Tantric Journey School of Healing and Awakening is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy sets out the basis on which we collect any personal data from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand the practices we follow regarding your personal data and how we handle it.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulations the data controller is Tantric Journey School of Healing and Awakening, 95, Iffley Road, London, W6 OPD
Company Registration No. 09366317
The designated Data Protection Officer is: Mal Weeraratne
By using our website and having read this policy, you consent to its contents and its terms.
The legal basis for processing the following information is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
Method of collection
(a) Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website tantricjourney.com. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material, booking a consultation or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Tantric Journey School of Healing and Awakening and when you report a problem with our site.
(b) If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
(c) We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
(d) Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
Our website and services are targeted at persons over the age of 18. If we have reason to believe that we hold personal data of a person under that age in our databases, we will delete that personal data.
All personal data will be retained for 7 years. At the end of this period it will be deleted from our systems if you have not received treatment, attended workshops or any other event within that period. However, this may depend on any pending legal or insurance issue.
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. The legal basis for processing the following information is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
They enable us:
(a) to estimate our audience size and usage pattern
(b) to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests
(c) to speed up your searches
(d) to recognise you when you return to our site
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
We do not publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website.
Tantric Journey School of Healing and Awakening does not transfer any personal data to counties outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the UK with Knowall IT. All necessary steps will be taken to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Therefore, once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.
Financial transactions relating to our website are handled by our payment services provider and gateway WorldPay. We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services that you enter into with us and/or through our website. The transaction data may include your contact details, your card payment details and the transaction details. We will share transaction data with our payment gateway and payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about our
payment gateway and payment services provider’s privacy policies and practices here: www.worldpay.com/uk/privacy-policy.
We use information held about you in the following ways:
(a) to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
(b) to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you
(c) to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
(d) to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so
(e) to notify you about changes to our service
(f) to ensure we protect the interests, confidentiality and to continue to improve our services to our clients.
All Tantric Journey Therapists will be required to process personal data in accordance with this policy and as set out in their contract with Tantric Journey as the data controller.
The data that we collect may also be processed by staff who work for us in order to fulfil your order, process your payment details and provide support services
We do not exchange or sell your data to any third party web sites or external data suppliers.
We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers limited to only as reasonably necessary, for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice and managing legal disputes.
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will inform you before collecting your data and request consent to use your data for such purposes. If you give consent, this can be withdrawn at any time using the unsubscribe button on the communication.
You have a right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with GDPR. Any access request is free of charge and should be submitted for the attention of the Data Protection Officer, Mal Weeraratne by email: tantricjourney@aol.com