PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: July, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or buy from www.thecoloursofnature.com a unit of the Auroville Foundation. This s ite is intended only for Individuals aged 10 and above.

Device information

When you visit www.thecoloursofnature.com, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.

Additionally, as you browse the site, we register what websites or search terms referred you to the site, collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, and information about how you interact with the site.

Methods

Cookies

These data files are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

Log files

Tracking actions occurring on www.thecoloursofnature.com, log files collect referral and exit pages, your IP address, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), and date/time stamps

Web beacons, Tags & Pixels

These electronic files record information about how you browse the site.

​We use the Device information that we collect to help us screen for potential risks and fraud; in particular your IP address. More generally, we also use it to improve and optimize www.thecoloursofnature.com. For example, we generate analytics about how you browse and interact with the site, in order to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns and our online sales approach.

Personal Information

What you see is what you get

When you register on the site, www.thecoloursofnature.com, we collect the following Personal information:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Phone number

Order Information

When you place an order, or try to place an order, on www.thecoloursofnature.com, we collect the following additional information:

  • Billing address
  • Shipping address
  • Information related to your selected mode of payment, such as credit card number

The Order information is used to fulfil orders placed on www.thecoloursofnature.com. This includes:

  • Processing your payment
  • Arranging for shipping
  • Providing you with the relevant order confirmation
  • Providing you with the corresponding invoice(s)

We also use it to:

  • Communicate with you
  • Screen orders for potential risks or fraud

If you have given your approval we may also provide you with information or advertising relating to our products and services.

When you place an order through www.thecoloursofnature.com, we will maintain your Order information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

How we share any of the above-mentioned information

We only share any of your Personal information (including Device information and Order information) with third parties to help us use it for the above-described purposes – to screen for threats, to improve our approach, and to fulfil orders.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the site. You can read more about how this third party uses your Personal information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy 

You can opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .

We may also share your Personal information (including Device and Order information) to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work 

Links for opting out of some specific targeted advertising


You can also opt out of some of targeted advertising services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal: http://optout.aboutads.info .

Please note the following:
We do not alter our site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser. 
If you would like to access any information, we hold about you and to ask that it be corrected, updated, or deleted, please contact us.

We are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the site) or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above and may transfer your information outside of your resident country.

 We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices, or for any other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Contact us:
For more information about our Privacy Policy or if you have any questions at all, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by one of the following modes: