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Privacy
Policy
Effective
Date: June
15, 2021
To
review material modifications and their effective dates scroll to the bottom of
the page.
CROISSANCE
DIGITAL SERVICES LLP d/b/a Vedicshala owns and operates this Vedicshala.com
website business. All references to “we”, “us”, this “website” or this
“site” shall be construed to mean Vedicshala.
This
Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, and sharing of information,
including the sharing of information with our marketing partners for purposes
of serving personalized ads based on your interests. Our marketing
partners include third party service providers, advertisers, advertising
networks and platforms, advertising agencies, and data brokers and aggregators.
(See below, PERSONALIZED ADS.)
Our
Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by us and our affiliated
entities, including services accessed by mobile devices and application
programming interface (API), but excludes services that have separate privacy
policies which do not incorporate this Privacy Policy.
Our
Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of other companies and
organizations who advertise our services, and who may use cookies, web beacons
(pixel tags), and other methodologies to serve personalized ads.
HOW WE MODIFY THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may
modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and without prior notice, by posting an
amended Privacy Policy that is always accessible by clicking on the “Privacy
Policy” link on this site’s home page. Your continued use of this site
indicates your acceptance of the amended Privacy Policy.
Regarding
Personal Information (defined below), if any modifications are materially less
restrictive on our use or disclosure of the Personal Information previously
disclosed by you, we will obtain your consent before implementing such
revisions with respect to such information.
THE TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal
Information. “Personal Information” includes any information regarding a
natural person that may be used directly to identify the person.
Personal
Information that we collect may vary with each separate purpose for which you
provide it, and it may include one or more of the following categories: name,
physical address, an email address, phone number, credit card information including
credit card number, expiration date, and billing address, and location data.
We also
may collect publicly available Personal Information posted on social media
platforms and profiles. When you engage with our content on or through social
media platforms or other third party platforms, plug-ins, integrations or
applications, you may allow us to have access to certain Personal Information
in your profile that you have added to these platforms. This may include your
name, e-mail address, photo, gender, birthday, location, an ID associated with
the applicable third-party platform or social media account user files, “like”
photos and videos, your list of friends or connections, people you follow
and/or who follow you, or your posts or “likes.”
Passively
or Automatically Collected Data (“Usage Data”).
We, our
affiliated entities, and our marketing partners including third party service
providers, advertisers, advertising networks and platforms, advertising
agencies, and data brokers and aggregators may use automated means to collect
various types of information about you, your computer or other device used to
access this site or its services. This information is based on your usage of
this site, including information collected automatically from this site (or by
our marketing partners employed in this site).
Geo-Location
Data. If you are accessing a page or service from a computer or a mobile
device, you may be asked to share your precise (GPS level) geo-location
information with us so we can customize your experience on our services or on
other services when we work with a marketing partner such as a third party
service provider, advertiser, advertising network and platform, advertising
agency, and a data broker or aggregator. If you agree to the collection of
location data, in most cases, you will be able to turn off such data collection
at any time by accessing the privacy settings of your mobile device.
Data
Collected Via Social Media Platforms and Other Third-Party Sources. When we
interact with you through our content on social media platforms, third-party
platforms, third-party websites, applications, integrations, and services of
our marketing partners, we may obtain any information regarding your
interaction with that content, such as content you have viewed, your game
performance, high scores, and information about advertisements within the
content you have been shown or may have clicked on. For a description on
how social media services and other third party platforms, plug-ins,
integrations or applications handle your information, please refer to their
respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify
your privacy settings.
HOW AND WHEN WE COLLECT INFORMATION
Personal
information. We collect Personal Information at the time you provide it to
us. We collect Personal Information through sign-up forms and as part of
your registration for an account, product, or service, promotion, or contest
from this website. Personal Information that we collect may vary with each
sign-up or registration. In addition, we collect personal information
from all communications with site visitors including without limitation, text
messages, faxes, telephone calls, and regular “snail mail”, as well as from
third-party outside sources including data brokers and aggregators. As
indicated above, we may collect publicly available Personal Information posted
on social media profile information including photos both directly and through
the use of contact management applications.
Your
Communications with Us. We collect Personal Information that we receive
from you as you communicate with us. If you complete a signup form
subscribing to information from our site or to participate in our mailing list
activities, we will receive your Personal Information from our email services
and/or autoresponder service.
Usage
Data. We collect Usage Data as you use this site, including your
interactions with emails we send, and via social media platforms, third-party
platforms, third-party websites, applications, integrations, and services of
our marketing partners. This data may be passively or automatically
collected (that is, gathered without your actively providing the information)
using various analytics and reporting technologies, such as cookies, web beacons,
locally stored objects, and mobile device identifiers and SDKs, and other
similar methodologies as well as similar technologies developed in the future.
(See below, SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS.)
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may
use your Personal Information and Usage Data for the performance of the
services or transaction for which it was given and for the basic purpose of
this site. We may use your Personal Information in connection with other
products, services, promotions, personalized ads, or contests we may offer, and
our private, internal reporting for this site, and security assessments for
this site. We may also send you messages related to certain features or
your activity on this site. We may also send you news or updates about
changes to our site or services. By default, you will receive these
messages via email.
We may
use publicly available Personal Information posted on social media profile
information including photos for purposes of assisting us, and our marketing partners
with marketing and advertising activities and with contact management.
We may
make full, unrestricted use of Usage Data for any purpose in our sole
discretion, including without limitation, to customize or personalize ads,
offers and content made available to you based on your visits to and/or usage
of this site or its services, and to analyze the performance of those ads,
offers and content, as well as your interaction with them.
We may
combine and use the Personal Information and Usage Data we collect from all
services and products offered by us and our affiliated entities over various
websites to provide, protect, and improve them, and to develop and offer new
services and products. We will treat you as a single user of these
combined services and products. We may also use this information to
provide you personalized ads.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
General
Disclosure Policy. We may share and disclose your Personal
Information as described below. We may share and disclose Usage Data without
restriction, including without limitation, as described below.
Affiliated
Entities. We may provide your Personal Information and Usage Data to any
affiliated entities we may have, including our subsidiaries. Affiliated
entities are entities that we legally control (by voting rights) or that
control us.
Service
Providers. We may provide access to your Personal Information and Usage
Data to our trusted service providers that assist us with the operation and
maintenance of this site. For example, we may contract with third parties
to finance purchases from this site, process payments, host our servers,
provide security, and provide production, fulfillment, optimization, analytics,
reporting, and software maintenance and development services. In addition,
our service providers will be given access to your information only as is
reasonably necessary to provide the services for which they are contracted.
Successors.
If we sell or otherwise transfer part or all of our business or assets to
another organization, such as in the course of an acquisition, merger,
bankruptcy or liquidation, we may transfer your Personal Information and Usage
Data. In such an event, we will require the buyer or transferee to
agree to our commitments provided in this Privacy Policy.
Legal
Process, Enforcement and Security Notice. We may disclose your Personal
Information and Usage Data if we have a good faith belief that access, use,
preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary (i) to
satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request (such as for example, to comply with a subpoena or court
order), (ii) to detect, prevent, and address fraud or other illegal activity,
and (iii) to investigate, respond to, or enforce violations of our rights or
the security of this site.
Joint
Venture Partners. We may participate with another company or individual for
purposes of jointly promoting our products, services, promotions or contests or
their products, services, promotions, or contests. We may disclose your
Personal Information and Usage Data to them for purposes of (i) compensation,
transaction processing, fulfillment, and support, and (ii) for purposes of
offering you other products, services, promotions, and contests. These joint
venture marketing partners may also contact you regarding other products,
services, promotions, or contests.
Marketing
Partners. We may share your Usage Data with our marketing partners
including third party service providers, advertisers, advertising networks and
platforms, advertising agencies, and data brokers and aggregators to serve and
offer personalized ads. We may share Personal Information with our
marketing partners to correlate and match our list with our marketing partners’
lists for purposes of creating an “audience” for serving personalized ads.
Sweepstakes,
Contests, or Promotions. When you choose to enter a sweepstakes, contest,
or other promotion, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
promotions, your Personal Information and Usage Data may be disclosed to our
sponsors and to third parties who help administer the promotion, including in
connection with winner selection prize fulfillment and aggregated data
analysis. Your Personal Information and Usage Data also may be disclosed as
required by law, such as on a winners list. Further, by entering a
promotion, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that promotion,
including allowing our sponsors to use your name, voice, and likeness in
advertising and marketing associated with the promotion in accordance with
applicable law. All terms applicable to the particular promotion will be made
available to you at the time you enter the promotion.
With
Your Consent. We may share your Personal Information with other parties
with your consent.
SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
In order to provide better service for our site, we and our
marketing partners may use cookies and other data collection methodologies
discussed below to collect Usage Data to store your preferences and information
about what pages you visit and past activity at our site and other
websites. This information helps us and our marketing partners display
personalized ads, compile aggregated statistics regarding the effectiveness of
our promotional campaigns or other operations of our site.
“Cookies”
are tiny pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard
drive. Cookies are also used to customize content based on your
browser. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies.
If you want to disable cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers
that allows you to turn off cookies. Please remember, however, that
cookies may be required to allow you to use certain features of our site.
Flash
Cookies – third party cookies that use an Adobe Flash Media Player local shared
object (LSO) – may be used along with other third party cookies for purposes of
crediting any purchase you may make on this site to one of our joint venture
partners that may have referred you to us. These cookies will be used for
purposes of crediting sales to the referring joint venture marketing partner.
Flash cookies are not the same as “browser cookies”. The Adobe Flash
Media Player is software that enables users to view content on their
computers. Flash cookies are also accompanied by a browser cookie.
If you delete the browser cookie, the Flash cookie may automatically create (or
re-spawn) a replacement for the browser cookie.
Web
Beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs or clear gifs) are used to assist
in delivering cookies, and they allow us to count users who have visited pages
of our site. We may include Web Beacons in promotional e-mail messages or our
newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted
upon.
Locally Stored Objects – we may employ locally stored objects
(“LSOs”) and other client-side storage tracking technologies in certain
situations where they help to provide a better user experience, such as to
remember settings, preferences and usage similar to browser cookies, or in
order to target or help our Partners target ads, analyze ad performance, or
perform user, website or market analytics. . In addition, some, but
not all browsers, provide the ability to remove LSOs, sometimes within cookie
and privacy settings.
PERSONALIZED ADS
We may
participate with our marketing partners for purposes of providing personalized
ads based on your interests. This activity is performed by collecting
Usage Data and by using cookies and other tracking and data collection
methodologies discussed above to transfer information to our marketing partners
which manage advertising activities.
Our
marketing partners may also use cookies and other tracking and data collection
methodologies discussed above to measure advertisement effectiveness and for
other purposes that are disclosed in their own privacy policies. We have
no access or control over these cookies and other tracking and data collection
methodologies that may be used by our marketing partners, and we have no
responsibility or liability for the privacy policies and practices of these
sites.
AdWords (Google) – We may participate in AdWords program which
is a personalized ad service provided by Google Inc. that connects the activity
of this site with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick
cookie. Information collected: cookie and Usage Data. For the
opt-out, visit –> https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
Google Analytics for Display Advertising (Google) – We may
participate in any and all of the following Google Analytics Advertising
Features provided by Google: Google Analytics, Google Display Network
Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration, and Google
Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features use first
party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) for connecting the tracking
activity performed by Google Analytics and its cookies with the Adwords advertising
network and the DoubleClick cookie (a third-party cookie). Information
collected: cookie and Usage Data, including audience data such as age, gender,
and interests. For the opt-out, visit –> https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en You may
opt-out of the Google Analytics service with the Google’s Browser Add-on that’s
available at –> https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For information in general about Google’s personalized ad
campaigns, and specifically about information regarding DoubleClick cookies and
how to control and manage Google’s advertising cookies for these campaigns,
visit –> http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
· For another Google
resource for opting out of Google’s use of cookies, visit –> http://www.google.com/settings/ads
· For information regarding
how Google uses data when you use Google’s partners’ sites or apps, visit
–> http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
· For an additional
resource recommended by Google for opting out of a third party vendor’s use of
cookies, visit –> http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Custom
Audience (Facebook). We may participate in Facebook.com’s Custom Audience
program which enables us to display personalized ads to persons on our email
lists when they visit Facebook.com. We provide Personal Information such
as your email address and phone number to Facebook to enable Facebook to
determine if you are a registered account holder with Facebook. You may
opt-out of participation in our Facebook Custom Audience by sending an email,
from the email address you are opting out of, to the email address provided in
our contact information below. For your opt-out to be effective, you
must: (i) place the following text in the subject line of the email –
“Opting Out of Facebook.com Website Custom Audience Ads”, and (ii) in the body
of the email, include your name and email address. We will forward your
name and email address to Facebook.com with a request to delete you from all of
our Facebook Custom Audience Ads.
Tailored Audiences/Conversion Tracking Programs (Twitter).
We may participate in Twitter.com’s Tailored Audiences/Conversion Tracking
Programs which enable us to display personalized ads. You may opt-out of
participation in these programs by visiting https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170405 .
Other
Personalized And Behavioral Advertising Services. We may participate in
additional retargeting and behavioral advertising services that will be similar
to the services described above.
Managing
Personalized Ads. You can control the placement of cookies and other data
collection methodologies for purposes of opting out.
Managing Cookies Via Your Browser: You should note
that although most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, you may be
able to change your browser settings to cause your browser to refuse first
party or third-party cookies or to indicate when a third-party cookie is being
sent. However, disabling or limiting cookies may cause certain features
of this website to not function properly or optimally. Check your browser’s
“Help” files or other similar resources to learn more about handling cookies on
your browser. In addition, visit –>
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Managing Flash Cookies: Flash cookies, also called local shared
objects (LSOs), function similarly to standard cookies except that they are
often larger and are downloaded to a computer or mobile device by the Adobe
Flash Player. In some cases, these Flash cookies can be managed through
browser settings. Adobe also provides a means of controlling Flash cookies on
its Flash Player: Setting Manager page.
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): A number companies
that use cookies to collect information about your online activities are
members of NAI, which offers a single location to opt out of receiving
personalized ads from member companies. To opt out of information collection by
NAI member companies, or to obtain information about the technologies they use
or their own privacy policies, please visit the NAI consumer opt-out page:
–> http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ .
Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): DAA member
advertising associations have developed an industry self-regulatory program to
give consumers a better understanding of and greater control over ads that are
customized based on their online behavior across different websites. To make
choices about interest-based ads from participating third parties, please visit
DAA Consumer Opt-Out page –> http://www.aboutads.info/consumers .
Opting
Out With Ad Choices For Mobile Devices. When using mobile applications
you may receive personalized in-application advertisements. Depending on your
device, you may be able to reset your mobile device’s advertising identifier at
any time by accessing the privacy settings on your mobile device. In addition,
each operating system (iOS for Apple phones, Android for Android devices and
Windows for Microsoft devices) provides its own instructions on how to prevent
the delivery of personalized in-application advertisements. You may review the
support materials and/or the privacy settings for the respective operating
systems in order to opt-out of these advertisements. For any other devices
and/or operating systems, please visit the privacy settings for the applicable
device or contact (or review the applicable privacy web page of) the applicable
platform operator.
ANALYTICS
We may
participate with third party analytics partners to monitor and analyze Web
traffic and to keep track of user behavior on this site.
Google Analytics (Google) – Google Analytics is a web analysis
service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the data
collected to track and examine the use of this site, to prepare reports on its
activities, and to share them with other Google services. Information
collected: cookie and Usage Data. Visit Privacy Policy at –>
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/?fg=1 You may opt-out of
the Google Analytics service with the Google’s Browser Add-on that’s available
at –> https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .
DO NOT TRACK REQUESTS
Some
Web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to websites that
you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Each
browser communicates “Do Not Track” signals to websites differently, making it
unworkable to honor each and every request correctly. In order to
alleviate any communication error between browsers and website, we do not respond
to “Do Not Track” signals at this time. As the technology and communication
between browser and website improves, we will reevaluate the ability to honor
“Do Not Track” signals and may make changes to our policy.
DATA SECURITY
We will
implement reasonable and appropriate security procedures consistent with
prevailing industry standards to protect data from unauthorized access by
physical and electronic intrusion. Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet or method of data storage can be guaranteed 100%
secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information
by following generally accepted industry standards, we cannot ensure or warrant
the absolute security of any information you transmit to us or archive at this
site.
ONWARD TRANSFER OUTSIDE YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE
Any
Personal Information which we may collect on this site may be stored and
processed in our servers located in the United States or in any other country
in which we, or our affiliates, subsidiaries, or agents maintain
facilities. By using this site, you consent to any such transfer of
Personal Information outside your country of residence to any such location.
UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Upon
request, we will permit you to request or make changes or updates to your
Personal Information for legitimate purposes. We request identification
prior to approving such requests. We reserve the right to decline any
requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require unreasonable
time or effort of our technical or administrative personnel, or undermine the
privacy rights of others. We reserve the right to permit you to access
your Personal Information in any account you establish with this site for
purposes of making your own changes or updates, and in such case, instructions
for making such changes or updates will be provided where necessary.
LINKS TO JOINT VENTURE MARKETING PARTNER SITES
This
site may contain links to other websites operated by our joint venture
marketing partners. If you do click on any of the links to their websites
or accept any of their promotional offers, your click-through information and
any information that you provide in the process of registration or purchase
will be transferred to these sites. We have no responsibility or
liability for the policies and practices of these sites. You should be
careful to review any privacy policies posted on any of these sites before
providing information to them.
CHILDREN’S ONLINE POLICY
We are
committed to preserving online privacy for all of its website visitors,
including children. This site is a general audience site. Consistent with
the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly
collect any information from, or sell to, children under the age of 13.
If you are a parent or guardian who has discovered that your child under the
age of 13 has submitted his or her personally identifiable information without
your permission or consent, we will remove the information from our active
list, at your request. To request the removal of your child’s information,
please contact our site as provided below under “Contact Us”, and be sure to
include in your message the same login information that your child submitted.
CONTACT US
If you
have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact the owner and
operator of this website business at: info@vedicshala.com
