Name: Chinar Abdulazi

Phone Number: 07754 001908

E-mail: info@ameditationpractice.co.uk

What information do I collect about you?

I collect information

 

    • When you opt-in to our cookie policy.

    • If you opt-in to receive a blog or newsletter or to any marketing.

    • Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics for example your name and contact details.

    • Any information you have provided when registering to attend any workshops and courses.

    • If you contact me with comments or specific requirements I do not collect any personal identifying information without your consent.

How personal information is collected and why

Most of the personal information that is processed is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

 

    • To ensure that you are suitable to take part in these workshops and/courses.

    • If you have signed up to receive a blog or newsletter or any marketing, your name and email details will be stored. Further information will be stored if you contact me. 

    • To gain a little background information about you so we can assess what level you are at with regards to having a meditation practice.

    • To gain better knowledge of any concerns/health issues you may have.

I may also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:

 

    • When taking payment, another organisation may collect your data to help me with your payment when you are booking a workshop/class/course/session with me.

 

For the cookie policy – the cookie information on the website is used to help me understand more about how my website is used and to improve my website.

Third parties

None of your information would be passed on to third parties without your consent except where required to do so by law.

GDPR and accessing your information

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are: 

(a) Your consent to contact you. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us at info@ameditationpractice.co.uk

(b) We have a contractual obligation. This is to inform you what I will do with your personal information from initial point of contact through to after the session(s), any workshop(s) and course(s) have ended.

(c) We have a legal obligation. As a data controller which is used to describe the person/organisation that collects and stores and has responsibility for people’s personal data. In this instance, the data controller is Chinar Abdulaziz. I am registered with the Information Commissioner’s Officer – my registration number is ZA436626

How we store your personal information 

Your information is securely stored. 

Papers will be kept in a locked filing cabinet. However, the main storage will be digitally on a file management system.

We will keep your records for 5 years as it is the requirement of the professional body that I am a member of. 

We will then dispose of your information by electronically shredding your records from the file management system. 

Any information that I have from you in paper form will be shredded in a shredder.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. 

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. 

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at 35 Bishops Road, Hayes, Middx, UB3 2TD if you wish to make a request.

Safeguard of Information

We regularly review our security standards and procedures to help prevent unauthorised access to personal information, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@ameditationpractice.co.uk

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:            

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk