Privacy Policy

Raksh Folk Arts Of India Foundation, trading as INTERNATIONAL INDIAN FOLK ART GALLERY

PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

RAKSH FOLK ARTS OF I

IndianFolkArt.org (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. By using our website, you agree to the terms of this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, billing information, and shipping details when you make a purchase or sign up for our services.
  • Non-Personal Information: Browser type, IP address, device information, and usage statistics collected through cookies and analytics tools.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • To provide, maintain, and improve our website and services.
  • To process transactions and send order confirmations.
  • To communicate with you regarding updates, promotions, and customer support.
  • To analyze website traffic and enhance user experience.
  • To comply with legal obligations.

3. Sharing of Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information. However, we may share information with:

  • Service Providers: Third-party vendors that help us with payment processing, website analytics, and order fulfillment.
  • Legal Authorities: If required by law or in response to legal processes.
  • Business Transfers: In case of a merger, sale, or acquisition of our business.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

  • We use cookies, web beacons, and analytics tools to improve website performance and user experience.
  • You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.

5. Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Use our website at your own risk.

6. Your Rights and Choices

  • You can request access to, correction, or deletion of your personal information by contacting us.
  • You can opt out of receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe link in the email.

7. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or content.

8. Children’s Privacy

IndianFolkArt.org does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover such data, we will delete it promptly.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with the updated effective date.

 

By using IndianFolkArt.org, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to this Privacy Policy.

2. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect this information from you when you make an enquiry with us (for example, by telephone or email or through website), purchase a product from us, sign up for a service via our website or submit a contact enquiry on our website, etc.

We are committed to using lawful and fair means to collect personal information and collecting it from others only when it is unreasonable or impracticable to obtain certain information from you directly. We collect personal information about you from:

  • You
  • Searches and enquiries
  • Your use of our website

Third parties may also use cookies, web beacons and similar technology to collect or receive information from our website or from you and from elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted advertising (such as the Facebook pixel, Google Analytics and AdWords). If we receive your personal information from third parties, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.

We will destroy or de-identify information where we form the opinion that the information has been provided to us unlawfully or unfairly.

3. WHY WE COLLECT, HOLD, USE AND DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information as is reasonably necessary for us to perform our core functions and activities, including for the following purposes:

  • to contact and communicate with you
  • to provide goods and/or services to you
  • to maintain a database of customers, subscribers or similar
  • to market to you and others, including remarketing (this may involve the use of a Facebook pixel or similar technology
  • to allow us to display our advertising to you elsewhere on the internet, for example, on Google or Facebook)
  • for internal record keeping
  • for statistical purposes
  • as required by law

Where we disclose your personal information to third parties for these purposes, we will do our best to ensure that their privacy policy adheres to similar standards of privacy protection and/or request that the third party follow this Privacy Policy regarding handling of your personal information. We will also be diligent in ensuring that the personal information we disclose is accurate, up-to-date, complete and relevant.

We will not use or disclose personal information for the purpose of direct marketing unless you have consented to the use or disclosure of the information for that purpose.

Please note that we will not disclose your personal information for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was collected without your consent, unless we are required to do so by law.

4. USE OF COOKIES
As you probably know, a cookie is a small text file that’s placed on your computer to help us remember your preferences, like your login information or location. Cookies are used for a variety of reasons. We use cookies to make it easier and faster for you to use our website. We also use cookies for security purposes to protect you online. We and our third-party vendors may also use cookies to display advertisements to you elsewhere on the internet.

5. LINKS TO OTHER SITES
To help you find more information, we sometimes include links to other helpful websites from our website. Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to information that we collect on our website (not any other site). As we aren’t responsible for data collection on those other sites, our Privacy Policy won’t apply. We can’t guarantee any of the privacy practices of other websites, so please be safe and make sure you read their privacy policy before giving them your personal information.

6. HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND CORRECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Access: You can request details of personal information that we hold about you. We will respond to any request to access information within a reasonable time.

Correction: If you believe that any information, we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details set out below. We rely in part on you advising us when your personal information changes. We will endeavour to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date and to notify you of the correction, unless it is impracticable or unlawful to do so.

Deletion: If you want us to delete personal information, we hold about you or to not collect information from you for a specific purpose, such as targeted advertising, please contact us using the details set out below. Please note that if we agree to delete your information, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to completely delete your information without retaining some residual information. We will functionally delete the information and we will not sell, transfer, or use personal information relating to you in any way moving forward.

We will respond to any request to access, correct or delete information within a reasonable time.

7. HOW WE MAINTAIN THE SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we hold is secure and protected from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We undertake the following precautions to protect personal information we hold:

  • our website contains pages encrypted with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to ensure the safety of any data that is submitted through use of this website
  • we limit access to personal information to a “need-to-know” basis
  • we protect devices we use to collect, hold, use and disclose personal information with industry-standard anti-virus software
  • our devices are protected by password and are stored in secure premises
  • data is securely stored on cloud servers
  • our email data is encrypted
  • all hard copies of personal information are kept in secure storage with access by authorised personnel only
  • all conversations involving the discussion of personal information take place in private, where conversations are unable to be overheard by unauthorised personnel
  • if we no longer need personal information, we take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify the information

While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure website and business, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to you for any such occurrences. If a data breach occurs involving your personal information and the breach is likely to cause harm to you, we will notify you as soon as possible after the occurrence in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act and related legislation.

8. HOW YOU CAN MAKE A COMPLAINT ABOUT PRIVACY BREACH
If you believe that we have breached this Privacy Policy and want to make a complaint about that breach, please contact us using the details set out below. If you are unsatisfied with our response, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner may be able to assist you with a review of our decision. Contact the OAIC for more information.

9. HOW YOU CAN UNSUBSCRIBE OR OPT OUT
We like to keep our customers and website visitors up to date, so from time to time we’ll send you newsletters, invitations and updates. Not to worry: our emails will always come with an “Unsubscribe” button, so you can opt out at any time. To unsubscribe from our email database, or opt out of communications, use the “Unsubscribe” button in our communication or contact us using the details set out below.

10. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we’ll let you know by posting such changes on our website.

11. CONTACT DETAILS
For any questions or notice, please contact us using these details:

Your privacy contact is support@indianfolkart.org

This Privacy Policy was last updated: 15-03-2025