Data protection

General

thebuddhasoul takes data protection seriously and takes care to protect your data. Of course, your personal data will be treated in accordance with the current data protection regulations. Because the protection of your personal data during your visit to this website is very important to us, you will find below information about what personal information is collected during your use of the website and how it is used.

Collection and processing of data

Every access to our homepage is logged.The storage serves internal system-related and statistical purposes.The following items are logged: name of the file called, date and time of the call, amount of data transferred, message about successful retrieval, web browser and requesting domain.

Additionally the IP addresses of the requesting computers are logged.

Further personal data is only collected if this information is provided voluntarily, for example in the context of a request or registration.

Cookies are partly used.

Data processing on this website

Informations are automatically collected and stored in log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are browser type / browser version, operating system used, URL and time of the server request. There are not personal data. The data will not be merged with other data sources.

Right of providing information

You have the right to receive information about the stored personal data, its origin and recipient as well as the purpose of the data processing at any time. Upon written request, we will be happy to inform you about the data stored about you. You can also contact the data protection officer directly at the following email address: info(at)thebuddhasoul.com

Safety case

We are tying to save your personal data by taking all technical and organizational options so that they are not accessible to third parties. When communicating by email, we cannot guarantee complete data security, so we recommend that you post confidential information.

Transfer of data for online orders

We only transfer personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of contract processing, for example to the credit institution commissioned with the payment processing.

Newletter

If you would like to receive the newsletter on this website, you will need an email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link provided or via info(at)thebuddhasoul.com.

Further information about you, such as your name, address and date of birth, is used to use your personal data for advertising purposes. With regard to marketing purposes and to be able to guarantee individual customer care, thebuddhasoul uses your address data for its own advertising purposes only if you have given your consent. Your data will not be passed on for external marketing purposes.

Use of Facebook plugins (like button)

Plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our website. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our website, the plugin establishes a connection between the browser and the Facebook server. Facebook decides on the information you leave with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button, you can link your own pages to your Facebook profile. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Facebook. For more information, see Facebook's privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to our website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Use of Google Analytics

This website is called Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are used on their own computer terms and that allow an analysis of our website usage rights. The cookie viewing information about your use of this website is usually managed by a Google server in the USA.

The full IP address is only transferred to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services related to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your website use (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link : http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Use of Google AdSense 

This website uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements from Google Inc. ("Google"). Google AdSense uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the website usage. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). These web beacons can be used to evaluate information about visitor traffic on these pages.

The information generated by cookies and web beacons about website use (including your IP address) and delivery of advertising formats are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information can be passed on by Google to contractual partners of Google. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data that you have stored.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google and agree to the manner described above and for the aforementioned purpose.

Use of Google +1

Collection and disclosure of information:

You can use the Google +1 button to publish information worldwide. The Google +1 button gives you and other users personalized content from Google and our partners. Google stores both the information that you have given for +1 content and information about the page that you viewed when you clicked +1. Your +1 can be displayed as information together with your profile name and your photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile, or in other places on websites and advertisements on the Internet.

Google records information about your +1 activities in order to improve the Google services for you and others. To be able to use the Google +1 button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile that must contain at least the name chosen for the profile. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases, this name can also replace another name that you used when sharing content via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be shown to users who know your email address or who have other identifying information about you.

Use of the collected information:

In addition to the uses described above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google data protection regulations. Google may publish summarized statistics about the +1 activities of the users or pass them to users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or connected websites.

Use of Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our sites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and this data are also transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Twitter. For more information, see Twitter's privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your data protection settings on Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.