Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad uses and protects any information that you give ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad when you use this website.

ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1st July 2016.  If you have any questions about our Privacy Poicy, you may contact us at:

ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad

Hubballi-Dharwad Road, Rayapur,

Dharwad 580009, Karnataka, India

Ph: 91-0836-2224108, 2324108

Email: contact@iskconhubli.org

What do we collect and what do we do with the information we collect?

Personal Information:  ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad uses its best efforts to respect the privacy of its online visitors.  At our site, we do not collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly.  This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us in order to view our website.  ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad only gathers personally identifiable data, such as names, addresses, zip/postal codes, e-mail addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted by a visitor.  For example we ask for personal information on our online donation pages, and use this information to acknowledge receipt of your donation for tax purposes.  

ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad does not sell or trade such information collected to third parties.  We will not share personally identifiable information with third parties unless authorized by the person submitting the information or required by law.

Credit Card Information:  ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad uses industry standard Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) encryption to protect the security of your transaction and the confidentiality of your personal information.  This makes it extremely difficult for anyone elsi to intercept the credit card information you send to us. 

Credit card information is not sold or traded to third parties.  We will not share credit card information with third parties unless required by law. 

If you still have concerns about the security of your credit card information, contributions may also be made by calling 91-0836-2224108, 2324108 or bysending personal cheques or money orders to:

ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad

Hubballi-Dharwad Road, Rayapur,

Dharwad 580009, Karnataka, India

Ph: 91-0836-2224108, 2324108

Email: contact@iskconhubli.org

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

What are Cookies and How do we use Cookies?

Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad’s website through the use of cookies.  A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

This website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, please be aware that ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad is not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Donations/ Seva

We request information from the visitor on our donation form. A visitor must provide contact information (such as name, e-mail and mailing address) and payment information (such as credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and for sending receipt of the donation. If we have trouble processing a donation, the information is used by us to contact the visitor. If the visitor has given permission for the information’s release, the visitor’s name and contact information may be shared with carefully selected organizations and charities we feel our donors would want to know about. Where requested, we will provide information on larger donations to appropriate charities and donors for tax purposes. Financial and credit card information are NEVER released.

Opt-Out

If you supply us with your postal address or e-mail address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on our programs and services. If you do not want to receive postal mail or e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending email to us at: iskconhubli@gmail.com  or writing to us at the above address and telling us that you do not want to receive postal mail or e-mail from us. Some mailings are prepared well in advance, so please allow up to three months for your request to be properly reflected on our mailing lists.

Referrals

If a visitor elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and e-mail address. ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail with an introduction to ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad and an invitation to visit the site. The one-time e-mail will include the name of the person making the referral. ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact Global ISKCON Hubli-Dharwad at iskconhubli@gmail.com to request the removal of this information from our database.