Terms and Conditions of Use

This page sets forth the terms and conditions under which, Shri Yoga Vedanta Ashram Inc., NJ, USA, and Sant Shri Asaramji Ashram, Ahmadabad, India, provide the information on this Website (www.ashram.org) and any of its subsidiary websites, as well as the terms and conditions governing your use of this site. Shri Yoga Vedanta Ashram Inc. NJ and all recognized regional centers in the USA as well as Sant Shri Asaramji Ashram, Ahmadabad and all recognized regional Ashrams and centers in India are represented in the following document as "Ashram". By making use of this site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, do not continue to use or access this site in anyway.

Disclaimer
THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW,  ASHRAM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ASHRAM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONALITY CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS ON THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES OR OTHER CODE THAT HAS CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ASHRAM DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE, OR ANY HYPER LINKED WEBSITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU (AND NOT SHRI YOGA VEDANTA ASHRAM) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. THE INFORMATION AND DESCRIPTIONS CONTAINED HEREIN ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE COMPLETE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL TERMS, EXCLUSIONS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, BUT ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR GENERAL INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES.

IN NO EVENT WILL ASHRAM BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY LOSS OR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES CAUSED BY USE OF THIS WEBSITE, OR ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEBSITE.

Accuracy of Information
Ashram does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided on this Website. Under no circumstances will Ashram be liable for any loss or direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages caused by reliance on this information or for the risks of the products and services featured on the Website. Ashram undertakes no obligation to update any of the information contained on this Website. 

The information on this Website, including these disclaimers, may be changed or updated without notice. Ashram may also make improvements and/or changes in the products, services and/or programs described on this site and their prices at any time without notice. Your continued access or use of this site shall be deemed your acceptance of any changes and the reasonableness of these standards for notice of changes. Ashram shall not take responsibility of information/material saved by visitors from this Website on their local machine by any mechanism, automatic caching or on-purpose saving of the files, as the material may be outdated, removed from the current site or discontinued from being supported.

Trademarks and Copyrights
All trademarks, services marks, trade names, logos, images and icons are proprietary to Ashram. Nothing contained on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppels, or otherwise, any license or right to use any image or trademark displayed on this Website without the written permission of Ashram or such third party that may own the image or trademarks displayed on this Website. Your use of the images and/or trademarks displayed on this Website, or any other content on this Website, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited. All information contained within this Website is copyrighted and all rights are reserved. 

Products & Services Information
Please note that none of the information contained in this Website should be viewed as an offer to any prospective retail producer or insured to sell or as a solicitation to purchase any of our products or services. Products featured on this site may resemble a famous name brand. This does not imply that Ashram may be a retailer or subcontractor or reseller of a brand. The services and products featured on this Website are intended for convenience of Ashram’s members only and not for general public. As a nonprofit, Ashram deems the revenue as donation and communicates it such to the members. Verification of membership online is a functionality that is to be implemented by the Website team in future and hence Ashram disclaims that it can not verify the membership of anyone purchasing any product from this Website. Ashram does not guarantee the delivery of an exact product as shown or described on this Website. If Ashram fails to deliver a product due to non-availability of that product then entire (in most cases) or part of the money will be refunded to its member on request.

Please note that none of the information contained in this Website should be viewed as an offer to any prospective retail sale. Also Ashram is not liable for any of the products and services purchased or sold by any vendor who may sponsor parts of this Website.  

Minors and Child Online Privacy Protection Act
Our Website does not direct content to Minors and does not intend to collect personal information from Minors and therefore is not subject to the Child Online Privacy Protection Act. If you allow your Minor child, or a child for whom you are legal guardian (a "Minor"), to access the Website, you agree that you will be solely responsible for: (i) the online conduct of such Minor: (ii) monitoring such Minor's access to and use of www.ashram.org; and (iii) the consequences of any use.

Privacy and Secrecy Statement
All information that you as a visitor to this site or member of the Ashram provide to us on www.ashram.org may not be secure. The information may be viewable by other site visitors. Ashram does not take responsibility of protecting your privacy and secrecy.

Credit Card Processing and Security
Shri Yoga Vedanta Ashram is a merchant member of PayPal. PayPal handles all the credit card transactions performed through the website www.ashram.org using a secure server and a secured protocol. Please read PayPal's policy and agreements related to privacy, secrecy, security, credit, debit, and billing on their website www.paypal.com. Shri Yoga Vedanta Ashram accepts PayPal as a payment method. Shri Yoga Vedanta Ashram does not save credit card information and hence is not liable for any losses or credit card frauds caused while transacting your money through PayPal. If you do not agree to the terms, conditions, policy and agreements of PayPal, then please do not perform a monitory transaction on this Website. For any funds not transacted properly. Shri Yoga Vedanta Ashram is not liable for any issues that you may face while communicating with PayPal customer service. Please make sure that when you are providing your credit card information the HTTPS:// protocol appears on the address bar and a lock icon appears at the right bottom corner of your Web browser. 

If you do not agree to all the above-mentioned terms, please do not use this site.

Last updated on 5th Oct 2007.