Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust uses and protects any information that you give Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust when you use this website. Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, and then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from January 1, 2022.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- name
- contact information including email address
- demographic information such as postcode, location, country, etc.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your compassion, helping tendency, generosity, etc. and provide you with a better service, and for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping and if donations are made, to issue receipts to the donors.
- We may use the information to improve our services.
- We may periodically send emails about our general appeals, special appeals, new donor programmes, etc., which we think you may find interesting using the email address provided by you.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you by email, phone, or post.
- We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
- Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust uses your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitor of our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.
- In general, you can visit our donation site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We use Google Analytics for analysing information such as the browser type, device type and most visited pages, but the individual user remains anonymous. Our collection of website use information may involve the use of cookies.
- We may disclose specific information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, when required by law, to enforce our corporate policies, or to protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety.
- We may share information
- as permitted or required by law or
- to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or
- Investigate fraud which has already taken place.
- The information is not provided to companies for marketing purposes.
Our donation site is a general audience site that is not designed nor intended to collect personal information from children under the age of 12. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 12 and does not use such information if it discovers that it has been provided. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the laws of the country, children under the age of 12 should not provide any personal information on this site. We request that parents supervise their children while online.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Credit card Transactions processed are through a Bank Hosted Page and SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) technology is used to encrypt your personal information when you affirmatively respond to a Provider’s offer and authorize us to transmit your personal information to a Provider for fulfillment. Please note that a Provider may employ security methods and technologies that differ from ours, and we encourage you to read that policy before responding to a Provider’s offer. We never store your credit card/bank related information on our site.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyses web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website to tailor it to donor needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you taking full advantage of the website.
External Links
External links if any, do not fall under the www.balamandir.org domain, and that Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.
Controlling your personal information:
If you believe that any information that we are holding of you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the below address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this policy, you may contact us using the information below:
Company Name: Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust
Address: New No.8, (Old no. 16) G.N. Chetty Road,
T.Nagar, Chennai – 600 004
Telephone No.: 044- 48679207 / 2834 1921
E-Mail ID: main@balamandir.org
Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.