Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

Bhagavad Gita Society (the “Society”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respects the privacy of visitors to bhagavadgitasociety.com. This policy explains, in general terms, what information may be processed when you visit the website, contact us, or interact with its features. The actual information processed depends on which features are enabled and used.

This is a website privacy notice, not legal advice. The Society should review it against its actual hosting, analytics, email, form, cookie, and other service configurations and applicable law before relying on it as a final legal policy.

1. Information You Choose to Provide

If you send an enquiry through a contact form or otherwise contact us, we may process the information you provide, such as your name, email address, subject, and message. Please do not send passwords, payment-card details, government identification numbers, or sensitive personal information through the website.

2. Technical and Usage Information

Like most websites, the server and security services may process technical information needed to deliver and protect the site. Depending on the hosting and services enabled, this may include IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, timestamps, referrer information, and security or diagnostic logs. We do not claim that every listed data category is collected in every visit.

3. Comments and Spam Protection

If comments are enabled on a page or post and you leave a comment, the information entered in the comment form may be stored with the comment. Technical information such as IP address and browser user-agent may also be processed for moderation and spam prevention. An anonymised hash derived from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. See Automattic’s privacy notice for information about its services.

4. Contact Forms and Communications

Messages submitted through the contact form are processed so that we can receive, review, and respond to your enquiry. Form submissions may be handled by Jetpack services and delivered to the site’s configured recipient. Please avoid including confidential or unnecessary personal details. We retain correspondence only for as long as reasonably needed to respond, maintain records, resolve issues, or meet applicable obligations.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

WordPress and enabled services may use cookies or similar technologies for essential site functions, login and security, remembering preferences, spam prevention, or optional analytics and embedded features. The cookies used depend on the features active on the site and on your interaction with them. You can manage cookies through your browser settings; blocking some cookies may affect site functionality. Embedded content from another website may set its own cookies under that provider’s policies.

6. Embedded Content and External Services

Articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, or other media. Embedded content behaves as though you visited the external website directly. That provider may collect information, use cookies, or measure your interaction according to its own privacy policy. External links are provided for convenience; we do not control third-party websites.

7. How Information May Be Used

  • To operate, maintain, and secure the website.
  • To receive and respond to questions, corrections, and other enquiries.
  • To moderate comments and prevent spam, abuse, or technical misuse.
  • To diagnose errors and improve website performance and content, where relevant services are enabled.
  • To comply with applicable legal obligations and protect legitimate rights and interests.

8. Service Providers and Sharing

We may rely on website hosting, WordPress, Jetpack, email delivery, security, spam prevention, or other technical providers to operate features of the site. Those providers may process information on our behalf or as described in their own privacy notices. We do not sell personal information. Information may also be disclosed where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect the site, its users, or others.

9. Retention

We keep contact enquiries, comments, and related records for no longer than reasonably necessary for their purpose, unless a longer period is required for security, dispute resolution, or legal obligations. Technical logs and service-provider records may be retained according to the provider’s own retention practices.

10. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information, or to object to or restrict certain processing. You may also choose not to submit information, although this may mean we cannot respond to an enquiry. Requests should be made through the Contact page. We may need to verify a request and retain information where the law permits or requires it.

11. Children’s Privacy

This website is intended as a general educational resource. It is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children. A parent or guardian who believes a child has submitted personal information may contact us to request appropriate action.

12. Security

We use the security features available through our website platform and service providers and take reasonable steps to protect information. No method of internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure, and absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this notice as the website and its services change. The updated version will be published on this page with a revised date. Please review it periodically.

14. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, please use the Contact Bhagavad Gita Society page and include “Privacy Request” in the subject. The Society’s formal operating entity and postal address should be added here once confirmed.