Who We Are

Welcome to Rasik Lal Parvati Foundation. Our website address is: https://rasiklalparvatifoundation.com. We are deeply committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe, secure, and transparent manner.

1. Information We Collect

When you donate, volunteer, or interact with our platform, we collect information to process your requests:

• Personal Details: Name, email address, phone number, and physical mailing address.
• Transaction Data: Date of donation, amount contributed, and verification details. (Note: We do not store your credit card details or bank credentials; transactions are routed through verified third-party payment gateways like Razorpay).
• Comments & Interaction Data: When visitors leave comments, we collect data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.
• Gravatar Integration: An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify usage. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon comment approval, your profile picture becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.
• Media Uploads: If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use collected information strictly to advance our public welfare campaigns:

• To issue formal tax exemptions and donation receipts.
• To share ground impact updates from our initiatives (Food Relief, Education Support, and Healthcare Help).
• To evaluate volunteer applications and coordinate regional relief teams.

We enforce a strict zero-spam policy. Your personal data is never sold, traded, shared, or rented to third-party commercial marketing firms.

3. Data Sharing & Security Measures

Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Spam Verification: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your data security is paramount. Rasik Lal Parvati Foundation implements structured physical, electronic, and managerial safeguards to prevent unauthorized access or loss. Online transactions utilize secure SSL encryption to maintain connection integrity.

4. Cookies Policy

Our site uses cookies to personalize and enhance your website navigation:

• Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience so details don’t need re-entering. These last for one year.
• Login Cookies: Temporary cookies test browser acceptance upon visiting the login page (contains no personal data; discarded upon closing browser). Logging in sets cookies saving login details (lasts 2 days) and screen display choices (lasts 1 year). Selecting “Remember Me” keeps logins active for 2 weeks. Logging out clears login cookies.
• Article Editing Cookies: Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie indicating the post ID (contains no personal data; expires after 1 day).

5. Embedded Content From Other Websites

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

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

6. Data Retention & Your Rights

Data Retention: Comment submissions and metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users (if any), personal information provided in user profiles is stored. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except username changes). Administrators can also view and edit that information.

Your Rights: If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data held. This excludes data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.