Rejuvenation yoga institute of America Website - Privacy Policy

Effective January 1, 1998 

Yoga institute is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its on-line users' Personal information. . Please read the following policy to understand the rules and procedures followed by yoga institute in handling Personal information provided to us over the internet. If you have further questions regarding our privacy policy please contact us via email at privacy@yogausa.com.

 

What information does yoga institute collect?

Yoga institute collects the Personal information only from persons who contact us and voluntarily provide the information to us or that is given to us by various affiliated maharishi,s organizations (satsangs and centers) that have your permission to share your Personal information. “Personal information” means your name, shipping/mailing address, telephone number, fax number, email address, credit or debit card account number and may include your retreat registration and donation preferences.

How yoga institute uses the Personal Information  

1. We use your personal information to respond to and fulfill requests for products and services including: Sending information about the activities of yoga institute and our affiliates.

2. Sending you our e-newsletters

3. Contacting you about the status of your orders, donations and retreat registrations

4. Completing your purchases and retreat registrations

5. Completing your donations

When we disclose personal information to others

1. yoga institute does exchange Personal information excluding credit or debit card account numbers  with various affiliated maharishi,s organizations (satsangs and centers) in the U.S. and abroad so that they can contact people on the mailing list about maharishi,s  programs and events.

2. yoga institute 's mailing list, including the Personal information we receive through the internet, is never shared with any commercial organizations and is never sold, rented or given to unrelated third parties.

3. Yoga institute will disclose Personal information to third parties if we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so.

Right to control and correct personal information  

1. Individuals who wish to register online for maharishi, s organizations retreats are asked to open an “account” in which they provide a user name and password. Individuals can access their account to change that information during open registration time simply by clicking on “Register online” link. Please contact us at privacy@yogausa.com at any other time to change that information.

 2. Individuals who wish to receive information about yoga institute activities via the E-newsletter provide name and email address. Individuals can change the information at any time by emailing us at privacy@yogausa.com You may unsubscribe from the E-newsletter by emailing us at unsubscribe@yogausa.com

 3. Individuals who purchase goods or services from the bookstore, shop, or who give donations are asked to supply their Personal information at each transaction. Individuals can change the information at any time by emailing us at privacy@yogausa.com

 

How we protect your personal information

1. Yoga institute uses a secure server with 128 bit encryption to assure the security of the data being transmitted to yoga institute. Yoga institute's database is protected from unauthorized access by a series of highly sophisticated software protection programs.

 2. Yoga institute secures the Personal information, including credit card numbers, received from individuals who make online purchases from yoga institute. Our secure server software provides protection for your Personal information. We encrypt all of your Personal information, including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. This data is used only to confirm our existing records. Sensitive data is also encrypted while being stored on our server.

 3. Yoga institute limits access to your Personal information to those persons that are required to fulfill the requests for information, services or products. Your Personal information is password protected with access only to those selected and authorized persons.

 4. Yoga institute provides links to affiliated entities. These sites operate independently of yoga institute. Yoga institute is not responsible for the privacy, terms of use or other policies of any other web site.

 

How we use Cookies

1. Yoga institute does use cookies to store information. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored in your computer's hard drive.

 2. Yoga institute gives the option to the user to store their personal preferences as cookies. These cookies are for your convenience only, and are not used for any other purpose.

 3. However, yoga institute uses cookies to track the items you place in your shopping cart during a single shopping session. Therefore your browser must accept cookies if you wish to shop at our online bookstore www.yogausa.com/store/ these cookies identify your computer and contain no Personal Information.

Travel exchange bulletin board

1. Yoga institute provides a travel exchange bulletin board. Yoga institute does not and has no obligation to monitor this bulletin board.

 2. If you use the Travel exchange on this site, please be aware that any Personal information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of this board, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the Personal information you choose to submit to this bulletin board.

 

Regarding Children

1. Yoga institute does not knowingly collect Personal information about or from persons under the age of 18.

 2. We do not sell or market products or services for purchase by children; however we do operate a site contents for children at yogausa.com

 3. Yoga institute site does not collect any Personal information from children who visit this site. Nor is any personal information collected from IP addresses, log files or other backend systems. Yoga institute may collect certain aggregate data, such as the number of users who visit the Web site, and may share that data with other sites owned and operated by yoga institute or affiliated organizations.

 4. for more information on our privacy policy for contact at   privacy@yogausa.com

Amendment of Policy

Yoga institute reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy any time. No individual notice of such changes will be provided but they will appear on the website in the form of a revised and newly dated Privacy Policy. Our current policy was amended may 1, 2007.