— Last Updated: 17 July 2018 —
1. Introduction
Welcome! We’re happy to see you here.
Please read this policy before using our site, services, products. Little Lotus Yoga is committed to caring for, protecting and respecting your privacy and keeping your personal data secure.
The main goal of this Privacy Policy is to let you know we care about your data. We don’t do unlawful stuff with your personal details.
2. Who we are
We’re a small yoga teaching and teacher training business called Little Lotus Yoga – founded, run and managed by Amanda DeGrace.
Our physical address is: 6 rue des Rapides, Gatineau QC, J8T 5K1, Canada
Our website address is: https://littlelotusyoga.ca
Our email address is: info@littlelotusyoga.ca
Nice to meet you! Please remember our data is also personal, so please don’t use the above information for reasons unrelated to this privacy document. Thanks!
3. What personal data we collect and why
a) Comments and Profile Images
When visitors leave comments on the site 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.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
b) Contact forms
Certain areas of the site use contact forms in order to generate an email message directed to us (and only us).
Contact forms capture personal data such as your name and email address, necessary to generate such email and allow for a smooth communication. That’s all we need and no unnecessary additional data is required from you.
Of course, and clearly, we do not use the information for marketing purposes.
c) Social Sharing
This site uses cookies for some functionality. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.
Cookies are used to allow you to share content to your social media accounts such as, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.
Social sharing cookies usually last for one year. If you wish to block the use of cookies, you may turn off this functionality with your browser settings.
d) Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, products, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We mostly use embedded videos (from YouTube and Vimeo) and embedded tweets (from Twitter). They’re pretty reliable with their data handling so hopefully there is nothing to worry about.
e) Analytics
When you use our site, our tracking service providers such as Google Analytics and Jetpack collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels).
Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our site and your experience, and track usage of our resources. These service providers may use cookies to collect and store information about your device, such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the site, links clicked and conversion information, browser, mobile network information, and type of operating system used.
f) Credentials
Depending on the services you use, you may provide us with credentials for your website (such as WordPress, FTP, Hosting usernames and passwords, Google Analytics, etc.). these are required in order to execute the tasks you hired us for. Please change your passwords often.
Whenever you submit information to this site or navigate through the pages, you know some data is collected and stored. We do that just to run our small business and to improve your future experience.
4. Who we share your data with
We do not sell our users’ private personal information. And we don’t give it away, either.
We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
Third Party Vendors: we may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, to you or your site. For example: Stripe and PayPal to process your online payments, fraud prevention services to analyze payment transactions, postal, chat and email services to help us communicate with you.
Legal Requests: we may disclose information about you in response to a court order, or other governmental request.
Business Transfers: in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Little Lotus Yoga goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
With Your Consent: we may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information: we may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our services, de-identified screenshots or de-identified code snippets.
We don’t give your personal data to anyone, unless required by law or to allow you to pay online. Also (see next section), we retain data only because we have to. Also, accountants still require physical receipts, not sure why.
5. 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.
We keep requests received via our Contact form, or via direct email inquiries, for one year.
We keep Google Analytics and other tracking data indefinitely, to allow for a smooth running of our business and compare analytics trends over the years.
Newsletter subscriptions are kept at your own discretion; you can opt out at any time, and at that time, your personal information will be removed.
6. What rights you have over your data
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.
On top of that, we recommend to follow these guidelines:
- Limit the Information that You Provide e.g. don’t enter unnecessary personal data in the comments or contact form messages.
- Opt-Out of Electronic Communications. You may opt out of receiving newsletters and promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
- Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies
You have full control over your personal data you share on this site. And if you have concerns or questions, we’re only an email away.
7. Contact information
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy please contact us at info@littelotusyoga.ca
8. Privacy Policy Changes
We may modify this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version and revising the date at the top of this page. If we make any material change to this Policy, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by sending you an email, or displaying a prominent notice on our site. By continuing to use the site after any changes come into effect, you agree to the revised Policy.
That’s it! And thanks for reading.
