Privacy Policy

PRIVACY STATEMENT

SECTION 1 – WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

Thank you for being the one to visit our website. We are committed to respect and handle your information which we collect through our website with utmost care and protect it.

This website is owned and operated by the Hare Krishna Movement, Bhilai-Raipur. In this Privacy Policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the Hare Krishna Movement : Bhilai-Raipur.

SECTION 2 – CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to donate any amount to complete a transaction, verify your debit or credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at [hkmbhilai@gmail.com]

Your queries, concerns, comments about this Privacy Policy, requests concerning your personal data are welcome and you can reach us at:

HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT – BHILAI

The Akshaya Patra Foundation Campus, Sector – 6, Bhilai, Durg – 490006. Phone : 0788 – 2284699

HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT – RAIPUR

A – 2, VIP Estate, Shankar Nagar, Raipur – 492007.

Phone: 0771 – 4056774

Web link; https://hkmraipur-bhilai.org/

Personal Information

You could be worry free on a visit to our website, because we respect your privacy and at our site, we do not collect personally identifiable information unless you provide it to us voluntarily. The Website content is accessible without any registration or collection of your personal information.

However, under specific circumstances, we gather certain personally identifiable data. Neither we sell nor trade such information collected to third parties. Also we do not share such information with third parties unless authorized by the person submitting the information or when required by law.

Donations

Utilizing our online donation page, when you generously make a donation, we collect your name, mobile number, PAN, e-mail address, postal address and zip/postal code. This information is used to acknowledge the receipt of your donation and / or to send prasadam.

When you would like to donate for any seva, you can also specify in whose name the seva should be offered to the Lord. In such cases, few additional details are collected like the sevakarta’s name, his/her relation with you, his/her rashi, nakshatra and gotra which are needed to perform sankalpa in the sevakarta’s name.

Life Patron

We also give you an opportunity to become our life patron by enrolling in one of our life patron schemes. By doing so (becoming a life patron), you get an opportunity to participate in our various Temple programs and get benefited/blessed by them. To be a part of this life patron scheme, you can send us an enquiry for more details and the enrolment procedure. In the online enquiry form, we collect your name, mobile number, email address, and life patron scheme. This data is used for subsequent communication with you.

Donor’s Personal Data

It’s our duty to retain your personal information we collect at the time of your online donation, as long as it is required for statutory or legal purposes.

Your personal information is used only for the purposes for which it is meant. With respect to your choice, we communicate to you about our Temple Festivals, events, special offers and various other opportunities for volunteering in our temple, and we use your personal data for these communications.

Charitable Activities

To encourage economically backward students of Bhilai – Raipur we offer scholarships on merit to every year who have appeared for the SSLC or II PUC exams. When you submit an application online for availing the scholarship, we collect the student’s name, parent/guardian’s name, address, zip/postal code, mobile number, e-mail address, student’s percentage marks, parent/guardian’s occupation, annual income, the course which the student wants to pursue, the name and postal address of the college or institution where he/she is admitted or seeking admission. This information is used for communication regarding any matters related to scholarship and to assess the student’s eligibility to receive the scholarship.

Free Puja

On the auspicious festival days like Sri Krishna Janmashtami and Sri Vaikuntha Ekadashi our online visitors are offered an opportunity to have a free puja performed in their name. Upon registration for free puja, they can also view the live webcast of puja on the day of the festival. The details collected while registering online for a free puja are, name, address, zip/postal code, mobile number, e-mail address, your rashi, nakshatra and gotra. This information is used to communicate with you regarding any matters related to the free puja and to perform sankalpa and puja in your name. Additionally, you can include your family members in free puja too. Registration for them also must be done for free puja, and in that case we collect the name, rashi, nakshatra and gotra of each individual member.

Talent Information

We might request you for information about your skill sets and talents you possess in areas like Music, Dance,Theatrics etc. Unlike these, if you have special talents like Graphics and Video Making, Cooking Skills, Literary and Public Speaking Skills, Organizing Skills, Leadership Skills, Technical Skills, Sports Activities, you may mention them to us too.

Online Contests

During the auspicious festival time, we conduct online contests like Pouranic Costume, Shloka Chanting Contest etc. The prime reason behind this is to impart spiritual knowledge/education to the participants and encourage them to take up spiritual practices. On registering online for participating in such contests, we collect participant’s details such as name, date of birth and gender and parent/guardian’s details such as name, mobile number, e-mail address, postal address and zip/postal code. We use this information to communicate with you regarding any matters related to the contest and send certificates/prizes to the winners.

Event Registration :

To inculcate Cultural and Spiritual values in children, our Temple conducts programs like Culture Camp and Heritage Fest (a cultural contest) giving a platform for students to nurture their talents.

Online registration for Culture Camp, would need details like participant’s name, date of birth, gender, name of school and class, and the contact person’s name, relationship with the participant, email address, mobile number, city, state, country and postal address. Alternate contact details are optional.

Participant’s details are used to ensure that they are eligible for participating in these programs and to encourage them by giving participation certificates.

When you register online for these programs, we collect the participant’s name, school name, gender and class and the contact person’s name, email address and mobile number.

Participant’s details are used to ensure that they are eligible for contesting in the program. These details are also used to award participation certificates to all the contestants and prizes to the winners of the contest.

Contact person’s details are used to communicate regarding any matters related to these contest.

WhatsApp & Telegram Subscription

To receive daily Deity darshan, festival announcements, Ekadashi reminders, inspirational quotes, Chatur Maas injunctions etc, you can subscribe to our WhatsApp Broadcast Group or Telegram Channel. This service is absolutely free and you are free to unsubscribe at any time. When you subscribe to our WhatsApp Broadcast Group or Telegram Channel, we collect your name and save it in our contacts list along with your WhatsApp number to send you the messages.

Enquiries (Contact Us)

When you send us an enquiry through the ‘Contact Us’ page, we collect your name and email id along with your enquiry to communicate with you and answer your queries.

We use the following Payment Gateway :

RazorPay
Instamojo

Google Analytics/ Google Tag Manager (for Analytics)

Google Analytics/ Google Tag Manager are used to analyze and evaluate the use and performance of our website. This is absolutely to enhance your online experience and take up necessary steps needed to further improve our objectives.

Google Analytics/ Google Tag Manager collects non-personal data that may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your website visit.

This data is used in research and analytics to determine the popularity of our website content, measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, analyze site traffic and trends, and to understand the online behaviors and interests of our website visitors.

Security

We are committed to ensure that the information you share with us is secure. In order to protect your data from unauthorized access or disclosure, or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures.

Cookies

The third party tools that we use in our website as mentioned above may use cookies to automatically collect your non-personal information. Cookies are nothing but small text files, a website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate the visitor’s ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements. Cookies are not programs that come onto a visitor’s system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If you don’t want information to be collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature. Blocking cookies will have a negative impact on the performance of the third party tools and consequently you may not be able to use some of the features of our website.

External Links

Our web pages may contain links to other websites of interest. The fact that we have provided a link to a site is not a representation, an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation with respect to such site, its contents, its owners, or its providers unless we expressly state otherwise. Using any information, software, or products found on the internet, comes with associated risks. We caution you to make sure that you weigh these risks before retrieving, using, relying upon, or purchasing anything via the internet. These other sites may collect or solicit personal data or send their own cookies to your computer. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites regarding the collection and use of your personal information.

You are welcome to link to this site, provided that in doing so you do not use the name of the Hare Krishna Movement Bhilai-raipur, and their emblem without permission. Use of the names and emblem of Hare Krishna Movement by unauthorized persons, including their reproduction on other websites without appropriate authorization constitutes a criminal offense under the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950, of the Government of India.

You may not link to this site from a site or in a manner which disparages the reputation of Hare Krishna Movement and its affiliates.

Amendments to this Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. We encourage you to periodically review this policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

If we decide to use your personally identifiable information in a manner significantly different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you through e-mail and will not use your information in the new manner unless your express permission is granted. However, if you have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated your account, then you will not be contacted, nor will your personal information be used in this new manner.

Data Retention

We seek to retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy unless a longer retention period is required by law or regulations. For example, tax laws in India may require us to keep contact information and contribution level of donors on a file.

Further, we provide Personally Identifiable Information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Rights

Every individual has certain rights with respect to the personal information collected about them. Considering this and if requested by you, we tell you what information we hold about you, we rectify any incomplete or inaccurate information and also restrict the use of your information. We will make reasonable efforts to delete your information if you ask us to do so, unless we are otherwise required to keep it.

Sharing

Though we make a good faith effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose your personal information when required by law wherein we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website or when needed to protect our rights, privacy, safety, property, donors, or users; and when necessary to enforce our terms of service.

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section that explains other terms governing the use of this Site.

SECTION 3 – DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

SECTION 4 – PAYMENT

Payment Gateways allow you to make a payment electronically using your credit card, debit card, net banking or other payment methods.

The payment gateways collect data that may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details which facilitates your online payment. Credit card Transactions processed are through a Bank Hosted Page and SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) technology is used to encrypt your personal information when you affirmatively respond to a Provider’s offer and authorize us to transmit your personal information to a Provider for fulfillment. We don’t collect or store any of your personal details and we don’t have any control over them. This data is completely managed by the Payment Gateway tools according to their own privacy policies and we encourage you to read through them.

We use Razorpay for processing payments. We/Razorpay do not store your card data

on their servers. The data is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) when processing payment. Your purchase transaction data is only used as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is not saved.

Our payment gateway adheres to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

For more insight, you may also want to read terms and conditions of razorpay on https://razorpay.com

SECTION 5 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

Third party tools

We use the following third party tools on our site for various purposes as explained below.

AWeber (Email Subscription):

AWeber tool is used for email communication with our email subscribers. When you subscribe to our email messages, AWeber collects your name and email address to update you with our emails about our upcoming festivals, special events and other important happenings of our Temple activities.

This service is absolutely free and if you no longer wish to receive our emails, you can use the unsubscribe option provided by AWeber. To know how AWeber handles your information you can visit their website’s privacy policy page.

Tawk.to (Chat Plugin)

Tawk.to is used to provide chat facility for our online visitors. When the chat box is online, you just need to type your chat message and send it to us to begin a conversation with us. While the chat box is offline, you need to leave your message along with your name and email address. We use this information to communicate with you at a later time and answer your queries.To know how tawk.to handles your information you can visit their website’s privacy policy page.

Pushify (Push Notification)

We use Pushify to send Push Notifications to our subscribers. When the subscriber is browsing our website, he/she gets pop-up notifications about our upcoming festivals, special events and other important updates on our temple activities. You can subscribe to this service by using the subscribe option in the Pushify tool. Pushify will not ask you for any personal information. This service is absolutely free and you are free to unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe option provided by the tool. To know how Pushify handles your information you can visit their website’s privacy policy page.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

Links

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

SECTION 6 – SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

SECTION 7 – COOKIES

We use cookies to maintain the session of your user. It is not used to personally identify you on other websites.

SECTION 8 – AGE OF CONSENT

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

SECTION 9 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at hkmbhilai@gmail.com

HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT – BHILAI

Akshaya Patra Campus, Sector – 6, Bhilai, Durg – 490006. Phone : 0788 – 2284699

HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT – RAIPUR