This Privacy Policy covers Astroshastra's treatment of personally
identifiable information that Astroshastra collects when you
are on the Astroshastra site, and when you use Astroshastra's
services. This policy also covers Astroshastra's treatment of
any personally identifiable information that Astroshastra's
business partners share with Astroshastra. This policy does
not apply to the practices of companies that Astroshastra does
not own or control, or to people that Astroshastra does not
employ or manage.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
During membership registration,
Astroshastra collects personal information including your
name, gender, and email address, your current hometown and
birth data information including your time of birth. This
information is used strictly to generate your personal horoscopes
online.
Your email address is used to identify your unique birth data
record in the database, since an email address is always unique
and has no duplicates. You do not have to provide any personal
information to use Astroshastra's services.
Astroshastra uses the information collected for three general
purposes:
a) to customize the advertising and content you see on our
pages.
b) to fulfill your requests for certain products and services
c) to contact you about special offers and new services.
Personalize and enhance the site and services such as providing
you with your personalized predictions. Send occasional personalized
information about Astroshastra and its site features, unless
you have opted out of receiving these types of communications.
d) Contact members' occasionally for feedback regarding Astroshastra
and our services. For our paid personalized services we gather
basically the information needed for fulfillment of the service.
This is held in strict confidence, as explained earlier.
We guarantee complete confidentiality
of our members' identity, horoscope details and the prediction
details. Astroshastra, Inc. further guarantees that no direct
or indirect use will be made by Astroshastra about any aspect
of life, as revealed in the horoscope of a member, except
for the explicit purpose of communicating the horoscope charts
and predictions back to the member.
Information gathered on our "Partner with Us", is used primarily
for a Business-to-Business purpose and to encourage inquiries
from other web sites that might be interested in obtaining
our Astrology Content for their own site. Information from
"Advertise with Us" similarly is used to generate interest
in other sites or companies that may wish to purchase banner
advertising on our site.
As Astroshastra policy, we will not disclose any personally
identifiable information to third parties unless you give
us your prior express consent. However, due to the existing
legal regulatory and security environment, we cannot fully
ensure that your private communications and other personally
identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties
under certain circumstances.
Astroshastra is in compliance and with accordance with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA),
we do not allow any information of children under 13 to be
taken without parental consent or parental notification. As
a general rule, and in keeping with the subject matter of
the site, normally adults enroll children in order to obtain
horoscope predictions for them.
While we do not encourage this practice, we do require all
information for children is acknowledged by parental consent
in our membership registration form and in all our order forms.
Top 2 Information Sharing and Disclosure
2.1 It is Astroshastra's policy to respect the privacy of
its members. Astroshastra will not monitor, edit, or disclose,
to any third person, any personal information about you or
your use of the service, including its contents, without your
prior permission unless Astroshastra has a good faith and
belief that such action falls within the categories specified
in 2.3:
2.2 Astroshastra will not sell or rent your personally identifiable
information to anyone.
2.3 Astroshastra will send personally identifiable information
about you to other companies or people when:
a) We have your consent to share the information;
b) We need to share your information to provide the product
or service you have requested;
c) We need to send the information to companies who work on
behalf of Astroshastra to provide a product or service to
you.;
d) We respond to court orders or legal process;
e) We need to protect and defend the rights or property of
Astroshastra or enforce the Astroshastra Terms and Conditions;
or
We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Astroshastra
Terms and Conditions or any of our usage guidelines for specific
services. Astroshastra, guarantees complete confidentiality
of our members' identity, horoscope details and the prediction
details.
Astroshastra, further guarantees that no direct or indirect
use will be made by Astroshastra about any aspect of life,
as revealed in the horoscope of a member, except for the explicit
purpose of communicating the horoscope charts and predictions
back to the member.
In order to provide you with personalized services and features
we ask you to register and establish your personal profile.
During the registration process we will ask you for information
such as your name, gender, birth information, e-mail address,
password, place of residence, zip code, etc. This information
is used to calculate an accurate horoscope or biorhythm and
to provide you with the best possible personalized service.
Your e-mail address together with a password is used to secure
your profile and to make our personalized e-mail services
available to you.
We do not collect any personally identifiable information
about you unless you voluntarily submit such information to
us, by using our products and services or by filling out a
form or survey. Personally identifiable information is collected
primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to
use our services. Depending on the part of the service you
are accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide
information such as name, gender, e-mail address, birth date,
and birth location. Customers who personalize our service
come back regularly, so we do everything we can to make Astroshastra.com
your service and give you just the content you wish to receive.
USE OF E-MAIL ADDRESS
The e-mail address you submit to receive our services will
never be disclosed to any third party. All horoscope e-mail
that you select to receive as well as the special offers from
our advertisers will be sent to you exclusively by Astrocenter.com.
SECURITY
We have implemented and follow reasonable industry standard
technical and procedural measures to protect against unauthorized
access and use of your personal information. However, you
should know that neither we nor any other web site can fully
eliminate these risks. Our goal is to provide you with a robust
online experience while safeguarding your privacy. We request
this information to provide our strongest value to you - a
personalized online experience, so we do everything we can
to make
Astroshastra your preferred online destination, and to provide
you the content, products and services that might interest
you.
COOKIES
1) Astroshastra may set
and access Astroshastra cookies on your computer.
2) A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes
an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser
from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's
hard drive. Each web site can send its own cookie to your
browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect
your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access
the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent
to you by other sites.
3) You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject
all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject
all cookies, you may not be able to use Astroshastra services
that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to
take full advantage of all offerings. However, many of Astroshastra
products and services do not require that you accept cookies.
4) Astroshastra uses its
own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: a Access
your information when you "sign in," so that we can provide
you with customized content Assist merchants in Astroshastra
Stores and Astroshastra Shopping to process the items in your
shopping cart.
Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
Conduct research to improve Astroshastra's content and services.
Require you to re-enter your Astroshastra password after a
certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against
others accidentally accessing your account contents.
5) Astroshastra may allow other companies that are presenting
advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their
cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies
is subject to their own privacy policies and advertisers or
other companies do not have access to Astroshastra's cookies.
CHANGE TO THIS POLICY
Astroshastra may edit this policy from time to time. If we
make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting
a prominent announcement on our pages.
For further queries contact:
Astroshastra,
511-512 , Ashish Corporate Tower,
Karkardooma Community Centre,
Delhi - 110 092 ( INDIA )
Ph: -
91- (011) - 43014582