🔏 Privacy Policy

Who we are

Hindu Temple Community Of Ottawa (ottawahindutemple.com) is an independent, volunteer-run online resource operated by Ace Consultants Canada Inc. For anything in this policy, contact info@ottawahindutemple.com.

What we collect — and what we deliberately don't

Browsing this site requires no account and sends us no personal information. All Panchang, calendar and muhurat calculations run inside your own browser. The city and date preferences you pick are kept in your browser's local storage on your device — they are never transmitted to us.

Our own visitor statistics are privacy-by-design: we count daily page views and referrer domains as aggregate numbers only, and store no IP addresses, browser fingerprints or per-visitor history.

We also use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used — which pages are visited, roughly where visitors are (city or region), and what kind of device they use. It sets cookies in your browser and sends this information to Google, which processes it under Google's privacy policy. We use it only to improve the site — never for advertising — and you can block it with your browser's cookie settings or Google's opt-out add-on.

Information you choose to give us

• Festival & vrat reminders sign-up: your name, email address, and the optional phone number and city you provide, together with your notification preferences and your consent record (as Canada's anti-spam law, CASL, requires). Used solely to send you the reminders you asked for.
• Contact form: your name, email address and message — used only to reply to you.

We never sell, rent or share this information with anyone, and we send no advertising.

Your choices

• Every reminder email contains an unsubscribe link, and you can adjust what you receive on the email preferences page at any time.
• To have your information corrected or deleted entirely, email info@ottawahindutemple.com and we'll do it promptly.

Third-party services

Pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests those font files from Google's servers. If a CAPTCHA service (such as Google reCAPTCHA) is enabled on a form, that service processes the security check under its own privacy policy. Links to our Facebook and Instagram pages take you to those platforms, which have their own policies. Google Analytics is described above; we embed no advertising scripts.

Changes to this policy

If our practices change, this page will be updated and the date below revised. Significant changes affecting reminder subscribers will be announced by email.