Last Updated In: September 2026
Privacy Policy + Terms & Conditions
This is the Privacy Policy + Terms & Conditions for www.caavakushi.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g… videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Advertising With Us
We reserve the right to not provide refunds for business to business customers advertising with us on our website, podcast, newsletter or social media platforms. We do however award advertising credits at our discretion to businesses we work with in the event of technical errors on our part.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We only share your data where necessary to do so when working partners e.g… payment gateways or other partners. We are not responsible for any of our partners action.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
LEGALLY BINDING TERMS OF APPLICATION AND REGISTRY CONTRACT FOR TOP 100 CAAVAKUSHI GLOBAL VEGAN AWARDS – APPLICATION PORTAL
By processing your transaction, the submitting applicant (“Entrant”, “Brand”, or “Representing Agency”) accepts the terms of this non-revocable, legally binding agreement with Caavakushi:
1. Strict Non-Refundability Policy: All administrative entry fees (£149), Priority Audit Upgrades (£99), AI Packages (£199), and featured visual additions (Green Box Highlight at £299) are 100% non-refundable immediately upon payment processing. These costs fund the immediate, non-recoverable digital server allocation, computational registry parsing labor, and operational manual assessment costs. Failure to ship physical samples, customs clearance rejections, or poor product audit scaling scores under our Universal Matrix do not constitute grounds for refund requests or account cancellations.
2. Compliance Screening & Directory Placement Guarantee: Caavakushi guarantees that all products, services, or digital creators clearing our baseline ethical compliance audit (verified absence of animal ingredients, animal testing, or explicit anti-vegan corporate affiliations) will be awarded a designated listing position within the finalized published online directory. Because inclusion is guaranteed upon clearing this objective factual audit, the pre-purchased annual digital and physical licensing badge subscriptions activate immediately upon directory release and are fully non-refundable.
3. Automated Annual Subscription Continuity: Selected badge licensing fees operate on a recurring automated subscription billing cycle managed securely through Stripe. To protect product print runs and packaging logistics from copyright lapse, your card profile will be auto-billed exactly 365 days from initial purchase at the locked-in introductory rate. Subscription cancellations must be requested in writing via awards@caavakushi.com no later than 14 business days prior to the automated billing renewal date. Unauthorized display of the dated 2026 seal following subscription cancellation constitutes immediate intellectual property infringement and will result in statutory damages and directory expulsion.
