AyurvedaPlace.com Cookies and Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 7/24/2018

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. You must leave our website if you do not accept our cookies or privacy policy. Read our policies below.

This policy sets forth the type of information AyurvedaPlace.com collects from you via this website: AyurvedaPlace.com (the “Website”), the way we use such information, and the procedures we use to keep such information confidential.

AyurvedaPlace.com takes every reasonable precaution to protect our users’ personal information. When users submit sensitive information via the AyurvedaPlace.com website, their information is protected both online and off-line.

Your Consent

By using the Website, you consent to the collection and use of certain information in the manner we describe and agree to be bound by the terms of use as set forth herein. By logging into your cart, you consent to periodic email notifications regarding the status of your check-out process. You may opt out of these any time after your initial notice.

Notification of Changes

The practices and policies contained in this Policy are subject to change at any time without prior notice. If we decide to change our policies, we will post those changes on this Website. Information collected before changes are made will be secured according to the Policy in place at the time such information is collected notwithstanding future changes to this Policy. The practices and policies in this Policy replace all previous notices or statements with respect to the same subject matter. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Opt-out or Termination of User Accounts

If users have opted out of all communication with the Website, or deleted/deactivated their account, AyurvedaPlace.com will not contact such users again nor will their personal information ever be used by us in any manner.

Contact Information

If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.

Security

We are committed to preventing others from unauthorized access to the personal information you provide to us, and we maintain commercially reasonable procedures and technology designed for this purpose. The Website has reasonable technical and organizational security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our control. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those security measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

The Information We Collect

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us. We may also use this information to inform you of additional goods and services about which you might be interested or to customize your experience and use of the Website.

We may ask you for personally-identifying information in connection with a promotion or survey. Any email you receive from us, or third parties authorized by you to send email, will contain additional opt-out or unsubscribe options in the email with instructions on how to unsubscribe from receiving future emails.

We may automatically gather general statistical information about our website and visitors, such as IP addresses, browsers, pages viewed, number of visitors, goods and services purchased, transactions completed, etc. To do this, we use action tags and cookies provided by our site analytics and marketing partners. Although these partners log the information coming from our site on our behalf, we authorize how that data may and may not be used.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Children Under 13

We do not knowingly collect or use personal information from children under 13. We have no way of distinguishing the age of individuals who address our website, and so we carry out the same Privacy Policy for individuals of all ages. If a child has provided us with personal information, the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the information and opt out of promotional opportunities.

Log Files

Like most standard website servers, we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts are used by AyurvedaPlace.com and our partners [e.g. lifestyle-publishing websites, etc.], affiliates, or analytics or service providers [e.g. online customer support provider, etc.]. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store geographic information and user preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.

Why do we use these technologies?

MANDATORY COOKIES

Minimum required for the site to function correctly and securely.

This website will:

  • Remember page to page information essential for completing forms
  • Remember cookie settings
  • Protect your personal information

PREFERENCE AND ANALYTICS

Used to improve your browsing experience.

This website will:

  • Retain preference settings and geographic information
  • Make sure the website looks consistent
  • Capture website usage to further improve experience

SOCIAL MEDIA AND ADVERTISING

Enables selected advertising relevant to you.

This website will:

  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, etc.

The use of tracking technologies by our third party [partners, affiliates, service providers] is not covered by our privacy policy. Technology limitations do not enable us direct access or control over such technologies.

The Way We Use Information

Our goal is to provide products that best meet your needs, therefore we evaluate your personal interactions with us in an effort to bring you the products which best suit your tastes. In addition, we use your information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, and to customize our site’s content, layout, and services.

We may use your information to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as targeted banners, new products, services, and promotions. At times, we may ask you to provide us voluntarily with additional information regarding your personal or business interests, experience, or requests, which we may use to customize our products and services for you.

If you place a request for products or services, we use your personal information to ship your order; if the products or services are from a retail partner, we may provide your relevant information to that retailer for purposes of the transaction. If you establish a credit account with us or our providers, we collect additional information, including billing information, credit card number, and expiration date, and tracking information from checks or money orders.

If AyurvedaPlace.com is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

We may also use or disclose information to resolve disputes or investigate problems. We may disclose or access information whenever we believe in good faith that the law so requires or if we otherwise consider it necessary to do so to maintain service and improve our products and services.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, to manage our website and to enhance our site based on the usage pattern data we receive.

Category of Use Example
Mandatory We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.

For example, they help protect your account from being accessed by anyone other than you to keep your information safe and secure.

Preference and Analytics We use analytic cookies to understand, improve, and research products you are interested in when accessing our websites from a computer or mobile device.

For example, we allow our websites to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in.

Loss of the information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional but should not prevent it from working.

Social Media and Advertising We use cookies and similar technologies to understand and deliver ads that are more relevant to you.

For example, some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; to improve reporting on campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

Additionally, we may use cookies to understand and improve how you are using social plugins to interact with our website and products. We may share information about this analysis with our partners.

User Access and Choice

If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, or delete it by contacting us. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Newsletter

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions on our unsubscribe page.

Email-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our Email-A-Friend service for informing a friend about an article, we launch the default email program on the user’s computer. We do not know who the article is sent to, and therefore we cannot collect and store that data.

Links

The Web site contains links to other sites. AyurvedaPlace.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. By including links to other websites, we neither endorse such sites nor guarantee that the information they contain is accurate. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site to read the privacy statements of every linked website as the privacy policies of each may differ from ours. This privacy statement applies solely to the AyurvedaPlace.com website.

Social Media Widgets

Our Site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook and Twitter buttons etc. and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Third Party Advertising

We do not accept any paid advertisements on AyurvedaPlace.com. Any services or products recommended and/or offered in the newsletter or elsewhere on AyurvedaPlace.com have gone through extensive review before such recommendations, and based on that review were recommended and/or offered.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on AyurvedaPlace.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to AyurvedaPlace.com users based on their visit to AyurvedaPlace.com and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy

We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.

We also use Google AdSense to publish ads on this site. When you view or click on an ad, a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other Web sites. You may opt-out of the use of this cookie by visiting Google’s Advertising and Privacy page: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

* The educational and informational content provided here is, in no way, shape, or form, to take the place of personalized care provided by a personal health care provider, and rather to be used in conjunction with such professional advice. The content provided by Ayurvedaplace is purely educational in nature about Ayurveda and various wellness topics, and is not meant to diagnose, treat, or prevent any disease. We make no claims or warranties to cure, treat, or prevent any disease or condition. Read full Disclaimer here.