Privacy and Legal Policy

Introduction :

The Jagannath Temple Administration  website  is committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to its websites (www.jagannath.nic.in). This privacy policy describes the collection, use, and security of information Jagannath Temple Administration  receives when users visit its sites. From time to time, Jagannath Temple Administration may amend provisions of this policy. In the event of material modifications, Jagannath Temple Administration will alert users with a notice on its homepages and a direct link to the revised policy.

Information Collected :

Jagannath Temple Administration  does not require visitors to its websites to register or provide any personally identifying information in order to view any of its webpages. But when a user visit opted for Online donation through Jagannath.nic.in web site it requires some personally identifying information  for letter correspondence, i.e. by Temple Administration only. JTA websites do not send out cookies (small text files that enable websites to recognize and track repeat visitors and customize features of the site for them).

 only the following, non–personally identifying information will be gathered about her or his use of a JTA website:

• the addresses of the websites that the person came from and goes to

• the pages visited on the JTA site

• the type of web browser used by the visitor

• the time and date of each visit

• the IP address of the computer used to gain access to the JTA website (an IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer each time the computer is used to surf the Internet)

Credit card transactions require the input of personally identifying information, including but not limited to name, residential and email addresses, phone number, and credit card number. This personally identifying information is sometimes, though not always, communicated to JTA by third-party processing companies, and when received by JTA, is subject to the security and disclosure policy described in the following section.

Information Security and Disclosure Policy :

The statistical and personally identifying information received by JTA as a result of a visitor’s use of JTA websites will be gathered by JTA solely for internal purposes, such as helping JTA understand how often its websites are accessed and how they might be improved. None of the statistical, non–personally identifying information collected by JTA will be used by JTA to identify a visitor or be linked to any personally identifying information about the visitor. When such information is provided by a visitor for acknowledgment of or shipping of a Jagannath temple small gift against donations, JTA will use the information only for those limited purposes. Acknowledgment may include mailings of JTA’s own materials, such as annual reports, which list donors who do not desire anonymity and those in whose honor donations were made. JTA does not rent, exchange, or sell to third parties any of the information that visitors provide online. JTA will only share personally identifying information with third parties when the person submitting the information authorizes JTA to do so or when JTA is required to do so by law.