When you email, phone, write, or just talk to Maria Seva Sangha (referred to as either “the Organization”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement), you tell us personal information about you. You deserve to know how we use it. This privacy policy explains:
We’ve tried to keep this policy as simple as possible, but, if you’re not familiar with technology terms such as “cookies,” you can learn about them here: [ https://iapp.org/resources/glossary/ ] If you have any questions about the policy, please contact us by e-mail at contact@mariasevasangha.org . We encourage you to read this policy carefully. Please note that this policy is part of our website Terms of Use. And please do not use our services or provide personal information to us if you do not accept all the terms of this policy. Your using the site or giving us information means you are agreeing to this policy.
Personal information is non-public information that personally identifies you. This includes your name, address, email address, and phone number, and the instructions you give us about how we communicate with you.
We collect personal information you give to us directly. For example, we collect it:
The information we collect from you this way can vary widely, from information about your postal address to a new e-mail address.
We may automatically record certain information when you use our online services through your desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone. This may include your:
We may also collect information about your interactions with our email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message. We provide more information below about how we use technologies to automatically collect information.
We may collect personal and non-personal information from third parties such as razorpay.com (our payment gateway).
We may also collect information about you from your website, social media pages, or from online reviews of your business.
If we combine or associate information from other sources with personal information we collect from you, we will treat the combined information as personal Information and treat it as described in this policy.
We use personal information to provide better service to you and to improve our operations.
We use personal information to:
For learning about our users
We use automatically-collected information to learn about usage trends and preferences of our users. This helps us:
We gather automatically-collected information from all our online users, not just you.
We do not share your personal information with organizations or individuals outside of the Organization except as follows:
We may share personal information outside of the Organization when we have your consent to do so. Please note that we do not sell, rent, or otherwise share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your consent.
We may share personal information with:
We may share personal information with:
We do not consider personal information to include information that does not identify a specific user. This includes automatically-collected, aggregated, or other information that is anonymous. We may make this information available to third parties. For example, we may provide it when we comply with reporting obligations, carry out marketing activities, or study users’ interests, habits, and usage patterns.
There are a variety of ways for you to change how we collect and use your information, and how we communicate with you. As described below, you may:
Here is more information about your choices:
You may choose not to share certain personal information with us. That is entirely up to you. Not sharing some information may mean that we will not be able to provide you with some services, products, and online capabilities.
We want to keep your personal information accurate and up to date. If you have any questions about what personal information we have about you, or you wish to access or change any personal information, you may contact us at contact@mariasevasangha.org Please note that your ability to change certain information may depend on your account type and account status. We’ll let you know about that when we respond to your request.
We may send marketing communications to you in a variety of ways, including emails, texts, regular mail, phone calls, and faxes. If you do not wish to receive one or more of these types of communications from, you may so instruct us by emailing us at contact@mariasevasangha.org, or by following directions that may be provided in the communication.
Please be aware that if you opt out of receiving email from us or otherwise modify the nature or frequency of marketing communications you receive from us, it may take up to 10 business days for us to process your request. In addition, even after you opt out from receiving commercial messages, you will continue to receive administrative messages from us.
As discussed later in this policy, you can make adjustments in the settings of the web browsers on your device to modify your cookie settings. This affects how information is collected automatically when you use your device.
We do not specifically respond to Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) signals. Some third-party websites keep track of your browsing activities, including across other websites on the Internet, which enables these websites to tailor what they present to you. Your browser may allow you to set a DNT signal on your browser so that these third parties know you do not want to be tracked.
We use physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect personal information:
We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any personal Information, and you provide information to us with that understanding. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on our services. Even after information posted on our websites is removed, caching and archiving services may have saved that information, and other users or third parties may have copied or stored the information. If we learn of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may also post a notice on our websites if a security breach occurs.
When you use our websites, we may send one or more cookies to your device. Cookies can be used to follow your activity on the website. That information helps us to understand your preferences and improve your website experience. Please review your web browser “Help" file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from our websites, you may not be able to use the features of our websites to their fullest potential.
We may use third-party content or advertising on our websites that use various forms of web beacons, which allow the third-party content provider to read and write cookies to your browser in connection with your viewing of that content.
We may use third-party buttons (such as Facebook “like” or “share” buttons) that allow third parties to collect information about you through their browser cookies, even when you do not interact with the button. Information collected through web beacons and buttons is collected directly by these third parties. The Organization does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by a third party in this manner is subject to that third party’s own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.
This policy applies to your relationship with the Organization and its affiliates, if any, including both your personal and online interactions with us.
This policy does not apply to services offered by other nonprofits, businesses, or individuals, including other sites linked to our sites or that you hear about from us. Information you provide to third parties is provided directly to them, not us. It is subject to their policies, if any, governing privacy and security, even if accessed through our sites.
For clarity, we are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of those third-party sites or services, or for their products or services. We encourage you to learn about third parties’ privacy and security policies before providing them with information.
We do not want to collect information from children. Do not provide any personal information unless you are at least 13 years of age, and please caution your children not to provide any. If a child under 13 has provided personal information, a parent or guardian may alert us at contact@mariasevasangha.org and we will, subject to applicable law and other provisions of this policy, use commercially reasonable efforts to delete it from our database.
If you use our services from the European Union, the United States of America or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from Indian. law, you should know you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to Indiafor storage and processing.
We may change this policy at any time. For example, as technologies, laws, or user needs change, our websites and its features may also change. We will communicate these changes to you by posting them on our websites and/or by notifying you through email.
This policy is part of and incorporated into the Terms of Use, which is the contract between you and the Organization governing use of this site. Parts of the Terms of Use affect this policy, so, unless you have already done so, please review them here: https://mariasevasangha.org/terms_of_use.html Terms used but not defined in this policy have the definitions in the Terms of Use.
This policy is intended to supplement any national and state laws applicable to us relating to the privacy of information we obtain from our borrowers and others.
Please contact us with any questions or comments about this policy, your personal information, our use and disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email at contact@mariasevasangha.org
Maria Seva Sangha
No. 28, K No. 335, Athithi Layout,
S.T. Halli, MSS Layout, Anadapura,
Bangalore – 560036
Karnataka, India.
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