Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 1 May 2019
Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre (charity no ——- RR0001) is a member of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU), which is made up of many meditation centres throughout the world, together with our publishers Tharpa Publications.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only store, use and disclose the information that we collect from you lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998). When you sign up for a course or other event, to receive the Newsletter, or make a donation, we will need to take information such as your name, address, email, phone number and bank card details. We will only use this information for such purposes as processing any payment you have made, providing the course, event or Newsletter that you have signed up for and for our records.
How we use your information
E-newsletter
If you have chosen to receive our Newsletter, this will include details of upcoming meditation classes, events, news and opportunities – for example, to volunteer or to help financially – offered by Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre (AKBC) and other NKT-IKBU meditation centres. It may also include details of Buddhist books and other items offered by Tharpa Publications. AKBC uses a third party provider, Verical Response, to deliver our e-newsletters. Statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies that help us to monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see Vertical Response.
Personal Information
We may need to share your personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. However, we will not share your email address or other personal information with any other organisation without your consent, unless we are required to do so by law.
Photos taken during events at Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre
Images may be captured during events organized and hosted by Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre charity using film photography, digital photography, video or other medium and may be used on the website, event publicity or brochures, other publicity material (such as internal and external newsletters, facebook).
Our website, Newsletter and other emails sometimes contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites so, if you visit them, you should read their own privacy policies.
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact our Administrative Director by email: akshobyaadmin@gmail.com
How to contact us
If you want to request information about our privacy policy you can email us at akshobyaadmin@gmail.com or write to:
Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre
Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre (AKBC). Registered Charity No. … RR0001
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.
If 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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
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.