Privacy Policy for Hare Krishna World .com
1. Introduction
Welcome to HareKrishnaWorld.com. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website. HareKrishnaWorld.com is a Hindu Bhakti Portal dedicated to providing valuable information and lyrics of Hindu Stotras, mantras, and Keerthans. Additionally, we offer details on temple timings, pujas, festivals, spiritual myths, and interesting Hindu tales. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This policy is applicable to our users worldwide, including those in the USA, UK, Canada, and the EU.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal information:
Personal Identification Information
- Name: Used to personalize communication and content, ensuring that our interactions with you are personalized and relevant.
- Email Address: Used for sending newsletters, updates, and notifications about new blog posts, as well as for responding to your inquiries.
- Phone Number: Used for communication purposes, such as sending notifications and providing support when needed.
- Address: Used for sending physical communication, if applicable, and for verifying identity when required.
Usage Data
- Browsing Information: This includes information about how you use our website, such as the pages you visit, the time you spend on them, your navigation patterns, and interactions with content.
- Device Information: Information about the device you use to access our website, including IP address, browser type, operating system, and other technical details that help us improve website performance and security.
- Location Information: Geographic location data based on your IP address, which helps us understand where our visitors are coming from and tailor content accordingly.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Website: Ensuring the website functions properly, providing a seamless user experience, and maintaining the overall quality of our services.
- To Send Newsletters and Notifications: Keeping you informed about new blog posts, updates, special offers, and other relevant information through email newsletters and notifications.
- To Respond to Inquiries: Addressing your questions, comments, and feedback promptly and effectively, ensuring you have the information and support you need.
- To Improve Our Content and Services: Analyzing website usage and user feedback to enhance our content, services, and overall user experience.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: Meeting legal and regulatory requirements, such as responding to legal requests and complying with applicable laws and regulations.
- To Protect Our Legal Rights: Preventing and addressing fraud, abuse, and other harmful activities, ensuring the security and integrity of our website and services.
4. Sharing Your Information
We value your privacy and do not share your personal information with third parties except in the following circumstances:
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when you provide explicit consent for us to do so.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information as required by law, such as in response to a court order, subpoena, or other legal processes.
- To Protect and Defend Our Rights: We may share your information to protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or others.
- To Prevent or Investigate Wrongdoing: We may disclose your information to prevent or investigate possible fraud, abuse, or other harmful activities.
5. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include:
- Encryption: Using encryption technologies to protect data during transmission and storage, ensuring that your information is kept secure.
- Access Controls: Limiting access to personal information to authorized personnel only, ensuring that only those who need access to your information have it.
- Regular Security Assessments: Conducting regular security assessments to identify and address vulnerabilities, ensuring that our systems remain secure.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
Right to Access
You have the right to request access to your personal information. This allows you to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Right to Correction
You have the right to request the correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you. This ensures that any inaccurate or incomplete information is corrected or updated.
Right to Deletion
You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal information. This allows you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you in certain scenarios, such as if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Right to Object to Processing
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. This enables you to object to the processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to request the transfer of your personal information to another organization. This allows you to request that we provide your personal information to you or another third party in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze website traffic, and understand where our visitors are coming from. You can control the use of cookies through your browser settings.
Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionalities such as security, network management, and accessibility.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit most often and if you receive error messages from certain pages. This information helps us improve the performance of our website.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you. They can also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
Managing Cookies
- Browser Settings: Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to accept or reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
- Opt-Out Options: You can opt-out of certain cookies by adjusting your browser settings or using opt-out tools provided by advertising networks. For example, you can use tools like Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics.
8. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit to understand their practices.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete such information from our records promptly.
10. International Data Transfers
We operate internationally and may transfer your personal information to countries outside of your residence. These countries may have different data protection laws than your own. We ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information during these transfers, in compliance with applicable data protection laws.
EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
While HareKrishnaWorld.com does not currently participate in the EU-U.S. or Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, we adhere to the principles of data protection and privacy as outlined by the frameworks. We ensure that any personal information transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA) is adequately protected.
11. GDPR Compliance (For EU Users)
If you are a resident of the European Union (EU), you have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
Lawful Basis for Processing
We may process your personal information based on your consent, to fulfill our contractual obligations, to comply with legal obligations, or for legitimate interests, provided your rights and freedoms are not overridden.
Data Subject Rights
You have the right to request access to your personal information, the right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information, the right to request deletion of your personal information, the right to request restriction of processing your personal information, the right to request data portability, and the right to object to the processing of your personal information.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) to oversee our data protection practices and ensure compliance with the GDPR. If you have any questions or concerns about our data practices, please contact our DPO at [email protected].
12. CCPA Compliance (For California Users)
If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
Right to Know
You have the right to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell
about you. You can request that we provide you with the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, as well as information about our data practices.
Right to Delete
You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information. We will honor your request unless an exception applies, such as when the information is necessary to complete a transaction, detect security incidents, or comply with a legal obligation.
Right to Opt-Out
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. We do not sell personal information, but if we ever do, we will provide a mechanism for you to opt-out.
Right to Non-Discrimination
You have the right to be free from discrimination for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
13. PIPEDA Compliance (For Canadian Users)
If you are a resident of Canada, you have certain rights under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA):
Accountability
We are responsible for personal information under our control and have designated an individual to be accountable for our compliance with PIPEDA.
Identifying Purposes
We will identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time of collection.
Consent
We require your knowledge and consent for the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information, except where inappropriate.
Limiting Collection
We will limit the collection of personal information to that which is necessary for the identified purposes.
Limiting Use, Disclosure, and Retention
We will not use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with your consent or as required by law. We will retain personal information only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
Accuracy
We will keep personal information accurate, complete, and up-to-date as necessary.
Safeguards
We will protect personal information with appropriate security safeguards.
Openness
We will make information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information readily available.
Individual Access
You have the right to access your personal information and challenge its accuracy and completeness.
Challenging Compliance
You have the right to challenge our compliance with PIPEDA.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
14. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements. When your personal information is no longer necessary for these purposes, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the effective date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
16. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Thank you for visiting HareKrishnaWorld.com. We are committed to providing you with valuable and respectful content while ensuring your privacy and security.
Updated on: 28.07.2024
