Thehindulife.com is committed to respecting the privacy concerns of its visitors to its website, http://www.thehindulife.com. Thehindulife.com has created this privacy policy to establish guidelines that will govern the collection, use, protection and disclosure of the personal and non-personal information of its visitors.

We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully and to check back periodically as this Privacy Policy may change form time to time.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third party companies or websites, which are not owned or administered by thehindulife.com.

Thehindulife.com collects three kinds of information from this Website: (1) your voluntarily provided personal information; (2) anonymous non-personal information; and (3) “cookie” based information.

(1) Personal Information: Thehindulife.com does not automatically collect personal information, such as name, address, phone number, email address and other personally identifiable information, from its visitors (“Personal Information”). From time to time, thehindulife.com will collect Personal Information that is voluntarily provided by its visitors in filling out online user registration forms in the forums and/or blogs and subscribing to RSS feeds and other activities carried out on the website. Thehindulife.com will only collect and use such Personal Information solely for the purpose(s) disclosed by it at the time of collection and only after the visitor has voluntarily agreed to such collection and use, by clicking “I agree” on the online form. Thehindulife.com also sometimes uses email addresses that have been voluntarily provided by its visitors to respond to visitors who communicate with us, All emails from thehindulife.com to its visitors include instructions on how to discontinue receipt of emails, and other communication from thehindulife.com and visitors can discontinue such communication at any time. Email addresses from visitors who wish to discontinue receipt of thehindulife.com emails will be removed from its distribution list and data bases. All Personal Information that may identify a visitor and has been collected with the visitor’s consent by thehindulife.com is not disclosed in any identifiable form to any other party outside the company except for the fulfillment of the specific purpose identified to the visitor at the time of collection.

(2) Anonymous Non-Personal Information: When visitors visit the thehindulife.com, anonymous, non personal information about their visit is automatically collected. Such information may include the length and date of the visit, how the visitor navigated the website, what pages the visitor viewed, the type of browser being used by the visitor, the type of operating system used by the visitor and the domain name of the visitor’s Internet service provider. Thehindulife.com uses this Anonymous Non-Personal Information to track the success of its website with its visitors and to better tailor the website to visitors’ needs and interests. This Anonymous Non-Personal Information may be shared with other parties, such as broadcasters, advertisers, sponsors and partners.

(3) Cookie-based Information: Thehindulife.com may use cookies on its website. “Cookies” are pieces of information that a website transfers to a visitor’s hard drive for record keeping and identification purposes. Cookies are used to make the visitor’s use of a website easier by saving visitor preferences and passwords and to identify which areas of the website are popular and which areas need improvement and how to target certain advertising to its visitors. Thehindulife.com does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information except in connection with a password protected online registration, login, or other services and only with the visitor’s informed consent. Visitors may visit the website with its cookies turned off to avoid the collection of Cookie-based Information.

Protection of Visitors’ Personal Information: Thehindulife.com protects the Personal Information it collects with appropriate technological, physical and administrative safeguards to protect if from unauthorized disclosure or use. Access to Personal Information collected by Thehindulife.com is limited to authorized individuals and stored on its databases, which are protected by firewalls and are password-secured. Thehindulife.com retains the Personal Information only for as long as is required for the purposes identified at the time of its collection and consented to by the visitor providing it or as otherwise required by law. Once Personal Information is no longer necessary for the purposes consented to by the visitor and for the statutory requirements of the law, it is thehindulife.com’s practice to delete it from its data bases or systems or make it anonymous.

Linked Websites: The thehindulife.com website may be linked to other websites. These linked websites are not under the control of thehindulife.com and are required to have their own privacy policies. Visitors should ensure that they read and understand how their Personal Information may be collected, used, and disclosed by the linked websites as thehindulife.com is not responsible for and shall not be held liable for any procedures, policies or activities of any websites linked to thehindulife.com.

Visitor’s Consent to Privacy Policy: By visiting and using thehindulife.com, the visitor agrees to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy do not use this website or provide Personal Information to thehindulife.com.

Any questions or clarifications with respect to this Privacy Policy can be sent to thehindulife.com through the Contact Us form.