Shruti Institute for Vedic Arts (Shruti Inc) is committed to the privacy of visitors to the Shruti Institute for Vedic Arts website.

At Shruti Inc, we take your privacy very seriously. We are NOT in the business of selling, renting or disclosing your personally identifiable information to others. We have created this statement to describe our commitment to your privacy.

What information do we gather and track?
If you:

• Purchase a product from Shruti,Inc.
  
• Register a new product
  
• Download our audios or our special instructional software
  
• Sign up for our mailing list
  
• Sign up for our newsletter E-zine
  
• Apply to become an Affiliate
  
• Join our online community - Members Mandala
  
• Sign onto a page that requires authorization
  
• Or enter into any other transaction with us

You may be asked to provide us your name, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, postal address, credit card number (for purchases), and possibly other personal information. Additional demographic information may be optionally requested in order to improve our service to our customers. We may use the information you provide to:

• Keep you informed of new releases of our products
  
• Provide helpful hints and tips on how to use our products
  
• Make special offers that we extend only to our registered customers
  
• Improve our site and the services we offer you
  
• In limited cases, we may share your registration information (name, address, etc.) with the manufacturer of a product you purchase from us -- but only when we inform you in advance of your purchase of the particular product

Cookies and how we use them
Cookies are unique text files that are sent to your browser from a Web server. As you browse our web site, cookies might be placed on your computer's hard drive including when you download, register and/or purchase products. Cookies may include registration numbers for any or all of your registered Shruti Inc products. Because some cookies may contain registration number(s), they can be linked to personally identifiable information. Shruti Inc does not provide any personally identifiable information from cookie data to third parties. Shruti Inc may use a third party to analyze for Shruti Inc general web site statistics such as number of pages viewed, browser types, etc. obtained from cookies. Cookies are used by Shruti Inc for the following:

• To determine who you are when you return to our site (if you specified that you wanted us to remember you)
  
• To track the method of your referral to our site
  
• Anonymous statistical purposes
  
• Shopping cart creation/modification (consequently, you will not be able to shop on our web site if your browser is not set to accept cookies)
  
• To track your site session and present information, graphics or hyperlinks based on your session and/or write information to submission forms when contacting Shruti Inc
  
• To present information, offers and invitations (surveys, special programs, etc.) based on your product registration and improve your experience with the site.

With whom may we share your information?
We may collect, create and disclose to third parties aggregated, anonymous statistics regarding our sales, traffic analyses and other information regarding or collected through our web site. This information won't include individually identifiable data about you.

We may also sometimes engage agents or contractors to perform services necessary to our operations (for example, delivery of products, distribution of e-mail, etc.). When we do, we may give them access to name, addresses or other information necessary for them to do their job for us, but not for any other purpose.

In limited cases, when you buy a third-party product from us, we will share your registration information (name, address, etc.) with the manufacturer of that product. That manufacturer then may use your data to contact you and might also share your data with others, depending upon that manufacturer's own privacy policy. We believe that the manufacturers whose products we sell typically will respect your privacy. But we don't control what they do with data they receive from us. We therefore recommend that you check the privacy policy of any third-party manufacturer whose products you choose to buy from us, including how to tell that manufacturer your e-mail opt-out preferences, request to update or delete your data, etc. If you have any questions about the data we give to third-party manufacturers of products you buy from us or which specific manufacturers we share information with, please contact us directly .

Finally, in the event our company or its assets were ever sold, our customer database naturally would be transferred to the new owner.

Except as described above, and except as may be required by law, we will not disclose your personally identifiable information to others without your consent.

How do we use the information we gather and track?
The information collected may be used for processing orders, personalizing the shopping experience, contests, promotions, newsletters, announcements, special offers, etc.

When you download a trial version of one of our products, we reserve the right to send a reasonable number of e-mail follow-up messages with information regarding purchasing the product.

From time to time, we partner with companies whose products we believe will interest you. We don't give your information to our partners, but rather we inform you directly ourselves of these offers via e-mail or postal mail. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choose or Opt-Out" section below.

Choose or opt-out
Announce Lists: You can subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our product announce lists here. These announce lists will be used to send subscribers any announcements (product upgrades, special offers, etc.) relevant to the list to which they are subscribed.

Registered Shruti Inc Customers:
Registered customers who do not wish to receive product announcements or special offers can update their information here or by contacting Shruti Inc directly.

Correcting / updating personal information
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if you no longer desire our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove your personal data provided to us. This can be accomplished by contacting Shruti Inc via e-mail, fax, phone or mail communication. Registered users can update their information by contacting Shruti Inc directly .

Links to other websites
The Shruti Inc site contains links to other Web sites. Although we do not provide any personally identifiable information to these companies, we cannot guarantee your privacy once you leave the Shruti Inc site. We are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices or content of web sites with links on our site. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any web site.

Policies for children (Individuals Under 13 years of Age)
This website does not target children (under age 13) for collection of information online. We do not solicit or knowingly collect user identifiable information on children under the age of 13. No information should be submitted to or posted at this website or to the Shruti Institute on-line bookstore by guests under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly accept online requests for information from any of our departments from guests under 13 years of age.

Additional Privacy Protections for Children
We encourage children to ask parental permission before sending any information about themselves (name, address, e-mail address, etc.) to anyone over the Internet. We encourage Parents/Guardians to get involved with your children's online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

Privacy policy updates
You should check back for updates to this privacy policy since we may update it from time to time without notice.

Feedback or Questions
If you have any questions or feedback regarding our privacy statement, please contact us as follows:

Shruti Inc
Nederland, CO
(The American Himalayas)

This page was last modified on July 27, 2008.