The terms "We"/"Our"/"Charity Organization"/"Charitable Trust" individually and collectively refer to the "SuryaKala Charitable Trust" and the terms "Visitor" or "User" refer to website users.

This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract created under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents/records in various laws as revised by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This Privacy Policy does not need any physical, electronic, or digital signature.

This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between you and SuryaKalaCharitable Trust (both terms defined below). The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the same (directly or indirectly in electronic form, by clicking on the “I Accept” tab or by use of the Website (https://www.suryakalacharitabletrust.org/) or by other means. It will govern the relationship between you and SuryaKalaCharitable Trust for your use of the Website.

This Privacy Policy has been published by the SuryaKalaCharitable Trust and shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology rules, under the Information Technology Act, 2000; that require publishing of the Privacy Policy for collection, use, storage, and transfer of sensitive personal data or information of users.

Kindly read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using this Website of Charitable Trust, you indicate that you understand, agree, and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please immediately leave this Website.

By providing with us your information, you hereby give consent to the Charity Organization for the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of any or all of your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information as specified under this Privacy Policy. You further agree that such collection, use, storage, and transfer of your information shall not cause any loss to you or any other person.

SuryaKalaCharitable Trust is committed to protecting your personal information and privacy. This Privacy Policy describes exactly how we collect and use your personal information. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time so please check back periodically. We will notify you of important changes by placing a notice on our Website.

We use a payment gateway for processing payments. We do not store your card data. The data is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) when processing payment. Your transaction data is only used as long as is necessary to complete your transaction. After that is complete, your transaction information is not saved.

Our payment gateway adheres to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

For online payment for application fees or donating money to the Charitable Trust, users are required to provide certain information for registering themselves. The information as provided by the users enables us to maintain a complete record of applicants or donors which is required further.

Besides keeping records of the donors, we may use the provided user information to improve the website user experience. Such information will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005, or any other law for the time being in force.

To improve the responsiveness of the Website, we may use "cookies", or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user's individual interests using the identified computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is the information you provide. Our affiliates may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their hyperlinked URLs), a process that we do not control.

Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our Website. Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our webpages to you upon request, to customize our website for the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our Website, and to know the geographic locations from where our website visitors come.

Our policy discloses the privacy practices for our own Website only. Our Website provides links to other websites also that are beyond our control. We shall in no way be responsible in a way for your use of such websites.

SuryaKalaCharitable Trust takes utmost security measures to protect user data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These include constant assessment of our data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures.

All information gathered on our Website is securely stored within our controlled database. The database is stored on our local servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is 100% unbreakable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you provide will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.