Aspire Action Trust (Aspire Circle) is committed to the ethical collection, retention and use of information that you provide to us about yourself (“Personal Information”) on this site https://aspirecircle.org/ (“Site”)
Your Personal Information may comprise the following:
your name
your age
your occupation
a user ID and password of your choice
your email and mailing address
your telephone number
your payment processing details
limited personal details
Any other data as Aspire Circle may require
The following Privacy Policy sets forth our understanding with you on the collection, use and protection of your Personal Information. Please read the entire Privacy Policy.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR CONSENT TO THE ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY (AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME) AND YOU SHALL BE BOUND BY THE SAME.
Collection of Information
Site Browsing: You browse the Site anonymously. We do not require you to identify yourself or reveal any Personal Information while browsing through the Site. However, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site or interact with us without supplying us with Personal Information. For instance, you would not be able to transact at the Site or make any donations at the Site, without providing the Site with Personal Information. If you desire to register yourself at the Site, you would be required to provide your Personal Information.
While you are browsing through the Site, the Site’s operating system may automatically record some general information (“General Information”) about your visit such as:
the date and time you visit the Site, along with the address of the previous website your were visiting, if you linked to us from another website
the type of browser you are using (such as Internet Explorer version ‘X’)
which ‘hit’ it is on the Site
The General Information is not Personal Information. Aspire Circle’s tracking system does not record personal information about individuals or link this information to any Personal Information collected from you.
The General Information is used by Aspire Circle for statistical analysis, for tracking overall traffic patterns on the Site and to gauge the public interest in Aspire Circle and the Site. Such General Information may be shared by Aspire Circle with any person, at Aspire Circle’s discretion.
Cookies:
“Cookies” are small amounts of data that a website can send to a web browser on a visitor’s computer. The cookie is stored on a visitor’s computer. A cookie may enable the site holder to track how a visitor navigates through its site and the areas in which they show interest. This is similar to a traffic report: it tracks trends and behaviors, but does not identify individuals. Information gathered may include date and time of visits, pages viewed, time spent at the site, and the site visited just before and just after the Aspire Circle site.
Refusing Cookies on Aspire Circle’s Website
Customers may choose not to accept cookies. Your web browser may alert and permit you to refuse cookies. When you receive an alert, you may choose at that time to refuse that cookie.
Note: Some product features and services provided by Aspire Circle require you to accept a cookie in order to be able to use the particular functionality or service. These cookies are used to establish a link between the user and the application server. The cookies contain unique session IDs, and no customer data is stored on the cookies.
Usage of Information
Personal information will be used by Aspire Circle for internal purposes including the following:
sending you inter alia emails, features, promotional material, surveys, brochures, catalogues, Aspire Circle Annual Report, reminders for donations, etc.
processing your donations to Aspire Circle (ii) Receipt for donations made by you to Aspire Circle.
maintaining an internal confidential database of all the Personal Information collected from visitors to the Site
Disclosure of Personal Information by Aspire Circle
Within Aspire Circle, access to Personal Information collected by Aspire Circle will be given only to those persons who are authorised by Aspire Circle and third parties hired by Aspire Circle to perform administrative services. Aspire Circle will provide access to third parties for inter alia entering and managing Personal Information in Aspire Circle’s Database, processing your donations preparing address labels, sending emails, which require such third parties to have access to your Personal Information. Aspire Circle cannot guarantee that such parties will keep your Personal Information confidential and Aspire Circle will not be liable in any manner for any loss of confidentiality attributable to such third parties.
Aspire Circle may share Personal Information with any of persons who are associated with Aspire Circle, including companies and non-governmental organisations affiliated with Aspire Circle in any manner. Aspire Circle will retain ownership rights over such information and will share only such portions of the Personal Information as it deems fit.
Aspire Circle is not liable in any manner whatsoever for the loss, damage (whether direct, indirect, consequential or incidental) or harm caused to you by the misuse of your Personal Information by a third party who is not an employee of Aspire Circle.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein or any other contract between you and Aspire Circle, Aspire Circle reserves the right to disclose any Personal Information about you without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal request or legal investigation, to conduct investigations of breaches of law, to protect the Site, to protect Aspire Circle and it’s property, to fulfill your requests, to protect our visitors and other persons and if required by the policy of Aspire Circle.
Security
Aspire Circle endeavours to use up-to-date security measures to protect your Personal Information.
Aspire Circle however does not make any express or implied warranty with respect to the security measures that it may employ from time to time for the protection of the Personal Information.
Links to other Websites
The Site contains links to other websites for the benefit of it’s visitors. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites. Aspire Circle is not expressly or impliedly responsible for, or liable to any loss or damage caused to you by the collection, use and retention of Personal Information by such website in any manner whatsoever. It is important that you review the privacy policies of all websites you visit before you disclose any information to such websites.
Variation of the Privacy Policy
Aspire Circle shall be absolutely entitled at its sole discretion from time to time add to, alter, delete or modify any of the terms and conditions contained herein. Such changes, additions, alterations, deletions or modifications shall be binding on you once you visit the Site after the Privacy Policy has been so amended.
Copyright Protection
All content on this Site including graphics, text, icons, interfaces, audio clips, logos, images and software is the property of Aspire Circle and/or its content suppliers and is protected by Indian and international copyright laws. The arrangement and compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all content on this Site is the exclusive property of Aspire Circle and protected by Indian and international copyright laws. Permission is given to use the resources of this Site only for the purposes of making enquiries or making a donation to Aspire Circle products. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance, of the content on this Site can only be made with the express permission of Aspire Circle. All other trademarks, brands and copyrights other than those belonging to Aspire Circle belong to their respective owners and are their property.
Refund Policy
We take the utmost care to process donations as per the instructions given by our donors, online and offline. However, in case of an unlikely event of an erroneous donation or if the donor would like to cancel his donation, We will respond to the donor within 7 working days of receiving a valid request for refund from the donor. The timely refund of the donation will depend upon the type of credit card/banking instrument used during the transaction. The donor will have to send a written request for a refund within 2 days of making the donation to our official address or email ashu.gulati@aspireindia.org along with-
Proof of the deduction of the donation amount.
In cases where the donation receipt has already been issued to the donor, the donor will have to return the original receipt to us at our office addresses.
If the tax exemption certificate is already issued, then we are sorry but we will not be able to refund the donation. However, in case of a valid refund request due to any error on our part, We will refund the donation and bear the costs of the same.
International donations will need minimum three weeks for the refund process.
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