Privacy Policy

Who we are

Keshava Kripa Samvardhana Samiti (KKSS) is a non-profit organization to carries out various social seva activities as an NGO. Abhyudaya is a project under Keshava Kripa Samvardhana Samiti (KKSS), registered with the Indian Government NITI Aayog in the NGO-Darpan platform under registration # KA/2018/0188905

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We believe you have a fundamental right to privacy on the web, and we strive to protect your security online.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data:

Types of Data Collected:

Personal Data:

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
PAN number (applicable for indian donors for income tax obligation purpose).
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data

We collect information about you during the donation process on our website. We rely on payment gateway to process your credit card/debit card information. We don’t store your credit card/debit card details.

Usage Data:

If you visit our website third parties (such as Google Analytics,youtube ) will collect some usage data about you and your visit, such as your browser type and version and the pages on our site that you visit. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address). Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can see details in the the cookies below.

The use of your information we collect

We may use your information for the following purposes:

to make your actions known on our website and to third parties. For example, your name may appear together with your comments on our website to inspire others.
Respond to your queries, refund requests or complaints.
to send you updates and alerts by email.
Donation campaigns.
We will only process your personal information as necessary for the purposes described above. In doing so, we will consider the balance between your privacy and our interest in processing and refrain from processing if your privacy interest overrides our legitimate interest.

In exceptional circumstances we may also be required by law to disclose or otherwise process your personal information. We will tell you, when we ask you to provide information about yourself, if provision of the requested information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or, on the other hand, if it is purely voluntary and there will be no implications if you decline to provide the information.

Retention and deletion of your information

Our NGO will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The NGO will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Your rights

You may have a right of access to the personal information that we hold about you, and to some related information, under data protection law.

You can email us to not send emails for marketing and donation campaigns. You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the body regulating data protection in your country (details are available here).

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Security measures

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure personal data against loss or against any form of unlawful processing. Our donation pages are secured using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a security protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.

Only employees and volunteers who require access to information about supporters and website visitors to perform their work are granted access to your personal data.

Cookies policy

We want to ensure that you enjoy browsing our website. In order to enhance your experience and collect information about your use of our site, we place “cookies” onto your computer.

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.

Cookies are useful because they:

allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to target the content displayed to the user’s interests
help us to improve our website
offer you a better service more tailored to your requirements
enable us to recognise your device when you return to our website
store information about your favorite activities on the website, thereby allowing us to tailor our website to your individual interests. This may, for example, include advertising according to your personal interests and accelerate the rate at which we can deal with your queries

By using our website you agree that, we can place the types of cookies set out below on your device and use that data in accordance with this policy.

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu,

Types of cookies

There are two broad types of cookies – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’:

First party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer and are often used to recognize your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site. Basically, these are our cookies.
Third party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator and can be used by the service provider to recognize your computer when you visit other websites. Third party cookies are most commonly used for website analytics or advertising purposes.

Use of cookies

This table explains the cookies that may be placed on your machine while using this website. First party cookies will be placed automatically unless your browser is set to refuse them.

Name/ID	Purpose	Expiration	Type
PHPSESSID	This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a user’s unique session ID for the purpose of managing user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.	session	Functional first party cookie
_ga	The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session, and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.	2 Years	Analytics
_gid	Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.	1 Day	Analytics
CONSENT	YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data.	2 years	Analytics
_gat	This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high-traffic sites.	1 minute	Performance
YSC	YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages	session	Advertisement
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.	5 months 27 days	Advertisement
fpestid	Fpestid is a ShareThis cookie IS set in the domain of the website operator.	1 year	ShareThis

Abhyudaya India does not govern the publication of third-party cookies. Note that there may be some additional third party cookies. Please visit the relevant third party’s website for more details.

If you do not want to use cookies, you can set your browser so that the storage of cookies is not accepted.

If you only want to accept our own cookies but not the cookies of our service providers and partners, select the “block third-party cookies” (or a similar setting in your browser).

You can change your cookies preferences. Which cookies would you like to accept? Please select which cookies you are willing to store. Note that first party cookie is only necessary cookie.

Contact us

We welcome questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy statement and our processing of personal information.

Please email us at reach@abhyudayakkss.org

Last updated: 28 November 2022