August 2023
Your privacy is important to us. This policy explains what types of personal information will be gathered when you register online, when you contact us or when you provide to us any piece of personal data, directly or inside an electronic form. Personal data means information or pieces of information that could allow us to identify you. In case you have been agreeing with other Privacy Policies issued by us, they will apply additional to the present one, except the clauses/provisions that are contradictory, in which case the present one being the one which will prevail over the previous ones.
Information Collected
We collect the following personal data: your full legal and when applicable preferred name, photo, email address, contact information, including phone number and whatsapp number, year of birth, gender, nationality, country of residence, native language and spoken languages, contact status with sangha local communities, your connection with Mooji and information about previous experience of satsang with Mooji, your volunteer services; and any other information you provide voluntarily to us.
We collect personal data in order to provide you with certain services related to:
- your application and processing your application for providing us with your volunteering service;
- creating, keeping and using a database of volunteers;
- the sharing of Mooji’s teachings and pointings with the public;
- the administration of your volunteering work and services;
- participation in various activities relating to volunteering, international Sangha and satsang;
- provide you with Satsang Support;
- the sharing/transferring (for example by means of an assignment/merger) services within the Sangha entities and/or for integrating and re-organising them into new or existing entities, and
- the prevention of potential threats to our service.
We do not store any credit card details. However, our third-party partners through which platforms we process all your payments (if the case) may store such card details. For more information, please carefully read their Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
We may store this information manually or electronically.
How the information collected is used
The personal information you provide to us will only be used for the purposes stated above. Personal information will not be sold to third parties or provided to direct marketing companies or other such organisations. Personal information collected and/or processed by us is held in accordance with the provisions of UK Data Protection Act 2018 updated and EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679.
How we store information collected and for how long
Information which you provide to us is stored on our secure servers which are located in the European Union.
By submitting personal information, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing. We will take all steps reasonably possible to ensure that your data is treated securely. Please be aware that the personal data you may voluntarily submit to us via any of our official media channels may be shared within the Sangha entities, strictly on a need to know basis.
The personal data you disclose to us except for data which is included in photography or in any audio/video/audio-video recordings, shall be processed, shared and stored for a period of 5 (five) years for the above mentioned purposes. The personal data disclosed that is included in photography or in any audio/video/audio-video recordings will be processed, stored or shared for an unlimited period of time and only for educational, informative or promotional purposes of sharing Mooji’s teachings and pointings with the public, with the utmost respect and sensitivity.
Confidentiality Notice
All personal data disclosed to us shall be treated as confidential by all Sangha entities’ employees, assistants and helpers. We have implemented procedures and workflows so that we ensure that your personal data (including possible voluntarily provided personal data such as, but not limited to, correspondence, zoom/whatsapp calls, recordings of any kind, audio, video, photography, etc.) will be treated with utmost respect, taking into account the principle of using your personal data lawfully, fairly and ethically only by specific people for specific purposes where is relevant for their workflow, keeping it secure and at your disposal by request, and/or safely destroying/deleting it when it is not relevant/needed anymore for the purposes it was collected.
Rights you have concerning your personal data
The law gives you the right to access information held about you. It also gives you the right to object to processing of the data relating to you. You may also request rectification or erasure of your personal data and withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more purposes, the right to portability of data, the right not to be subject to automatic decisions and the right to address your complaints to a data protection supervising authority. However, in case you decide to withdraw your consent for one or more purposes herein listed, withdrawal which will make us unable to provide you with the service required and/or with any ongoing contractual and/or legal obligations that we may have towards you and/or towards others, we reserve our right to reasonably refuse such withdrawal. For further information about such rights and how to exercise them, please write an email to dataprotection@mooji.org, providing your full legal name, the information you are requesting access to, the rights you would like to invoke and the reasons/concerns on which your request is based.
Contact concerning this Privacy Policy
Any queries or concerns about this Privacy Policy can be sent to dataprotection@mooji.org . This Privacy Policy applies equally for the personal data collected by any and all of the following organisations (herein collectively referred to as “Sangha entities”): Associação Mooji Sangha, Mooji Foundation Ltd., and Mooji Media Ltd., .