Privacy & Security Policy

• We comply with GDPR legislation.
• Your personally identifiable information is kept secure.
• Only authorised employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.
• By signing onto our courses, you give permission for us to add you name and contact details to an email list. This will be used to share information pertaining to the training course only. Upon completion of the course the course email list will be deleted.
• Only people who have opted in to do so will receive our group emails and newsletters. Group emails and newsletters will allow you to opt out of further mailings.
• Group emails and newsletters will be limited to email.
• SY will not sell trade, rent, exchange or otherwise share your personal information with any other person, company or organisation without your express consent to do so (see below).
• Students of courses Special Yoga for Special Children and Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to Children will be asked for consent to their contact details (name, phone number and email) being passed onto Yoga Alliance Professionals (YAP). Such students will be contacted directly by YAP and invited to register as a Trainee and/or Teacher. This will be done when attending the course.
• Online School: When you create an account and use the SY online school we collect any data you provide directly, including:
• Account Data: In order to enrol in a class, course or teacher training you need to create a user account. When you create an account we collect and store information you provide such as your name, email address and enrolments.
• Profile Data: If entered we will store your company, title and time zone
• Courses Data: When you enrol in and take a course we will collect and store the courses you have purchased, your progress on those courses including assignments, quizzes and questionnaires you’ve started and completed; your exchanges with instructors and other students; and essays, answers to questions, and other items submitted to satisfy course requirements and any completion certificates awarded.
• Notification Data: We store your notification preferences.
• Shared Content: Parts of the Services let you interact with other users or share content publicly, including by posting reviews on a course page, asking or answering questions, sending messages to students or instructors, or posting photos or other work you upload. Such shared content may be publicly viewable by others depending on where it is posted.
• Payment Data: If you make purchases, we collect certain data about your purchase (such as your name and postcode) as necessary to process your order. You must provide certain payment and billing data directly to our payment processing partners, including your name, credit card information and billing address. SY does not collect or store sensitive cardholder data, such as full credit card numbers or card authentication data.
• You can ask for content to be removed from specialyoga.org.uk/Thinkific. We will remove content:
• In order to comply with data protection legislation covering the rights and freedoms of individuals.
• If it breaches copyright laws, contains sensitive personal data on material that may be considered obscene or defamatory.
• Contact us to ask for content to be removed. You will need to send us the web address (URL) of the content and explain why you think it should be removed. We will reply to let you know whether we will remove it.

By enrolling on a training course with Special Yoga or accessing any of our online material I confirm to have read all information and take full responsibility for my participation in this event.