Privacy Statement & Refund Policy

This website [www.chinmayindia.org] is owned and operated by Bharat Lokhit Seva Samiti. All the contents herein are intellectual property of Bharat Lokhit Seva Samiti. Use of the content for reproduction, copying or redistribution is not allowed without reference and without permission from Chinmayindia.

We recognize that the visitors to our website may be concerned they about the information they provide to us and how we treat that information. Chinmayindia is committed to ensure that your privacy is protected. They key notes about concerning privacy policy are hereunder:

Personal Information

Chinmayindia uses its best efforts to respect the privacy of its online visitors. All user data that is not made public, including email address and IPs associated with user accounts, will not be sold or rented nor will it be shared with any third party unless we are required by law. When a visitor requests or read a page, or sends email to Chinmayindia server, no more information is collected than is typically collected by websites.

Chinmayindia gathers only personally identifiable data such as names, addresses, zip codes, email etc when voluntarily submitted by a visitor. For example, of we ask for personal information on our Online Donation page, we use the information to acknowledge receipt of your donation for tax purposes.

Security

You can access the pages of the website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. Our web servers collect anonymous logs during user visits to Chinmayindia website. This information is used to create aggregate statistics. These statistics help us understand how our website is used and how we might improve viewer experience in the future.

Cookies

A cookie is a text-only piece of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data may be collected by the Website through the use of cookies. Chinmayindia uses cookie technology only to obtain non-personal information from its online visitors in order to improve visitor’s online experience and facilitate their visit within our site. If a visitor does not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple way in most browsers that allows the visitors to deny or accept the cookie feature.

Online Donations

We request information from the visitor on our donation form. A visitor must provide contact information (such as name, email and mailing address) and payment information (such as credit card cumber and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and for sending receipt of the donation.

If we have trouble processing a donation, the information is used by us to contact the donor. We will not share the visitor’s name and contact information with any third party. Financial and credit card information are NEVER disclosed.

This should be very much clear that Chinmayindia is not willing to accept donations earned through illegal and unlawful means.

Once online payment is made, you will receive a confirmation mail regarding your payment. The request for any donation related information can be sent contact@chinmayindia.org

Credit Card Information Security

When you donate to Chinmayindia your credit card information is encrypted for your security by CCAvenue.com (India: Avenues India Pvt Ltd). The payment gateway (powered by CCAvenue) uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption to protect the security of your transaction and the confidentiality of your personal information. This makes it extremely difficult for anyone else to intercept the credit card information your send to us.

Financial information, like credit card numbers, is stored in the CCAvenue’s secure database and is not available to Chinmayindia. We do, however, can access personal information like address and phone numbers for communication related to the donations.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

No cancellation for the donated amount by any donor will be entertained. The donation will be used for the heads selected by the donor at our Online Donation page. Chinmayindia does not compel any person or organization to donate money, rather it depends on one’s own wish whether he/she is willing to contribute towards educational and social needs of Chinmayindia.

But, as far as refund is concerned, we can have partial refund in case you donated an amount by mistake. Please contact us within 15 days from the date of your donation if you identify an error in the amount of payment or to report unauthorized usage of your credit or debit card.

Disclaimer

The Privacy Policy represents a committed effort to safeguard the security of the user information that is collected and retained on our server. Nevertheless, we acknowledge that, in spite of our committed effort, some determined individual may still develop data-mining and other methods to uncover such information and disclose it. For this reason, Chinmayindia can make no guarantee against unauthorized access to information provided in the course of using this website.

Chinmayindia reserves the right to make any change or update in this privacy policy, so you are requested to visit this page from time to time.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please CLICK HERE.

Last Updated: 26/06/2015