Last updated: June 6, 2025

1. Introduction

Scorpyns Technologies Private Limited ("we", "our", "us", "Company") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our platform Ranks Apart ("Platform", "Service") and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We provide this Privacy Policy to explain our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of information that applies to our Platform, along with the choices you can make about the collection and use of your information.

2. Information We Collect

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

2.1 Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). This may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Username
Phone number
Date of birth
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Profile pictures
Educational information (for verification purposes)
Cookies and Usage Data

2.2 Verification Data

For users requesting verification as toppers, we may collect additional information such as:

Exam details (exam name, year, rank)
Educational institution information
Documentation proving your achievements

2.3 Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

2.4 Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service
To notify you about changes to our Service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
To verify user credentials for "topper" status
To monitor the usage of our Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer

4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

We will only collect and process your Personal Data where we have a legal basis to do so. Our legal bases include:

Contractual necessity: To perform the contract we have with you
Legitimate interests: In certain cases, we process your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way that might reasonably be expected as part of running our platform
Compliance with legal obligations: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
Consent: Where you have given us consent to process your personal data for specified purposes

5. Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

6. Data Transfer

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside India and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to India and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

7. Data Disclosure

We may disclose your Personal Data in the following situations:

Business Transaction: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale.
To Affiliates: To our subsidiaries and affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
To Service Providers: To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To fulfill the purpose: To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For other purposes: With your consent for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
Legal Obligation: If we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Data in order to comply with any legal obligation.
Protection of Rights: To protect our rights, property, or safety and that of our users or others.

8. Data Security

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Some specific security measures we employ include:

Encryption of sensitive data
Regular security audits
Secure network infrastructure
Access controls for our staff
Regular software updates

9. Your Data Protection Rights

You have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

10. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children under 13. If you become aware that a Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from Children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

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

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they're posted on this page.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://scorpyns.com
Scorpyns Technologies Private Limited
Founders: Raman Sandhu and Anandy Goel