Privacy policy.
What Information We Collect About You and How We Use It
Information You Provide to Us
You can browse our Website without providing any personal information to us. Yoga Alliance gathers and retains personal information about you when you voluntarily submit it to us and automatically collects statistical information about visitors’ use of the Website. Information that you submit may be linked with statistical information about your access to and use of the Website.
Inquiries and Forms
If you choose to complete and submit a form or otherwise provide information through our Website when you make an inquiry, including but not limited to the “Contact Us” page, by phone or email, we may collect and retain the Personal Information you provide, including your name, postal or email address, contact information and any other data you submit.
Social Networking Activities
The Website includes the ability for you and other users to link to social networking websites. As a result, we receive information about you when you choose to post or otherwise share information about our Website on these social networking websites. We may also receive Personal Information about you from your social networking account depending on your privacy setting for that account; this may include name, profile picture, age range, gender, language, country and other public information. You can control this by adjusting your privacy setting on your social network account.
Account Creation
Before you can utilize some portions of the Website, we will require that you create an account and provide us with your first name, last name, email address, phone number, date of birth, and create a password. You may also need to verify your account post creation by email verification. Yoga Teachers and Yoga Schools may also create accounts on the Website and submit additional information including name, registry name, address and payment billing information. Some information may be posted on the Yoga Alliance Registry at the election of the registrant.
Financial Transactions
When you engage in any financial transaction through the Website, you will be asked to provide certain of your financial information, such as your debit card, credit card or PayPal account and billing or shipping address.
Surveys, Contests and Other Promotions
If you choose to participate in a survey, contest or other promotion on our Website Disco Lemonade may request personally identifiable information from you such as your name, contact information, age, demographic information, and other information you submit in connection with the survey, contest or other promotion. Participation is completely voluntary and you therefore can choose whether to disclose personally identifiable information. We may use third parties to administer our surveys, contests or other promotions or to sponsor them and information you provide may be shared with them in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you participate in a contest you are subject to its Official Rules which will be posted on the Website; winners may be required to provide additional information, for instance for verification, shipping or tax purposes.
Applications
Disko Lemonade may permit you to submit applications for employment, membership, working groups, or other opportunities through our Website. This process may be operated by an authorized service provider. Information collected through an online application may include name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address, education history, employment history, or other information ("Application Information"). Application Information provided through this process is submitted directly to the third party vendor, and subject to its privacy policy which you should review before providing information. Application Information that we receive will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Interactive Forums
Disko Lemonade may host online communities, message boards, chat rooms, blogs, and other interactive forums or services (each, a “Forum”), where users may post content, comment, and otherwise communicate with others. If you choose to participate in a Forum, you may have the opportunity to submit demographic information, such as your social links, bio, languages, professional associations, areas of expertise, teaching specialties, and profile photo. Demographics are pieces of information that help the user either identify themselves or others, and can power “Networks” which users can used to find others by common interests. We may also send you targeted communications based on your engagement and the information you submit. Participation is completely voluntary and you therefore can choose whether to disclose personally identifiable information.
Use and Retention of Information You Provide
We may use the information we collect from you for our legitimate operational and development interests, for example:
to respond to your requests or inquiries,
to process transactions you have requested,
to manage or facilitate the operation and security of the Website,
to enhance your experience with Yoga Alliance,
to communicate with you about membership, applications, transactions or registration, and about products, services, events and other opportunities related to yoga or Yoga Alliance,
to identify you or authenticate your identity,
to communicate with you regarding your account with us,
to monitor and improve the use and satisfaction of Website users,
to display advertisements relevant to your interests,
to notify contest winners and award prizes,
to conduct research and analysis and
to expand our services and outreach.
We use your Personal Information according to the terms of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of our use. We will process your Personal Information where (1) you have provided your consent which can be withdrawn at any time, (2) where the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party (for example, we will share your Personal Information with other members with whom you have entered into a transaction), (3) where we are required by law, (4) where processing is required to protect your vital interests or those of another person, or (5) where the processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate commercial interests, except where such interest are overridden by your rights and interests. We will only keep financial transaction information as long as necessary to complete the transaction or series of recurring transactions authorized by you. We may keep all other information indefinitely.
When users of the Website wish to contact a registered user they may do so using information that the registered user has agreed to post on the Yoga Alliance Registry. Registry information can be limited by visiting the Account Management pages. We may facilitate the transmission of email messages from site visitors who use the “email me” button on the Registry so that the registrant’s email address is kept private. We retain the communications using this feature.
Automatically Collected Information
URLs and IP Addresses
Like many other websites, we collect information about users’ utilization and navigation of the Website. This information helps us to design the Website to better suit our users’ needs. Information collected from Website visitors includes: domain name used to access the internet, browser used, pages visited, referring site URLs and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. We use this information as provided in this Privacy Policy, including, for example, to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Website, to help identify you, to gather broad demographic information and to provide relevant advertising to you. We track the keywords that are entered into our search engine and the terms selected to browse and filter information in order to measure interest in specific topics, and we may monitor which terms a particular user enters. We may also record information about individual behavior or use of the Website.
Cookies
Like most websites, we may employ cookies on certain pages of the Website. Cookies make using the Website easier by, among other things, saving your preferences for you. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of the Website to personally identifying information that you previously submitted. The information that we collect with cookies allows us to improve our membership benefits and information, to statistically analyze usage of the Website, and to improve and customize our content and other offerings. We may link cookies to other information about you that we have collected. However, we only disclose information collected with cookies to third parties on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.
The types of cookies we may use on our Website include:
Session cookies: These temporary cookies expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser window. We may use session cookies to grant you access to content and to enable actions you must be logged in to do.
Persistent cookies: These usually have an expiration date in the distant future and remain in your browser until they expire or you manually delete them. We may use persistent cookies to better understand your use patterns so we can improve the Website. For example, we may use a persistent cookie to associate you with your user account or to remember that your choices on the Website, but this only works when cookies on our site are enabled.
Third party cookies: We may permit limited third parties to place cookies through the Website to provide us with better insights into the use of the Site or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a user’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our website. For example, we may utilize Google Analytics to analyze usage patterns of the Website. Google Analytics generates a cookie to capture information about your use of the Website which Google uses to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other related services. Google may use all or a portion of your IP address to identify their cookie, but this will not be associated with any other data held by Google. To learn more about the privacy policy of Google Analytics, click here. To block the Google Analytics cookie, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We may also permit third party service providers to place cookies through our Website, as indicated above, to perform analytic or marketing functions where you are notified of them and you have consented to the usage. We do not control the use of such third party cookies or the resulting information and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties
How Personal Information May Be Shared
We will not share, rent, sell or otherwise disclose any of the Personal Information that we collect about you through the Website except as permitted by law or as described in this Privacy Policy.