What we collect
When you register we ask for your name, email address and phone number. We also ask for your postal address; it matters most when you host a padi puja at your home, so the swamis know where to come. Your devotee record also holds your deeksha details — the years you have kept the vratam and the date you received the mala. As the season goes on we keep the puja days you book, any yatra coach seat you ask for, and the gifts and season donations you make, with their amounts and dates.
Why we collect it
We use it to run the season, and for nothing else. Your registration goes to a Guru swami so that he can review and approve it. Your booking holds your puja day, your request holds your place on the yatra coach list, and your donation record lets the treasurer issue your receipt. We use your email and phone to send you reminders about a day you booked or a donation that is still due.
Who can see it
Guru swamis see registrations, puja bookings and deeksha records, because they are the ones who approve them. The treasurer and the auditor see donations, receipts and refunds. Committee members can see who has given and where people stand in the coach queue. Nobody else sees your details — not other devotees, and no one outside the sangam. We do not sell your information or pass it to anyone for their own use. Gallery photos and videos are served from the temple's Google Drive, and playing a video loads Google's own player, which may set cookies inside that player.
Card payments
Card details are typed into Square's own secure form and go straight to Square. Your card number never reaches this site or its database. What we keep is Square's payment id, the amount and the date, so the treasurer can match your donation to your record and issue your receipt.
Email
Receipts, confirmations and reminders are sent through Resend, our email service, from receipts@nabstn.org; each one is about something on your own record — a booking, a donation, or a decision on your registration. NABS announcements are sent the same way from Announcements@nabstn.org to registered swamis. Every announcement email has a link to stop them, and you can also switch them off under Your details in Devotee Corner. We do not send marketing email, and we do not give your address to anyone else.
How long we keep it
Receipts and the donation records behind them are kept for as long as tax law requires us to keep them. Your profile, your bookings and your deeksha record stay for as long as you are a member, so the years you have kept the vratam remain on your record.
Your choices
If something on your record is wrong, tell us and we will correct it — write to contact@nabstn.org, or speak to a Guru swami. You can also ask us to delete your details. Some records have to be kept: a receipt already issued, and the donation behind it, stay in the books for as long as tax law requires, but we will remove the rest.
How the site is measured
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Contact
Write to contact@nabstn.org with any question about your information, and a volunteer will answer. We are a small sangam run by devotees in their own time, so please allow us a few days.