Contents
1. Our philosophy and approach
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The main intention of this website is to imbibe good moral values (sanskars) on the minds of children, so that they become ideal citizens of our Nation.
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The articles on this website are intended to imbibe virtues and develop the personality of children.
In this policy, "us", "we" or "our" means the website (Balsanskar.com) and 'Dharmasabha', a Charitable Trust registered in Bharat (India) which owns the said site Balsanskar.com (also referred to in this document as ‘the Site’) are committed to safeguarding the privacy of its on-line users' personal information.
To better protect your privacy and the security of your information, we provide this Privacy Policy to explain our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used on the Site. By using our website, you give your consent to the terms of this Policy. This Policy applies to all users of the Site.
2. What information do we collect?
In general, the personal information we collect about you includes (but is not limited to) your name, contact details (including phone numbers and addresses) and your questions about various aspects of the information provided on the website and your comments. We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you through our website unless you provide it to us voluntarily. The information we collect varies, depending on how you use our site.
This Policy applies to all information collected or submitted to the Site. You can make requests to join email announcement lists, register to receive materials from us, or receive other types of information. The types of personal information collected may include but is not limited to: name, year of birth, e-mail address, password, phone number and other general information relating to your areas of interest on our website such as newsletter preferences and questions.
If, at any time, you provide personal or other information about someone other than yourself, you warrant that you have that person’s consent to provide such information for the purpose specified.
2.2 Non-Confidential Information
We generally advise that you do not publish or communicate personal information, or at least limit the personal information that you publish or communicate, to the public via our services, such as our comments functionality (where you authorise the publication of the comment) and blogs herein after referred to as Non-Confidential Information. You acknowledge that we cannot control any third party collection or use of your Non-Confidential Information. You accept that we may use and disclose Non-Confidential Information for any purpose and by any means whatsoever.
2.3 Non-personally-identifiable information
Through third party software, we also collect aggregate, non-personally-identifiable information on users by recording the IP address from the computers of visitors to our site. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you surf the Web. Web servers, or the computers that provide the web pages to your computer for you to view, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you use your computer to request to view a page from a server, that server logs your IP address. The site does not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. Your visit to the Site will be logged; however, you will remain anonymous to us unless you choose to share information with us. We track the number of people that view each page of our website to understand which features/articles are most popular and best meet the needs of our visitors. To an extent, this information does not constitute personal information; we may use this information for any purpose and by any means whatsoever.
3. Why do we collect information about you?
The primary purpose for which we collect information about you is to provide you with services you have requested. We may state a more specific purpose at the point we collect your information. If you do not provide us with the information that we request, we may not be able to provide you with our services.
4. How the site uses your personal information ?
Amongst other reasons, for :
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Sending you our email alerts, new articles, newsletter if you have subscribed (opted-in) to them. The introduction/reminder of some new functionality or products and services with regards to the Site. The Site requires you to opt-in to any mailing list, i.e. you have to tick which mailing list you would like to subscribe to.
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Responding to your questions and comments.
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If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on the site, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the Site, the site may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
How long do we hold the information?
We will keep your information in our systems until we deem it necessary to purge it from our systems.
Use of cookies
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What is a cookie?: A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive.
Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows. Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the Site to your interests.
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Control over a cookie: Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last option means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the Site’s features. Each Internet browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. During the course of any visit to the site, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
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How does the site use your cookies: Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. In our effort to provide you with services customised to your interests, we use "cookies" to assist in the collection of information. When you register, we use a cookie to store a unique, random user ID. We and other third party providers that we commission, use this ID to identify you anonymously in our database and to track the pages you visit on our site. Tracking information such as cookies is also used to create aggregate reports on user demographics and Site traffic patterns. Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors.
We use cookies to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver better and more personalized services; identify which areas of the Site you have visited; all as part of our efforts to streamline your experience on the Site.
5. Do we disclose personal information ?
We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. The Site’s mailing list, including the personal information we receive through the Internet is never sold or rented to any commercial organisations for profit.
We will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when :
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We have your consent to do so. When you communicate with the site for getting more information or for understanding more/additional aspects on the content of the site, it will be presumed that you have consent for the said purpose.
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In case of comments provided by you, with your permission, the site may choose to publish the comments, if we feel that it would be of value to our readers. You may also choose how your name with regards to the comments is published, i.e., have your comment displayed along with just your nickname and country or your nickname and first name along with your country.
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We need to respond to valid legal process. This includes a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, and any other instance when we believe we are required to provide information by law.
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If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere, on or to the Site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the Site, the Site can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour. We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about our users with affiliates or other third parties for better understanding of our website and visitor preferences.
6. How do we keep your information secure?
Other than in relation to Non-Confidential Information, we will endeavour at a physical, electronic and managerial level to protect the personal information that we hold from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access, including but not limited to firewalls, password access and secure servers.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online.
6.1 With regards to hardware and software
We utilise encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal data we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction. This means we encrypt all of your personal information so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet or when it resides on our servers. Our database is protected from unauthorized access by a series of highly sophisticated software protection programs. The server is housed in sophisticated data-centre which has firewall facilities
6.2 With regards to managerial processes
6.2.1. Accessibility to your data : We are committed to the protection of your information. The access to your personal information is limited to those persons that are required to fulfil the requests for information, services or products.
6.2.2. Regular review : This policy may be updated from time to time so please check this statement periodically as it is your responsibility to make sure you are aware of our latest policies.
Please note the following:
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You provide information to us via the internet at your own risk. We cannot accept responsibility for misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, your personal information where the security of information is not within our control.
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You acknowledge that we are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of any third party (including third parties that we may disclose your personal information to). The collection and use of your information by such third parties may be subject to separate privacy and security policies.
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We cannot guarantee 100% security of any information that you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.
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If you suspect any misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, your personal information, please let us know immediately.
7. Linking to Other Websites
The Site may provide for the registration with groups on other websites via webforms, submit the minimum required information to any external website to provide a facility requested by you and also the Site may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties that are not under our control. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk. We provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.
8. Modifications
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at our discretion. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes here. We encourage you to visit this section of our site regularly in order to remain informed of any changes. Changes to our Privacy Policy shall become effective as of the date they are posted to this site.
9. Contacting Us
If you have any questions please 'Contact us'.
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