Privacy Policy for Elysian Hatha
At Elysian Hatha, operating our site to promote yoga classes and workshops, showcase instructors, and allow online booking and membership management, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, book classes, or interact with our services.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services to you.
- Personal Data: When you register for an account, book a class (Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Meditation Workshops, Private Sessions, Teacher Training), purchase a membership, or contact us, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, phone number, physical address (for billing or contact purposes), and payment information.
- Health-Related Information (Optional): For your safety and to better tailor our yoga instruction, you may choose to provide information about your physical health, comfort levels, or any injuries. This information is provided voluntarily and is treated with utmost confidentiality.
- Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how our site is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
- Tracking & Cookies Data: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
2. How We Use Your Information
Elysian Hatha uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our services, including facilitating Hatha Yoga Classes, Vinyasa Flow, Meditation Workshops, Private Sessions, and Teacher Training.
- To process your bookings and managing your membership.
- To notify you about changes to our services.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so.
- To provide customer support.
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our services.
- To monitor the usage of our site.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
- To send newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you, based on your preferences. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under GDPR
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Elysian Hatha's legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your Personal Data because:
- We need to perform a contract with you (e.g., to provide yoga classes or membership services).
- You have given us explicit permission to do so.
- The processing is in our legitimate interests and it's not overridden by your rights.
- To comply with the law.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information with:
- Service Providers: We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services (e.g., payment processing, scheduling software, website hosting, analytics). These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
- Legal Requirements: Elysian Hatha may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of Elysian Hatha, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service, protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public, protect against legal liability.
- Business Transfer: If Elysian Hatha is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
5. Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
6. Data Retention
Elysian Hatha will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update, or to delete the information we have on you.
- The right of rectification to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
- The right of restriction to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- The right to data portability to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.
- The right to withdraw consent at any time where Elysian Hatha relied on your consent to process your personal information.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
8. Links to Other Sites
Our service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
9. Children's Privacy
Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By mail: 575 Meeker Avenue, New York, New York, 11222, USA