Privacy Policy

Vidyaranya Educational Society (“VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY”) which was known as Vidyaranya Educational Society, committed to the ethical collection, retention and use of information that you provide to us about yourself (“Personal Information”) on this www.srisrinivasainst.org (“Site”)

Your Personal Information may comprise the following:

your name

your age

your occupation

your email and mailing address

your telephone number

your payment processing details

limited personal details

Your PAN or AADHAR as per Income Tax Department requires it

Any other data as VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY may require

The following Privacy Policy sets forth our understanding with you on the collection, use and protection of your Personal Information. Please read the entire Privacy Policy.

YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR CONSENT TO THE ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY (AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME) AND YOU SHALL BE BOUND BY THE SAME.

  • Collection of Information

Site Browsing: You browse the Site anonymously. We do not require you to identify yourself or reveal any Personal Information while browsing through the Site. However, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site or interact with us without supplying us with Personal Information. For instance, you would not be able to transact at the Site or make any donations at the Site, without providing the Site with Personal Information. If you desire to register yourself at the Site, you would be required to provide your Personal Information.

  • While you are browsing through the Site, the Site’s operating system may automatically record some general information (“General Information”) about your visit such as:
    • The date and time you visit the Site, along with the address of the previous website your were visiting, if you linked to us from another website
    • The type of browser you are using (such as Internet Explorer version ‘X’)
    • Which ‘hit’ it is on the Site
  • The General Information is not Personal Information. VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY’s tracking system does not record personal information about individuals or link this information to any Personal Information collected from you.
  • The General Information is used by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY for statistical analysis, for tracking overall traffic patterns on the Site and to gauge the public interest in VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY and the Site. Such General Information may be shared by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY with any person, at VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY’s discretion.
  • Cookies:
    • “Cookies” are small amounts of data that a website can send to a web browser on a visitor’s computer. The cookie is stored on a visitor’s computer. A cookie may enable the site holder to track how a visitor navigates through its site and the areas in which they show interest. This is similar to a traffic report: it tracks trends and behaviors, but does not identify individuals. Information gathered may include date and time of visits, pages viewed, time spent at the site, and the site visited just before and just after the VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY site.
    • Types of Cookies
      • Cookies can be set to expire: on a specified date after a specific period of time when a transaction has been completed or when a user turns off his/her browser.
      • A cookie that is erased from memory when a visitor’s browser closes is called a “session” cookie. Cookies that expire based on a time set by the Web server are called “persistent” cookies.
      • Persistent cookies may be used in some cases, for example, to recognize when a visitor returns to a website. The web browser will send the cookie information from the initial visit back to the website. This is useful to the visitor if he or she has established a password at a particular website and wants to be identified by that site to perform a function or transaction.
    • To browse anonymously, you may set your browser to disable cookies or delete cookies. Please note that disabling cookies for some services will impact ability to use that service.
    • Refusing Cookies on VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY’s Website
    • Customers may choose not to accept cookies. Your web browser may alert and permit you to refuse cookies. When you receive an alert, you may choose at that time to refuse that cookie. If the use of cookies is a concern to you, then please make sure your browser has this capability, and that you set your browser to alert you accordingly.
    • Newer browser versions allow you to be alerted or to automatically refuse cookies. You may need to download a more current version of your web browser from your service provider in order to obtain this option.
    • Note: Some product features and services provided by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY require you to accept a cookie in order to be able to use the particular functionality or service. These cookies are used to establish a link between the user and the application server. The cookies contain unique session IDs, and no customer data is stored on the cookies.

INFORMATION SHARING

  • We shares the sensitive personal information to any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the user in the following limited circumstances:
    • When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms; for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
    • We proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

INFORMATION SECURITY

  • We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
    • All information gathered on our Website is securely stored within our controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
    • However the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.
  • GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL
    • Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints, abuse or concerns with regards to content and or comment or breach of these terms shall be immediately informed to the designated Grievance Officer as mentioned below via in writing or through email signed with the electronic signature to …………………………….. (“Grievance Officer”).
    • Usage of Information
    • Personal information will be used by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY for internal purposes including the following:
    • Sending you inter alia emails, features, promotional material, surveys, brochures, catalogues, VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY Annual Report, VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY-in -Action, reminders for donations, regular updates on the utilisation of donations by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY and other updates.
    • Processing your donations to VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.
    • Delivering receipst for donations made by you to VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.
    • Maintaining an internal confidential database of all the Personal Information collected from visitors to the Site
    • Evaluating and administering the Site and VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY’s activities, responding to any problems that may arise and gauging visitor trends on the Site.
  • Disclosure of Personal Information by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY
    • Within VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY, access to Personal Information collected by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY will be given only to those persons who are authorised by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY and third parties hired by VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY to perform administrative services. VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY will provide access to third parties for inter alia entering and managing Personal Information in VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY’s Database, processing donations preparing address labels, sending emails, which require such third parties to have access to your Personal Information. VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY cannot guarantee that such parties will keep your Personal Information confidential and VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY will not be liable in any manner for any loss of confidentiality attributable to such third parties.
    • VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY may share Personal Information with any of persons who are associated with VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY, including companies and non-governmental organisations affiliated with VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY in any manner. VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY will retain ownership rights over such information and will share only such portions of the Personal Information as it deems fit.
    • VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY is not liable in any manner whatsoever for the loss, damage(whether direct, indirect, consequential or incidental) or harm caused to you by the misuse of your Personal Information by a third party who is not an employee of VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.
    • Notwithstanding anything contained herein or any other contract between you and VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY, VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY reserves the right to disclose any Personal Information about you without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal request or legal investigation, to conduct investigations of breaches of law, to protect the Site, to protect VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY and it’s property, to fufill your requests, to protect our visitors and other persons and if required by the policy of VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.
  • Security
    • VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY endevours to use up-to-date security measures to protect your Personal Information.
    • VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY however does not make any express or implied warranty with respect to the security measures that it may employ from time to time for the protection of the Personal Information.
  • Links to other Websites
    • The Site may contains links to other websites for the benefit of it’s visitors. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites. VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY is not expressly or impliedly responsible for, or liable to any loss or damage caused to you by the collection, use and retention of Personal Information by such website in any manner whatsoever. It is important that you review the privacy policies of all websites you visit before you disclose any information to such websites.
  • Variation of the Privacy Policy
    • VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY shall be absolutely entitled at its sole discretion from time to time add to, alter, delete or modify any of the terms and conditions contained herein. Such changes, additions, alterations, deletions or modifications shall be binding on you once you visit the Site after the Privacy Policy has been so amended.
    • Copyright Protection
    • All content on this Site including graphics, text, icons, interfaces, audio clips, logos, images and software is the property of VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY and/or its content suppliers and is protected by Indian and international copyright laws. The arrangement and compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all content on this Site is the exclusive property of VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY and protected by Indian and international copyright laws. Permission is given to use the resources of this Site only for the purposes of making enquiries, donation. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance, of the content on this Site can only be made with the express permission of VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY. All other trademarks, brands and copyrights other than those belonging to VIDYARANYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY belong to their respective owners and are their property.