Sandipani Vidyaniketan is a leading educational institution in Gujarat, India, providing Vedic education in Sanskrit employing an ancient Vedic teaching style while simultaneously incorporating current, modern-day subjects in modern facilities.
It was established under the inspiration of Pujya Bhaishri Rameshbhai Oza, to spread Indian heritage and culture, create leaders and rekindle humanity for the betterment of society. It strives to achieve the highest standards of learning in Sanskrit and for establishing cultural and humanitarian values.
One of India’s most revered spiritual leaders, Pujya Bhaishri Shri Rameshbhai Oza has dedicated his life to sharing the eternal wisdom of Sanatan Dharma through Kathas and discourses. He is also using education as a tool to nurture Indian culture and values in children. He is considered a mentor and guide to many around the world. Pujya Bhaishri conducts a large number of kathas to spread the knowledge on Hindu Vedic scriptures and there are a variety of charitable trusts in India which help manage the various activities of Sandipani Vidyaniketan.
On behalf of Sandipani Vidyaniketan and its supporting charitable trusts, we want you to know that we respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.sandipani.org (“our site”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a manner that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our site.
Our site is owned and operated by Sat Sahityan Prakashan Trust, a non-profit organisation set up in India to spread Pujya Bhaishri’s teachings via various publications and this website.
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our site. Our site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
In complying with the European General Data Protection Regulation which came into effect on 25 March 2018 across the UK and Europe, in this Privacy Policy, we detail:
- What information we collect and how we collect it.
- How we use that information.
- The choices you have and your rights, including how to access and update that information.
- The limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others.
How do we collect and use your data?
As part of the registration process for our weekly e-newsletter, we collect personal information such your full name and email address. We use that information for a couple of reasons:
- to email you weekly newsletters about Pujya Bhaishri’s teachings, messages, activities and forthcoming events.
- to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied with the quality of the information you have subscribed to receive. We don’t rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use a third-party provider, Benchmark, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails
Additionally, we may encourage followers “like/follow” us on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. At no time is this information sold or given to any third party for marketing purposes.
We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply products and services to you on our behalf such as Danamojo for online donations.
The third parties may require access to some or all of your data. Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.
We may compile statistics about the use of our site including data on traffic, usage patterns, user numbers, sales, and other information through Google Analytics. All such data will be anonymised and will not include any personally identifying data, or any anonymised data that can be combined with other data and used to identify you.
We collect data when customers contact us through email or contact forms simply to be able to service client enquiries. At no time is the customer data sold or given to any third party for marketing or data sharing. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
In certain circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain data held by us, which may include your personal data, for example, where we are involved in legal proceedings, where we are complying with legal requirements, a court order, or a governmental authority.
All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the GDPR at all times.
Website Cookies
Like most websites, our website use cookies to collect information. Cookies are small data files which are placed on your computer or other devices (such as smart ‘phones or ‘tablets’) as you browse this website. They are used to ‘remember’ when your computer or device accesses our website. Cookies are essential for the effective operation of our website and to help you browse with us online. They are also used to tailor the services offered and advertised to you, both on our website and elsewhere.
Some cookies collect information about browsing behaviour when you access this website via the same computer or device. This includes information about pages viewed and your journey around a website. We do not use cookies to collect or record information on your name, address or other contact details. Sandipani can use cookies to monitor your browsing and behaviour.
Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. You can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, some areas of our website may not function properly if you do so.
Contacting Us
Should you wish to discuss, enquire, access, delete or update your personal information please contact us on contactus@sandipani.org. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
By providing information on this website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such information as set out in this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to the disclosure of such information to third parties in accordance with the terms hereof.
If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please write to contactus@sandipani.org
Legal Disclaimer and Copyright Policy
This is the only official website of Pujya Rameshbhai Oza.
Sat Sahitya Prakashan Trust grants to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute and display the contents of the website publicly in any digital medium for any reasonable non-commercial purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights.
Important notice on reuse and reproduction:
Contents of this site, partial or as a whole, should not be included in a framed web page.
Contents of this site, partial or as a whole, should not be included in a password protected site or a site which requires registration, even if free.
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A site or any electronic media reproducing content from this site if it includes advertisements placed along with our content or generates any form of revenue due to our content is not permissible.
Neither Sat Sahitya Prakashan Trust nor anyone else involved in creating, producing this website or the materials contained therein, assumes any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information provided nor shall they be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising out of its use.
This site may contain links to web sites operated by other parties. These links are provided purely for informational purposes. Such links are not an endorsement by Sat Sahitya Prakashan Trust and disclaims all liability with regard to your access of linked web sites.
Sandipani Vidyaniketan is the owner of, and reserves all rights to, all material published on this website, including audio, video, electronic, multimedia, photographic, and written forms.
You may not copy, reproduce, sell, publish, display, transmit, distribute, perform, modify, create works derivative of, or in any way exploit any material from this website without the express written consent of Sandipani Vidyaniketan.