PRIVACY POLICY

The District Grand Lodge of Madras(“THE DGLM”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://dglofmadras.org . This informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal  when you use Service and the choices you have associated with that .

We use your  to provide and improve the Service. By using the, you agree to the collection, and disclosure of information in accordance with this Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy terms used in this Privacy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://dglofmadras.org.

BY USING THE SERVICES OR BY  GIVING US YOUR INFORMATION, YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO THE PRACTICES AND POLICIES OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE PRIVACY POLICY. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING, DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR DELETE PORTIONS OF THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION, AT ANY TIME. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME,.DO NOT USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR GIVE US ANY OF YOUR INFORMATION.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT  AND USE

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

TYPES OF  COLLECTED

PERSONAL

While using Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain  information that can be used to contact or identify you  or as otherwise required to provide the Service. Personal may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Education details

PURPOSES OF  USE

The District Grand Lodge of Madras uses the collected  for various purposes :

• To provide and maintain the Services
• Evaluate membership eligibility
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• provide information to you about products or services that may be of interest to you
• To allow you to participate in interactive features ofService when you choose to do so
• To provide user care and support
• To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
• To monitor the usage of the Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues

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TRANSFER OF

Your information, including Personal , may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the  protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside India and choose to provide information to us, please note that we may transfer the , including Personal , to other locations and process it there.

Your submission of personal information to us represents your agreement to that transfer.

will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your  is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy  and no transfer of your Personal  will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your  and other personal information.

DISCLOSURE OF

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

The District Grand Lodge of Madras may disclose your Personal  in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property.
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Serviceor the public
• To protect against legal liability

SECURITY OF

THE DGLM maintains reasonable standards of confidentiality and security for the Website and the Personal collected the Website. Physical, technical, electronic and managerial procedures have been employed to safeguard the security and integrity of Personal collected through the Website. The Personal you provide is secured using industry standard security technology. THE DGLM also restricts its own employees’ access to Personal Information. However, it is possible that someone may intercept or access communications, transmissions and/or Personal Information. You should remember to log off the Website once you have completed your activities on the Website or if you have decided to step away from your computer.

In the event that THE DGLM determines that there has been a security breach that results in the unauthorized disclosure of Personal to a third party, we will promptly notify registered users whose Personal  it reasonably believes has been compromised and where we believe there is a high risk to an individual’s privacy rights, by posting information on the Website and, if email contact is possible, then also by sending an email notification with respect to the situation.

You acknowledge that the security of the Personal  you provide through the Website cannot be guaranteed. To the fullest extent permitted at law, THE DGLM shall not accept responsibility for misuse or loss of, or unauthorized access to, your Personal  .

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL   TO AFFILIATES AND NON-AFFILIATED THIRD PARTIES

We may engage third party companies and individuals to facilitate  Services (“Service Providers”), to provide the Services on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Services used.

These third parties have access to your Personal  only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Use of Your Personal   with Affiliates . We may share your Personal Information with our affiliates, which are entities controlled or owned by us, or entities that control us, or are under common control with us (“Affiliates”), but such information will not be shared by us or our Affiliates with third parties without your express consent. The Website is intended for users in India and its territories and possessions, but if you use the Website from any country outside of India, the various communications will necessarily result in the transfer of information across international boundaries, and by visiting the Website, you acknowledge these transfers are required or permitted by applicable law. We will not share your Personal   with unaffiliated third parties, except as stated in this Privacy Policy, without your consent.

Your Personal   will be stored on servers located in India and other geographies across the world.

Use of Your Personal   by Our Service Providers. From time to time, we may engage third parties to assist us with certain functions and services, such as  processing, computer software and website maintenance and development, transaction processing, outreach  services, customer service, professional, legal or accounting services and/or business and sales analysis may share your Personal  , without restriction, with such companies that we engage to perform services for us. In such situations, THE DGLM requires that these companies agree to maintain the confidentiality of your Personal   and to comply with the safeguards described in this Privacy Policy. These companies have access to the Personal  needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes. Furthermore, in compliance with privacy laws, we also provide our opt-out lists to non-affiliated third-party companies so that communications sent by those companies on our behalf do not get sent to addresses appearing on our opt-out lists.

DISCLOSURE FOR MARKETING PURPOSES

THE DGLM does not sell or share users’ Personal  , including but not limited to e-mail addresses, with third parties for their proprietary purposes such as marketing, unless THE DGLM first obtains your consent. If you would like information about how we manage your Personal   or to exercise your rights under any privacy or  protection law, you may send your request to us by using the “Contact Us” page. For avoidance of doubt, this provision is made applicable to all users of the Website who want to request information about THE DGLM’s use of their Personal  

We may disclose aggregated statistics about visitors to the Website, along with anonymous information concerning individual users of the Website. We may combine anonymous information and/or aggregate information we collect with additional anonymous and/or aggregate information collected from other sources. We may share anonymous information (including aggregate information) we collect regarding our users with third parties (such as advisors, and/or consultants) for various business purposes including conducting general business analysis and developing website content and services.

Cookies and Device Identification

We may collect information about how the Service  accessed and used (“Usage “). This Usage  may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic .

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Website and hold certain information. Such activity and information is only on Website and we do not track your activity after you leave.

Cookies are files with small amount of  which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Services.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of  Services.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies.We use Session Cookies to operate our Services.
• Preference Cookies.We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences (including marketing) and various settings on this site.
• Security Cookies.We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of  Website. You can opt out of having your activity monitored by third-parties or having third-party cookies placed by your browser, with no effect to your use of the  Website or our Service. Such third-party Service Providers include the following:

• Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This  is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected  to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

We will update this Privacy Statement from time to time to inform you of changes or additional third-party Providers that we might engage with. While we take reasonable steps to inform ourselves of third-party privacy and  use practices, and to obligate them to use personal  fairly, these third-party providers are independent of The District Grand Lodge of Madras and we cannot control the actions of third-party websites. For more information on the privacy practices of such independent third-party Providers and how you can avoid such analysis by third-parties, we encourage you to visit their websites and ensure you are comfortable with their stated practices.

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES – LIMITING INFORMATION SHARING/ACCESSING YOUR INFORMATION

If you wish to update, amend, or change your Personal please contact us using the Contact Us linkmailto:privacy@beafreemason.org. You also have the right to request a copy of the Personal you have provided to us by contacting us using the Contact Us link.

To protect the confidentiality of your information and respect your wishes for how it is used, we offer “opt out” alternatives. If you have consented to the sharing of your Personal at any point, you may instruct us not to share Personal about you in the future. As noted above, you may also opt-out of receiving future electronic communications from us at any time. You may make your privacy choice at any time and it will remain in effect until you change it.

If you would like to check, change, or confirm your privacy choices please contact us using the Contact Us page.

EMAIL NEWSLETTERS

The DGLM enables you to opt-in and opt-out of our news and promotional newsletters.  If you have chosen to receive The DGLM newsletters or promotions, rest assured your email address will remain confidential and will never be shared with any other company. You will only receive newsletters from www.dglofmadras.org.  This service is private and complimentary, and you may unsubscribe at any time. Should you choose to be removed from the list, please manage your subscription preferences or email us.

The DGLM INFORMATIONAL EMAILS

From time to time, The DGLM will send an email update about new and important website changes, iPad/iPhone applications updates, privacy policy changes and other information relevant to you as a registered member and/or user.   By providing your email address when making a purchase or registering to become a member, you provide your consent to receive these email notifications.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Statement of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Service not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal , please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal  from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

 CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Statement on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Statement.

You are advised to review this Privacy Statement periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Statement are effective when they are posted on this page.

Dispute

1. Disputes or differences arising out inrelation to this Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us:

• By email: webadmin@dglofmadras.org

We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active bases within a reasonable timeframe. Please note that access to certain benefits, features