Privacy Policy

1. About this policy 
   1. This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about our members and instructors, how we use it and how we keep it safe, and your rights in relation to it.   
   2. We may collect, use and retain your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and as described when we collect your information.   
   3. We reserve the right to change this Data Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. If there are significant changes, we will notify you, but we recommend that you check our website for the latest version of the Privacy Policy. 
   4. When processing your personal data, we will always comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For the purposes of the GDPR, we will be the “controller” of all personal data held by us.
   5. Consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
2. Who are we? 

We are the site of the International Shiatsu Day. We can be contacted at info@internationalshiatsuday.com.

3. Collection of personal information. 

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

1. information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. the information entered by the user while using the services of our website;
3. information generated during your use of our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
4. information relating to any purchase, service or transaction made through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information;
5. information that you post on our website with the intention of posting it on the Internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
6. the information contained in any communication you send to us via email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata;
7. any other personal information you send us.

Before you disclose personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

4. Use of personal information 

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

1. administer our website and business;
2. personalising our website for you;
3. allow the use of the services available on our website;
4. provision of services purchased through our website;
5. send you statements, invoices and payment reminders and collect payments from you;
6. send you non-marketing commercial communications;
7. sending you email notifications that you specifically request;
8. send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
9. send you marketing communications relating to our business or that of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
10. provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but such third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from such information);
11. handle enquiries and complaints made by or about you in relation to our website;
12. keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
13. verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our website's private messaging service);

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website. We will not provide your personal data to third parties for their or other third parties' direct marketing purposes without your express consent.

5. Disclosure of personal information 

We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal data:

1. to the extent we are required to do so by law;
2. in connection with any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are selling (or are considering selling); and
5. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority to obtain disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority is reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

6. International data transfers 

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between the countries in which we operate to enable us to use it in accordance with this policy.
2. The information collected may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
3. Personal information that you post on our website or submit for posting on our website may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
4. You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.
5. Retention of personal information 

1. This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
   1. to the extent we are required to do so by law;
   2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
   3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
4. Security of personal information

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
2. All personal information provided by you will be stored on our secure servers (password and firewall protected).
3. All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information via the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent via the Internet.
5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
6. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

10. Third party websites

Our website contains hyperlinks and details of third party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

11. Updating information

Please let us know if any personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

12. Cookie

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. 

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use Technical Cookies only session with the sole purpose of making the site work. This site Not uses analytical and/or third-party cookies

1. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies, for example:
   1. in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie management exclusion settings available by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
   2. in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and deselecting “Accept cookies from sites”; and
   3. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Personalization and control” menu, clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.

2. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer, for example:
   1. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (instructions for doing so are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
   2. in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”;
   3. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Personalization and control” menu, clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
3. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
4. Your rights

You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:

1. providing adequate proof of your identity (for this purpose, we usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary and an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
2. to access your personal data  
3. receive information on how your personal data is processed 
4. for the rectification of your personal data 
5. delete your personal data in certain circumstances 
6. object to or limit the processing of your personal data 
7. to have your personal data transferred to yourself or to another company in certain circumstances. 

We may withhold personal information requested by you to the extent permitted by law.

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or you will be given the opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.

For further details, please address questions, comments and requests regarding our data processing practices to the Data Protection Officer at info@internationalshiatsuday.com. 

For any doubts or clarifications, you can also contact the Guarantor for the protection of personal data in your country.