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PRIVACY POLICY |
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We at Institute of Vedic Science (“we” or “Shreevedic.com) have created
this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. We realize the importance
of feeling safe online and want you to feel comfortable using personalized service
and exchanging information on our web site. We are committed to protecting your
personal information and will take reasonable steps to see that this privacy policy
is followed within our company. This statement below outlines the privacy practices
or Shreevedic.com and is incorporated into and subject to the terms
and conditions of our Terms of Service. |
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Information collected |
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In order to provide you with personalized service and features we may ask you to
register and establish your personal profile. During the registration process we
may ask you for information such as your name, gender, birth information, e-mail
address, password, place of residence, zip code, etc. This information is used to
calculate an accurate horoscope or biorhythm and to provide you with the best possible
personalized service. Your e-mail address together with a password is used to secure
your profile and to make our personalized e-mail services available to you. We collect
non-personally identifiable information about you in a number of ways, including
tracking your activities on our site through your IP Address or most-recently-visited
URL. However, we do not collect any personally identifiable information about you
unless you voluntarily submit such information to us, by using our products and
services or by filling out a form or survey.
Personally identifiable information is collected primarily to make it easier and
more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the part of the service
you are assessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information such
as name, gender, e-mail address, birth date, and birth location. Customers who personalize
our service come back regularly, so we do everything we can to make Shreevedic.com
your service and give you just the content you wish to receive.
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Usage of information collected by us |
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When you place an order or request for any service, we need to know your
name, birth details, email address, mailing address, telephone number, credit card
number and the expiration date of the credit card. Shreevedic.com also collect demographic
information, such as your Country, City, ZIP code. Information collected by shreevedic.com
may be combined with information obtained from other shreevedic.com services and
other companies. This allows us to process your request and notify you of its status. |
- Your email address is required when you sign up for services like – our newsletter,
forum, predictions etc., or to mail the information you require.
- If you choose to sign up for a paid subscription service (Online Courses or paid
consultations and match making) or order a product, we will collect personal information,
including your credit card number and billing address, in order to create an shreevedic.com
billing account.
- You can create you personal profile, containing information about yourself – such
as date of birth, email address and photo in Contributor profile section or our
Invited Article section. Any information you choose to enter in your profile will
be visible to other users of shreevedic.com. You may change, edit or delete information
about yourself from your Contributor profile at any time.
- Shreevedic.com also collects certain information about your computer hardware and
software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names,
access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by shreevedic.com
for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service and to provide
general statistics regarding use of shreevedic.com.
- Shreevedic.com keeps track of the pages our customers visit within our portal, in
order to determine which shreevedic.com Articles, Products and Services and the
most popular. The data is also used by shreevedic.com to deliver customised content
and advertising to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
- Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information through Forum and
Invited Article, or other services, this information may be collected and used by
other. Shreevedic.com cautions you against giving out personal information to strangers
online, which they may use for illegal or harmful purposes.
- Shreevedic.com guarantees complete confidentiality of the customer’s personal details
provided at the time of registration, identity, horoscope details and prediction
details. Shreevedic.com further guarantees that no direct or indirect use will be
made by shreevedic.com about any aspect of life, as revealed in the horoscope of
the customer, except for the explicit purpose of communication the horoscope charts
and prediction to the customer himself/herself and research work.
- As astrology is not an absolute science and is subjected to individual interpretation;
shreevedic.com makes no warranties or representations regarding the accuracy or
significance of any aspect of the astrological horoscope and cannot be responsible
for any interpretation or use that may be made of it.
- Shreevedic.com also uses your personal information to inform you of other products
or services available from shreevedic.com and its affiliates. Shreevedic.com may
also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
of potential new services that may be offered.
- Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in India
or any other country in which shreevedic.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries or
agents maintain facilities, and by using this Site, you consent to any such transfer
of information outside of your country.
- Shreevedic.com is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail. While
shreevedic.com continues to actively review and implement new technology, such as
expanded filtering features, there is no currently available technology that will
totally prevent the sending and receiving of unsolicited e-mail. Using tools and
being cautious about the sharing of your e-mail address while online will help reduce
the amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.
- By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your information you warrant
and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your information
including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post,
upload, input or submit the information
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Protection of customer’s information |
Shreevedic.com may, at its discretion, share customer information with trustworthy
third parties.
Shreevedic.com may sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Shreevedic.com
may, from time to time, also contact you on behalf of external business partners
about a particular offering that may be of interest or you. In those cases, your
personal information (e-mail, name, address, and telephone number) may be transferred
to the third party.
Shreevedic.com occasionally hires other companies to provide limed services on our
behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer
support, discussion forum, webinar, meeting manager processing transactions, or
performing statistical analysis of shreevedic.com’s Services. Shreevedic.com will
provide those companies only that personal information which they require to deliver
the Services. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information
and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. Shreevedic.com
should not be held responsible and / or be liable for any disclosure of such information
by the other companies. |
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Third party interaction in the collected information |
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Shreevedic.com uses the latest encryption technology to ensure that the personal
information you provide is safe and secure. All information pertaining to your orders
including your name, email address, mailing address and credit card number, is encrypted
using a secure server for maximum protection. Your credit card and billing information
cannot be read as it is being transmitted into our ordering system.
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USE OF SERVICES
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The shreevedic.com services may contain e-mail services, consultations, forums,
communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums, file cabinets and/or other
massage or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others.
You agree to use the Communication Service only to post, send and receive messages
and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication
Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a
Communication Service, you will not:
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- Use the Communication Service in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes,
chain letter, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial
or otherwise).
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such
as rights of privacy and publicity) of other Users.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute of disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory,
infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
- Upload files that contain material protected by intellectual property laws (or by
rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto of
have received all necessary consents to do the same.
- Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots,
corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation
of another’s computer or property of another.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose,
unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages.
- Download any file posted by another User of a Communication Service that you know,
or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary
designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained
in a file that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other User from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines, which may be applicable for any
particular Communication Service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
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Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person
or entity any directory of Users of shreevedic.com other User or usage information
or any portion thereof
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Use of IP Addresses |
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We use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer
our web site, and to track trends and statistics
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Use of Cookies |
When you view our web site or advertisements, we might store some information on
your computer. This information with be in the form of a “cookie” or similar file.
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive to facilitate
your current and future visits to our site. We use cookies to deliver content specific
to your interests, save passwords so you won’t have to enter it each time you visit
the site, and for other purposes. You can set your web browser to notify you when
you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept
the cookie. However, some parts of the shreevedic.com web site may not work properly
if you deactivate or reject cookies.
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Use of Email Address
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The e-mail address you submit to receive our services will never be disclosed to
any third party. All horoscope e-mail that you select to receive as well as the
special offers from our advertisers will be sent to you exclusively by shreevedic.com. |
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Security |
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We DO NOT collect any payment information on our site. It is collected and processed
in a secure manner by our payment gateway. The connection is 128 bit secure and
the payment gateway is a Verisign secured site. Hereby we have
implemented and follow reasonable industry standard technical and procedural measures
to protect against unauthorized access and use of your personal information. However,
you should know that neither we nor any other web site can fully eliminate these
risks.
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Other Websites Links
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Our web site may contain links to other web sites. Shreevedic.com is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such other web sites.
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Correct/Update |
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If you have chosen to receive you Daily or Weekly Horoscope or Newsletter by e-mail,
you can at any time cancel this sending a mail on info@ shreevedic.com with the
subject line as “Unsubscribe
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Use of Web Beacons |
Shreevedic.com Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes
called single-pixel gifs – that allow shreevedic.com to count users who have visited
those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Shreevedic.com may include web beacons
in promotional e-mail messages or shreevedic.com Newsletters in order to count how
many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access
you personal information on the shreevedic.com network of services; they are a technique
shreevedic.com uses to compile aggregated statistics about shreevedic.com Web site
usage.
Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number,
time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon
resides. Shreevedic.com Web pages may also contain web beacons placed there by third
parties to help determine the effectiveness of our joint promotional or advertising
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Changes to this Statement
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Shreevedic.com will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company
and customer feedback. When shreevedic.com posts changes to this Statement, you
will see the word “updated” next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page
of shreevedic.com. if there are material changes to this statement or in how shreevedic.com
will use your personal information, shreevedic.com will prominently post such changes
prior to implementing the change. Shreevedic.com encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how shreevedic.com is protecting your information. |