Privacy Policy

Sharma Rishte Matrimonial Services (“Sharma Rishte”, “we”, “us”) operates https://sharmarishte.com and a matrimonial matchmaking service from Kallu Di Hatti, Bypass Chowk, Palampur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176061. This policy explains what information we collect, why, and what we do and do not do with it.

The short version

• We do not publish any profile, photograph, phone number or birth detail on this website or anywhere else online.
• We share your details with another family only after you have agreed to that specific proposal.
• We do not sell your data, and we do not pass it to other agents.
• This website does not run advertising trackers and does not require you to create an account. It does use Google Analytics to count visits, which is explained below.

Information we collect

When you register with Sharma Rishte, we record the information you give us in order to search for a match. This typically includes:

• Name, age, gender, height and photograph of the bride or groom
• Date, time and place of birth, for kundali matching
• Education, occupation and current place of residence
• Family details, community and native place
• Your expectations from a match
• Contact name, phone number and preferred way of being contacted
• Government identification, where shown to us for verification purposes

Information collected through this website

This website has no login, no user accounts and no database of visitors. The registration form on this site does not submit data to us — it composes a WhatsApp message on your own device which you then choose to send. Basic, non-identifying technical information may be recorded by our hosting provider for security and performance purposes.

How we use your information

• To search for and shortlist suitable matches
• To perform kundali milan and dosh analysis
• To verify family background through local enquiry
• To contact you about proposals and to follow up
• To maintain a record of registrations and payments

When your information is shared

Details of a bride or groom are shared with another family only when we have proposed that specific match and you have agreed. Contact details are exchanged only once both families have agreed. We do not share your information with any other matchmaker, agency, advertiser or data broker.

We may disclose information where required to do so by law, or by a court or lawful authority.

How your information is stored

Registration records are kept in physical registers and on devices used by Sharma Rishte Matrimonial Services at the Palampur office, with access limited to Pandit Sahil Sharma and any person he authorises. Photographs and documents shared over WhatsApp are stored on that device and are not uploaded to this website.

Your rights

You may at any time ask us to:

• Tell you what information we hold about your family
• Correct anything that is wrong or out of date
• Stop sharing your profile with other families
• Remove your profile from the active register and delete the record

To make any of these requests, call or WhatsApp +91 98058 93421, or visit the office. Requests are acted on promptly. Note that where a proposal has already been shared with another family, we cannot recall information they have already seen.

Children

This service is only for persons of legal marriageable age under Indian law. We do not knowingly register or hold information about minors.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to understand how many people visit, which pages they read and roughly where in the country they are. This tells us whether the site is useful — for example, whether families are actually reading the kundali articles.

Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser and records your approximate location, device type and the pages you view. It does not tell us who you are, and it is never connected to any profile or enquiry you send us. We do not use it for advertising and we do not share the data with anyone.

If you would rather not be counted, you can block cookies in your browser settings, use private browsing, or install Google’s official opt-out browser add-on. Nothing on this site stops working if you do.

Third-party services

This website embeds a Google Maps frame on the contact and home pages, links out to WhatsApp, and loads Google Analytics as described above. Those services have their own privacy policies, which apply when you use them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be directed to +91 98058 93421, or in person at Kallu Di Hatti, Bypass Chowk, Palampur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176061.

This policy is provided as a working document for a small local business. Have it reviewed by a lawyer before relying on it for anything contentious.