Introduction
Anandoham and Shankha Chakra ("us", "we", or "our") operates the website www.shankhachakra.org as well as www.anandohamhealth.com (the "Website"). This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Website and the choices you have associated with that data.
Information Collection and Use
We collect several types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Website:
- Personal Information: We may collect personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, phone number, and payment information.
- Usage Data: We may collect information about how the Website is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and other diagnostic data.
Use of Collected Information
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
- Website Operation and Improvement: To monitor usage, provide functionality, and optimize the user experience.
- Communication: To contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest, but only if you have expressly opted in to receive such communications.
- Payment Processing: To process and acknowledge payments made through the Website.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations, including as may be required by law enforcement or relevant authorities.
Information Sharing
We may share your Personal Information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: With third-party service providers who assist in the operation of our Website, the provision of services, or conduct analyses on our behalf. These providers are bound by confidentiality agreements.
- Legal Obligations: If required by law to disclose information to comply with a legal obligation or court order.
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us. We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to safeguard your Personal Information. However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding your Personal Information. These rights may include the ability to:
- Access and Rectify: Request access to the Personal Information we hold about you and to have inaccuracies corrected.
- Deletion: Request the deletion of your Personal Information in certain circumstances.
- Restriction of Processing: Request that we limit the processing of your Personal Information.
- Data Portability: Receive a copy of your Personal Information in a structured format.
- Object to Processing: Object to the processing of your Personal Information.
- Withdraw Consent: If you have provided consent for data processing, you have the right to withdraw it at any time.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
The Anandoham app
The Anandoham app (app.anandohamhealth.com, and the same app on Google Play and the App Store) is covered by this policy. What follows is what the app itself does, which is narrower than the Website.
Without an account, the app sends us nothing. Today's panchāṅga, the Gītā, japa, prāṇāyāma, the stuti library and the games all work with everything held on your own device. If you pick a place for the panchāṅga with "use my location", your device matches the position to the nearest city in a list carried inside the app: the position itself is not sent to us and is not stored by us.
With an account, which is made with an email address or with Google or Apple sign-in, the app keeps these under your account so that they follow you between devices: your email address and, if the sign-in provider supplies it, your name; check-ins and the readings made from them; japa counts, mālās, vows, reminders and their history; course progress, review cards and anything written in a reflection; saved verses, favourites and game records; anything posted in Satsaṅg and the name chosen for it; and, if you save them, birth details and the charts made from them. The app also records a small count of first-party events (a screen opened, a lesson finished) so that we can see what is used. There are no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs in the app, no advertising of any kind, and nothing in it is sold or given to anyone else.
Satsaṅg is a public room inside the app. What you post there is read by other people using the app, under the name you choose for it rather than your own. Every post is read and approved before it appears. Posts can be reported, people can be blocked, and a post can be removed.
Deleting it all. The account and everything kept under it can be deleted from inside the app, under Me → Account → Delete account, or by writing to us. How to delete your account says what goes and what stays.
What the app is not. The app is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. Nothing written in it is a clinical record, and it is not a channel for clinical care. Counselling sessions, and the records the practice keeps of them, are separate from the app and are covered by the sections above.
Children's Privacy
Our Website is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy will be revised.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via the Contact page.