Sanctuary of Power Privacy Policy
Last updated March __, 2025
Sanctuary of Power LLC is committed to protecting the personal information that we collect from you. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information we collect through and in connection with our website sanctuaryofpower.com (the “Site”). Please read the Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information is treated. Your use of this Site gives us the right to collect and use your personal information.
Information Collected
In general, we may collect personal information that you give us depending on the type of transaction and in connection your use of the Site.
Contact information
You may provide us your contact information, such as email address, name, address, and telephone number, under several circumstances, including: (a) registering for an account or for online or in-person classes, courses, retreats or similar activities; (b) signing up to receive emails, newsletters or other communications from us; (c) sending us an email message; (e) when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site.
Preferences and personal characteristics
You may also provide information about yourself, your experiences and your choices as part of signing up and participating in online or retreats or for in-person classes or similar activities. These may include some or all of the following:
- gender
- room assignment preferences
- level of yoga/meditation experience
- physical limitations or any other relevant medical and health concerns
- dietary requirements and preferences
- special needs
Payment information
You may provide payment information, such as credit or debit card information, when you order goods or services through our Site. This information is processed through third party mechanisms such as integrated payment gateways. Payment data is not stored with us, however.
Passive and automatically collected information
Tools employed on our Site, such as cookies, pixels or web beacons, may gather your IP address or similar computer or device information regarding your access to and use of the Site.
A cookie is a small file placed on your computer that stores information. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better experience. Cookies help us verify your browser and maintain your login session. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Site. If you opt out of using cookies, we may employ a cookie only to help us remember this preference.
If you would like further information on the cookies we employ on our Site, please contact us as provided in the “Contacting us” section below. The following are some online resources that provide some helpful information on how to change your cookie preferences:
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (if you are based in the US)
http://www.allaboutcookies.org
http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
Some of these cookies are set by our third party partners, like Google, or Facebook/Meta, and those cookies may share information about your use of their service on our Site. Some of these third party service providers may use this information to serve relevant ads to you across the Web and measure your interaction with those ads or the service providers’ networks. If you are signed into a social media account while browsing our Site, then the social media network may link information regarding your visit to this Site with other information about you and the social media providers can provide you further information about their information practices. For information on the use of automatically collected information by the social media services who have plugins or buttons on pages of our Site, please see the “Social media” section below.
Use of Information
We use the personal information collected on our Site for a variety of purposes, including improving the Site, marketing, selling and providing you products, services and benefits, and communicating with you.
Below is a further description of the purposes for which we use your personal information:
Contact information
If you have provided contact information as part of subscribing to our newsletter, email list, texts, or other communications, then we will use your contact information to provide those communications to you. You may elect to stop receiving these newsletters, emails, texts, or other communications at any time by unsubscribing via the methods available in those communications.
In addition to the “Other Uses” described below, we may store and use contact information to contact you or for marketing and other communications, to service our Site, and to provide you our services and products.
Preferences and personal characteristics
We use the personal preferences, characteristics and similar information you provide to us to provide our classes, courses, retreats and similar activities. In many cases, we use this information to better tailor the activities to your needs and preferences and to improve your experience. If we would like to use your image, voice or other personal characteristics for marketing, advertising or similar purposes (including on this Site), we will ask you for permission in advance.
Passive and automatically collected information
We use IP addresses and tracking and other information we collect from cookies and other means in the following ways:
- to provide the Site
- to authenticate users and protect the security and integrity of the Site
- to help tailor our services and content to you
- to track communications between you and us
- to understand, analyze, improve, maintain and administer the Site
- to advertise to you
- for the “Other uses” described below
[Certain of our third party partners may use IP addresses and tracking information from cookies on our Site to provide their service to you (see the “Disclosures to third parties” section below)) including to create user profiles and track your activity on the Web.]
Deidentified data
We may aggregate and de-identify personal information and metadata collected via the Site for our own purposes, including to improve and analyze the Site and to provide information to others regarding the effectiveness of the Site.
Other uses
In addition to the uses described above in this Privacy Policy, we may use any information, including your contact information, personal preferences/characteristics, and passive and automatically collected information, to the extent reasonably necessary for any one or more of the following purposes:
- maintaining or analyzing the functioning of the Site,
- performing network communications,
- authenticating users of the site or personalizing content,
- protecting the security or integrity of the users or the Site, and
- responding to judicial process, law enforcement or for legal or regulatory compliance.
Disclosures to third parties
Generally
Third parties may operate or host the Site or the computers that operate the Site, store or process data for us, and provide services part of or related to the Site. We have agreements with our third party service providers that contain protections regarding use of your information. Below is some further information on some of our third party providers and your personal information:
Hosting and Site Services. Our Site is hosted by a third party and we may share information with our hosting provider and with other third party service providers as necessary to operate our Site.
Payment Processors. For any purchases that you make through our Site, it will be necessary for us to share some of your information with the third-party payment processors in order to process your requested transaction.
Analytics. We may share information with our information technology providers, professional advisors, business associates, service providers and other third parties who provide services to us, including analyses about your interaction with our Site. For example, we use Google Analytics, who may use cookies or other means to help us analyze how users use the Site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. You can use a browser plugin to opt out of all Google Analytics tracking software. Find more information about Google’s privacy practices here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. To opt-out of participating in Google Analytics data follow the instructions here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Ads and Marketing. We may share information with third parties to advertise or help us market our goods and service. We use third parties like Google Ads and Meta Ads to tailor ads that may appear to you on this Site as well as our ads that appear on other websites or social media. Those third party services may use information collected from cookies to serve you ads on their sites or social media. Also, we may share names and email addresses with them to create “lookalike audiences”, for example.
Social Media. In addition, sSome third party social media networks or services may set cookies, beacons and other tools on our Site that collect information about you as part of the buttons or links to their sites. We’ve included more information about this the “Social media” section below.
Social media
If you are using our Site and have chosen to connect your social media accounts to our Site or have signed into your accounts, then those social media networks may be collecting information about you from the cookies they place on our Site and combining them with information they may otherwise collect from you, and these uses are described in their respective terms and privacy policies. Current social media buttons and other plugins used on our Site include Facebook and Instagram. You should review the privacy policies of these social media providers for more information on how they collect and use your information.
Other disclosures
We may also disclose your information for the following reasons:
- to ensure legal or regulatory compliance or protect against liability;
- to respond to or participate in legal or judicial process;
- to protect the security or integrity of the Site; and
- to protect the safety of users or others or security of the Site.
Choice
Our intent is only to use your information in compliance with applicable law, and that includes giving you a choice on how and if your personal information is used. We provide options about how the personal information that you provide us may be used. However, some of the uses of your information are necessary for the service we provide through the Site or for the reason you provided us with the information, and if you don’t want your information used in certain ways, it may prevent you from using the services we provide on our Site. You may choose the types of communications you want to receive from us as may be indicated in the email or other communication you have received.
In some jurisdictions, you may have legal rights regarding your personal data, including the rights to request access to, deletion of or modification of your personal data, to request a copy or transfer of your personal data, and to withdraw consent to future processing, and to object or restrict certain processing. For example, in the European Union and the United Kingdom, you have the right to object to or the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances such as automated decision making; and where the processing is based on your consent, you have a right to withdraw that consent at any time for future processing.
Please refer to guidance provided by your relevant supervisory authority for further information.
Location
The Site is currently operated in the United States and is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the United States. However, in addition to the United States, information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the United States, European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the country in which you are located. By submitting your personal information, you consent to this transfer, storing and processing.
Legal Basis for Processing
For purposes of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, we rely on the following legal bases to process your personal data:
- Consent: We may ask for your consent to process certain types of personal data.
- Contractual Necessity: To fulfill our contractual obligations to you.
- Legitimate Interests: To improve our Site and deliver marketing content that may be of interest to you.
- Legal Obligations: We may process your data as required by law.
Retention
We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In general, if we have no other legitimate reason to continue using your personal information, we will delete it.
Security
We take the security of your personal information seriously and use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect it from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. We maintain, or use third parties to maintain, physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to safeguard the information we collect through the Site.
Changes
Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be displayed on our Site and will supersede this version of our Policy. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. However, we suggest that you read this Privacy Policy each time you use the Site or submit personal information to us to ensure that it still meets with your approval.
Minors
This Site is not intended for and should not be used by minors under the age of 16 and we don’t knowingly collect information from persons under 16.
Third party Web sites
You may visit other websites, through links on our Site, which may collect, use and share your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies, and we aren’t responsible for those policies or practices. This includes social media sites which you may be directed to by clicking on the buttons or links on our Site and how they may use information connected with the accounts you have with them. The information practices of those linked websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we encourage you to be very cautious before you disclose your personally identifiable information to others.
Contacting Us
If you have any inquiries regarding our Privacy Policy, the exercise your rights under it, or the use, removal or updating your personal information we process about you, please email us at info@sanctuaryofpower.com.
