Privacy policy

The short version

• On this website, the only personal information we ask for is what you type into the demo form — such as your name, school, phone number or email — so we can arrange your demo and reply to you.
• No cookies, no analytics and no advertising trackers on this website.
• We do not sell personal information. A few service providers handle it for us: Vercel hosts the website, Resend delivers the form to our inbox, our business email provider keeps it, and Google Fonts serves the website’s fonts.
• If your school uses Aasiri, your school decides what is recorded about its students, parents and staff. We store and process that information on the school’s behalf, in India, under our agreement with the school.
• Email admin@step2play.com to see, correct or delete what we hold about you.

Who we are

Aasiri is a school management platform made by Step2Play Technologies Private Limited (“Step2Play”, “we”, “us”), a software company based in India. This policy covers our website, www.aasiri.com, and the Aasiri platform — the web app, the Aasiri mobile app and the AasiriRider app for bus crew.

For enquiries sent through this website, we decide why and how the information is used, so in the language of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, we are the data fiduciary. For the records a school keeps in Aasiri, the school is the data fiduciary and we act on its instructions (see The Aasiri platform).

This website

When you request a demo

The demo form asks for your name, your role, your school’s name and city, roughly how many students it has, your phone number and/or email address, the plan you are curious about, and anything you would like to see. Your name, your school and at least one way to reach you are required; everything else is optional. The form also sends the address of the page you sent it from, such as /contact/ — only that one page, not your browsing history.

When the form arrives, our server also reads your IP address (the internet address your device connects from). It is used only to protect the form from spam, as explained below, and it is not included in the email we receive.

The form contains a hidden field that people never see. Automated spam tools tend to fill it in; when that happens, the submission is thrown away and never reaches us.

When you email us

We receive your email address and whatever you choose to include, and we handle it the same way as a demo request.

What we do not collect

There are no accounts, logins or payments on this website. It does not ask for your location, camera or microphone, and its security settings block them. Please do not send passwords, bank or card details, government ID numbers, or information about individual students through the form or by email — we do not need them to arrange a demo.

Cookies and tracking

This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics, advertising or tracking tools. The images and videos are served from our own website. The fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so when a page loads, Google receives the technical details your browser sends with any request, such as your IP address and browser type. The share buttons on blog articles do nothing until you click one; then they open WhatsApp, LinkedIn or X, whose own privacy policies apply.

How we use it

• To arrange and run your demo, and to reply to your questions.
• To continue the conversation you started — for example, to send you a proposal you asked for.
• To protect the form from abuse. Our server notes the IP address each request comes from and, on each running copy of the server, turns away more than five from the same address in an hour. These notes are held only in the server’s temporary memory; they are not written to a database or a file, and they disappear when that copy of the server restarts.

We use your details because you chose to send them to us for a clear purpose: arranging a demo. Sending the form does not add you to a mailing list. If you would like us to stop using your information, tell us and we will.

Who else handles it

We do not sell your information or share it with anyone for their own marketing. These service providers handle it on our behalf:

• Vercel hosts this website and runs the small piece of server code that receives the form. Like any web host, it receives the technical details every browser sends when it loads a page, and may keep them in its logs for a limited period to run and secure its service.
• Resend delivers the email our server builds from your form to our inbox, and may keep a copy and a delivery record for a limited period so delivery problems can be traced.
• Our business email provider hosts the inbox where your request is kept once it arrives.
• Google Fonts serves the website’s fonts, as described above.

Some of these providers may process information outside India. We use them only for the purposes described here.

How long we keep it

We keep a demo request for as long as we are talking with you, and for a reasonable time afterwards in case you come back to us. You can ask us to delete it at any time.

The Aasiri platform

This section is for schools that use Aasiri, and for the students, parents and staff of those schools.

Your school is in charge of its data

Each school decides what it records in Aasiri about its students, parents and staff, who can see it, and how long it is kept. Step2Play stores and processes that information only to provide Aasiri to the school, on the school’s instructions and under our written agreement with it. If you are a parent, student or staff member with a question about your records, please contact your school first; we will help the school respond.

What Aasiri holds

Depending on which features a school switches on, Aasiri may hold: names, classes and contact details of students, parents and staff; attendance, leave and diary entries; assignments, quiz answers, marks and report cards; fee structures, payments and receipts; chat messages and community posts; admission applications; hostel room allocations and in/out records; canteen wallet balances and purchases; and bus routes, stops and trip locations.

Where it is stored and how it is protected

The Aasiri platform runs on Google Cloud in its Mumbai (India) region. Every school’s data is kept separate from every other school’s, and every request is checked against the school it belongs to. Access depends on each person’s role. Attendance and report-card marks cannot be deleted — only corrected, with the previous value kept — and changes to grades, fees and attendance are recorded in an audit log. People can see their active sessions and sign out of all of them.

Bus tracking

The AasiriRider app records the location of the bus crew’s phone only while a trip that the crew has started is running, so that the school and the parents of children on that bus can see where it is and when it will reach their stop. Individual location points are deleted after 30 days; the record of each trip and the times it reached its stops are kept. Bus maps are drawn using map images from OpenFreeMap, whose servers receive the viewer’s IP address when a map loads.

TeachPilot and AI features

Questions typed into TeachPilot, and requests for AI quiz drafts, are sent to Google’s Gemini service so it can find the relevant textbook passages and write a reply. Please do not include personal details about students in these questions — they are not needed.

Notifications

Aasiri sends notifications inside the app. On phones, push notifications are delivered through Expo’s push service, and where a school uses email notifications, they are delivered by our email provider. People can choose which kinds of notification they receive.

No advertising

Aasiri shows no advertising. We do not sell school data, and we do not use it to build marketing profiles of students, parents or staff.

How long it is kept

A school’s data is kept for as long as the school uses Aasiri, and as set out in our agreement with the school. A school can export its records, and when it stops using Aasiri its data is deleted as agreed with the school.

Children

This website and its demo form are meant for school owners, leaders and staff, not for children. In the Aasiri platform, children’s information is processed only on their school’s instructions; the school is responsible for obtaining a parent’s or guardian’s consent where the law requires it.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it, and you can withdraw your consent to our using it. You may also nominate someone to exercise these rights for you. For information a school holds about you in Aasiri, please ask your school, which decides what happens to it. We reply to requests within a reasonable time.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy when our website, our platform or the law changes. The date at the top shows when it last changed.

Contact and grievances

For any privacy question, request or complaint, email admin@step2play.com. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Step2Play Technologies Private Limited