We at AstroShala (“we” or “AstroShala” or “AstroShala.com” or “Astroshala.com”) take Your Privacy (or the privacy of our “Customers” or “Users” or “Members”) very seriously. We created this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. Please read this carefully to understand how we use any information you provide us at AstroShala.com

• AstroShala guarantees confidentiality of our members’ identity, birth details and any forecasts made using those details as much possible under legal regulatory and security environment.
• AstroShala further guarantees that no direct or indirect use will be made by AstroShala about any information that is revealed in the prediction for a member, except for the explicit purpose of communicating the horoscope charts and predictions back to the member.
• We allow members to access their users profiles and change information, as they deem necessary.
• We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
• We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.

As we keep adding new services and items, we suggest that you check back from time to time in order to understand how we treat your information. In case of change in our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Your continued use of the site will constitute your acknowledgment of our Privacy Policy. The items below provide an index to the information that follows: 1. What personal information we collect? a. Registration Data During membership registration, or while buying service orders, or while buying products, AstroShala collects personal information including your name, gender, birth information, email address, and your place of birth and residence. This information is used to calculate your accurate horoscope. Your e-mail address together with a password is used to secure your profile and to make our personalized e-mail services available to you. You do not have to provide any personal information to use AstroShala’s services. However, if you choose not to become a member of AstroShala, we may not be able to provide you with some of the other services that require such information. You agree that AstroShala.com may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests or provides administrative notices or communications applicable to your use of the Site. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of any further receipt by following the opt out provisions provided in each such communication. AstroShala.com may also disclose specific user information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of AstroShala.com or other users of the Site. In addition, personal information we have collected may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets or a bankruptcy of AstroShala.com b. Log Files, IP Address and Cookies When you visit AstroShala.com and interact with the services and tools that reside there, AstroShala and third parties with whom AstroShala has contracted to provide services to AstroShala may collect information on your actions. The purpose of this information collection is generally to gather broad demographic information that is not personal. We also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our software or our server and to administer our website. We track the visitor IP address to get more information on visitor’s demography e.g. which parts of the world our traffic comes from. We collect browser types used, screen resolutions, and time spent on the website to analyze trends, administer and troubleshoot the site, understand user linking and disliking within the website. All of this information is used for gathering broad demographic data to enhance the performance and services of the site. c. Through Order Forms We gather information that is required to fulfill our paid services though our order forms. This personal information is maintained in strict confidence. As stated earlier, we guarantee confidentiality of our members’ identity, birth details and the prediction made possible under legal regulatory and security environment. AstroShala further guarantees that no direct or indirect use will be made by AstroShala about any information that is revealed in the prediction for a member, except for the explicit purpose of communicating the horoscope charts and predictions back to the member. d. Other information Any other information we receive by email or other method of contact in regard to specific services or products, as a general rule, are not made part of your member profile, and are used only to address your specific need or concern that you may have communicated to us on. 2. Security We DO NOT collect any payment information on our website. It is collected and processed in a secured manner by third party payment gateways. We follow reasonable industry standards, technical measures and procedural measures to protect against any unauthorized access and use of your supplied information. However, you should know that neither we nor any other web site can fully eliminate all the risks.   3. Advertising We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information about you and your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services of interest to you. 4. Other web sites links Our web site may contain links to other web sites. AstroShala is not responsible for the privacy practices followed by other such web sites. 5. What You Should Know AstroShala.com cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, although we are committed to protecting your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. As a user of the Site, you understand and agree that you assume all responsibility and risk for your use of the Site, the internet generally, and the documents you post or access and for your conduct on and off the Site. 6. Contacting us If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact us at customercare@AstroShala.com 7. Place data Our free tools that ask for a place of birth look up its latitude, longitude and time zone in a list of places kept on our own server. The place you type is used only to work out these figures for your calculation; we do not store it. The list is built from two open databases: place names and coordinates for India from GeoNames, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0; and places in other countries from the Countries States Cities Database, made available under the Open Database License, with rights in its individual contents under the Database Contents License. We have combined the two and arranged them for search; the combined list is available under the same Open Database License on request.