Thank you for choosing to be a part of our community at Weekly Sadhna. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy.

This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use, maintain and disclose information collected from the users or provided by the users or processed by us. Weekly Sadhna is a web portal operated under Sadhna Trust which is a registered trust under Trust law in India and having its registered office at Weekly Sadhna, 411, Shoppers Plaza, Near Maskati Market, Ahmedabad and other associated entities, community services offered through the Site, mobile applications and social media channels.

This Privacy Policy forms part and parcel of the Terms of Use for the Services. Capitalized terms which have not been used herein are ascribed the same meaning as attributed to them in the Terms of Use. Weekly Sadhna respects the privacy of the users of the Services and is committed to protect it at all respects.

We collect and process some or all of the following types of information in the course of you using our Services. The type of information we collect will depend on the circumstances and the Services you are using. Generally speaking, the information about the user as collected by Weekly Sadhna is to be supplied by users and/or automatically tracked while navigation. Information is collected from any other source collectively referred to as “Information”.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the Website such as posting messages, blogs, news, comments in our online forums or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Website, the choices you make and the products and features you use.

Personal information provided by you: We collect names, phone numbers, email addresses, job titles, usernames, passwords, contact preferences and other similar information.

Payment data: We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument.

We use information held about you for our legitimate business interests for the following purposes:

• To provide you with the Services including services and functionalities where you try our designated representatives and/or business partners to you or to parties designated by you and any and all matters ancillary thereto including carrying out obligations from any contracts entered into between us.
• To verify and process payments when you subscribe to, purchase and/or obtain Services from any of our Website. We rely on performance of our contract with you as the legal basis for such processing.
• For verification and record of your personal particulars, to authenticate you that we know who you are if and/or someone else who intends contacting us with information for other sources and using the information to communicate with you.
• To contact market research and statistical analysis of the users of the Website including the number of users, the frequency of use, profile of users and usage and analytics for our business plans, the enhancement of our products and services, targeted advertisements and campaigns and information in local languages and personalization of content.
• To send you information, promotions and updates including marketing and advertising materials in relation to our Services and those of third parties, organizations selected by us. We will only do this where necessary and based on our Services may have consented to or where your profile and habits allow us.
• To prevent fraud or other potentially illegal activities including checking infringement and to block disruptive users and protect the safety of users of our Services.
• To enforce our terms of service. The legal basis for this processing being the protection of our business and the legal rights of others.

In some cases, if you would prefer that we do not use your information for marketing or promotional products or services to you, please offer “Do not be informed by mail/phone” on the footer and/or under our communication preferences. To opt out, the right details about us.

Unless specifically requested, we will not post and we do not solicit and collect data on thoughts for services or otherwise to us, any sensitive personal information such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, ideology or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal allegations or records, social security numbers, financial background, trade union membership or other sensitive or special categories of data.

(a) Information Shared with Affiliates

Weekly Sadhna may share information with its employees, agents, officers and our affiliates including all affiliated websites under common ownership or control for the purpose of processing information on its behalf.

(b) Information Shared with Third Parties and Sponsors

Weekly Sadhna may share with other third parties information about our Website users, such as your use of the Website or other metrics, and the Services provided on the Website or other websites, but only on an aggregated basis to help us develop content, services and advertising that we hope you will find interesting.

We do not sell your data to third parties unless required under certain features of the Website, or in the public interest, or under laws where you have designated us to disclose the information as necessary and for legal compliance.

Some of our partners carry embedded content controlled by third parties for services such as social sharing, recommended stories, commenting/reviewing and displaying video or images. When you interact with these services they may collect information from and about you and your interaction with their content.

We may also disclose your personal and other information to affiliated third parties if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, legal requests, legal process, enforce our Terms, protect rights, property and safety of users or others, investigate fraud or security issues, or as part of a merger, sale of assets or acquisition.

Weekly Sadhna may provide a feature to show you information from your social networking site, if you log in with your social networking service account with us. Information made available by you on those services may become visible to others depending upon your privacy settings on such services.

(c) Sale or Transfer of all or part of Business of Weekly Sadhna

If Weekly Sadhna sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of its assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or transfer of all or material part of its business, the Weekly Sadhna may transfer your information to the third parties involved in the transaction.

(d) Some General Exceptions to Disclosures

The Website/Service may include links to other websites or applications. Such websites or applications are governed by their respective privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for the actions, practices or content of such third parties.

Any personal information you provide to Weekly Sadhna is kept on secure servers with limited access. Weekly Sadhna uses reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures and safeguards to protect personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, modification and misuse.

We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know. We also endeavor that the personal information agrees to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

However, no method of internet transmission and security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us