Privacy Policy
School of Shamanic Womancraft
The School of Shamanic Womancraft is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about you, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, how we keep it safe and secure and your rights and choices in relation to your information.
Any questions regarding this policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to the School or by writing to Jane Hardwicke Collings, PO Box 3290, Robertson, NSW, 2577, AUSTRALIA.
- Who we are
- How we collect information from you
- What type of information is collected from you?
- How and why is your information used?
- How long is your information kept for?
- Who has access to your information?
- Lawful Processing
- Your Choices
- Your Rights
- Keeping your information safe
- Keeping your information up to date
- Use of ‘cookies’
- Links to other websites
- Transferring your information outside of Europe
- SSW Temple App
- Changes to this policy
- Review of this Policy
Who We Are
The School of Shamanic Womancraft is a women’s mysteries school founded by Jane Hardwicke Collings, operating with teachers and support staff in person at events and through the schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com and temple.schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com websites, as well as the SSW Temple app.
How We Collect Information About You
We obtain information about you in the following ways:
Information You Give Us Directly
For example, we may obtain information about you when you take part in one of our workshops, courses or events, purchase products or services, or register to receive a prospectus and regular updates about the School of Shamanic Womancraft.
When You Visit Our Websites or Access our App
We, like many companies, automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the type of device you’re using, the IP address, browser and operating system being used to connect your computer or device to the internet. This information may be used to improve the services we offer.
- information about your visit to our websites or app, for example we collect information about pages you visit and how you navigate the website, i.e. length of visits to certain pages, products and services you viewed and searched for, referral sources (e.g. how you arrived at our website).
We collect and use your personal information by using cookies on our website.
Cookies are small files stored on your computer or mobile device which collect information about your browsing behaviour. Cookies do not access information which is stored on your computer.
Cookies enable us to tailor our configurations to your needs and preferences, in order to improve your user experience. Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically, although you are able to change your browser settings to control cookies, including whether or not you accept them, and how to remove them. You may also be able to set your browser to advise you if you receive a cookie, or to block or delete cookies. However, if you do this, you may be prevented from taking full advantage of the our information and offerings.
See also Use of ‘cookies’
What type of information is collected from you?
The personal information we collect, store and use might include:
- your name and contact details (including postal address, email address and telephone number)
- information about your activities on our websites or app and about the device used to access it, for instance your IP address and geographical location
- your bank or credit card details. If you make a make a purchase, your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions
- and any other personal information shared with us.
How and why is your information used?
We may use your information for a number of different purposes, which may include:
- providing you with the services, products or information you asked for
- processing orders that you have submitted
- offering the education you have paid for
- carrying out our obligations under any contracts entered into between you and us
- keeping a record of your relationship with us
- conducting analysis and market research to better understand how we can improve our services, products or information
- seeking your views or comments on the services we provide
- notifying you of changes to our services
- and sending you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you. These may include information about campaigns, fundraising appeals and activities and promotions of goods and services.
How long is your information kept for?
We keep your information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it was collected for. The length of time we retain your personal information for is determined by operational and legal considerations. For example, we are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory and regulatory obligations (e.g. tax/accounting purposes).
We review our retention periods on a regular basis.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
WordPress stores the personal information you provide when setting up a user profile, for example to make a comment. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
Who has access to your information?
We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
However, we may disclose your information to third parties in order to achieve the other purposes set out in this policy. These third parties may include:
Third Parties Working On Our Behalf
We may pass your information to our third party service providers, suppliers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to process payments and send you mailings). However, when we use these third parties, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the services and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and prevents them from using it for their own direct marketing purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties for them to use for their own direct marketing purposes, unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Lawful Processing
- send email and postal communications which we think will be of interest to you
- conduct research to better understand our supporters and to improve the relevance of our fundraising
- understand how people choose/use our services and products
- determine the effectiveness of our services, promotional campaigns and advertising
- monitor who we deal with to protect the business against fraud, money laundering and other risks
- enhance, modify, personalise or otherwise improve our services/communications for the benefit of our customers
- and better understand how people interact with our websites and app.