LAST UPDATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY – 25th August 2025
This Privacy Policy applies to Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc., which sets out our policy on the gathering and use of information on this site and our other sites (collectively “Sites”). The organization is committed to providing a safe online experience for visitors of all ages and has implemented this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its firm commitment to your privacy. The Organization complies with Canadian Federal and Provincial privacy laws and regulations, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
We collect information about you only when it is necessary for a legitimate purpose. https://gaurishankarmandir.ca/will have information about you only if (a) you have provided the information yourself, (b) https://gaurishankarmandir.ca/as automatically collected the information, or
(c) https://gaurishankarmandir.ca/ has obtained the information from a third party. Below:
Interactions with https://gaurishankarmandir.ca/ We may record, analyze, and use your interactions with us, including email, telephone, and chat conversations with volunteer members and employees of the organization, to improve our interactions with you and other devoteess.
temporary and permanent cookies to identify our services’ users and enhance
user experience. We also use cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies to identify visitors, track website navigation, gather demographic information about visitors and users, measure the effectiveness of email campaigns, and target visitors. We only use first-party cookies and do not use third-party cookies or other third-party tracking technologies on our websites. We also use first-party Local Storage Objects (LSOs), such as HTML5, to store content information and preferences, enabling us to provide certain features. In addition, we store browser behaviour and devotees’ journey information in Google Analytics.
Twitter, Google+ and Instagram through posts, comments, questions and other interactions, we may collect such publicly available information, including profile information, to allow us to connect with you, improve our services, or better understand user reactions and issues. Please note that once collected, this information may remain with us even after you delete it from the social media sites. Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization may also add and update information about you from other publicly available sources.
In addition to the purposes mentioned above, we may use your information for the following purposes:
Legal bases for collecting and using information
Legal processing bases applicable to Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc.: The legal basis for information collection and use depends on the type of personal information concerned and the context in
which it is collected. Most of our information collection and processing
activities are typically based on one or more legitimate interests of Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc. or a third party that are not overridden by your data protection interests, or (iii) your consent.
Sometimes, we may be legally required to collect your information or need your personal information to protect your vital interests or another person.
Withdrawal of consent: If we rely on your consent as a legal basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time; however, this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.
Legitimate interests notice: Where we rely on legitimate interests as the legal basis and those legitimate interests are not specified above, we will clearly explain what those legitimate interests are when we collect your information.
Opt-out of non-essential electronic communications: You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other non-essential messages using the ‘unsubscribe function included in all such messages. However, you will continue to receive notices and essential transactional emails.
Disable cookies: You can disable browser cookies before visiting our websites. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use certain features of the websites properly.
Optional information: You can choose not to provide optional profile information, such as your photo. You can also delete or change your optional profile information. You can always choose not to fill in non-mandatory fields when you submit any form linked to our websites.
All Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization entities have access to the information covered in Part I. We do not sell any personal information. We share your information only in the ways described in this Privacy Policy and only with parties who adopt appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Employees and independent contractors: Employees and independent contractors of all Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc. group entities have access to the information covered in Part I on a need-to-
know basis. We require all employees and independent contractors of Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization, Inc. to follow this Privacy Policy regarding the personal information we share with them.
Third-party service providers: We may need to share your personal information and aggregated or de-identified information with third-party service providers that we engage, such as marketing and advertising partners, event organizers, web analytics providers and payment processors. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Social platforms: We may share your personal information with our authorized social media platforms in your region solely to contact you about services you have downloaded or services you have signed up for. We will provide you with the option to opt out of continuing to work with that partner.
Other cases: Other scenarios in which we may share the same information covered under Parts I and II are described in Part III.
You have the following rights to information that Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc holds about you. Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc.com undertakes to provide you with the same rights, no matter where you choose to live.
Right to rectification: You have the right to update the information we hold about you or to rectify any inaccuracies. Based on the purpose for which we use your information, you can instruct us to add supplemental information about you to our database.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was initially collected.
Right to restriction of processing: You may also have the right to request to restrict your information in certain circumstances, such as when you have
objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Right to complain: You have the right to complain at privacy@ gaurishankarmandir.ca/ if you have any grievance against the way we collect, use or share your information.
We retain your personal information for as long as required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. We will delete or anonymize your information from our active databases. We will also securely store the information and isolate it from further processing on backup discs until it can be deleted.
Information entrusted to Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc., and the purpose:
Information provided in connection with services: You may entrust information that you or your organization (“you”) control to Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc. in connection with the use of our services.
Our services are not directed to individuals under 13. Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc. does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. However, if we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to obtain the consent of their parent/ guardian. If you believe that a child under 13 years has provided personal information to us, please write to privacy@gaurishankarmandir.ca/ with the details, and we will take the necessary steps to delete the information we hold about that child.
At Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc.com, we take data security very seriously. We have taken steps to implement appropriate administrative, technical & physical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or destruction of the information you entrust to us. If you have any concerns regarding the security of your data, we encourage you to write to us at privacy@gaurishankarmandir.ca with any questions.
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee the management of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices regarding your personal information, please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer by email at privacy@gaurishankarmandir.ca or by writing to the Data Protection Officer, Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc.
Some internet browsers have enabled ‘Do Not Track (DNT) features, which send out a signal (called the DNT signal) to the websites you visit, indicating that you don’t wish to be tracked. Currently, no standard governs what websites can or should do when they receive these signals. So, for now, we do not take action in response to these signals.
Some pages of our websites may contain links to websites that are not linked to this Privacy Policy. If you submit your personal information to any of these third-party sites, your personal information is governed by their privacy policies. Therefore, as a safety measure, we recommend that you not share personal information with these third parties unless you’ve checked their privacy policies and assured yourself of their privacy practices.
We offer publicly accessible blogs and forums on our websites. Please be aware that any information you provide on these blogs and forums may be used to contact you with unsolicited messages. We urge you to exercise caution when disclosing personal information in our blogs and forums. Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc. is not responsible for the personal information you choose to disclose publicly. Your posts and certain profile information may remain even after you terminate your account with Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc. To request the removal of your information from our blogs and forums, you can contact us at privacy@gaurishankarmandir.ca
Our websites include social media widgets, such as Facebook “like” buttons and Twitter “tweet” buttons, that allow you to share articles and other information. These widgets may collect information such as your IP address and the pages you navigate on the website, and set a cookie to enable the devices to function correctly. Of course, your interactions with these widgets are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them.
We may be required by law to preserve or disclose your personal information and service data to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests, including those related to national security requirements.
We may disclose personal information and service data to a third party if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to prevent fraud, investigate any suspected illegal activity, enforce our agreements or policies, or protect the safety of our users.
We make every effort, including periodic reviews, to ensure that the personal information you provide is used in conformity with this Privacy Policy. However, if you have any concerns about our adherence to this Privacy Policy or how your personal information is used, please write to us at privacy@gaurishankarmandir.ca
We may modify the Privacy Policy at any time upon notifying you through a service announcement or by sending an email to your primary email address.
Cancelling Your Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc Product Subscription
Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc. (“Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This SMS Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your mobile information when you receive SMS (text) messages from Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc through our service provider, RingCentral.
We may send you SMS messages for the following purposes:
By opting into SMS from a web form or other medium, you are agreeing to receive SMS messages from IT Services. This includes SMS messages for conversations (external). Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. See privacy policy privacy@gaurishankarmandir.ca
You will only receive SMS messages from Gauri Shankar Mandir Religious and Cultural Organization Inc if you have:
You may opt-in by checking an authorization box, replying to an SMS, or providing consent during onboarding or communication setup.
No mobile opt-in or text message consent will be shared with third parties or affiliates.
You can opt out of SMS communications at any time by replying STOP to any SMS received from us. After opting out, you will no longer receive non-essential messages, although critical service alerts may still be sent.
If you have issues with unsubscribing, you may also email us at privacy@gaurishankarmandir.ca
