Privacy Policy

In the course of a User / Subscriber using the website Vastushala.com (“the Website” or “the Company”) or availing the Services and Facilities hereunder, Vastushala.com may become privy to the personal information of the user / subscribers, including information that is of a confidential nature.

This Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is an integral part of the Terms of Use as mentioned on the Website and App. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Terms of Use by reference. The words “You” “Your” “User” and “Subscriber” in this Privacy Policy will have the same contextual meaning unless defined otherwise.

We value the trust you place in us that’s why we insist upon the highest standards for secure communication and customer information privacy. Please read the following statement to learn about our information gathering and dissemination practices. The Privacy Policy specified herein is subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically.

By visiting the website and / or App and / or using the Services you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree please do not use or access the Website and / or App.

By mere use of the Website/App, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal and non-personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use.

The Company has taken all reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality of the personal information and its transmission through the internet and it shall not be held liable for disclosure of the confidential information when in accordance with this Privacy Policy or in terms of the agreements, if any, with the user / subscribers. To preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, the Company maintains the privacy principles mentioned hereinafter.

The Company has policies and procedures concerning the collection, storage use and security of your information that will help protect your privacy. This Policy endeavours to help us serve you while maintaining strict privacy and security standards.

1. Information

The Company collects several types of information which is primarily used to serve you better and maintain authenticity of Services by identifying you. Details of such information (collectively called “Information”) are as follows:

1.1. Personal Information

Personal Information is Information collected that can be used to uniquely identify or contact you. Personal Information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy shall include, but not be limited to:

  • Your address,
  • Your telephone number,
  • Your e-mail address or other contact information,
  • Your date of birth,
  • Your gender,
  • Your financial records,
  • Information regarding your transactions on the Website/App, (including transaction history),
  • Your financial information such as bank account information or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details,
  • Internet Protocol address,
  • Identification code of your communication device which you use to access the Website/App or otherwise deal with any Company entity,
  • Any other Information that you provide during your registration process, if any, on the Website/App
1.2. Non-Personal Information

The Company may also collect information other than Personal Information from user/subscriber through the Website/App when user/subscriber visit and / or use the Website/App. Such information may be stored in server logs. This Non-Personal Information would not assist Company to identify you personally.
We will automatically receive and collect certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through our Web server, including computer-identification information obtained from “cookies,” sent to your browser, which includes, but not limited to, the following:

  • web server cookie stored on your hard drive,
  • an IP address, assigned to the computer which you use,
  • the domain server through which you access our service,
  • the type of computer you’re using,
  • the type of web browser you’re using

You can terminate your account at any time. However, your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.

1.3. Surveys

The Company may email you or post various surveys on the Website and / or App. The surveys may request for your demographic information (age, gender, and familiarity with Website and / or App, your interests, content, products and services) and your feedback on services.

1.4. Customer Service Communications Information

The Company may collect personal Information, non-personal or other Information when you post or submit comments, questions, complaints or suggestions regarding services.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

1.5. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

1.6. Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

1.7. Contact forms
1.8. Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Google advertising cookies

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

1.9. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

1.10. Analytics
1.11. Other Information

The Company also collects information regarding your usage of the Website and / or App and services (“Other Information”). Other Information includes, but is not limited to pattern of use of the Website and / or App by you, pages visited, posts/comments made on any page of the Website and / or App, etc.

2. Mode of Collection of Information

2.1. When you use the Website and / or App, we collect and store your Information which is provided by you from time to time. Our primary goal in doing so is to provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize the Website and / or App to make your experience safer and easier. More importantly, while doing so we collect personal information from you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.

2.2. We may collect your non-personal Information, just by you browsing our Website/App. When collecting personal information from you we may indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature on the Website and / or App. We may automatically track certain information about you based upon your usage or activity on the Website and / or App. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our users. This information is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our Website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the Website and / or App or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address.

2.3. We use data collection devices such as “cookies” on certain pages of the Website/App to help analyse our web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. We may offer certain features that are only available through the use of a “cookie”. We may also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are “session cookies” meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on the Website and / or App and you may be required to re-enter your password more frequently during a session. Additionally, you may encounter “cookies” or other similar devices on certain pages of the Website and / or App that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.

2.4. If you choose to use our services provided on the Website/App, we may collect information about your behaviour pertaining to usage of services.

2.5. If you transact with us, we may collect some additional information, such as a billing address, a credit / debit card number and a credit / debit card expiration date, account number and/ or other payment instrument details and tracking information from cheques or money orders.

2.6. If you choose to post messages on our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.

2.7. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Website/App, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

2.8. We do use your contact information to send you offers based on your previous orders and your interests.

3. Use of Information

3.1. The Company undertakes not to disclose (includes selling, sharing and renting) Information collected by the Company at any time to any third party without your consent except in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, the Company also reserves the right to disclose Information in good faith:

  • if required by law or any authority;
  • to protect and defend rights and interests of the Company, employees / agents of the Company , other users or the general public;
  • to enforce Terms of Use and other policies of the Company;
  • to deliver the services provided by the Company;
  • to improve the Website and its services;
  • to address concerns raised by a third party.

3.2. The Company uses personal information to provide the services. To the extent the Company uses your personal information to market to you, we will provide you the ability to opt-out of such uses. We use your personal information to resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote a safe service; collect money; measure consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our terms and conditions; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

3.3. In our efforts to continually improve our product and service offerings, we collect and analyse demographic and profile data about our users’ activity on the Website and / or App.
3.4. We identify and use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Website and / or App. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.
3.5. We will occasionally ask you to complete optional online surveys. These surveys may ask you for contact information and demographic information (like pin code, age, or income level). We use this data to tailor your experience at our Website/App, providing you with content that we think you might be interested in and to display content according to your preferences.
3.6. Information collected can be used by the Company within the Company or by its affiliates/ contractors/ agents for analysis and determination of statistics, demand and supply, pattern of usage etc.
3.7. We may share personal information with our other corporate entities and affiliates to help detect and prevent identity theft, fraud and other potentially illegal acts; correlate related or multiple accounts to prevent abuse of our services; and to facilitate joint or co-branded services that you request where such services are provided by more than one corporate entity. Those entities and affiliates may not market to you as a result of such sharing unless you explicitly opt-in.

3.8. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

3.9. How long we retain your data?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technology

4.1. A “cookie” is a small piece of information stored by a web server on a web browser so it can be later read back from that browser. Cookies are useful for enabling the browser to remember information specific to a given user. We place both permanent and temporary cookies in your computer’s hard drive. The cookies do not contain any of your personally identifiable information.

5. Links to other websites

5.1. The Website and / or App may carry links to other websites. Your use of and activity at such other websites are at your own risk and the Company takes no responsibility regarding Information dissipated by you at such websites.

6. Data Security

6.1. The Website and / or App have stringent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Whenever you change or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to strict security guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access.

6.2. Your Information will primarily be stored in electronic form however certain data can also be stored in physical form. We may store, collect, process and use your data in countries other than Republic of India but under compliance with applicable laws.

6.3. We may enter into agreements with third parties (in or outside of India) to store or process your information or data. These third parties may have their own security standards to safeguard your information or data and we will on commercial reasonable basis require from such third parties to adopt reasonable security standards to safeguard your information / data.

7. Obligations of visitors/customers/users

7.1. To help the Company protect Information, the visitors/customers/users are required to maintain the privy of Information, ensure strength of password by using a combination of alphabets, numbers and special character and keep changing the password on regular basis. The visitors/customers/users are also prohibited from communicating information provided by the Company to a third party unless required by law or in compliance with agreements entered between visitors/customers/users and the Company.

8. Disclaimer as to Loss

8.1. Although, the Company has ensured the security of Personal Information collected. However, considering the open nature of Internet, such Information may be accessed by unauthorised entities/ software/ codes (“Hackers”). The Company assumes no liability whatsoever with respect to access of Information by Hackers.

9. Sale, merger of the Company

9.1. Information collected by the Company is considered to be trade secret of the Company. As the owner of such trade secret, the Company has right to disclose or sell the Information as an asset of the Company during any sale or merger.

10. Your Consent

10.1. By using the Website and / or App and/ or by providing your information, you consent to the collection and use of the information you disclose on the Website and / or App in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to your consent for sharing your information as per this Privacy Policy.

11. Changes to this Policy

11.1. The Company reserves the right to amend this Policy, from time to time, as required or in pursuance to change in relevant laws.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. However, any substantial change to the Policy may be communicated to you through our website or through email as provided by you on the Website and / or App.

12. Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

13. Advertising & Targeted Ads

  • Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the Website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of personalized advertising by Google by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

13. Grievance & Queries

In case of any grievance or query, in respect of the Privacy Policy, the Company may be contacted from Monday to Friday (11:00 AM to 16:00 PM, Indian Standard Time) on all working days at the following coordinates:

The Webmaster
Email: info@vastushala.com

Updated: 30 May 2021