Privacy Policy
Your privacy is of high priority to Sathyam Ministries Intl. We always respect and uphold the confidentiality of information and the privacy of our visitors
and customers. This Privacy Policy gives you an insight on what kind of information we collect, how we use the information we collect and all other related details. Your continued use of our website constitutes your acknowledgement and understanding of, and agreement with, our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.sathyampublications.com/ (the “Site”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this
automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
– “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, Paypal details), email address, and phonenumber. We refer to this information as “Order Information”.
We will also collect your data when you join our mailing list and when you make a purchase with us. When you make a purchase on the Site, as part of the buying and selling process, you may be requested to provide personal data such as, but not limited to, the following,
a) Full Name;
b) Address(es);
c) Payment details;
d) Contact details, including telephone number or email address
We may also collect your data through your interactions with our website to improve our products and services.
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use information from the data we collected, our interactions with you and from certain third parties, to help us achieve our goal of providing the highest quality products and services to our website visitors and customers.
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
– Communicate with you;
– Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
– When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to
assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
Your data will enable us, and our processors, to fulfil your order, to notify you about important functionality changes and for statistical or survey purposes to improve this website and our services to you. We may also send you from time to time (by email) information about products and services and details of promotions and special offers from Sathyam Ministries Intl. If you do not wish to be contacted for these purposes, please contact us at cvv.india@gmail.com
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use WordPress to power our online store–you can read more about how WordPress uses your Personal Information here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site — you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations or if you violate our Terms of Service, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
WORDPRESS
Sathyam Ministries Intl. is hosted on WordPress. They provide us with an online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to our customers. Your data is stored through WordPress’s data storage, databases, and the general WordPress application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall. For more insight, you may also want to read WordPress’s Terms of Service (https://wordpress.com/tos/) or Privacy Statement
(https://automattic.com/privacy/).
SECURITY
Being committed to protecting your privacy, we will not sell your e-mail address, name, delivery address, contact information, payment method details or any other personal information to any third party without your permission. To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.
COOKIES
When you visit our website, we may assign your computer one or more “cookies.” By accessing our website, you agree that we can place cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that contains information that can later be read by us to facilitate your access to our website,
gather statistical data, and personalize your online experience. We currently use cookies on our website for purposes including, but not limited to, detecting
your web browser’s multimedia capabilities, tracking promotional advertisements that we have displayed to you and providing a unique identifier to your computer so that we can generate statistics regarding website usage. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies. Generally, you can remove these cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. If you choose not to allow us to place a cookie on your computer, you may be restricted from some services and some of the interactive features offered on our websites may be similarly restricted or rendered inoperable.
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at
http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
– Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
– Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising
Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
LINK TO THIRD PARTY SITES
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms and Conditions.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Sathyam Ministries Intl., its third-party vendors, manufacturers, agents, distributors, corporate affiliates, owners, officers, directors, and employees from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees, (a) made by any third party due to or arising out of any Content Submitted, posted, or otherwise provided by you to the
Network, Sathyam Ministries Intl. and/or its third party licensors, licensees or advertisers, and/or
(b) resulting from your breach of any provision of these Terms of Use, any warranty you provide herein, or otherwise arising in any way out of your use of the Network or purchase of the products or services therefrom. Sathyam Ministries Intl. reserves the right to take exclusive control and defense of any such claim otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate fully with Sathyam Ministries Intl. in asserting any available defenses.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this page periodically to understand our policy regarding the collection and use of your personal data.
MINORS
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at cvv.india@gmail.com or by mail using the details provided below:
Sathyam Ministries Intl.
[Re: Privacy Compliance Officer]
SATHYAM MINISTRIES Intl., Thottabhagom P.O, Thiruvalla, Kerala, India.