This notice discloses the privacy practices for Shree Maharishi Bhrigu Ashram, a California nonprofit religious corporation (“we” or “us” or “our” or “Bhrigu Ashram”), and applies solely to information collected by this Site, www.bhriguashram.org (“Site”) (“Privacy Policy”). We are a strong supporter of individual privacy and we do everything we can to safeguard information about our visitors. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect particular information and how we work to protect your personal privacy.
In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time simply by updating this page. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting, unless otherwise stated. If we make material changes to the way we collect or process personal data, we will let you know by email or by updating this Privacy Policy page. Note however that you are responsible for ensuring we have your up-to-date, active and deliverable email address and periodically visiting this Privacy Policy page to check for any changes.
To demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, this Privacy Policy notifies you of:
What Personal Information We Collect from Our Site Visitors
When contacting us, signing up for our newsletter or otherwise sharing information through our Site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, payment information (for donations), or other relevant details, which we collect to help you with your experience. We may also collect information you have shared, such as general feedback, testimonials, comments, or questions and requests submitted through our Contact Us page or other means.
How We Collect Information
We collect information from you whenever you submit information to us, including subscribing to our newsletter, providing your contact information such as email address, responding to a marketing communication, making a donation or otherwise interacting with us or entering information on our Site. We also collect certain information automatically, such as IP addresses, when you visit our Site. See Internet Protocol (IP) Address below.
Why We Collect Information and How We Use It
We only use your information in accordance with the law. This gives us the authority to use your data in relation to your participation in our organization, and/or using our Site. We use the collected data for various purposes, including:
Authorized Release of Information
While we endeavor to provide the highest level of protection of your information, we may be legally required to disclose information in certain circumstances without your consent, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order. We comply with all applicable legal requirements.
How We Protect Your Information
We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information that you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. In particular, email may not be secure, and you should, therefore, take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email.
To help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
Our Site is scanned by our third party hosting provider on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our Site as safe as possible.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s servers and stored on your computer. We may use cookies on this Site for essential purposes, including enabling you to navigate our Site and use its features, such as accessing any secure areas. We may also use cookies on this Site to gather statistics on how visitors use our Site. This allows us to gain insight so that we may make improvements to its usability. Some of our third party providers may also use cookies. We urge you to review their privacy policies and practices.
Internet Protocol (IP) Address
We collect an Internet Protocol (IP) address from all visitors to our Site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use to help us to improve the Site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
As with almost all Sites, temporary log files are kept which identify some information about our visitors, including the IP addresses of machines that access the Site. Our web logs are not available to the public. These logs allow Site administrators to see how many people visit, how many pages have been accessed, which pages are accessed most frequently, and which links are leading people to the Site.
Standard logs (including ours) also track which pages are visited by each IP address. This information is important for us to have because it allows us to catch "denial of service" attacks (for example, individual computers accessing hundreds of thousands of pages per day). We take great care to make sure this information cannot be used to compromise the privacy and security of our visitors.
Third Party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties.
We do use a number of third party providers to host our Site and constituent database, process program registrations, and manage our communications. We may share information from or about you with these third party providers so that they can perform their services or complete your requests. All shared data is transferred and stored securely, in accordance with the privacy policies of each provider. We endeavor to work with providers with privacy standards that match our own, but in some cases, third party providers collect more information on you than we do, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies.
Links to Third Party Sites/Services
We may occasionally, at our discretion, include or offer other third party products or services on our Site. These sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We take no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Right to Know and Data Portability
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months (the "right to know"). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete), we will disclose to you:
We do not provide a right to know or data portability disclosure for Business-to-business (B2B) personal information.
Right to Delete
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the "right to delete"). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete), we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
We will delete or deidentify personal information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.
We do not provide these deletion rights for B2B personal information.
Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete
To exercise your rights to know or delete described above, please submit a request via email to bhriguashram@yahoo.com or through our Contact Us page. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete related to your personal information. You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. Your request to know or delete must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
How does our Site handle Do Not Track signals?
We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old. Should you become aware of anyone under the age of 13 years using our Site, please let us know.
CAN-SPAM Act
The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act of 2003 (“CAN-SPAM Act”) is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you may click on the “UNSUBCRIBE” link or button.
Notice to California Visitors
California Online Privacy Protection Act
The California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”) requires commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. We comply with CalOPPA.
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), if you are a California resident, you have the right to us ask us to disclose what personal information we have about you and what we do with that information, to delete your personal information and not to sell your personal information. You also have the right to be notified, before or at the point we collect your personal information, of the types of personal information we are collecting and what we may do with that information. Unless otherwise permitted, we cannot discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We comply with CCPA.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which Bhrigu Ashram collects and uses your information described here, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under the law, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at bhriguashram@yahoo.com or through our Contact Us page. Please reference “Privacy” in the subject line.