Data Privacy

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This privacy statement is intended to inform users about how this website complies with the General Data Protection Regulation in terms of the type, scope and purpose of data collection and use of personal data by the website “www.samyakyoga.org.

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When visiting this website, the web server automatically records log files. These data include, for example, browser type and version, the operating system used, referrer URL (previously visited page), IP address of the requesting computer, server request date and time of access, and client file request (file name and URL). These data are collected only for the purpose of statistical evaluation. For commercial or non-commercial purposes, a transfer to third parties does not occur.

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The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal information. To the extent that we collect personal data, this takes place, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis. These data will not be disclosed to third parties without your explicit consent.

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Keep in mind that data transmission over the Internet (for example, when communicating via e-mail) is subject to security vulnerabilities. Absolute protection of data from access by strangers is not possible.

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Which data do we collect?

We collect personal data to process your registration for an activity advertised on our website or in our brochures. In particular, this includes attending a yoga class, workshop, or other event organized by Samyak Yoga, a venture of Hamsa Holistic Hermitage Pvt Ltd. This information “consisting most basically of name and e-mail address” is considered personal data because it can be traced back to you.

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When registering for one of our 200-Hour or 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Courses, we collect additional data relevant to course registration and course completion. These include health data and third-party data (emergency contact details). You should, therefore, ensure that all information relating to third parties is provided by you with the consent of such persons.

 

By completing the Registration Form or registering for one of our events by email, by telephone, or in person, you consent to the storage and processing of your personal data for the creation, implementation, on, and processing of your registration.

 

Certified Teachers’ Directory

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After the successful completion of Yoga Teacher Training, your name will appear on the certified teachers’ directory of Samyak Yoga. This is the directory of all the past students who have completed their training at Samyak Yoga. It lists the students classified under the respective nationalities that you have mentioned in your registration form.

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However, an email to namaste@samyakyoga.org mentioning that your interest in being excluded from the list will assist in keeping your name off the directory.

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Data Transfer to Third Parties

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We only transfer personal data to third parties for the fulfilment of a contract. This applies to the companies involved in the execution of a yoga vacation or yoga teacher training, such as seminar hotels, credit card companies, payment service providers, banks or transfer services. The basis for the transfer is Art. 6 paragraph 1(b) GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfil a contract or pre-contractual measures.

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The transfer of your data to a third country without suitable guarantees is based on Article 49 paragraph 1(b) GDPR, which allows the transfer for the performance of a contract.

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As a part of your registration and accreditation of Samyak Yoga, your name and emails are shared with Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance Professionals after the competition of Yoga Teacher Training.

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A further transfer of data will only take place if you have expressly consented to the transfer / if we are legally or officially obliged to do so, or if the transfer is necessary for connection with your use of the website.

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Your data will not be transferred to third parties, such as for advertising purposes, without explicit consent.

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Use of your data for advertising purposes

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By post and by phone

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In addition to processing your data to process your course booking, we also use this data to inform you by the post about further offers. Furthermore, we use your data to inform you by telephone about related courses or further offers.

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You may revoke the use of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time. A text message (letter, email) is sufficient.

Use the following contact information: 

namaste@samyakyoga.org 

#76, Hamsa Holistic Hermitage, Bommur Agrahara, Srirangapatna, Karnataka

 

Information about the newsletter and consent

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With the following information, we will inform you about the contents of our newsletter, the registration, shipping, and statistical evaluation procedures, and your right of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to the receipt and the procedures described.

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The content of the newsletter

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We send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications with advertising information (hereinafter “newsletter”) only with the consent of the recipient or legal permission. Insofar as the contents of a newsletter are concretely described, they are authoritative for the consent of the users. Incidentally, our newsletters contain information on a yoga vacation, yoga further education programs, and yoga teacher training courses (this may, in particular, include references to blog posts, lectures or workshops, our services or our online presence).

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Double opt-in and logging

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The registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. After registration, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that nobody can register with third-party e-mail addresses. The registration for the newsletter will be logged in order to prove the registration process according to the legal requirements. This includes the storage of the login, the confirmation time, and the IP address. Similarly, the changes to your data stored with MailChimp will be logged.

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Use of the email marketing service provider “MailChimp”

The newsletter is distributed via “MailChimp”, a newsletter shipping platform of Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave # 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

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The e-mail addresses of our Newsletter recipients and their other information described herein are stored on the servers of MailChimp in the USA. MailChimp uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. Furthermore, according to its information, MailChimp may use this data to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimization of the shipping and the presentation of the newsletter or for economic purposes, to determine from which countries the recipients come. However, MailChimp does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write them down or to pass them on to third parties.

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We rely on the reliability, IT and data security of MailChimp. MailChimp is certified under the US-EU “Privacy Shield” and is committed to complying with EU data protection requirements. Furthermore, we have concluded a data processing agreement with MailChimp. This is a contract in which MailChimp pledges to protect the data of our users, to process it in accordance with its privacy policy on our behalf and, in particular, not to disclose it to third parties. The privacy policy of MailChimp can be viewed here.

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To sign up for the newsletter, it is sufficient to enter your e-mail address.

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Optionally, we ask you to provide your first and last name. This information is only for the personalization of the newsletter. We also ask you optionally to indicate your interests. We only use this information to adapt the newsletter's content to our readers' interests.

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Statistical survey and analyses

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The newsletters contain a so-called “web-beacon”, i.e. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the MailChimp server when the newsletter is opened. This call will initially collect technical information, such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and time of retrieval. This information is used to improve the technical performance of services based on their specifications or audience and their reading habits, based on their locations (which can be determined using the IP address) or access times.

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Statistical surveys also include determining if the newsletters will be opened, when they will be opened and which links will be clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our desire nor that of MailChimp to observe individual users. The evaluations serve us much more to recognize the reading habits of our users and to adapt our content to them or to send different content according to the interests of our users.

 

Online call and data management

There are cases in which we direct the newsletter recipients to the MailChimp websites. For example, our newsletters contain a link that allows newsletter recipients to retrieve newsletters online (for example, in the case of display problems in the e-mail program). Furthermore, newsletter recipients can store their data, such as correct the e-mail address later. Similarly, the privacy policy of MailChimp is only available on their page.

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In this context, we pointed out that on the websites of MailChimp, cookies are used and thus, personal data processed by MailChimp, their partners and service providers used (for example, Google Analytics). We have no influence on this data collection. For more information, see the privacy policy of MailChimp. P

 

please also refer to the possibility of objecting to the data collection for advertising purposes on the websites 

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ 

http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ (for the European area)

 

Termination / Revocation

You can terminate the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. At the same time, your consent to sending it via MailChimp and the statistical analyses will lapse. Unfortunately, a separate revocation of the dispatch via MailChimp or the statistical evaluation is impossible.

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A link to cancel the newsletter can be found at the end of each newsletter.

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Legal basis: General Data Protection Regulation

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In accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will apply from 25 May 2018, we inform you that the consent to the sending of e-mail addresses is in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a, 7 GDPR and § 7 (2) no. 3 and (3) UWG (Law against Unfair Competition). The use of the mail service provider MailChimp, carrying out the statistical surveys and analyses as well as logging the registration process, is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We are interested in using a user-friendly and secure newsletter system that serves both our non-profit interests and the expectations of our users.

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We further point out that you can object to the future processing of your personal data at any time, in accordance with the statutory requirements of Art. 21 GDPR. The objection may, in particular, be made against processing for direct marketing purposes.

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Cookies / Google Analytics

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Based on your consent (opt-in) and in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a., Art. 7 GDPR), we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by the users are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

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Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee that Google will comply with European privacy legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

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Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offering by users, to compile reports on the activities within this online offering and to provide us with other services related to the use of this online offer and Internet usage. In this case, pseudonymous user profiles of the processed data can be created.

 

We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. This means that the IP address of the users will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The IP address submitted by the user’s browser will not be merged with other data provided by Google.

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Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; Users may also prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online offer as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

 

For more information about Google’s data usage, settings, and opt-out options, please read Google’s Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads) and Google’s ads settings (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

The personal data of users will be deleted or anonymized after 14 months.

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Google Tag Manager

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Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows us to manage so-called website tags through one interface (including, for example, Google Analytics and other Google marketing services in our online offering). The tag manager itself (which implements the tags) does not process users’ personal data. With regard to the processing of users’ personal data, refer to the following information about Google’s services. Usage Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/tagmanager/use-policy.html.

 

Google AdWords and conversion measurement

 

We use the services of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online service within the meaning of Art. 6, para. 1 (f) GDPR), USA (“Google”).

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Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee to comply with European privacy legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

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We use Google’s online AdWords marketing tool “AdWords” to place ads on the Google advertising network (e.g., in search results, in videos, on websites, etc.) so that they are displayed to users who have a probable interest in the ads. This allows us to more specifically display ads for our online offering so that we only present ads to users that potentially match their interests.

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Remarketing is when a user e.g. is shown ads for products he’s been looking at on other websites. This works as follows: when a user accesses our and other websites where the Google advertising network is active, Google will immediately execute a Google code and incorporate so-called (re)marketing tags (invisible graphics or code, also known as “Web beacons”) into the website. These enable an individual cookie, i.e, a small file, to be set (instead of cookies, comparable technologies can also be used). This cookie or file records which websites the user visited, what content interests him and what the user has clicked on, as well as technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, visit time and other information on the use of the online offer.

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Furthermore, we receive an individual “conversion cookie”. The information obtained through the cookie is used by Google to generate conversion statistics for us. However, we only see the anonymous total number of users who clicked on our ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. We do not receive any information that personally identifies users.

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The data of the users are pseudonymously processed within the Google advertising network. This means that Google stores and processes e.g. not the name or e-mail address of the users, but processes the relevant cookie-related data within pseudonymous user profiles. Thus from the perspective of Google, the ads are not managed and displayed to a specifically identified person, but to the cookie owner, regardless of who that cookie owner is. This does not apply if a user has explicitly allowed Google to process the data without this pseudonymization. The information collected about users is transmitted to Google and stored on Google’s servers in the United States.

 

For more information about Google’s data usage, settings and opt-out options, please read Google’s Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads) and Google’s Ads Ads Settings

(https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

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Targeting with Google Analytics

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We use Google Analytics to display advertisements within Google and its affiliate advertising services to only those users who have shown an interest in our online offering or who have certain characteristics (e.g., interest in specific topics or products that may be determined by the websites visited) that we transmit to Google (so-called “Remarketing”, or “Google Analytics Audiences”). Remarketing Audiences helps to ensure that our ads match the potential interests of users.

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YouTube

 

Our website features embedded videos from YouTube. This service is offered by YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066 USA. For further information, see the data privacy policy of YouTube.

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Disclosure, correction and deletion of personal data

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You may request, free of charge, information about the data we store about you if you wish to verify what information we store about you.

 

You have the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete data that Samyak Yoga has stored about you.

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

 

However, we would like to point out that Samyak yoga is subject to legal obligations that do not allow us to delete certain information immediately. These obligations result from accounting and tax laws. We may, however, anonymize your data, thereby preventing processing for purposes other than those required by law.

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In addition, you can amend or revoke your declaration of consent at any time without stating reasons, with effect for the future. You can submit the revocation either by post or by e-mail to us. You will incur no other costs than the postage costs or the e-mail transmission costs according to the existing base rates.

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A text message (letter, email) is sufficient.

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Use the following contact information:

namaste@samyakyoga.org 

 #76, Hamsa Holistic Hermitage,

Bommur Agrahara, Srirangapatna 571438, Karnataka