BuddhismVision Privacy Policy is designed to help you in understanding how we use your privacy information which we collect when you use our site and to help you in making informed decisions when using our site, products or services. BuddhismVision.com is a product and service offered by BuddhismVision, and references in this document to “us,” “our,” and “we” refer to BuddhismVision.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly decide to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website usage information collected on an accumulate basis as you and others surf the site.
1. Personal Information You Decide to Provide
Registration Information
You will provide us information about yourself, your website and your business or company when you purchase BuddhismVision products and services or when you register for our email newsletters or when you contact us in any form we’ve provided in the site.
Email Information
When you contact us via email, we reserve the rights to keep all those email messages including your responses and ours with your email address.
2. Website Usage Information
Like many other commercial websites, our site uses an industry standard technology called “cookies” and Web server logs to collect information about how visitors use this website. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs include the date and time of the visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites you’ve visited just before you arrive our website and just after you went out of our site.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a simple text file which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, the computer that website is stored, requests permission to store a cookie file in your computer’s hard disk in a place which is specially designed to store cookies. A cookie cannot be used to spread viruses or run any programs and this cookie procedure is same for any website you visit.
A cookie which is stored by one website cannot be read by another website due to privacy protection feature of your web browser and you may disable cookies in your browser, but it may bring you unpersonalized experience on our site and other websites in the internet. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access or control over those cookies.
Third-party vendors such as Google, BuySellAds and other similar vendors use cookies to serve the most relevant advertisements to our users. Google’s use of DART (Dynamic Advertising Reporting & Targeting) cookie lets Google and its advertising partners to serve ads to our website and other sites of the internet. You may opt-out of Google Ads by going to here – http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for the purposes of,
- Expanding our business activities.
- Providing exceptional customer support.
- Making available other offers, discounts to our customers and potential customers.
- Notifying you our new products and services or changes to our site.
- Informing you about Special Offers that we think you’d find important or valuable.
However, you may easily opt-out from our notifications by clicking the unsubscribe link which can be found in each of our emails to you.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use cookies to identify you from other users of our website. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. We also use cookies to determine how many people visit our site, parts of the site which are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve this site and better serve our customers in a perfect way. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
The information we collect is used to improve the content of this site and the quality of our service, and is not shared with or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes. That being said, your information could be shared under the following circumstances:
- We use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, these third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with those business activities.
- If it becomes necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
Websites Linked From And Linked To This Site?
We’re not responsible for any practices used by other websites to link our website or their content in their site. More often we link only to quality and relevant sources which we think you may find valuable. Remember, once you visited any site linked from our site, our Privacy Policy will not effective and the visited website’s Privacy Policy will start effective. Please read their Privacy Policy before proceeding with those sites.
Your Consent
By using any part of this site you affirm our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.