Privacy Policy

Effective policy date (revised) April 22 , 2025

Who we are

Introduction Welcome to Guru Purna Vistar’s website .

We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner.

This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use and protect that information, and your rights in relation to it.

Comments

We collect usage data : We collect the visitor’s IP address data and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Also, We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and other contact details

when you voluntarily provide them through our website forms or sign-up processes as per policy.

We do not allow comments on posts so your name and profile picture is not released in public domain.

Media policy

Avoid : If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

Visitors to the website may try to download and extract any location data from images on the website.

However, we usually do not allow media uploads also.

Please operate your profiles without profile pictures as long as possible.

Cookies

If we enable comments on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies while commenting.

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 may set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.

This cookie contains no personal data and we discard data when you close your browser.

When you log in, we may be also setting up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.

Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies may last for a year.

If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.

The login cookies will be removed when you log out.

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.

How We Use Your Information as per our policy

To Provide and Improve Our Services: We use your information to deliver, maintain, and enhance our website

and the services we provide as per our privacy policy.

To Communicate with You: We may use your contact details to send you updates, newsletters,

or other information related to Guru Purna Vistar’s teachings and activities.

Legal Compliance: We may process your personal information as stated in this policy to comply with legal obligations

or to protect our rights and interests.

Who we share your data with – data sharing policy

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We may need to share your data with agents of government or law enforcement if requested to ensure legal compliance.

We strictly have a policy where We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties

except as necessary for the operation of our website or as required by law.

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.

But as per our policy, we do not allow comments.

So, nothing to worry

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, 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.

We keep some data for administrative, legal, or security purposes as per obligation.

Where we send your data

Some of website usage pattern may be checked by Automated spam detection service

Data security

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information.

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own, including the United States where our servers are located and India.

We will take steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Children’s privacy

Our website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and

we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Any child using the website or any influence on the child from consumption of the web content is not our responsibility.

It is the responsibility of their legal guardian.

Also, people are advised not to upload the pictures of their children in profile picture section of their user profiles.

Changes to privacy policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website and updating the effective date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at our mail – admin@gurupurnavistar.com.

You can reach us by phone also.