Privacy Policy

This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011, which requires publishing the Privacy Policy for the access or usage of hutam.in, hereinafter referred to as “website”. This Privacy Policy covers the use of the website, including providing you with information about our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our service. Hutam, hereinafter referred to as “we”, “our team”, or “us,” is concerned about the privacy of the users, hereinafter referred to as “you”, “your”, or “user” of the website, and has provided this privacy policy to familiarize you with the manner in which we collect, use, and disclose your information. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the services offered by us. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register/login on the website. While registering, we may ask you for your name, phone number, email, location or address, Date of Birth, Place of Birth. However, you may visit the website anonymously without logging in. When you create an account, you will provide information that could be personally identifiable information, such as your first name, last name, email, mobile number, location or address, Date of Birth, Place of Birth. We may use your contact information to send you information about our services, but only in accordance with your contact preferences. Regardless of your contact preferences, we reserve the right to contact you when we believe it is necessary, such as for account recovery purposes.

All information provided by you on the website may be retained by us indefinitely, even after you terminate your Account. We may continue to disclose such content to third parties in a manner that does not reveal personally identifiable information, as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you choose to share Hutam posts with your friends on social media channels such as Facebook or WhatsApp, we would also display our app install link on your social media channels.

In addition to the usage of analytics, the website automatically collects usage information, such as the number and frequency of visitors to the website. We may use this data in aggregate form, that is, as a statistical measure, but not in a manner that would identify you personally. This type of aggregated data enables us to figure out how often individuals use parts of the services so that we can analyze and improve our services and provide a better experience to our users.

Some users, such as temple administrators and pandits, need to post content on the Hutam website. For posting content on the website, these users are required to grant permission to the Hutam website to access photos, media and files or access the camera on their devices.

Additionally, we request permission to access location data in the background to enhance our services. This includes:
- Determining your current location to provide accurate astrological and horoscope services.
- Fetching Panchang details dynamically based on your real-time location.
- Improving personalized recommendations based on location-based services.

This permission ensures that users receive up-to-date and location-specific services even when the app is not actively in use.

2. How do we use and share your information?

We share your information with third parties when we believe that the sharing is permitted by you, sharing is reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so. We use the information we collect to try to provide our users an efficient and customized experience. We use the information provided by you in the following manner to provide you with the best possible experience.

To manage and improve the service: We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to analyze and improve those services and features, and to provide you with reliable customer support in a short time.

To provide a customized experience: We endeavor to provide a customized experience to each user, and this data helps us in making that possible.

To contact you: We may contact you in order to obtain feedback on our services and notify you with new features from time to time.

Notifications: We may send you notifications from time to time as and when new content is posted on the website and when we introduce new features on the website.

To share the content: We use our social media plugins inside the website to let you post the app content on social media channels.

To post content: Some users need to grant permission to the website to allow access to photos, media, and files or access the camera on their devices to post the content on the website.

To respond to legal requests and prevent harm: We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law.            

3. How do we protect visitor information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential.

4. Public Information about your Activity on the Website

If you choose to provide any personally identifiable information using certain public features of the website, then that information is governed by the privacy settings of those particular features and may be publicly available. Individuals reading such information may use or disclose it to other individuals or entities without our control and without your knowledge, and search engines may index that information.

5. Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties, unless we provide you with advance notice in relation to the same. The term “outside parties” does not include website hosting partners, our technology partners, and other parties who assist us in operating the website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We may also release your information when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our website policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, benchmarking, and internal quality control measures for improving experience for our users.      

6. Third party links

In an attempt to provide you our service with increased value, we may include third party links/integration on our website. These linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked websites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome any feedback about these linked websites.

7. Changes to our policy

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. We recommend you to visit this page on a regular basis to stay updated on changes we make from time to time.

8. Online Policy only

This online Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through our website.

9. Your consent

By using our website, you consent to our Privacy Policy.

10. Account Deletion Policy

Users have the right to delete their accounts at any time. Upon receiving an account deletion request, we will:
Permanently delete the user’s personal data and account information from our active systems within a reasonable time frame.
Retain necessary data as required by law or for legitimate business purposes, such as dispute resolution or fraud prevention.
Notify the user once the deletion process is complete.
To request account deletion, users can contact us through our support email or follow the account deletion option available in the user settings section of the website.