This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by Then Kailaya Bakthi Peravai through https://isha.sadhguru.org/shivanga/in/en (hereinafter referred to as "Organization").
Our Organization is committed to ensure the security and protection of the personal data provided by the Users of our website, and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection. We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. The protection afforded by this Policy applies to all Users, irrespective of their nationality, or place of residence, in relation to the processing and profiling of their personal data. It includes processing of personal data by automated means, as well as manual processing.
This Privacy Policy will explain what personal data we collect when you use our website and how our Organization uses and stores your personal data. Please do read our Terms of Use for usage of the website and further information.
The Privacy Policy describes the following:
What data do we collect?
How do we collect your data?
How will we use your data?
How do we store your data?
Who has access to your data?
When do we transfer/disclose your data?
What are your data protection rights?
Minors
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
What types of cookies do we use?
How to manage your cookies
Privacy Policies of other websites
Changes to our privacy policy
Participating Entities with whom data is shared
Length and time we keep your data
International Data Transfers
How to contact us
Section 1: What data do we collect?
Amongst other information, our Organization collects the following data:
Email ID
Name
Phone Number / WhatsApp number
Country of Residence
State
City
Zipcode / Pincode
Gender
Date of Birth
Residential Address
Company
Profession
Nationality
Passport Number
PAN Number
Address Proof (Aadhar / Passport / Voter ID / Driving License / PAN Card)
ID Proof (Aadhar / Passport / Voter ID / Driving License / PAN Card)
Section 2: How do we collect your data?
You directly provide our Organization with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data every time you:
Complete online forms and sign up for any particular program/offering/event that we offer;
Contact us offline, for example by telephone, fax, SMS, email or post.
Provide us your data through physical media like registration form, donation form, application form etc.;
Use or view our website (via your browser's cookies);
Contribute to any of our projects;
Choose to support Our Organization’s initiatives as a volunteer or donor.
Section 3: How will we use your data?
Our Organization collects your data so that we can:
Provide you with information regarding programs, events etc., that you have requested and/ or signed up for.
Provide you with information regarding upcoming programs or events conducted by us or our affiliated or associated legal entities.
Manage our relationship with you (for example, volunteering support, career and donation activities).
Establish contact with you through phone calls, whatsapp messages, email and other social media platforms that you have consented to, to provide support in the programs, practices and processes that you have registered for.
Send you marketing communications about our products, services, promotions or anything related with our Organisation.
Monitor, measure, improve and protect our content, website, and services and provide an enhanced and personalised user experience for you;
Respond to your queries and resolve complaints.
Provide any of your information that we are required to submit in order to comply with our regulatory or legal obligations.
Detect, prevent, investigate or provide remedy for criminal, illegal or prohibited activities.
Section 4: How do we store your data?
Our Organization uses various technological and procedural security measures to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the personal information we collect. We also have implemented reasonable security measures in an effort to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Personal information collected by our Organization is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public.
Once we obtain your data, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your User Information, we cannot guarantee its security. You use the Services and provide us with information at your own initiative and risk. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us as specified in Section 7 below.
Our Organization will only retain your personal data following your application for a period of time depending on the category of data and the purposes for which we hold it. We will only retain your data after this time if we are required to do so to comply with the applicable laws of India.
Section 5: Who has access to your data?
Only those employees/volunteers of Our Organisation who “need to know” have access to Personal Data. Our Organisation will not disclose Personal Data to any person outside Our Organisation except for purposes mentioned under Section 3 or with Your consent or with a legitimate interest or legal reason for doing so, such as where Our Organisation reasonably considers it necessary to do so and where it is permitted by applicable law. In each instance, the disclosed Personal Data will be strictly limited to what is necessary and reasonable to carry out the purposes mentioned in Section 3.
When Our Organisation works with third parties which may have access to Personal Data in the course of providing their services, Our Organisation requires third parties to process Personal Data only on Our Organisation’s instructions and consistent with our Privacy Policies and applicable Data Protection laws.
Section 6: When do we transfer/disclose your data?
Our Organisation may, from time to time, disclose and/or transfer Your Personal Data to third parties (including but not limited) listed below:
Affiliated legal entities.
External and internal auditors.
External companies or third party service providers which We engage to perform Services on our behalf.
Third parties providing certain information technology and data processing services to enable operations.
With service providers who assist us in operating our business and providing our services (e.g., payment processors, hosting providers)
With third-party partners for marketing purposes, provided you have consented to such sharing.
In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
The applicable regulators, government bodies, tax authorities or other industry recognised bodies as required by any applicable law or guidelines of any applicable jurisdiction.
In response to legal requests or to protect our rights, property, or safety.
To any other party as deemed necessary by our Organisation.
Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere, any Personal Data may be disclosed by Our Organisation to any third party as required by a Court of Law or any other regulatory or any other law enforcement agency established under a statute, as per the prevailing law without Your consent.
As Our Organisation is part of a larger group of organisations operating internationally, it may transfer Your Personal Data for the purposes as mentioned in Section 3 to its own operations, or to other affiliated legal entities located in other jurisdictions. Such transfer is justified on the basis that there is a “need to know” and it is reasonable and legitimate to allow Our Organisation and its affiliated legal entities to operate effectively and comparatively. Personal information is only transferred to another country only as far as a reasonable level of data protection is assured in the recipient country.
Your Personal Data will not be transferred to any country where the transfer is restricted by the Government of India under the provisions of Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
While using external data processors or transferring personal data to external third parties, Our Organisation shall enter into agreements with appropriate contractual clauses for protection of Personal Data and confidentiality including requirements to process the Personal Data only in accordance with instructions from Our Organisation and to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that there is no authorised or unlawful processing or accidental loss or destruction of or damage to Personal Data.
Section 7: What are your data protection rights?
Our Organization would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access: You have the right to request our Organization for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that our Organization correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request our Organization to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to remove: You have the right to request our Organization erase/remove your personal data, under certain reasonable conditions. To delete your profile, please email info@shivanga.org
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that our Organization restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain reasonable conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our Organization's processing of your personal data, under certain reasonable conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that our Organization transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain reasonable conditions.
Our Organisation makes use of third-party services as well as offers services related to storage of user data, user authentication, user consent and user profile management.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: info@shivanga.org
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Section 8: Minors
Our website offers products or services or programs for use by minors. If You are under 18, You may use Our website only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Our Organisation does not undertake processing of the personal data of the child without obtaining verifiable consent of the parent of such child or the lawful guardian.
Section 9: What are cookies?
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
Section 10: How do we use cookies?
Our Organization uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website including:
Keeping you signed in;
Understanding how you use our website;
If you have created a user profile and also consented to the use of cookies, we may link information relating to your browsing patterns (on our website) with your user profile.
Section 11: What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
Functionality: Our Organization uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in.
Promotion: Our Organization uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address.
Section 12: How to manage cookies:
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and removing cookies tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
Section 13: Privacy Policies of other websites:
Our Organization website contains links to their websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.
Section 14: Changes to our privacy policy:
Our Organization keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on the 12 June, 2024.
Section 15: Participating Entities with whom the information is shared:
Your personal data that is collected may be stored, processed and used by its vendors, or partners or third parties based on your interaction with the website.
Section 16: Length and time we keep your data:
We promise to retain your personal information just as long as is required to fulfil the goal you have set for us, to satisfy your needs, or to comply with legal requirements.
We consider the following factors in particular while calculating this time:
• Duration of the service.
• The amount of time needed to handle your complaint or request.
• The duration of your user account, if any, assuming it hasn't been dormant for three years.
• In order to properly manage our relationship, we must maintain a record of all of your interactions with us.
• Our legal or regulatory obligations.
Your personal information is either removed from our systems and records when it is no longer needed, or it is anonymized so that it can no longer be used to identify you.
Nevertheless, throughout the statute of limitations stipulated by the relevant laws, it might be required to save part of your personal information in order to be able to react to any legal actions.
Section 17: International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than your own. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from those in your jurisdiction.
Section 18: How to contact us:
If you do not want to receive email from us, let us know by writing to us at info@shivanga.org . Please specify NO EMAIL in your email subject.
If you have any questions about our Organization's privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protections rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: info@shivanga.org