Privacy Policy

Introduction

Thank you for visiting the official website of Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai (https://www.shrisharadashramamtiruvannamalai.in/) and reviewing the Privacy Statement. Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai, is committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to its website. This privacy policy describes the collection, use, and security of information received when users visit its sites. From time to time, Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai may amend provisions of this policy.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

1. Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai, respects your privacy and recognizes the need to protect personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified such as name, address, and telephone number) you share with us. We would like to assure you that we make best efforts when it comes to protecting your privacy on our official web site https://www.shrisharadashramamtiruvannamalai.in/

2. In general, you can visit our official website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. When you visit our website, we automatically gather and store the following information about your visit, so that we can track the use of our website in order to make improvements. This information is stored and used in the aggregate only, and is not used to contact you personally:

The IP address from which you access our websites;

The type of browser and operating system used to access our websites;

The date and time you access our websites;

The pages, files, documents and links that you visit; and

The domain of the website which referred you to this website (the last website you visited before visiting this one)

The above information is analyzed for trends and statistics, but the individual user remains anonymous. Our collection of website-use information may involve the use of cookies.

3. Details of your credit card (like credit card number, expiry date, etc) or your bank account details are not stored by us in any manner.

4. This information is saved in a secure environment and is kept for our records and to make it easier for you to use our services on return visits and to serve you faster and with better quality. No third party has access to the information we collect this way.

5. All information collected shall only be used internally within Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai or shared with only authorized and identified external service provider(s), when it is of utmost necessity to do so, with the sole objective to provide the Devotees with the best possible requisitioned services. The administration shall use the information to improve the visitor experience on the site.

6. We may disclose specific information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, when required by law, to enforce our corporate policies, or to protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. We do not provide information to these agencies or companies for marketing or commercial purposes.

7. Please also note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional emails from us, we may still use your information to communicate with you for other purposes, such as orders/purchases, and customer service responses.

8. https://www.shrisharadashramamtiruvannamalai.in/ strives to ensure that any personal information provided and in its possession is as accurate, current, and complete as necessary for the purposes for which we use that information.

Cookies

We use cookies to support the internal functionality of the website. We use third-party vendors, such as, Google Analytics, to place cookies and analyze the information collected by cookies in order to make our website more useful to you.
No personally identifiable information is collected through these cookies. Information that we collect from cookies will not be used to create profiles of individual users and will only be used in aggregate form. The data is retained for as long as necessary to support the mission of our websites.

Information Security and Disclosure policy

The statistical and personally-identifying information received by Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai as a result of a visitor’s use of the Ashramam’s website will be gathered by Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai solely for internal purposes, such as helping Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai understand how often its websites are accessed and how they might be improved. None of the statistical, non–personally-identifying information collected by Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai will be used by Sri Sarada Ashramam, Tiruvannamalai to identify a visitor or be linked to any personally identifying information about the visitor. Sri Sarada Ashramam does not rent, exchange, or sell to third parties any of the information that visitors provide online.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we will employ reasonable and current Internet security methods and technologies. Credit card transactions processed are through payment Gateway and a Bank Hosted page and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology is used to encrypt your personal information when you respond to a provider’s offer and authorize us to transmit your personal information to a provider for fulfillment. Please note that a Provider may employ security methods and technologies that differ from ours, and we encourage you to read that policy before responding to a provider’s offer. We never store your credit card/bank related information on our site.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent or you can choose to turn off all cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

Personal Information of Donors

Our site (https://www.shrisharadashramamtiruvannamalai.in/) will only collect personal information which you knowingly and voluntarily provide us, for example, name, billing address, email, phone number, PAN. These pieces of information are required to prepare and send donation receipts, to communicate other information when there is a transaction failure, and to reply to the donor’s queries. We may also contact you to provide information about our programs and activities that may interest you.

Generally, only the names and addresses of international donors will be required to be displayed in the public domain, as the Ministry of Home Affairs of Govt of India has made it mandatory to provide the complete details of donors so that the identity of funding source remains in public domain (Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2015, and FCRA Notice, 21 June 2017).

But at present, we do not accept foreign contributions, since we have not applied for permission from the Govt of India for the same.

Hence the names and addresses of our donors will not be displayed in the public domain. Any sharing or disclosure requires your consent.

Security

We take reasonable steps to design and manage the website’s technology to ensure that its information technology systems, applications, and information technology infrastructure are secure. We secure credit card / debit card / wallet / net banking processing based on compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards by our payment gateway. When you use your credit card / debit card / wallet / net banking for any donation on our donation site, that transaction is always encrypted when traveling over the Internet.

Other Provisions of Our Privacy Policy

https://www.shrisharadashramamtiruvannamalai.in/ is a general audience site that is not designed nor intended to collect personal information from children under the age of 12. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 12 and does not use such information if it discovers that it has been provided. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the laws of the country, children under the age of 12 should not provide any personal information on this Site. We request that parents supervise their children while online.

Comments

You are welcome to send your comments. Please help us respond to your comments and inquiries by sending them to the appropriate office. If you have questions about this Statement of our Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at ssatvml@gmail.com