Privacy & Other Policies

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Here is what you should know:

• We are respectful about the personal information you provide through the operation of our services.

• We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.

• We want to make it as easy as possible for you to control what information on our website is kept, indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.

• We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.

• We aim for full transparency on how we gather and use your personal information.

• Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

Seasonalschool.com is the home for School for Seasonal Living. Our work focuses on helping people develop the skills to master life changes through awareness and meditation. 

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

• Our website, www.seasonalschool.com (Site);

• Our other products and services that are available on or through www.seasonalschool.com

Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our website, and products and services collectively as “Services.” Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so – for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

• Basic Information:We ask for some very basic information from you when you contact us or sign up for our mailing list: 1) your email address, so we can reply to you.

• Transaction and Billing Information:If you buy something from us – for instance, a product from our Store, or register for a course, or book a private consultation, you will provide additional personal and payment information that is required to process the transaction and your payment. However, we never see your credit card information and never have access to it. All purchases are processed through an outside payment provider (authorize.net), and you can find their Privacy Policy on their site. We only receive your name, email address, billing address and phone number.

• Content and Communications With Us:Depending on the Services you use, you may also provide us with information about you through testimonials, photos, videos, emails and/or written letters. These are always assumed to be meant to be completely confidential and we never share them with anyone, publicly or privately. If you write a testimonial, we will ask your consent if we want to share it with anyone. If you choose to post any of this information on the internet, such as Facebook or other forums, anyone can access it.

Information We Collect Automatically

We collect very little information automatically:

• Log Information:Unlike most online service providers, we do not collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.

• Location Information:We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address but not your personal location. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.

• Information from Cookies & Other Technologies:A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. We use cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads.

How And Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

• To provide our Services – for example, to offer products, consultations and courses, provide access to our online services, or charge you for any of our paid Services;

• To further develop and improve our Services – for example by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy or will help them to create and manage their websites more efficiently;

• To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use;

• To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition–for example, we may analyze how many individuals purchased a product after receiving a marketing message or the courses that have the highest usage history over a certain length of time;

• To monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of seasonalschool.com and others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our Services;

• To communicate with you, for example through an email, about offers and promotions offered by seasonalschool.com and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on our products and services; and

• To personalize your experience using our Services, provide content recommendations (for example, through our course feedback surveys), target our marketing messages to groups of our users (for example, those who have taken a particular course with us or have been our user for a certain length of time), and serve relevant advertisements.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms and Conditions or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your service – for example, in order to enable access to an online course on your device or charge you for a product or consultation; or

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information – for example, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, and to personalize your experience; or

(5) You have given us your consent–for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookies Policy below.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

We share information about you in the very limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

• Employees, and Independent Contractors:We may disclose information about you to our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.

• 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, or to provide their services to you or your site. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, and email support services that help us communicate with you, those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers).

• Legal Requests:We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. For more information on how we respond to requests for information about users of our Site, please see the Legal Requests section below.

• To Protect Rights, Property, and Others:We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of School for Seasonal Living, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.

• 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 School for Seasonal Living 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. For example, we may share your information with third parties such as a hotel when you are registering for an event and we are coordinating accommodations.

• 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 to facilitate customized ad campaigns with partners.

• Published Support Requests:And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is of course disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on our Facebook pages, groups or other forums, and your “Likes” and comments, are all available to others.

Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it –which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information – and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

For example, we may keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to our website, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We may retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze traffic to the site and investigate issues if something goes wrong on the site.

We will retain information at least 90 days after a live event in the event there is customer service or support question related to who attended, arrival date and departure date.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

• Limit the Information that You Provide:If you contact us, you can choose not to provide the information we request on our contact form. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Services – for example, notifications about free events near you – may not be available.

• Opt-Out of Electronic Communications:You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. While we’ll be very sad to lose our connection, we will not contact you again unless it’s necessary to send you something like a legal notice. Please keep in mind that we may continue to retain your information after ceasing contact, if that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, tax obligations, or reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests.

• Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies:You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our site, with the drawback that certain features of our site may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;

• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;

• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;

• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and

• Request portability of your personal data.

To access, correct, or delete your personal data, please contact us at info@seasonalschool.com

EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in theYour Rights section above, please contact us as info@seasonalschool.com. 

Other Things You Should Know (Keep Reading!)

Transferring Information

Because our Services are offered worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us, business partners, or contractors. This is required for the purposes listed in the How and Why We Use Information section above. When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include:

• In the case of US based entities, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them; or

• In the case of entities based in other countries outside the EEA, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them.

You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, seasonalschool.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through email. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

Change Log: Updated Jan 24, 2024

COOKIES POLICY

Seasonalschool.com, (“we” or “us” or “our”) may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies when you visit our website seasonalschool.com including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”) to help customize the Site and improve your experience.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Cookies Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Cookies Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Cookies Policy on the Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification.

You are encouraged to periodically review this Cookies Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Cookies Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Cookies Policy is posted.

USE OF COOKIES

A “cookie” is a string of information which assigns you a unique identifier that we store on your computer. Your browser then provides that unique identifier to use each time you submit a query to the Site. We use cookies on the Site to, among other things, keep track of services you have used, record registration information, record your user preferences, keep you logged into these Sites, facilitate purchase procedures, and track the pages you visit. Cookies help us understand how the Site is being used and improve your user experience.

TYPES OF COOKIES

The following types of cookies may be used when you visit these Sites:

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies monitor how users reached the Site, and how they interact with and move around once on the Site. These cookies let us know what features on the Site are working the best and what features on the Site can be improved.

Our Cookies

Our cookies are “first-party cookies”, and can be either permanent or temporary. These are necessary cookies, without which the Site won’t work properly or be able to provide certain features and functionalities. Some of these may be manually disabled in your browser, but may affect the functionality of the Site.

Personalization Cookies

Personalization cookies are used to recognize repeat visitors to the Site. We use these cookies to record your browsing history, the pages you have visited, and your settings and preferences each time you visit the Site.

Security Cookies

Security cookies help identify and prevent security risks. We use these cookies to authenticate users and protect user data from unauthorized parties.

Site Management Cookies

Site management cookies are used to maintain your identity or session on the Site so that you are not logged off unexpectedly, and any information you enter is retained from page to page. These cookies cannot be turned off individually, but you can disable all cookies in your browser.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies may be placed on your computer when you visit the Site by companies that run certain services we offer. These cookies allow the third parties to gather and track certain information about you. These cookies can be manually disabled in your browser. For example, we may embed videos from YouTube and Video which demonstrate our work and each of those website providers use their own tracking cookies.

CONTROL OF COOKIES

Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you can remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings. Please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site.

For more information on how to control cookies, check your browser or device’s settings for how you can control or reject cookies.

In addition, you may opt-out of some third-party cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out Tool.

OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

In addition to cookies, we may use web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. A “web beacon” or “pixel tag” is tiny object or image embedded in a web page or email. They are used to track the number of users who have visited particular pages and viewed emails, and acquire other statistical data. They collect only a limited set of data, such as a cookie number, time and date of page or email view, and a description of the page or email on which they reside. Web beacons and pixel tags cannot be declined. However, you can limit their use by controlling the cookies that interact with them.

PRIVACY POLICY

For more information about how we use information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies, please refer to our Privacy Policy on this page. This Cookie Policy is part of and is incorporated into our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at info@seasonalschool.com

Change Log: Updated Jan 24, 2024

Data Protection Policy

1.  Data protection principles

Seasonalschool.com is committed to processing data in accordance with the responsibilities under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Article 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data shall be:

• processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;

• collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;

• adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;

• accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;

• kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and

• processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.”

2.  General provisions

• This policy applies to all personal data processed by the Company.

• School for Seasonal Living shall take responsibility for The Company’s ongoing compliance with this policy.

• This policy shall be reviewed at least annually.

• The Company shall register with the Information Commissioner’s Office as an organization that processes personal data.

3.  Lawful, fair and transparent processing

To ensure its processing of data is lawful, fair and transparent, The Company shall maintain a Register of Systems, which is a register of all systems in which personal data is processed by The Company. The Register of Systems shall be reviewed at least annually.

• Individuals shall have the right to ask what information The Company holds about them and why, how to gain access to the information, be informed on how to keep it up to date, and to be informed on how The Company is meeting its data protection obligations.

• Individuals have the right to access their personal data and any such requests made to the Company shall be dealt with in a timely manner.

• The Company at its discretion may charge individuals up to $20 USD per request and will provide all relevant data within 20 business days. The Company will always verify the identity of anyone making a personal data request before handing over any information.

• In certain circumstances, personal data may be requested to be disclosed to law enforcement agencies without the consent of the data subject. For more information regarding personal data request from law enforcement agencies, please see the Company’s Legal Requests policy.

4.  Lawful purposes

All data processed by the Company must be done on one of the following lawful bases: consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task or legitimate interests. For more information, visit the ICO website.

• The Company shall note the appropriate lawful basis in the Register of Systems.

• Where consent is relied upon as a lawful basis for processing data, evidence of opt-in consent shall be kept with the personal data.

• Where communications are sent to individuals based on their consent, the option for the individual to revoke their consent should be clearly available and systems should be in place to ensure such revocation is reflected accurately in the Company’s systems.

5.  Data security and minimization

• The Company shall ensure that all employees keep all data secure, by taking sensible precautions and following the following guidelines:

i. Strong passwords must be used, and they should not be shared for non-system administrative functions. In the event that a system administrative function requires a single user account and password, such as a root password on a web server, the account and password will be strictly controlled by a restricted set of administrators, no more than necessary to adequately support the business needs.

ii. Personal data not be disclosed to unauthorized people, either within the Company or externally.

iii. The Company should avoid saving personal data directly on laptops or other mobile devices like tablets or smart phones. If there is a need to transfer personal data to a laptop or mobile device for a very specific business need (e.g. exchanging hotel registration information between the event and hotel staff, providing user name tags and rooming lists etc.), the user will be notified and required to provide explicit consent to the transfer of data on their behalf, as well as the data will be immediately removed from the computing device by the event staff once the data is no longer required to support the business transactions.

iv. All servers and computers containing data should be protected by approved security software and a firewall.

v. Personal data must be encrypted before being transferred electronically.

• The Company shall ensure that personal data are adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.

• The Company will provide training to all employees to help them understand their responsibilities in handling data.

• The Company shall ensure that only people able to access data covered by this policy should be those who need it for their work.

• The Company shall ensure that data is not shared informally. When access to confidential information is required, employees will follow strict processes in validating consent from the customer.

6.  Accuracy

• The Company shall take reasonable steps to ensure personal data is accurate.

• Where necessary for the lawful basis on which data is processed, steps shall be put in place to ensure that personal data is kept up to date.

• Data will be held in as few places as necessary. Staff should not create unnecessary additional data sets.

• Staff should take every opportunity to ensure that data is updated.  For example, by confirming a customer’s details when they call.

• The Company will make it easy for customers to update the information held about them.  For instance, via the company website.

• Once inaccuracies are discovered, data should be updated. For instance, if a customer can no longer be reached on the telephone number stored in the database, it should be removed.

7.  Archiving / Removal

• To ensure that personal data is kept for no longer than necessary, the Company shall put in place an archiving policy for each area in which personal data is processed and review this process annually.

• The archiving policy shall consider what data should/must be retained, for how long, and why.

8.  Security

• The Company shall ensure that personal data is stored securely using modern software that is kept-up-to-date.

• Access to personal data shall be limited to personnel who need access and appropriate security should be in place to avoid unauthorized sharing of information.

• When personal data is deleted this should be done safely such that the data is irrecoverable.

• Appropriate back-up and disaster recovery solutions shall be in place.

9.  Breach

In the event of a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access  to, personal data, the Company shall promptly assess the risk to people’s rights and freedoms and if appropriate report this breach to the ICO. For more information, visit the ICO website.

END OF POLICY

Change Log: Jan 24, 2024

More Information on Data Release and Retention

Before revealing any of this information to another party, we require a validly issued subpoena, warrant, or court order that specifically requests it unless we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency involving death or serious physical injury. We do not voluntarily provide governments with access to data about users (private or public) for law enforcement, intelligence gathering, or other surveillance purposes. More information on our requirements for releasing private user information can be found in the other policies on this page.

If you wish to stop receiving communications from us, you may request to have your email address removed from our systems by contacting us at info@seasonalschool.com.

Change Log: Updated Jan 24, 2024

Copyright and Trademark Policy

Copyright © School for Seasonal Living 2024 All Rights Reserved

School for Seasonal Living respects the intellectual property rights of our business partners, instructors, and other third parties and expects our users to do the same when using the Services. We reserve the right to suspend, disable, or terminate contact with users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights of others.

All files and information contained in this Website or Blog are copyright by School for Seasonal Living and may not be duplicated, copied, modified or adapted, in any way without our written permission. Our Website or Blog may contain our service marks or trademarks as well as those of our affiliates or other companies, in the form of words, graphics, and logos.

Your use of our Website, Blog or Services does not constitute any right or license for you to use our service marks or trademarks, without the prior written permission of School for Seasonal Living. 

Our Content, as found within our Website, Blog and Services, is protected under United States and foreign copyrights. The copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any such Content, is strictly prohibited. Your use of our Website and Services does not grant you any ownership rights to our Content.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you would like to read the DMCA, please visit the U.S. Copyright Office website at https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf.

School for Seasonal Living also respects the trademark rights of others. Posts with any other content that misleads others or violates another’s trademark may be updated, suspended, disabled, or terminated by School for Seasonal Living in its sole discretion. If you are concerned that someone may be using your trademark in an infringing way on our Services, please contact us via info@seasonalschool.com and we will review your complaint. If we deem appropriate, we may remove the offending content, and warn the individual who posted the content.