Privacy policy

Vedicology Foundation is a registered Section 8 non-profit company, with its registered office at Annanagar, Chennai 600040. Under data protection law, the Foundation is the data fiduciary responsible for the personal data described here. That simply means we are the ones accountable for how your data is handled. If you have any question about your data, you can reach us:

We collect different information depending on how you interact with us:

We ask only for what we need. We do not collect more than is necessary for the purpose you came to us for.

We use your information only for clear, specific purposes:

• to assess an application and decide how we can support a young woman;
• to pay tuition, hostel, exam, and related fees directly to her institution on her behalf;
• to stay in touch with you about your application, your support, your volunteering, or your donation;
• to issue donation receipts and 80G certificates;
• to meet our legal, accounting, and regulatory obligations as a registered non-profit;
• to keep our website and our communications safe and working.

We do not use your information for anything you would not expect, and we do not use it to make automated decisions about you.

We share information only where it is necessary, and only with care:

We do not share your information with advertisers, and we do not pass it to anyone for their own marketing.

Vedicology Foundation supports only adolescent girls and young women aged 18 and above. We do not fund minors, and we do not knowingly collect or use a child's personal data to provide support to a beneficiary.

Sometimes records relating to a young woman's earlier years reach us — for example, from a Child Care Institution that refers a care leaver. When they do, they come to us from the institution as the proper source, and we handle them under our safeguarding standard. You can read more on our Safeguarding page. If a child's personal data ever reaches us without a lawful basis, we do not use it.

We keep personal data only for as long as we need it for the purpose it was collected, or for as long as the law requires us to.

For example, records connected to a donation or an 80G certificate are kept for the period required by tax and accounting rules. Application and support records are kept for. When information is no longer needed, we delete it securely or remove anything that identifies you.

We use reasonable measures to keep your information safe. We limit who can see it to the people who need it, we protect our systems, and we ask the providers we work with to do the same. Our online forms are protected against automated abuse. No system can promise perfect security, but we take this seriously and act quickly if anything goes wrong.

You have rights over the personal data we hold about you. You can:

• ask to see the information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct anything that is wrong or out of date;
• ask us to delete your information, where we are not required to keep it;
• withdraw your consent (see the next section);
• nominate someone to exercise your rights on your behalf, for example if you are unable to;
• raise a complaint if you are unhappy with how we have handled your data.

When you share personal information with us — by applying, asking for a callback, volunteering, or donating — you are giving your consent for us to use it. We use it only for the purposes set out in this policy. We ask for that consent clearly, and only for what we need.

You can withdraw your consent at any time, as easily as you gave it, by writing to us. If you withdraw while an application is in progress, it may mean we can no longer continue that support. We will explain what it means for you before anything changes. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything we lawfully did with your information beforehand.

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to provide you with the best possible browsing experience, keep the site running smoothly, and help us understand how it is used so we can continue to improve it. This section explains the cookies we use, their purpose, and, where required by law, gives you the opportunity to choose whether to accept non-essential cookies. If we use only cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function, we will clearly let you know.

We may update this policy from time to time, for example if the law changes or we change how we work. When we do, we will update the date below, and significant changes will be made clear.

This policy was last updated: 27-06-2026

For anything to do with your personal information — a question, a request, or a complaint — write to us, or by post to Vedicology Foundation, Annanagar, Chennai 600040.