Privacy policy.

At HappyMinds, we are committed to making people feel better and achieve mental tranquillity while protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled responsibly. Our mission involves not only encouraging the practice of yoga but also ensuring that everyone feels informed and comfortable with how their data is utilized when engaging with us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit our website www.happymindsyoga.com. The details of how we handle your data are outlined in this policy, but should you have any inquiries, we welcome your outreach – your questions are important to us. If there's anything about this policy that you find unclear, or if you believe there's an important perspective we might have missed, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

This Notice sets out how HappyMinds processes data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

1. Introduction

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors, service users, individual customers, and customer personnel.

1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

1.3 We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

1.4 In this policy, "we," "us," and "our" refer to HappyMinds.

2. Your personal data
The personal data that we obtain from you as part of your registration process includes your name and contact details. We also ask for optional additional data such as date of birth, reason for visiting and experience in order to tailor our services to you. This information is obtained for the purposes of maintaining our contract with you to provide our services (e.g. yoga classes) and in order to improve our service to you. This includes ensuring that you receive information by email on your purchases, bookings, class reminders, pass expirations and cancellations. If you opt in for our newsletter then we also use your contact details to keep you up to date on classes, workshops, events and therapies.

3. How we store your data

3.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

3.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

3.3 Your personal data is stored securely within our booking software, and our online email platform, to allow us to manage our on-going business and provide an efficient service to you. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is processed, it is protected through the use of encryption.

3.4 The data is securely stored and only shared by the owner of HappyMinds. We do not share personal data with any third party.

4. Images and photos
We reserve the right to photograph or film during our classes and to use these images for our website and marketing purposes. By signing our liability waiver, you agree to these terms and should you not wish to be photographed or filmed, it is your responsibility to make yourself known. We do not use the personal details or names of any client in a photograph on our website, printed publications and social media unless express permission is granted.

5. Your personal data in relation to our website
In addition to the personal data above, information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by www.squarespace.com. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used to operate our website, to maintain its quality, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our website.

We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or content on other websites.

6. Use of Cookies
HappyMinds website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Please visit out Cookie Policy section for more information.

7. Changes to this Statement
We will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect client feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

8. Your right to your personal data
You have a legal right to access all personal information held by us relating to you and request that all information relating to you is removed at any time.

If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints about the processing of your personal information, would like to see a copy of the information we hold for you, or wish to contact us for any general matters, please drop us an email on welcome@happymindyoga.com

9. You can contact us:

(a) Using our website contact form

(d) By email on welcome@happymindyoga.com