Pakashastra’s Privacy and Disclosure Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to https://pakashastra.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://pakashastra.com”).
It is Pakashastra’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Pakashastra collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Pakashastra’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Pakashastra’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Pakashastra may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Pakashastra also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://pakashastra.com. Pakashastra only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to https://pakashastra.com choose to interact with Pakashastra in ways that require Pakashastra to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Pakashastra gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who comment on https://pakashastra.com to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Pakashastra updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Pakashastra collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Pakashastra. Pakashastra does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Pakashastra may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Pakashastra may use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Pakashastra may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Pakashastra does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Pakashastra discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Pakashastra’s behalf or to provide services available at Pakashastra’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Pakashastra’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Pakashastra will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Pakashastra discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Pakashastra believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Pakashastra, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of https://pakashastra.com and have supplied your email address, Pakashastra may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Pakashastra and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Pakashastra takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pakashastra uses cookies to help Pakashastra identify and track visitors, their usage of Pakashastra website, and their website access preferences. Pakashastra visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Pakashastra’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Pakashastra’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Advertisement
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Pakashastra and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Pakashastra may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Pakashastra’s sole discretion. Pakashastra encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.