Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Vidya Fashion Academy ("VFA", "we", "our", or "the Academy"), operating from Bengaluru, Karnataka, is committed to safeguarding the privacy and personal information of our prospective students, workshop participants, institutional partners, and site visitors.

This policy outlines how we handle information gathered through our website (vfaonline.in and related domain aliases).

2. Zero-Gate Interactive Tools (Device-Only Privacy)

We believe career clarity should be freely accessible. Our interactive tools—the Starting Point Diagnostic and the Independent Maker Income Planner—run 100% client-side in your web browser:

• Your self-assessment answers, production hours, pricing models, and target calculations remain strictly on your local device.
• No answers are tracked, stored, or sent to our servers during your calculation.
• Tool data is only transmitted if you explicitly choose to check the option "Attach my calculation summary to my studio enquiry" upon submitting a consultation request.

3. Information We Collect Through Enquiries

When you voluntarily submit an enquiry, book a studio counselling visit, or request institutional workshop hosting, we collect:

• Contact details: Full name, verified mobile phone number (used for WhatsApp and phone consultations), and email address.
• Educational background & intent: Your preferred course or workshop, current sewing or design experience level, and preferred consultation schedule.
• Institutional hosting requests (Shingo Sato Tour): Institution name, campus city, department contact person, expected cohort size, and lab facilities available.
• Technical metadata: Date/time stamp, unique submission reference ID (UUID), and browser client user-agent for fraud prevention and duplicate submission prevention.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use your enquiry details strictly for legitimate educational operations:

• To schedule and confirm your one-on-one studio counselling session at our Bengaluru atelier.
• To answer your specific questions regarding diploma syllabi, batch timings, and material requirements.
• To coordinate institutional hosting logistics for masterclasses and the Shingo Sato India Tour.
• To send you our official prospectus and verified course outline upon request.

We do not sell, rent, trade, or monetize your contact information with any third-party advertisers or lead-generation brokers under any circumstances.

5. Data Retention & Storage

Enquiry data is retained in our secure operational intake system for a maximum duration of 180 days to support ongoing admission and counselling cycles, after which inactive lead records are routinely purged.

Durable submission receipt IDs are stored to verify that requests have been fulfilled and prevent duplicate automated submissions.

6. Third-Party Sub-Processors

To deliver reliable digital infrastructure, we utilize trusted enterprise cloud infrastructure:

• Cloudflare: Edge hosting, CDN, and DDoS protection.
• Self-Hosted Infrastructure: Our editorial journal content and API endpoints operate under secured server configurations with restricted role-based access.

7. Your Rights & Contact

Under applicable Indian data protection principles and digital privacy standards, you have the right to request access to your submitted enquiry record, request rectification of your contact details, or request that your information be permanently deleted from our counselling registry.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our administrative desk directly: