Shruti Inc. Copyright Statement and Privacy Policy

The copyright and trademark protections of this website ensure that all seekers of higher knowledge of spirit and consciousness from Vedic wisdom have access to high quality, complete, sacred knowledge concerning the science of the Vedas. Excerpts or paraphrasing of copyrighted or trademarked materials or methods is not permitted in order to prevent dilution or misuse of this ancient wisdom and the documents and materials that allow this knowledge to be experienced and understood in their purity. In the spirit of maintaining and preserving the purity of these teachings that flow from a sacred tradition of masters who have preserved this ancient science of the technologies of consciousness, the contents of this website and/or all materials and methods of presenting and teaching this knowledge cannot be used in any form whatsoever except with expressed written permission from the holder of these rights. For inquiries or written permission of the rights holder, please contact rightsholder@shrutiinc.com.

1. Definition of Intellectual Property of Owner that are Protected Under International Copyright and Creative Commons Law

Recipient understands and agrees that by accessing the information on this website, including all downloads in writing, audio or video, that the Owner discloses and considers to be covered by the copyright, including but not limited to Owner’s concepts, know-how, philosophies, teachings, trainings, methods, thoughts, research, practices, plans, strategies, ideas, processes, techniques, works of authorship, data, formulae, patterns, drawings, algorithms, documents, databases, business, financial and technical information, existing and future product or services information, computer programs and software, devices, inventions, vendor information, equipment, reports, forecasts, prices, cost, personnel data, designs, trade secrets and other proprietary information and materials, whether tangible or intangible and whether or not stored, compiled or memorialized by any means, including physical, electronic, graphic or written. Notwithstanding the foregoing, copyright shall not include information which is authorized in writing by Owner to be disclosed.

The terms of copyright shall be construed to limit the Recipient’s right to independently develop or have developed for it products or services which may be similar to those discussed in the Copyright Notice. The Owner acknowledges that the Recipient may currently or in the future be developing information internally, or receiving information from other parties, that is similar to the copyrighted information. Nevertheless, this copyright notice shall prohibit the Recipient from developing or having developed for it products, concepts, systems or techniques that are similar to or compete with the products, concepts, systems or techniques contemplated by or embodied in the copyrighted information.

Trademarks

Shruti Institute for Vedic Arts (Shruti Inc) is the owner of all Web site illustrations, graphics, design, text, and proprietary logos displayed on any of its sites. Shruti Inc is the owner or licensee of all programs and software used on its site. Copyright © 2007 - 2010 Shruti Inc. All rights reserved.

Shrutiinc.com (including both shrutiinstitute.com, and sanskritforyogis.com), and all page headers, custom graphics and button icons are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of Shruti Inc. All other trademarks, product names and company names or logos cited herein are the property of their respective owners.

2. Privacy Policy
Shruti Institute for Vedic Arts (Shruti Inc) is committed to the privacy of visitors at our website and who choose to conduct business with us.

(Shruti Inc takes your privacy very seriously. We are NOT in the business of selling, renting or disclosing your personally identifiable information to others. We have created this statement to describe our commitment to your privacy.

You may be asked to provide us your name, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, postal address, credit card number (for purchases), and possibly other personal information. Additional demographic information may be optionally requested in order to improve our service to our customers. We may use the information you provide to:

Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use payment processors and shopping cart providers that utilize technology that enables us to adhere to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which are a set of comprehensive requirements developed by the major card brands to facilitate the adoption of consistent data security measures.

Cookies and how we use them
Cookies are unique text files that are sent to your browser from a Web server. As you browse our web site, cookies might be placed on your computer's hard drive including when you download, register and/or purchase products. Cookies may include registration numbers for any or all of your registered Shruti Institute products. Because some cookies may contain registration number(s), they can be linked to personally identifiable information. Shruti Institute does not provide any personally identifiable information from cookie data to third parties. Wec may use a third party to analyze for our general web site statistics such as number of pages viewed, browser types, etc. obtained from cookies. If and when we use Cookies they are used by Shruti Institute for the following:

To determine who you are when you return to our site (if you specified that you wanted us to remember you)
To track the method of your referral to our site
Anonymous statistical purposes
Shopping cart creation/modification (consequently, you will not be able to shop on our web site if your browser is not set to accept cookies)
To track your site session and present information, graphics or hyperlinks based on your session and/or write information to submission forms when contacting Shruti Institute
To present information, offers and invitations (surveys, special programs, etc.) based on your product registration and improve your experience with the site.

With whom may we share your information?
We may collect, create and disclose to third parties aggregated, anonymous statistics regarding our sales, traffic analyses and other information regarding or collected through our web site. This information won't include individually identifiable data about you.

We may also sometimes engage agents or contractors to perform services necessary to our operations (for example, delivery of products, distribution of e-mail, etc.). When we do, we may give them access to name, addresses or other information necessary for them to do their job for us, but not for any other purpose.

In limited cases, when you buy a third-party product from us, we will share your registration information (name, address, etc.) with the manufacturer of that product. That manufacturer then may use your data to contact you and might also share your data with others, depending upon that manufacturer's own privacy policy. We believe that the manufacturers whose products we sell typically will respect your privacy. But we don't control what they do with data they receive from us. We therefore recommend that you check the privacy policy of any third-party manufacturer whose products you choose to buy from us, including how to tell that manufacturer your e-mail opt-out preferences, request to update or delete your data, etc. If you have any questions about the data we give to third-party manufacturers of products you buy from us or which specific manufacturers we share information with, please contact us directly .

Finally, in the event our company or its assets were ever sold, our customer database naturally would be transferred to the new owner.

Except as described above, and except as may be required by law, we will not disclose your personally identifiable information to others without your consent.

How do we use the information we gather and track?
The information collected may be used for processing orders, personalizing the shopping experience, contests, promotions, newsletters, announcements, special offers, etc.

When you download a trial version of one of our products, we reserve the right to send a reasonable number of e-mail follow-up messages with information regarding purchasing the product.

>From time to time, we partner with companies whose products we believe will interest you. We don't give your information to our partners, but rather we inform you directly ourselves of these offers via e-mail or postal mail. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choose or Opt-Out" section below.

Correcting / updating personal information:
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if you no longer desire our service, we provide a way to correct, update or remove your personal data provided to us. This can be accomplished by contacting Shruti Institute via e-mail, phone or mail communication or by clicking the appropriate change links provided at the bottom of all of our email correspondence. Registered users can update their information by either contacting Shruti Inc directly or updating the information themselves using the supplied links in our email communications.

Links to other websites
The Shruti Institute website may contain links to other Web sites. Although we do not provide any personally identifiable information to these companies, we cannot guarantee your privacy once you leave the Shruti Institute site. We are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices or content of web sites with links on our site. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any web site.

Policies for children (Individuals Under 13 years of Age)
This website does not target children (under age 13) for collection of information online. We do not solicit or knowingly collect user identifiable information on children under the age of 13. No information should be submitted to or posted at this website or to the Shruti Institute on-line Divine Shop store by guests under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly accept online requests for information from any of our departments from guests under 13 years of age.

Additional Privacy Protections for Children
We encourage children to ask parental permission before sending any information about themselves (name, address, e-mail address, etc.) to anyone over the Internet. We encourage Parents/Guardians to get involved with your children's online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

Privacy policy updates
You should check back for updates to this privacy policy since we may update it from time to time without notice.

Feedback or Questions
If you have any questions or feedback regarding our privacy statement, please contact us as follows:

Shruti Institute for Vedic Arts (Shruti Inc.)
Broomfield, CO
customerservice@shrutiinc.com
303-938-1872