Privacy Policy

Applied Meditation is committed to protecting your personal information. Our privacy policy explains when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, how we keep it secure and what choices you have about your personal data.

Contents:

What information we collect about you

We collect your data when you:

request our services
are a current client we are providing services to
provide feedback
share, like or interact with any Applied Meditation content online

Our website usage information is collected using cookies, for more information on cookies and how to manage them please see the cookies section of this policy.
The GDPR refers to sensitive personal data as “special categories of personal data”.
The only information which we will collect is the information you provide when contacting us: first and last name, your personal email address and possibly your telephone number.
We do not knowingly collect or process any sensitive personal data. We only collect the information that’s necessary to respond to your enquiry and provide you with the service you have requested.

How we will use the information about you

We use your personal data to:

carry out our business and provide a service or carry out a contract with you
provide relevant information to you
comply with our regulatory or legal obligations

Lawful basis of processing your data

The GDPR set out the following lawful bases: (a) Consent: the individual has given clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose. (b) Contract: the processing is necessary for a contract you have with the individual, or because they have asked you to take specific steps before entering into a contract. (c) Legal obligation: the processing is necessary for you to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations). (d) Vital interests: the processing is necessary to protect someone’s life. (e) Public task: the processing is necessary for you to perform a task in the public interest or for your official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law. (f) Legitimate interests: the processing is necessary for your legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party unless there is a good reason to protect the individual’s personal data which overrides those legitimate interests. We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to, for example:

to provide you with the service you have requested
to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

If you have provided us with your individual contact details (for example, your personal email address), we will rely on your consent to send you electronic communications with information about our services or to ask for feedback. We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

Access to your information and correction

You have specific rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. These include your rights to request we:

confirm to you what personal data we may hold about you, if any, and for what purposes
change the consent which you have provided to us in relation to your personal data
correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data which we may hold about you
request the transfer of your personal information to another party
stop the processing of your personal data, whilst an objection from you is being resolved
permanently erase all your personal data promptly, and confirm to you that this has been done.

If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us using the details in the ‘how to contact us’ section of this policy.

Cookies
Cookies are small text files sent to your computer by a website when you visit it. Cookies collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track how people use our website and to compile statistical reports on our website activity. Further information on cookies and how to manage them can be found at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. These websites can show you how set your browser not to accept cookies. In a small number of cases, disabling cookies may cause some of our website features to not function fully as a result.

Other websites

Our website and email communications may contain links to other external websites that are not controlled by us. This privacy policy only applies to this website and our communications.
We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of every website you visit and third part service provider that you deal with. You should always exercise caution before clicking any external link and please remember that use of these links is at your own risk and we cannot be held responsible for damages from your use of any links.

Keeping your personal data safe
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. These measures include firewalls and encrypted back-ups. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to employees. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Where we keep personal data files on local devices, these devices are protected and accessible only to authorised employees. We have put procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so. We regularly review our security systems to ensure that your personal data remains safe and secure.

How long do we keep your personal data
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, this includes satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you. Once you are no longer our customer, we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Changes to our Privacy policy
We will update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business. All updates will be posted to this web page.
Our privacy policy was last updated on 15th May 2020.

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