PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy discloses the practices of www.vedantapune.org a site belonging to Vedanta Cultural Foundation (hereinafter referred to as, ‘VCF’, ‘We’, ‘Us’ and ‘Our’) regarding user’s (hereinafter ‘You’) information being collected, method of such information collection, use of such information, sharing of such information with third parties, how We safeguard information collected and the choices You can make about the way such information is collected, used and disclosed including how to access and update the information.

By using the website www.vedantapune.org (the “Site”), including but not limited to any audio or visual lectures, recordings, webcasts, You agree to accept without reservation the terms of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies regardless of the means or device You use to use the Site.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US:

When You choose to register with Us by filling the information in the registration section, we collect the following information:

1. Personal Information – Name, Age, City and Country of Residence
2. Contact Information- Phone Number, Email Address.

If You choose to make a donation to Us, You will be redirected to a third party payment gateway PayU Payments Private Limited. Any information provided by You on PayU Payments Private Limited in the form of as personal and credit card information, this shall be governed by the Privacy Policy and terms of use of PayU Payments Private Limited.

WHY IS THE INFORMATION COLLECTED?

We will use the aforementioned data collected and provided by You for the following purposes: -

1. Facilitate in providing the Services including updates and reminders for upcoming events.
2. Provide relevant services based on your age and location.
3. Send You details on future events, study avenues and programs etc.
4. To comply with legal and statutory requirements including the necessity to establish or preserve a legal claim or defence, necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as wilful attacks on Our information technology systems.
5. In the event You choose to make a donation to Us we may also collect information such as passport number, Citizenship and/or Tax identification numbers as we are required to do so to comply with Indian Tax and Trust regulations.

SHARING INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website (such as our hosting service), conducting our activities, or servicing You, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We may also use the following third parties for the aforementioned purposes. These third parties provide a high level of data protection. For more information, kindly visit their respective sites. You can unsubscribe from any of the following by emailing us at info@vedantapune.org.

1. A third party, independent contractor used to send You reminder and promotional emails related to the purpose. Please see Mailchimp legal policies.
2. A third-party, independent contractor used to process registration and participation of online events, and to conduct online sessions. Please see Zoom privacy policy.
3. Jot form – A third party, independent contractor is used to collect and store your personal information. Please see Jot form privacy policy.
4. Google form – A third party, independent contractor is used to collect and store your personal information. Please see Google form privacy policy.
5. Constant contact – A third-party, independent contractor used to send You emails related to the purpose. Please see Constant Contact privacy centre.
6. Active Campaign – A third-party, independent contractor used to send You emails related to the purpose. Please see Active Campaign privacy policy
7. Interakt - A third party, independent contractor used to send You reminder and promotional WhatsApp messages related to the purpose. Please see Interakt privacy policy.

We may also release your information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or to protect our or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. An example of this would be when we use a service that gathers statistics about the number of times pages on our website are visited or the number of clicks certain ads receive.

We assume no liability whatsoever for any disclosure of Personal Information due to unauthorized third-party access or other acts of third parties, or any other acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.

SECURITY & RETENTION PERIOD

We make reasonable effort to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of Your Personal Information shared with Us. However, You understand and acknowledge that no internet site can fully eliminate security risks associated with protecting such information. Further, while We have in place security measures to protect Your Personal Information against unauthorized disclosure We cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted on the internet and You agree to do so at Your own risk.

The personal information shared by You will be stored in servers located in United States, European Union and India, and it will be kept to same data protection standards.

The Information You share with Us is retained indefinitely so we can continue to provide you the Services.

YOUR RIGHTS PERTAINING TO THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

If You have registered on the Website or provided us your contact information via email, You can request to be sent a copy of the personal data we hold about You, including any data collected from You. You can also request that we rectify or erase any personal data we hold about You. Please send your request to info@vedantapune.org.

In accordance with applicable law we are not obligated to provide or delete any consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

DATA COLLECTED ON THE BASIS OF LEGITIMATE INTEREST:

Based on our legitimate interests, we collect the following data for the purpose of running the website, to improve our Services and to help us analyse and optimize our outreach efforts to new people who could benefit from our educational efforts.

This website is hosted by Google Firebase. Firebase collects personal data when You visit this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device.
• Web pages You visited prior to coming to this website.
• Web pages You view while on this website.
• Your IP address

This data is needed to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. The data is analysed in a de-personalized form.

COOKIE POLICY

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

• These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow our hosting platform to securely serve this website to You.
• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, when You acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

To manage cookies on your device, visit your browser's documentation:

• Chrome
• Safari
• Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
• Internet Explorer

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

1. Google Analytics - We use a minimal build of Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States and allows us to notice trends to improve the user experience on our website. This minimal build processes personal data such as: the unique User ID set by Google Analytics, the date and time, the title of the page being viewed, the URL of the page being viewed, the URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page, the screen resolution, the time in local time zone, the files that were clicked on and downloaded, the links clicked on to an outside domain, the type of device, and the country, region, and city. This information allows us to understand individual behaviours and needs more accurately. For more information on how Google uses the data collected via this service, see here: Google privacy
   To opt out of being tracked via Google Analytics, You can also use Google's opt-out browser add-on: Opt-out
2. Facebook - This website uses the so-called "Facebook Pixel" of the social network "Facebook" for the following purposes:
• Facebook (website) Custom Audiences - We use the Facebook pixel for remarketing purposes to be able to contact You again within 180 days. This allows us to display interest-based advertisements ("Facebook Ads") to users of the website when they visit the social network "Facebook" or other websites also using this tool. In this way, we pursue the interest in displaying advertisements that are of interest to You in order to make our website or offers more interesting for You.
• Facebook conversion - We also use the Facebook Pixel to ensure that our Facebook Ads match the potential interest of users and are not annoying. With the help of the Facebook Pixel, we can track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion").

Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server as soon as You have agreed to the use of cookies requiring your consent. Through the integration of the Facebook pixel, Facebook receives the information that You have called up the corresponding website of our internet presence or clicked on an advertisement from us. If You are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. The processing of this data by Facebook takes place within the framework of Facebook's data policy. Special information and details about the Facebook pixel and its functionality can also be found in the Facebook help area.

Further information on how Facebook processes personal data, including its legal basis and further information on the rights of data subjects can be found here: Facebook privacy

To opt out of being tracked via Facebook Pixel: Please see Opt-Out.

EMBEDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES - The Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, charts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about You, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if You have an account and are logged in to that website.

This website uses embedded content from the following websites:

• You tube www.youtube.com. Please review You tube Privacy Policy.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you convey your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or delete portions of the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time, without providing any prior notice to You. The revised policy will be effective immediately upon posting to our site unless otherwise mentioned.

This version of the policy is effective from the day You first use the site www.vedantapune.org. You shall be bound by the revised privacy policy and it is your sole responsibility to check the same from time to time. You acknowledge that no knowledge of the revised privacy policy shall be no defence in any proceedings with regard to the Privacy Policy.

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, and update the Privacy Policy modification date below. For Egs. This policy was last modified on 15 October 2021.

GRIEVANCES AND CONTACT INFORMATION

Should You have any questions about this Privacy Policy or grievances about the processing of your personal information, You may contact our designated grievance officer Praseetha Santosh for this purpose by emailing her at info@vedantapune.org or writing to her at Vedanta cultural foundation, 1A Landsend, Dongarsi road, Malabar hill, Mumbai 400 006 India.