Refund & Privacy Policy

We are grateful for your donation and support to Shri Param Hans Advait Mat Ontario. Donations are typically non-refundable however if you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to our spiritual organization, please contact us to refund the donation. Refunds will be credited back using the original method of payment. If you made your donation by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.

1. What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.

2. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for the purpose of correspondance to keep you updated on special events and festivals celebrated at Shri Param Hans Advait Mat Ontario. All personal information shared and collected (including the content of emails you may send us) shall be protected and not disclosed to any third party.

3. Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial websites, our website may utilize a standard technology called ‘cookies’. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the websites visited just before and just after our website. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

4. How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
We use personal information for purposes of correspondance and future communication. Please notify us of your desire not to receive  correspondence from us.

5. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

6. How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use website browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our website users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our visitors. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to better meet the needs of our visitors. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.

7. How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information to us on our website, a secure server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website. Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as account numbers or credit card details to us through an unsecured email.

8. How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using the contact form.

9. What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.