Privacy Policy

Your Information

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to or collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not share, sell, or rent this information to any third parties.

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

If you contact us, we will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

The Ashrama uses third-party mailing list software (currently SendGrid and Mailchimp) to distribute ‘The Maharshi’ newsletter announcements to subscribers. Their privacy policies are beyond our control. Please refer to the Mailchimp Contacts Privacy and the SendGrid Services Privacy Policy pages.

To learn how your information is used when you purchase items from our on-line bookstore, please have a look at Paypal’s Privacy Policy. We do not collect or store your credit card information; this is all done through PayPal.

Cookies

If you shop on our online store, we use cookies on this website to keep track of your cart data. No personal information is stored within these cookies.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. Wherever we do collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.