Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is Pahari Samaj Paryavarani Kawach Foundation's policy to respect your privacy and comply with applicable Indian law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://pspkgreenspirituality.ngo, and other sites we own and operate.

Information We Collect

Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our website.

Log Data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information which may include one or more of the following:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Phone/Mobile Number
  • PAN Number
  • Address
  • The subject and content of any message you send us through the contact form

PAN and address are requested only when you choose to claim tax relief under Section 80G on a donation, and they are used for that purpose alone.

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

  • Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
  • Submit the contact form or the donation form
  • Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
  • When you mention us on social media

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

  • to respond to your enquiry and communicate with you
  • to process a donation and issue the corresponding confirmation and 80G certificate
  • to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have
  • for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our site is safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use

Consent and Withdrawal

We process your personal information on the basis of the consent you give when you submit a form or otherwise share your details with us. That consent is limited to the purposes described in this policy.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by writing to us at contact@pspkgreenspirituality.ngo. Withdrawal is as easy as giving consent. Where we are required by law to retain certain records, such as records relating to a donation and its tax treatment, we will retain only what the law requires.

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

Children's Privacy

We do not aim any of our services directly at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about anyone under the age of 18 without the consent of a parent or lawful guardian. If you believe we hold such information, please write to us and we will remove it.

Third Parties We Share Information With

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only where it is necessary to operate this website and our work:

  • our payment gateway, which processes online donations. Along with the details needed to take the payment, the name, email, mobile number, and any PAN and address you entered for 80G are attached to the payment record so that your donation confirmation can be issued
  • our email and hosting providers, which transmit and store the messages and records generated by our forms
  • our analytics provider, which helps us understand how the website is used
  • our volunteers, contractors, and related entities, on a need to know basis
  • courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

We do not store your card, net banking or UPI credentials at any point.

International Transfers of Personal Information

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy.

You have the right to:

  • request details of the personal information we hold about you
  • ask us to correct or update information that is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading
  • ask us to erase personal information we no longer need to retain
  • withdraw a consent you have previously given
  • nominate another person to exercise these rights on your behalf
  • raise a grievance about how we handle your information

If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person's consent to provide the personal information to us.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct communication, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email database or opt out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

Grievance Redressal

If you believe that we have mishandled your personal information or breached a relevant data protection law, please write to us with full details of the concern at contact@pspkgreenspirituality.ngo, or by post at the address below.

Pahari Samaj Paryavarani Kawach Foundation Stoic Cottage, Shiv Puri, Old Shiv Temple - Talon Road, Nahan, Distt. Sirmaur, HP - 173001

We will acknowledge your complaint, investigate it promptly and respond to you in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take. We aim to resolve every grievance within 90 days of receiving it. You also have the right to approach the appropriate regulatory authority in relation to your complaint.

Limits of Our Policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Changes to This Policy

At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.

If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us or mail us at contact@pspkgreenspirituality.ngo.