Privacy Policy

General Terms of Use

Own Yog Institute is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose personal information on our website.

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or other details to help you with your experience.

When Do We Collect Information?

We collect information from you when you register, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out an inquiry form, or enter information on our site.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, browse the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

• To personalize your experience and allow us to deliver the type of content and educational offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve our learning community.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service and educational requests.

How Do We Protect Visitor Information?

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.

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. In addition, sensitive transactional information is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

Disclosure & Security Standards

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

• We use regular malware scanning.
• Your personal information is stored securely and accessible only by authorized personnel bound by confidentiality agreements.
• We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order, enters, submits, or accesses their information.
• All financial transactions are processed through specialized gateway providers and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Do We Use “Cookies”?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enable the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to:

• Help remember and process items in shopping or study sessions.
• Understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity to provide improved services.
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction to offer better tools in the future.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies through your browser settings. Each browser is slightly different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you disable cookies, some features that make your site experience more efficient may be disabled, though essential public content will remain accessible.

Third-Party Disclosure & Links

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.

We do not include or offer unsolicited third-party commercial products or services on our website.

Google & Site Analytics

We have not enabled Google AdSense advertising on our site. We utilize Google Tag Manager / Analytics strictly for understanding audience engagement and improving pedagogical resources.

Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes directly on this Privacy Policy page.

Do Not Track Signals

We honour Do Not Track (DNT) signals and do not track, plant cookies, or utilize third-party behavioral advertising when a DNT browser mechanism is in place.

Account Deletion & Data Retention (Google Play & Mobile App Users)

In accordance with Google Play User Data policies and applicable data privacy standards, registered users of the Own Yog Android mobile application and web platform have the right to request the permanent deletion of their account and all associated personal data at any time.

How to Request Deletion: You can submit an account deletion request without signing in by visiting our dedicated Request Account Deletion page.

Data Deleted: Upon verified request, we permanently erase your profile credentials (name, email, password hash, role), Google authentication identifiers (Google ID, cached Google avatar URL), uploaded custom profile photographs, mobile API access tokens (Sanctum), active sessions, learning progress history (user_lesson_progress), lesson bookmarks, personal notes, and program entitlements.

Data Retained: A minimal administrative record of the deletion request is retained in an audit log for compliance and verification purposes (recommended: 90 days). Standalone customer service correspondence and temporary server security logs (rotated within 14–30 days) may be retained for security and fraud prevention.

Note: To protect account holders against unauthorized loss of access, an email-based ownership verification step is required before permanent database erasure is executed.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify users here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.