The Mindfulness Training Institute (“we,” “us” or “our”) respects your privacy. We collect user information in an effort to improve your experience, conduct mindfulness research, and communicate with you about our trainings. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to people whom we do not employ or manage. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect about you, why we collect it, and how we use it. Our Privacy Policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your information. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can always contact the Mindfulness Training Institute in any of two ways:
Send us an email: info@mindfulnesstraininginstitute.com
Or
Write to us at:
Mindfulness Training Institute
143 Girard Avenue
Sausalito, CA 94965
Attention: Privacy Policy
If our Privacy Policy information practices change in the future, we will post an updated Privacy Policy on our website. You can tell if the Privacy Policy has changed by checking the revision date that appears at the end of this Privacy Policy. You may exercise your choices about how we collect and use your information at any time.
What kind of information does the Mindfulness Training Institute collect?
We collect information, such as name, email and postal addresses, phone number(s), birth date or age, gender, occupation, and personal interests from you when you visit our website, submit your information with us online by any of this site’s forms, or participate in a promotion, training or survey. We maintain a record of your interests and the services and features you use, and may also acquire information about you from our marketing partners, from unrelated third parties, and from our affiliates.
When visitors log on to our site or leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
If you are a trainee or affiliate for ours, we may collect an image of you either through forms on this website or by email. If you upload images to or submit them for the website, data contained within the image file may be retained. 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.
How does the Mindfulness Training Institute use my information?
We will use your email and postal address to send you information about Mindfulness Training Institute trainings and affiliation, to identify that you are a registered Mindfulness Training Institute trainee or affiliate and to help us learn more about your user preferences.
If you participate in a promotion, we may use your personal information to send you emails, postal mail, or telephone regarding our services and promotions. From time to time, we may use this information to contact you via email, postal mail, or telephone to learn more about your user preferences. You always have the choice to unsubscribe and not to receive marketing information or calls.
In addition, we may use information about you and your interests from us and our affiliates to help us improve our site design and your online experiences. We may contact you, subject to the choices you have made, via email, postal mail, or telephone, to conduct market research and learn more about how we can improve our service offerings.
Any information collected on one of evaluation forms is used to judge the effectiveness of our trainees, affiliates, and our trainings.
Information provided on our application forms is used to determine your enrollment within a training or affiliation with the Mindfulness Training Institute.
If you are a Mindfulness Training Institute trainee or affiliate, your email address, username, IP address and/or password will be used to verify your access to the private part of the Mindfulness Training Institute website.
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 who are/have been enrolled in our trainings and have a user account on our website, we store a personal profile for you, including a photo, name, email address, and IP address. This information is kept indefinitely, or until you have chosen not to be affiliated with the Mindfulness Training Institute. Users are able to see and edit their name and profile picture when you are logged on to the system. All other info, including username, can only be changed by contacting a website administrator at info@mindfulnesstraininginstitute.com.
Applications, evaluations and surveys may be kept up to one year on our site. Information vital to the running of our business and research that is submitted on these forms is also kept on an ISO 27018 cloud service indefinitely, or until they are deemed as no longer vital.
Does the Mindfulness Training Institute share my information with third parties?
To create a better user experience, the Mindfulness Training Institute does use third party services, such as MailChimp, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud, Google Analytics and PayPal.
When we offer services and promotions, with or without a marketing partner, you may be required to provide certain personal information in order to participate. In these cases, we will give you the choice not to receive email messages or other communications from us regarding our services and promotions. In this case, however, the Mindfulness Training Institute may still need to contact you, for example, to notify you about trainings you have expressed an interest in.
If some or all of our business is sold, the Mindfulness Training Institute will disclose your personal information to a purchaser that agrees to abide by the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy.
The Mindfulness Training Institute reserves the right to disclose information about you as required by law, in response to legal process and law enforcement requests, and as necessary to protect the property, interests, and rights of the Mindfulness Training Institute, its affiliates, and others.
How do I access my information? How do I change or delete my information?
You may manage your email subscription preferences at any time by clicking on the appropriate link at the bottom of our emails. Your requested changes will take effect immediately. If you are enrolled in a training or are an affiliate, unsubscribing to our emails will impede and possibly prevent you from completing your training or affiliating with the Mindfulness Training Institute.
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.
If you would like to update or delete your website user settings or contact information, please email us at info@mindfulnesstraininginstitute.com.
How does the Mindfulness Training Institute protect children’s privacy?
We are concerned about the safety of children when they use the internet and will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.
What are cookies? How does the Mindfulness Training Institute use cookies on its site?
A cookie is a small data file that websites often store on your computer’s hard drive when you visit their sites. A cookie may contain information, such as a unique user ID that websites use to track the pages of the sites you’ve visited. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, how to improve your user experience, how to enhance the performance and functionality of our website, how to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests, and how to customize your relationship with the Mindfulness Training Institute. We also use cookies to identify whether you visited one of our affiliates’ websites immediately prior to visiting our website.
When you visit our site, a cookie is used to verify your consent to using our website. This cookie will retain your user consent for up to 30 days.
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.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 and screen options cookies last indefinitely, until you remove them from your device. 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.
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our website functions. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings.
Is my information secure?
We conduct surveys and trainings on our website. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology or another encryption technology to protect your online information as it is transmitted over the Internet.
What about links to other websites and services?
The Mindfulness Training Institute website may contain links to other sites and services. The Mindfulness Training Institute does not control the privacy policies or practices of these websites. You should review those policies before providing any personal information. The Mindfulness Training Institute is not responsible for the content or practices of any linked websites. We provide these links for the convenience and information of our visitors.
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.
July 12, 2018