DBVI PRIVACY POLICY

DBVI respects the privacy rights of visitors to our website and is committed to protecting those rights. To support this commitment, we have adopted this Privacy Policy that governs how we collect, use, disclose, update and protect the information you provide online to the Organization, Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before you use the website. By using this website, you are consenting to this privacy policy.

Information Collection and Use

We collect and use your information below to provide, understand, and improve our Services.

What Types of Information Does DBVI Collect about visitors?

• Personal Information – Personal Information is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual, including full name, email address, gender, phone number, postal address, telephone number, birth month, birth year. If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Sites, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

• Personal health information – Personal Health information is identifying information about an individual relating to their physical or mental health (including medical history).

• Payment Information – You may provide us with payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address when you register for a program or make a donation. These details are used for one-time processing and not stored in our system.

• Other Information – Other Information is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual. This might include, for instance, browser and device information; App usage data; information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies; demographic information and other information provided by you; or aggregated information. We use this information to facilitate our operation of the Sites.

How Does DBVI Collect Information?

Personal Information – We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through the Websites: We may collect Personal Information through the websites, e.g., when you register for a webinar, contact us, subscribe to our email newsletter, or register for a DBVI program.

• Offline: We may collect Personal Information from you offline, such as when you attend one of our events, during phone calls with customer support. Note that there is no legal obligation for you to provide us with Personal Information and any information collected by us will be provided by you at your own will and with your consent.

• Information from Other Sources: We might acquire information from third parties to enhance target marketing for one-time use. We do not store any identifiable information through such channels in our system, without the prior consent of the individual.

Other Information – We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through Your Browser or Device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your devices such as computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of the Sites (such as the Apps) you are using.

• Through Your Use of the Apps: When you download and use an App, we and our service providers may track and collect App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number.

• Through Links: In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links on the website.

• Through Cookies and Other Similar Technologies: A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies and other similar technologies may be used to collect Other Information. 

• Through third-party tools: DBVI uses hosting services, web analytics, marketing automation platforms that may collect information about website visitors.

• By Aggregating Information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Sites (for example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).

What information does DBVI share and disclose?

• Law, Harm and the Public Interest – Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have including a governments, request to disclose your personal data. SMS opt-in or phone numbers for the purpose of SMS are not being shared with any third party and affiliate company for marketing purposes.

How Can I Access, Correct, Amend or Remove Information About Me?

If you would like to access, correct, amend, remove or limit the use or disclosure of any Personal Information about you that has been collected and stored by DBVI, please notify us at contact email address listed in this policy so that we may consider and respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will respond to your request within 30 business days.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such access, change or deletion.

You can always opt not to disclose information. However, if you elect to do so, we may be limited in responding to your inquiry or providing services to you.

You may opt-out of receiving messages from DBVI by sending an email to the address listed in this policy. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable..

Physical communications – If you provide us with your postal address online, you may receive information about upcoming events. If you provide your telephone number online, you may receive telephone contact regarding orders you have placed, upcoming programs and events.

Security

We take standard allowable business mechanisms to protect information about you that is in our possession and control, such as your Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Unfortunately, no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. In particular, email sent between you and us may not be secure, due, for instance, to the security practices that you, your email carrier, and/or Internet provider employ. You should, therefore, take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal data to us via the Internet.

When we request certain types of sensitive information, such as health or financial information, they will be performed using a secure server. Other transactions regarding sensitive information will also be performed using a secure server.

Global Operations

To bring you our services, we operate globally. Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your data in the United States, Canada and any other country where we operate. In some of the countries to which we transfer personal data, the privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those of your country.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at https://dbvi.org/privacy-policy. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

Effective: May 26, 2018

Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please, let us know by writing to us at the appropriate address below.

United States:

Dada Bhagwan Vignan Institute (DBVI).

236 W Coral Trace Court, Delray Beach, FL 33445 

+1-877-505-3232 ext. 23 / compliance@dbvi.org