PRIVACY POLICY
Yin Therapy are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors to our website. In particular, we want you to know that Yin Therapy is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other organisations and businesses for marketing purposes. For your peace of mind, in this privacy policy, we’ve provided detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. So, settle into your favourite yin pose and read on.
What we do with the information we gather
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data. We may collect the following information:
- name
- contact information including email address
- demographic information such as country of residence, preferences and interests
- information such as languages spoken and other relevant information including previous practice and/or teaching experience of yoga, energetic and/or spiritual practices, potential restrictions due to injury or illness, customer surveys and/or testimonials
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular, for the following reasons:
- internal record keeping
- we may use the information to improve our products and services
- we may periodically send newsletters, promotional emails about new offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- we may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Mailing lists
As part of the registration process for our periodical e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied.
We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our e-newsletters or by emailing our data protection officer Karin Sang
Types of data we collect
Google Analytics - When someone visits www.yintherapy.com we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.
We do NOT collect any sensitive data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
International Transfers
Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria.
Many of our third parties service providers are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is in place:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place.
If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
Data Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Cookies amendment
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. A website cannot function without these cookies.
The use of cookies is now standard for most websites. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can manage and control them through your browser, including removing cookies by deleting them from your 'browser history' (cache) when you leave the site.
We use essential cookies. Essential cookies help a website to run smoothly, to enable basic functions like navigation.
We use cookies to provide you with the best experience possible – which content is of most interest for our visitors and which devices are used to access this information. With these statistics, we can optimise the functionality of our website and the content and the user friendliness (devises) for our visitors.
Our website uses Squarespace and Google Analytics and the following cookies:
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For further information about cookies from Squarespace: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507
For further information about cookies from Google Analytics: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Access to your personal information
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Please email your request to our data protection officer Karin Sang at yoga@yintherapy.com.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.
A little request from us to you
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. You can do this by updating your account. Thank you.
Changes to this privacy policy
The General Data Protection Regulation is new and the ICO is still issuing new bits of guidance about how businesses should follow it. So, you may see little updates to our privacy policy over the coming months. Be sure to check in and have read every now and then. Thank you.
Contact details
This website is owned and operated by Yin Therapy Ltd.
Yin Therapy is a registered in New Zealand with the Companies Office under the registration number NZBN 9429041687857.
Our postal address is: P.O. Box 11-343, Ellerslie, Auckland 1542, New Zealand
Our data protection officer is Karin Sang.
Please feel very welcome to contact us either:
- over our website contact form
- via email at yoga@yintherapy.com
- telephone: New Zealand: 09 28 22 116 / Internationally: +64 9 28 22 116
© Yin Therapy 2018