Privacy policy

The following privacy notice outlines how The white room meditation collects, uses, protects and transfers your personal data.

The data officer for The white room meditation is Michelle Dorman. You can contact the data officer by sending an email to mdorman22@hotmail.com or writing to

7 Larch Close,

Broadstairs

Kent

CT10 2LW

This Privacy Policy is applicable to all visitors to the website and should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions available to view here. By visiting and using our website, you acknowledge and accept the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Personal data collected

THE PERSONAL DATA THAT WE COLLECT IS:

  • Name

  • Email Address

  • Contact phone number

*We also collect your email address when you opt in to join our newsletter.

PURPOSE AND LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA

The white room meditation takes your privacy seriously and we will never sell or rent your personal data to any third-party. Sharing of your data and direct marketing activities are only carried out with your express consent, which you are free to withdraw at any time.

We need to obtain and process your personal data to provide you with our products, services and to fulfil our business and legal obligations. We will never collect any personal information from you that we do not need or retain any data that is no longer necessary for the purposes specified in this notice.

YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED TO:

Collect specific personal data (name, email, contact phone number) that is required to enter into a contract to sell a product or service. Engage in communication with you including confirmation and requests to cancel or change bookings. Hold personal data that is required by law or to respond to legal process. Hold for insurance purposes. Store customer records. Your rights as the individual.

If your personal data is held by The white room meditation, you hold particular rights over it. Where you have provided consent for us to contact you as part of our marketing services, you have the right to modify or withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe option accompanied with all of our direct marketing or by contacting The white room meditation Data Officer.

YOU ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT:

To be informed of how your personal data will be used before it is collected. To access your personal data and information and how your information is used after it has been gathered. To have personal data corrected if it is incomplete, inaccurate or out-of-date. To request the removal or deletion of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing. To restrict processing, to block processing of your personal data. To data portability, having your data moved, copied or transferred from The white room meditation to another organisation in an easily readable format. To object to direct marketing from us.

At any time after giving consent, you can withdraw your consent, subject to legal, insurance and contractual restrictions. Your privacy is very important to us.

BOOKWHEN

The white room meditation use software provided by Bookwhen to manage the meditation for classes, scheduling and marketing. Bookwhen Ltd is responsible for your data. Our registered address is Belsyre Court 57 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HJ. We are registered as a company in England and Wales, company number 08914060.

We are the data controller of the data we collect from you. It is our responsibility to control the way your personal data is collected and the purposes for which your personal data is used.

We also act as the data processor for the data that is collected from attendees when using Bookwhen. You can learn more about the measures we have taken to ensure we are meeting the GDPR requirements as a processor on our support pages.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA?

The white room meditation retains your personal data for as long as necessary to provide you with our services as our customer. The white room meditation are required under tax laws to keep your personal data for a minimum of 7 years. Where we have your consent for marketing purposes, we will retain the minimum required data until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive such information.

DATA PROTECTION COMMISSIONER

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

+44 (0) 303 123 1113

If you have any questions/comments about your privacy, please contact us.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.