Terms

Enrolment is made immediately upon full payment.

We will give a 100% refund on cancellations received before the course commencement date. We will give a 65% refund if after the first week you decide you don’t want to continue for any reason. After the first week we can discuss a refund or transfer you to a later course under special circumstances, such as ill health. It is our policy to extend the greatest possible flexibility to students under these circumstances.

Privacy (short version)

In brief, our guiding principles and the highlights of our policy are:

1. It is your data. If you don’t want us to have it then we won’t keep it.
2. We keep data secure.
3. We don’t keep payment data.

Privacy policy in full

This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, 13-15 Magdalen St, Oxford, Oxon OXS1 3AE, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the), email: lal@ochs.org.uk, phone: 01865304300 on the collection, use and disclosure of your information that we collect when you use our website ( ochsonline.org ). (the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Service and your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.

How We Collect Your Information:

We collect/receive information about you in the following manner:
When a user fills up the registration form or otherwise submits personal information
Interacts with the website
From public sources

How We Use Your Information:

We will use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes:
Marketing/ Promotional
Creating user account
Processing payment
Support
Manage customer order
Manage user account
If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only on receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.

How We Share Your Information:

We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:

Analytics

We require such third party’s to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.

We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.

Your Rights:

Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with a statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at lal@ochs.org.uk. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

You may opt-out of direct marketing communications or the profiling we carry out for marketing purposes by writing to us at lal@ochs.org.uk.
Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.

Cookies:

To learn more about how we use these and your choices in relation to these tracking technologies, please refer to our Cookie Policy below.

Security:

The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Grievance / Data Protection Officer:

If you have any queries or concerns about the processing of your information that is available with us, you may email our Grievance Officer at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, 13-15 Magdalen St, Oxford, email: lal@ochs.org.uk. We will address your concerns in accordance with applicable law.

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Effective Date: 25-Mar-2024
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