At Home Shaastra, we adhere to online privacy stringently and we respect the apprehensions of our community of users. In this policy (the “Privacy Policy”) we define our privacy practices concerning information we collect through Home Shaastra.com and affiliated sites (together, the “Site”), to enable you to make informed decisions about how you share information when visiting or using the website, as well as your rights in determining what we do with the information that we gather or store about you.
Here’s How Information Is Gathered on Home Shaastra
Information You May Select to Give Us
We may collect information, such as personal data, directly from you if you wish to give that information. For instance, you may give us your name and contact information (like an email address), DOB, or other personal details, when you sign up for our newsletters or participate in promotions or surveys on the site.
Also, you may decide to provide personal data about yourself when you contribute in forums or discussions on the website. Please understand that information you post in these forums may be seen or captured by anyone who views the website, hence you must avoid posting secret personal data that you would not wish to share to the public.
Information That Is Automatically Gathered When You Visit Home Shaastra
When you access the website, we as well as our third-party partners might automatically take certain information about your visit by leveraging tools such as web beacons, cookies, and others. The information taken automatically when you visit the website might contain your IP address, characteristics of your (OS) operating system, browser and system settings information, data about the computer or mobile device you use while accessing the website, clickstream data (which reveals the page-by-page navigation while browsing the website) and unique device identifiers. We or our third-party partners might combine information that each of us captures automatically with other information pertaining to you, such as information you choose to give.
The cookies are nothing but small files that websites and other online services use in order to store information about users on the users’ own devices. This website might use cookies (such as HTTP and HTML5 cookies), and other kinds of local storage.
You may anytime visit allaboutcookies.org to see the section below surrounding your choices to learn more about how you might restrict or disable cookies on your computer, for more information about cookies. If you decide to disable cookies, that could change some features of the website that use cookies to improve their functionality.
To handle our automatic data collection, we might put tags (often known as “web beacons”) on pages on the website or in emails that we send to you. Web beacons are nothing but small files that link web pages to certain web servers and their cookies, and they might be used for various purposes, like counting the number of visitors to the website, examining how users move around the website, measuring how many emails that we send are really opened and which articles or links are seen by visitors.
We also use third-party web analytics services, like Google Analytics, on the website, to get statistics and other information about visitors to the website.
“Do Not Track” Signals are the settings of browsers that might help you to automatically transfer a “do not track” signal to websites and online services you search. At the moment there is no agreement among industry participants as to the importance of “do not track” in this context. Just like several other websites, Home Shaastra.com is not configured to respond to “do not track” signals from browsers.
At last, companies that give some third-party apps, widgets, plug-ins, and tools that might show up on the website (for instance, Facebook’s “Like” buttons), also might use automated tools to gather information about your interactions with these features. This information gathering is subject to the privacy policies or notices of those providers.
In our Cookies Disclosure, extra information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies is disclosed.
How We Might Use Information We Gather?
We might use the information gathered on Home Shaastra.com for several purposes, including the purposes mentioned below. For instance, if you were to get in touch with us with a question and give your email address, we would utilize the email address you gave for responding to your inquiry. Furthermore, we use the information we gather from you and through the website to:
- Provide services and products that you request (like when you subscribe to get our email newsletters);
- Reply to queries, requests, and comments, and cater to other sorts of user support;
- Proffer you products and services through marketing communications, or guide you to sections of this website or other websites, that we assume might interest you;
- To show content, advertising, and offers to you depending on your preferences and online activities, from us or 3rd parties;
- Talk about, and manage your participation in, programs, events, contests, and other offers or promotions;
- Perform, assess, and develop our business (which might count developing new features for the website; scrutinizing and enriching the user experience on the website; measuring the efficiency of our marketing, and advertising; and handling our communications);
- Implement data analytics of the usage of the website (such as trend analysis, financial analysis, market and customer research);
- Secure against, identify, and prevent fraud and other cyber-criminal activity, claims, as well as other liabilities; and
- Meet the terms with applicable legal requirements, law enforcement requests, as well as our company policies.
How We Might Share Information?
Our vendors, agents, consultants, and other service providers might have access to the information we gather via the website to perform work on our behalf. Those parties are bound by confidentiality obligations and are limited from using personal data gathered via the website for purposes other than to cater to the demanded assistance. Moreover, we might share information:
With Our Affiliates For Internal Business Purposes
With third parties for marketing purposes, including social media networks, data management platforms, and other advertising technology providers; for example, we may match your email address with third parties with whom you have also agreed to share your email address and make use of such match to offer custom offers or emails to you on the Sites and elsewhere online;
- If we are obligatory to do so by law, regulation, or legal process (such as a subpoena or court order);
- In reply to requests from government agencies, like law enforcement authorities, counting to meet national security needs;
- If we think that disclosure is necessary or suitable to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in link with an investigation of alleged or actual illegal activity;
- With reference to analytics and statistical information, to notify advertisers about the type of our user base
In the event, we sell or transfer all or a share of our business or assets (including a restructuring, closure, or insolvency). In such an occurrence, we will try to provide you with commercially reasonable notice, e.g., through email and/or notice on our website, of any modification in ownership, mismatched new uses of your personal information, and selections you might have regarding your personal information; and with your consent or as per your choice.
Data Retention & Access
We will hold your personal data only until it is necessary for the purposes it was needed for, such as to allow you to use the website and your products or to provide services to you. In some cases, we might hold data for a longer span of time to meet the terms with applicable laws (like those about document retention), resolve disputes with any parties, and then as necessary to enable us to conduct our business. All personal data we hold will be subject to this Privacy Policy and our internal retention guidelines. We respect your control over your information and, based on the request, we will try to confirm your identity and whether we retain or are processing information that we have gathered from you. You also have the right to change or update inaccurate or partial personal information, request deletion of your personal information, or request that we no more utilize it. Under some conditions we will not be able to satisfy your request like if it obstructs our regulatory obligations, affects legal matters, we will not be able to confirm your identity, or it involves disproportionate charge or effort, but in any occasion, we will respond to your request within a practical timeframe and give you an explanation. To make such a request to us, please email us at info@homeshaastra.com.
Your Preferences
You can unsubscribe from emails anytime and for unsubscribing from a specific newsletter, click the “unsubscribe” link at the footer of that email newsletter. If you would like to collectively opt-out from ALL Home Shaastra email campaigns, please send an email to info@homeshaastra.com with “Unsubscribe” in the subject line. When we send newsletters to subscribers we might let advertisers or partners include messages in those newsletters, or we might send personalized newsletters for those advertisers or partners. We might disclose your opt-out preferences to third parties so that they can pay attention to your choices in line with applicable laws.
Also, you can block cookies. Several browsers may be configured to inform you when you receive cookies or let you control or disable some cookies. If you select to disable cookies, however, that can affect certain features of the website that utilize the cookies to enhance their functionality.
You can disable local shared objects as well. We might use other kinds of local storage that function similarly but are stored in various parts of your computer from general browser cookies. Your browser might enable you to disable its HTML5 local storage or remove information stored in its HTML5 local storage.
Options relating to 3rd party ad networks. As termed in this Privacy Policy, we and third parties might use cookies and related tracking technologies to gather information and assume your interests for interest-based advertising drives. If you want not to get personalized ads depending on your browser or device usage, you might normally opt-out of interest-based advertising. Please note that you will keep seeing advertisements, but such advertisements will no longer be personalized to your interests. For more information about third-party ad networks as well as services that use these technologies, you can check out aboutads.info and opt-out or learn more about your options. Also. you might visit the NAI’s website for extra options on how to opt-out of interest-based advertising.
How We Protect Personal Information
We maintain apposite technical, administrative, and physical protections planned to protect the personal data you give against unlawful, unintentional, or unauthorized damage, loss, alteration, access, revelation, or usage. That said, it is not promising to guarantee the security of information transmitted online, and you undertake some risk with regard to the security of information you give through any website, including this website. If you have a data security question, you might contact us by emailing info@homeshaastra.com.
Links from Home Shaastra to Other Websites
On this website, we might give links to other websites that are managed by third parties. Linked websites might have their own privacy notices or policies, which we advise you to review. We are not accountable for the content, privacy policies, or usage terms of websites that we do not possess or have rights to.
Surveys and Quizzes
While you are browsing Home Shaastra, you might have the chance to partake in surveys, quizzes, or other interactive events that ask for information about you and your views and preferences. Your participation in such events is completely voluntary. If you want to participate, please understand that these events might be operated by a 3rd party that is not controlled by Home Shaastra and so the information you give might be gathered by the third party and conditional on its privacy policy.
Children’s Privacy
This website is not aimed for use by children, and we do not knowledgeably collect personal data from children below the age of 16. If we become aware that we have captured personal data from a child below the age of 16, we will remove such type of information.
Information for Users Outside the United States
Your personal data might be kept, relocated, and process in and to the United States and in other countries by our service providers and/or affiliates. The data protection laws in some countries might provide a lower standard of protection for your private data compared to the country you reside in. We take a lot of measures in protecting your personal data and have implemented suitable mechanisms to safeguard it when it is relocated internationally. We will transfer your personal data in compliance with suitable data protection laws and will apply apposite safeguards to make sure that your personal data is effectively secured by any third party that will access your information.
By making use of our website and giving personal data to us, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the gathering, use, maintenance, transmit, and processing of your personal data in the United States or other territories or countries and, if otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we utilize this consent as the legal foundation for that data transmit.
If you have queries or want to get more information about the international transmit of your personal data or the applied safeguards, please send us an email to info@homeshaastra.com.
How We Will Inform You About Changes to This Privacy Policy?
We might update this online privacy policy sometimes to reflect changes to our privacy practices, like how we gather or use personal data. If we suggest making any material changes, we will post a noticeable notice on the Home Shaastra.com home page to inform you of important changes to this policy, and we designate at the top of the policy the date when it was most freshly updated. We reassure you to periodically review this page for the newest information on our privacy practices.
How to Contact Us?
If you have questions about this policy or our privacy practices, you might contact us by sending an email of info@homeshaastra.com.
