Introduction
Gujarat Society of Southern California (“We”) respect your privacy and are committed
to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you
may provide when you visit the website www.gujaratisocal.org (our “Website”) and
our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that
information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
- Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide
dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites
and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
- any third party, including our affiliates and subsidiaries)], including through
any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible
from or on the Website.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by
Company or any third party, including our affiliates and subsidiaries; or
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding
your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies
and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this
Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time.
Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance
of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age
13 may provide any personal information to on the Website. We do not knowingly collect
personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or
provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register
on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive
or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself
to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen
name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal
information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will
delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about
a child under 13, please contact us.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including
information:
- by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail
address, telephone number, or ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS THAT IS
DEFINED AS PERSONAL OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION UNDER AN APPLICABLE LAW
or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline. (“personal
information”);
- that is about you but individually does not identify you;
- about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and
usage details.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically
may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies,
web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
- From third parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You Provide to Us.
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information
provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service,
posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information
when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem
with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact
us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment
of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing
an order through our Website.
- Your search queries on the Website.
- You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”)
on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or
third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are
posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to
certain pages/you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging
into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect
or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the
Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we
cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized
persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data
collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing
actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs,
and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address,
operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities
over time and across third-party websites or other online services.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include
personal information but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information
we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our
Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling
us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according
to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard
drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the
appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may
be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your
browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when
you direct your browser to our Website.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects
(or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation
to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser
settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy
and security settings for Flash cookies
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic
files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel
gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those
pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example,
recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server
integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information
to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide
to us.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served
by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers,
and application providers. These third parties may use cookies [alone or in conjunction
with web beacons or other tracking technologies] to collect information about you
when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your
personal information or they may collect information, including personal information,
about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online
services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral)
advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be
used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content,
you should contact the responsible provider directly.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including
any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration
and renewal notices.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered
into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer
or provide though it.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’
goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use
your information in this way, please contact us.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements
to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal
information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise
interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target
criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does
not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described
in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our
business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information
confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring,
reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets,
whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding,
in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets
transferred.
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented
to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties
to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which
we disclose it to them.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any
government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing
and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property,
or safety of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with
other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit
risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide
to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over
your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse
all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you
disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be
inaccessible or not function properly.
- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not
want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third
parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by contacting us.
- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email
address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’
products or services, you can opt-out by contacting us. If we have sent you a promotional
email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
- Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect
or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’
target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by contacting us.
- We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve
interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways
to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt
out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative
(“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website
and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email to request access to, correct or delete any personal
information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information
except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change
information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement
or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions
may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored
by other Website users.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California
residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information
to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please
contact us.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental
loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given
you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website,
you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share
your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely
secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot
guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website.
Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible
for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the
Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page.
If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we
will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account.
The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email
address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy
to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices,
contact us at: gujaratisocal@gmail.com.