PRIVACY POLICY

Protecting your privacy is important to Shankara, Inc.. We strive to keep your personal information confidential. By ensuring that you are aware of and understand Shankara, Inc.’s Privacy Policy, we can provide you with better service. Please take a moment to read the following policy to learn how we handle your personal information.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Name
  • Contact information including email address and mobile phone number
  • Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
  • For the exhaustive list of cookies we collect see the list of cookies section.

What we do with the information we gather

Shankara, Inc. collects and uses your personal information to give you superior customer service, to provide you with convenient access to our products and services, and to make a wider range available to you.
In addition, with your permission, your personal information can be used to keep you up to date on the latest product announcements, special offers, and other information we think you'd like to hear about. We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • Email marketing: With your permission, we may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • Text marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send text messages about our store, new products, and other updates. Updates include Checkout Reminders. Webhooks will be used to trigger the Checkout Reminders messaging system.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, sms, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@Shankara.com.
  • We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to 899 Airport Park Road, Suite B, Glen Burnie, MD 21061.

Withdrawing Consent

If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the contact information at the bottom of this page. Please note that if you withdraw consent, we may not be able to provide or continue to provide certain services or marketing communications to you.

Objection and Requests for Copies

If you wish to (i) object, for legitimate purposes, to the processing of personal data as provided under applicable law, or (ii) to request copies of your personal data held by us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or request us to transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible), please write to us at the following address:

899 Airport Park Road, Suite B, Glen Burnie, MD 21061.

Requests for Deletion

If you wish to request that we delete your personal data, please write to or e-mail us at info@Shankara.com. We will respond to your request to delete your information within one month of receipt of your verification. Our response period may be extended by 60 additional days where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests we receive. We may need to retain certain records, for example those relating to open orders, payments, or customer service matters, for legal and accounting purposes

Please note that if you make a data deletion request, you must provide the email address that you have linked to your account (or that you used in connection with a purchase) for us to delete your personal data as we link your personal data to your email address. If you have multiple email addresses linked to your account (or you used multiple email addresses in connection purchases) you may need to make a data deletion request with respect to each email address in order for us to fully delete your personal data.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.



By E-mail: info@shankara.com

By Phone: 443.410.0791