In general, you can visit our official website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We track the Internet address of the domains including browser type, IP address from which people visit us and analyze this data for trends and statistics, but the individual user remains anonymous. Our collection of website use information may involve the use of cookies.

This information is saved in a secure environment and is kept for our records and to make it easier for you to use our services on return visits. To serve you faster and with better quality. No third party has access to the information we collect this way.

Needless to add, all Information collected shall only be used internally within Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission or shared with only authorized and identified external service provider(s), when it is utmost necessary to do so with the sole objective to provide the Devotees with the best possible requisitioned services. The administration shall use the Information to improve the visitor experience on the site.

We may disclose specific information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, when required by law, to enforce our corporate policies, or to protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. We do not provide information to these agencies or companies for marketing or commercial purposes.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox or Safari or Chrome) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookie settings. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

Information Security and Disclosure Policy :

The statistical and personally identifying information received by Ramakrishna Mission as a result of a visitor’s use of Ramakrishna Mission website will be gathered by Ramakrishna Mission solely for internal purposes, such as helping Ramakrishna Mission understand how often its websites are accessed and how they might be improved. None of the statistical, non–personally identifying information collected by Ramakrishna Mission will be used by Ramakrishna Mission to identify a visitor or be linked to any personally identifying information about the visitor. Ramakrishna Mission does not rent, exchange, or sell to third parties any of the information that visitors provide online.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure correct use of information, we will employ reasonable and current Internet security methods and technologies.

Credit card Transactions processed are through a Bank Hosted Page and SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) technology is used to encrypt your personal information when you affirmatively respond to a Provider’s offer and authorize us to transmit your personal information to a Provider for fulfilment. Please note that a Provider may employ security methods and technologies that differ from ours, and we encourage you to read that policy before responding to a Provider’s offer. We never store your credit card/bank related information on our site.

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be communicated through our Site at least 10 days in advance of implementation. Information collected before changes are made will be secured according to the previous Privacy Policy.

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section that explains other terms governing the use of this Site.