POLICIES OF USAGE

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The website www.iskconvaranasi.org (The “SITE”) is fully owned by International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Hare Krishna Land, Varanasi – 221010.

Your use of the Site is governed by the policies, terms, and conditions set forth below. Please read the following information carefully. By using this Site or donating through the site, you indicate your acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, the terms set forth below. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this Site.

These terms and conditions may be changed by ISKCON in the future. It is your responsibility as a user to periodically return to this page to review the terms and conditions for amendments. The amended terms shall take effect automatically the day they are posted on the site. Your continued use of the web site following any amendments will constitute agreement to such amendments. These Terms of Service were last revised on May 30th, 2020.

Your continued usage of the site, shall be in acceptance to the terms that may be updated in future with retrospective effect. In case you do not agree to any terms your sole remedy is to stop using the website.

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www. iskconvaranasi.org. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

The website www.iskconvaranasi.org ( “ISKCON Varanasi”) is fully owned by International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Hare Krishna Land-Varanasi – 221010..
We know that you, being the user of the Website, care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, storage, disclosure and transfer of the personal information we receive from the users of www.iskconvaranasi.org (“Website”). By visiting the Website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION COLLECGTION, USE, and SHARING

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfil your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

YOUR ACCESS TO and CONTROL OVER INFORMATION

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

SECURITY

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computer servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a highly secure environment.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact our business head immediately via telephone at +91-7505335674 or via email at info@iskconvaranasi.com

THE WEBSITE

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all Indian national laws and requirements for user privacy.

COOKIES

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

CONTACT & COMMUNICATION

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; www.loginrailwaystation.co.uk or Bed & Breakfast Pembrokeshire.)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

SHORTENED LINKS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls.

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

RESOURCES & FURTHER INFORMATION

Data Protection Act 1998
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 – The Guide
Facebook Privacy Policy
Google Privacy Policy
Website Privacy Policy Template.

REFUND POLICY

No donation amount will be refunded irrespective of any valid reasons. All the funds will be used for the service of their lordship Sri Sri Radha Gopal Ji.

ISKCON currently accepts donations through its Online Payment Gateway Facility for various charitable / social purposes. ISKCON also accepts the payment of “booking of our Guest House”. Any payment made multiple times due to error, or any other kind of erroneous payment may be brought to the notice of the Site officials and the payment would be refunded if the Site official is satisfied with the cause and/or reason of error by the payee.

All donations and/or payment made through the Site, the acceptance of the same is at the sole discretion of the temple management and its trustees. The management reserves its sole rights to accept or cancel any donation and/or payment without assigning any reason thereof.

Please note that donations once made cannot be charged back, except in cases of fraudulent use, once investigation is carried out by necessary governmental / Bank authorities and proofs substantiated. In case any donation receipt is issued against the same, that shall stand cancelled, and any income tax benefit so derived shall be null and void.