Privacy Policy

01Who we are

Yume Ga Kanau™ (Yume Ga Kanau Japanese Learning Institute) is an online Japanese language institute founded in December 2025 by Parveen Kaur, who teaches the classes and is the person responsible for the information described here. We operate from India and teach students worldwide.

For anything in this policy, including a request to see or delete your data, write to yumegakanau22@gmail.com. That address is also our point of contact for grievances under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

02What we collect, and why

There is exactly one place on this website where you can give us information: the trial-class form on the contact page. Nothing is collected as you browse.

Name

So Sensei knows who she is replying to.

Email address

So she can reply to you. Replies go to this address and nowhere else.

Current level

To judge which of the four stages to suggest, and which batch might suit you.

What you want

Whether you are aiming at the JLPT, at conversation, or at Business Japanese, so the trial class is pitched usefully.

Your notes

Anything else you choose to tell us — your timezone, your schedule, a question. This box is optional, and it is entirely up to you what goes in it.

Our lawful basis for using this is simple: you asked us to contact you about classes, and we cannot answer without it. If you later enrol, we will use the same details to run your classes.

What we deliberately do not collect

• No account, no password. There is nothing to sign up for on this website.
• No payment details. No payment is taken through this site. Fees, when they apply, are arranged separately with Sensei.
• No tracking. No analytics, no advertising pixels, no fingerprinting, no session recording, no third-party scripts.
• No cookies. See the Cookie Policy.

03Where your information goes

When you submit the form, our server composes a single email and sends it to Sensei’s inbox. The website itself keeps no copy — there is no database behind it. Three companies are unavoidably involved, and it is fair that you know who they are:

Vercel

Hosts this website and runs the code that sends the email. Like any web host, its servers process your IP address and browser type in order to serve pages, and keep short-lived operational logs. It does not receive a copy of your enquiry.

Google (Gmail)

Carries and stores the email once it is sent, because Sensei’s inbox is a Gmail account. Your enquiry therefore sits in that mailbox, subject to Google’s terms.

WhatsApp (Meta)

Only if you choose it. The WhatsApp button opens a chat with our number — at which point Meta processes that conversation under its own policies. Enrolled students also receive study materials through a batch WhatsApp group, which means the other students in that group can see your display name and number.

We do not sell your information, we do not rent it, and we do not pass it to advertisers or data brokers. We would only ever disclose it if the law required us to.

Because Sensei teaches internationally and these services operate globally, your information may be processed on servers outside your country, including outside India and the EEA.

04How long we keep it

• If you enquire and do not enrol: the email stays in Sensei’s inbox so she can follow up, and is deleted on request. We review and clear old enquiries periodically.
• If you enrol: we keep what we need to teach you and to meet any tax or accounting obligation, and no longer.
• If you ask us to delete it: we delete it, except where we are legally required to retain a record.

05Your rights

Wherever you are, you can ask us to do any of the following, free of charge, by writing to yumegakanau22@gmail.com:

• tell you what we hold about you, and give you a copy;
• correct anything that is wrong or out of date;
• delete what we hold;
• stop using it for a particular purpose;
• raise a complaint about how we have handled it — and, if we cannot resolve it between us, take that complaint to your data protection authority.

Students in India have these rights under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and may complain to the Data Protection Board of India. Students in the UK and the EU have equivalent rights under the UK GDPR and the GDPR, including the right to complain to their national supervisory authority. We aim to answer any such request within 30 days.

06Learners under 18

We teach younger learners, and we take this seriously. If the student is under 18, the trial-class form should be filled in by a parent or legal guardian, who is the person we will then correspond with. We do not knowingly collect information directly from a child without that consent, we do not use a child’s information for advertising or profiling of any kind, and if we find we have collected something we should not have, we delete it. A parent or guardian can contact us at any time to see, correct or delete their child’s information.

07Keeping it safe

The site is served over HTTPS, so what you type into the form is encrypted in transit, and the email is sent over an authenticated, encrypted connection to Google’s mail servers. Because we store nothing ourselves, there is no database of student enquiries to be breached. Access to Sensei’s inbox is protected by two-step verification.

No method of transmission is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise — but we have kept the amount of information at risk as small as we reasonably can.

08Changes to this policy

If we start doing something new with your information — adding analytics, say, or taking payments on the site — we will update this page and change the “last reviewed” date at the top before that change goes live. This policy applies to yumegakanau.in only; pages we link to elsewhere have their own.