Privacy Policy

Sangham respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information with care. This page explains what information is collected, how it is used, and the rights you have in relation to it.

Information collected

When you submit an enquiry through the contact form on this site, the information collected includes your name, email address, and the content of your message. If you subscribe to receive essays by email, only your email address is collected. No other personal information is gathered through the site itself.

How this information is used

The information you provide through the contact form is used solely to respond to your enquiry and, if appropriate, to arrange an initial consultation. It is not sold, shared with third parties, or used for marketing purposes beyond the specific communication you have initiated.

Confidentiality of session content

Session content is treated confidentially in line with professional ethics and applicable legal obligations. Confidentiality may be limited where there is a serious risk of harm or another legal duty to disclose. Sessions are not recorded or stored without your explicit consent.

Data retention

Contact form submissions are retained only as long as necessary to manage the enquiry. Once the purpose of the communication has been fulfilled, your data is not kept beyond what is reasonably required.

Analytics and advertising measurement

This site uses Google Tag Manager to manage analytics and advertising measurement tags. Through Google Tag Manager, the following services may be active depending on your consent preferences:

• Google Analytics is used to understand how visitors interact with the site in aggregate. This helps improve the content and structure of the site over time. No personally identifiable information is intentionally collected through analytics.
• Google Ads conversion tracking is used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. When you arrive at this site through a Google ad, a conversion tag records that the ad led to a visit. This data is used to evaluate and improve advertising, not to identify individual visitors.
• Google Ads remarketing may be used to show relevant advertisements to people who have previously visited this site as they browse other websites. This uses cookies to identify returning visitors anonymously.

These services operate through cookies and similar technologies. Their use is subject to your consent, which you can manage through the cookie consent banner that appears when you first visit the site.

Cookie consent and your choices

When you first visit this site, a consent banner allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. Your choices are:

• Accept all enables both analytics and advertising measurement cookies.
• Reject all disables all non-essential cookies. Only cookies strictly necessary for the site to function are used.
• Preferences allows you to enable analytics and advertising measurement separately.

This site implements Google Consent Mode v2, which ensures that Google services respect your consent choices. When consent is denied, Google tags adjust their behaviour accordingly, collecting no cookies or identifiers for those purposes.

Your consent preference is stored locally in your browser for up to twelve months. You can change your preference at any time by clicking the "Cookie Preferences" link in the site footer.

International data transfer

The analytics and advertising measurement services described above are operated by Google. Data processed through these services may be transferred to and stored on servers located outside South Africa, typically in the United States or European Union. These transfers are governed by Google's data processing terms and applicable international data transfer mechanisms. No session content or confidential counselling information is shared with these services.

Your rights

You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal data held by Sangham. You also have the right to withdraw consent for analytics and advertising cookies at any time by clicking "Cookie Preferences" in the site footer or by clearing your browser cookies. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent given before withdrawal. To make a formal data request, please email ramarishi@sangham.org.

Legal framework

This site operates in compliance with South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). The principles of lawfulness, minimality, and purpose limitation guide how all personal information is handled.

Contact

For any questions about how your data is handled, or to exercise any of the rights described above, please contact ramarishi@sangham.org.

Last updated: 19 May 2026