Dhamma.org Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the Vipassana Meditation Website. Your privacy is important to ourorganizations. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice telling you about ourinformation practices and the things you should be aware of about how your information iscollected and used both at this site and in general by the many local or regional Vipassana
organizations around the world. However, please note that the specific details of the privacy
policies of the Vipassana organizations around the world may differ from country to country. A
copy of the particular privacy policy applicable to your information may be obtained from theVipassana course registrar or at the Vipassana course site upon your arrival.

The Information We CollectIf you choose to register for a Vipassana meditation course via our on-line or conventional
registration application, the types of personally identifiable information that may be collected
include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and all the other highly
personal information that is called for on the application form and on the course registration
form. Your personal information contained in your course application and registration forms are
stored in a secure manner within our facilities and the only persons having access thereto arethose who have a specific "need to know", such as the course registrar, the center/course
manager and the assistant teacher(s) conducting the course(s) to which you seek admission.
If you choose to utilize our "Tell A Friend About Vipassana" service you necessarily submit bothyours and another person's e-mail address to send an electronic greeting and the address of ourwebsite to that other person. The types of personally identifiable information that may becollected about you by that service is your email address and the types of personally identifiable
information that may be collected about the other people at these pages includes the recipient'semail address. We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when youvisit our website pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Netscape, Opera
or Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows, Mac OS orLinux) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

How We Use Your Information
We use the information you provide about yourself in your application and registration forms toenable the local or regional Vipassana organization to which you have applied to evaluate yourapplication for admission to a course and to register you for that course. In addition, we havefound that people who attend a Vipassana course frequently attend subsequent courses overtheir lifetime. In order to facilitate subsequent attendance at courses and to maintain a record of
a student’s history and experience the local or regional Vipassana organization(s) may maintainthe course data of each student indefinitely in the absence of a legal prohibition to do so incertain jurisdictions. In some cases, the local or regional Vipassana organization may use yourname postal address and/or email address to send you information about Vipassana related
activities and facilities, if you have not opted-out of such contact. We use the information that you
provide about others in our "Tell a Friend" service to enable us to send them your greeting andour website address. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that wecollect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to understand who isaccessing our site from which locations and which files they are accessing within the site, i.e., touse this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage. This Vipassana Website does not evermake your personally identifiable information available to third parties, for commercial or any
other reason. However, certain regional Vipassana websites may accept credit card based
donations, in which case personal information related to those donation financial transactions isprocessed in the usual manner. Otherwise, we do not disclose your personal information outsideof the facilities of the local or regional Vipassana organizations and their common infrastructureexcept when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or subpoena. We
may also disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request or otherlegal requirement.
All teachers and assistant teachers of Vipassana as well as all meditation center staff and
Dhamma workers only have access to your information submitted on the course application andregistration forms on a "need to know" basis. Through confidentiality agreements and otherdocumentation, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that such information is maintained inconfidence and safeguarded against disclosure to or access by third parties once it reaches thecenter or the non-center course registrar to which it is submitted. However, the particularmanner in which your information is maintained, stored and used is governed by the particularprivacy policy applicable within the country where the particular course for which you areregistering is being held. The only risk of inadvertent disclosure of your information can be in thecase of applications submitted by email and that is while the information is being sent over theopen internet, as under some circumstances our email application facilities are not secure. Please
do not use the email application facility on this website unless you are prepared to personallytake this risk.
Our application forms and the personal data contained therein are handled by storage andprocessing on computers. In addition, the computers of the different Vipassana organizations arelocated in various countries of the world. Your submission of an application form to attend one of
our courses constitutes your unequivocal consent to the storage and processing of yourapplication data on a computer and to the cross-border transfer of your personal information
contained in the application form as well as the handling and storage of all information you
submit to us in the registration process in accordance with the privacy regulations of the local orregional jurisdiction. In addition, in some cases the email service of a center to which an
application is submitted may be provided through Google Apps. As a result the handling of thedata in your application to that center is subject to the privacy and security policies of Google, as
set forth in their publications that are available on their websites. For the welfare of the students,
the local or regional Vipassana organization may consider it necessary to take and retain noteson any health concern or behavior in relation to the course that is inconsistent with the Code ofDiscipline or that otherwise indicates that a student should be restricted from attending future
courses or will need additional support during a future course. In the rare event of this occurring,
it is our understanding that the local or regional Vipassana organization will ensure that such
notes will be entered on a computer and shared in confidence with assistant teachers andauthorized course registrars involved in future courses. Your attendance at a course will
constitute unequivocal consent to the handling and storage of such notes and the cross-bordertransfer thereof subject to applicable laws, including those discussed below (“Specific PrivacyRequirements”). Should you wish to know more about how such notes are retained you should
contact the local or regional Vipassana organization to determine what its privacy policies areconcerning such notes and other personal data.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that we collect fromyou. Our website may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different
than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over
information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. Since the various Vipassana
organizations do not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy
customs and policies, if any, of that third party, and the vipassana organizations shall not be
responsible for the use or dissemination of your personal information by that third party.
Therefore, we encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information toothers.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a text file containing a small amount of information which our server downloads toyour personal computer when you visit our website. The file contains a unique number so that
our server knows which PC it is talking to. We create a session cookie when you use our online
application form to register for a course. We also use a session cookie to know whether you have
logged in as an old student or not. Some cookies are allocated to your PC only for the duration ofyour visit to a website, and these are called session based cookies. These are automaticallydeleted when you close down your browser. Some other "regional" Vipassana websites may alsouse cookies.

Children's Privacy
In accordance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (and comparable
legislation of other countries, including GDPR), we will never knowingly request or solicit
personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parentalconsent. In the event we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal
information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that informationfrom our database as quickly as is practical.

Specific Privacy Requirements
Please note that individual countries may have particular privacy law requirements. Vipassana
organizations around the world have developed specific privacy policies to comply with theserequirements that may differ in specific details from the more general policies set forth above.
You may obtain a hard copy of these specific requirements by contacting the course registrar of
the center to which you have submitted your application and/or registration forms or at thecourse site upon your arrival. Dhamma.org is committed to protecting the “rights and freedoms”
of individuals whose information Dhamma.org collects in accordance with such laws including
but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Pursuant to the applicable privacy regulations, you may have the following rights, among others,with regard to any data we collect or retain that relates to you:

the right of access, i.e. the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data
is being processed, and where this is the case, to obtain access thereto;
the right to rectification and erasure, i.e. the right to have inaccurate data rectified
and/or to have incomplete data completed, and the right to have personal data erased
for legitimate reasons;the right to impose restrictions on the processing of personal data, i.e. the right torequest the suspension of data processing for legitimate reasons;the right to data portability, i.e. the right to receive the data in a structured, commonlyused and easily readable format, as well as the right to transmit the data to another data
controller
the right to object, i.e. the right to oppose the processing of data where legitimate
reasons for this exist, including data processed for marketing and profiling purposes, if
this is envisaged;
the right to contact the competent data protection authority in case of unlawful dataprocessing.

You may exercise the rights listed above by writing to dhamma.org at privacy@dhamma.org. In
addition to the foregoing rights, each application form to register for a Vipassana Meditation
course or related activity contains a series of disclosures and consents, which are also intended
to protect your rights.

Opt-Out/Opt-In

Local or regional Vipassana organizations may provide you with the opportunity to "opt-out" ofhaving them send you e-mail or postal mail about their services or other information related toVipassana. In other cases, it may be possible for you to "opt-in" to certain local or regional
information distribution lists. If you choose to have your name, email address or other personallyidentifiable information removed from any of those databases, you can do so by contacting yourlocal or regional Vipassana organization and request removal.

How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about the privacy or any other policies of the Vipassana
Website or its implementation you may contact us at: privacy@dhamma.org.

Effective Date
This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 25, 2018. We reserve the right to modify the terms ofthis policy at any time and in our sole discretion. Your use of this website constitutes a binding
acceptance of the above-referenced policies.