Privacy Policy

IN8 YOGA PRIVACY POLICY  180613

PURPOSE

We are committed to protecting your personal information and to being transparent about the information we hold about you.

Personal information helps us to best serve and teach our yoga students. The purpose of this policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we collect and process your personal information in the work we do including any data you may provide through the in8yoga website, when you sign up to specific classes, retreats or workshops with us.

We will use the information that we collect about you in accordance with:

  • The Data Protection Act 1998
  • The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003
  • The EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation EU 2016/679), (‘GDPR’) which becomes effective from 25 May 2018

This policy explains:

  1. Who we are
  2. Information we may collect about you
  3. How we collect your data
  4. How we may use your information
  5. Disclosure of your details to third parties
  6. Security of your personal information
  7. Data retention
  8. Your legal rights
  9. Notification of changes to our privacy policy
  10. Contact details and further information

If you have any questions, please contact the Data Controller at In8 Resources using the contact details at the end of this policy.

  1. WHO WE ARE

In8 yoga offers yoga classes to students of all abilities. We aim to teach the principles and practices of all aspects of yoga including the physical practice, breathing/pranayama, relaxation and meditation and yoga philosophy. In8 yoga also offers yoga therapy to private individuals. The overall aim of all of our services to enhance total wellbeing – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual helping our clients to experience contentment, peace and feel in harmony with themselves, the world and others.

  1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal information means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We will only collect information about you as necessary to deliver yoga teaching. These may include:

  • Identity Dataincludes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
  • Contact Dataincludes home and email address and telephone numbers.
  • Personal data – including all information necessary for the teaching yoga safely including health and any medical history information on that may impact your yoga practice and safety.
  • Marketing and Communications Dataincludes your preferences in receiving marketing from us necessary to manage our relationship with you and ensures you only receive communications from us that are relevant and timely.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

You are under no statutory or contractual requirement or obligation to provide us with your personal data. However, if personal information is not provided it may mean we are unable to communicate with you to support ongoing and/or about potential future services.

  1. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

We will store the information provided as necessary and relevant to deliver our services to you as a client.  

When you:

  • Engage learning yoga either one to one or in a group glass
  • Request and/or respond to marketing materials
  • Give us feedback

Information from third parties

We may occasionally receive information about you from third parties as necessary to support the delivery of relevant content and services to you. These are set out below:

  1. Analytics providers such as Google
  2. Advertising networks such as Facebook
  3. Search information providers such as Google AdWords

 

  1. HOW WE MAY USE YOUR INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to under the auspices of legitimate interest. These include:

Delivery of Our Services – to support of the delivery of safe yoga teaching including sending:

  • Class schedule notices – to inform you of changes to regular class schedules.
  • Resources such as articles, videos or other resources to support you in the development of your yoga practice.
  • Surveys or similar designed to get your feedback on how to tailor and improve ongoing classes.

Marketing communications

We aim to communicate with you about the work that we do in ways that you find relevant, timely, respectful, and never excessive. To do this, we may use data that we have stored about you, such as proposals, programmes or projects that you have previously participated in, as well as any contact preferences you may have told us about.

We will give you an opportunity to opt out of or unsubscribe from of receiving electronic communications during your experience of working with us.  Alternatively, you can use the contact details at the end of this policy or update your contact preferences.

  1. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR DETAILS TO THIRD PARTIES

There are certain circumstances under which we may disclose your personal information to third parties. These are as follows:

  • We do not sell or pass personal details to third parties for any purpose.
  • Service providers may have access to your details as necessary to support the provision of our services to you, for example, yoga class listing sites, website designers, social media experts. Other yoga teachers who cover for In8 yoga classes or “partner” teachers hare classes with in8 yoga teacher. All third parties are expected to respect the privacy of your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law.
  • Where we are under a duty to disclose your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).

 

 

  1. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

All personal data will be securely stored both electronically and manually. Electronic data is password protected and manual data e.g. paper records will be kept in secure locked storage.

We will not transfer, process or store your data anywhere that is outside of the European Economic Area, unless we have a contractual agreement in place that is of an equivalent standard to GDPR. By submitting your data, you are agreeing to this. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

  1. DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

We will carry out an electronic data review of all client records stored on an annual basis, deleting and/or destroying any records that are no longer relevant.

  1. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

 Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information, as follows:

  1. a) To request access to your personal information that we hold about you.
  2. b) To request correction of your personal information if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date.
  3. c) To request erasure of your personal information where it is no longer necessary to retain such data unless this is in conflict with in order to comply with any legal obligation (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) which will be notified to you at the time.
  4. d) To object to processing of your personal information.
  5. e) Request restriction of processing your personal information.
  6. f) Request transfer of your personal information to a third party. This will be provided in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
  7. g) Right to withdraw consent at any time. However, if you withdraw consent, we may not be able to provide services to you and we will notify you of this. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

Please use the contact details at the end of this policy if you wish to exercise any of the rights listed above. 

For more details on your legal rights, please contact the Information Commission as follows https://ico.org.uk

  1. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy may change from time to time. Please visit this section of our website periodically in order to keep up to date with changes in our privacy policy.

 

  1. CONTACT DETAILS AND FURTHER INFORMATION

Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about any aspect of this privacy policy, and in particular if you would like to object to any processing of your personal information that we carry out for our legitimate organisational interests.

Please also contact us if you have any questions about the information we hold about you, or to change your contact preferences with us:

Email us:              gayl@in8yoga.com

Call us:                 + 44 (0)7766 33 6096

Write to us:        In8Yoga, Queen Victoria House, 26 Queen Victoria Street, Reading, Berkshire RG1 1TG