiles. Schools also have a right to use any other similar service and can place a request to get all of their data. We will do our best to comply with such requests. Once the pending request is processed, the data retention and deletion policies will be followed.

Deleting Odyssey Account

You have the right to “forget ability”, i.e., we will remove all your information from our systems if you so wish. If you would like to delete your Odyssey account or any content submitted to Odyssey, please send an email to to privacy@odyssey.club. We will notify you by email before deleting your account from our database. After receiving your request, we may still retain information for up to 365 days to provide customer support and prevent accidental deletion.

Data Protection Practices

We follow the latest, industry standards to protect your data. Some measures that are in place include use of highly secure, access-controlled data centres, data encryption in transit, and encryption data at rest etc.

Despite these measures, in the event of a security breach, we will notify affected account holders within the amount of time required by the local law or by Odyssey’s internal data breach policy, whichever is more stringent, so that you can take steps to keep your data safe.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may from time to time make changes to this Privacy Policy to account for changes to our practices or applicable law. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy that we believe will materially affect your rights, we will notify you by email about these changes. If you continue to use our service after you receive notice of changes to this Privacy Policy, we will assume that you have accepted these changes.

For previous versions of the Privacy Policy, please reach out to us at privacy@odyssey.club.

Contact Information

Our Data Protection Officer is Nikhil Gumbhir. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to write to us at: privacy@odyssey.club and we will reach out to you as soon as possible.

If you are based in India and you have any grievance or complaint about how your personal data is being processed you can contact the Grievance Officer for India – Nikhil Gumbhir via e-mail address privacy@odyssey.club.