Policies & Procedures
Privacy Policy
- How we use your information
- Visitors to our websites
- Use of cookies by KMC Sheffield
- E-newsletter
- Security and performance
- People who use our online booking system
- People who submit a Volunteering Visitor application
- Photos taken during events or day visits to Kadampa Meditation Centre Sheffield
- CCTV
- People who email us
- How long we keep your information
- Links to other websites
- Changes to this privacy notice
- Access to and amending your personal information
- How to contact us
- What you can do
- How we use your information
- Visitors to our websites
- Use of cookies by KMC Sheffield
- Our Use of Cookies page is currently under review and being updated. Full information
- about our use of cookies will available on our website Privacy Policy page shortly.
- Centre search engine
- The centre search engine is powered by Google Maps. Search queries and results are
- logged anonymously to help improve website and search functionality. No user-specific data
- is collected by KMC Sheffield.
- E-newsletter
- KMC Sheffield uses a third party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our e-newsletters. Statistics
- around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs
- help us to monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see
- MailChimps Privacy Notice
All users
We may also share information we hold on with other New Kadampa Tradition Centres
Terms, conditions & refunds policy
When booking any of our services online, phone or at the centre. Your information will be used to provide you with the services to enable you to attend our classes, retreats and workshops.
We will not share your details with any other party except were details in our privacy policy when we use 3rd partys to process some information. An example of this is when you view a video on our site that is embedded through YouTtube, they may collect information from you you can check their policy on youtube.com.
We will also use your details for marketing purposes to inform you of of other events or information you maybe interested in.
Refunds
All refunds are at our discretion. We will try to provide refund when possible.
When paying with paypal and you request a refund they may take a fee from you. We are unable to refund this fee. (We do not receive this fee.)
Please see Paypa'sl policy for more details.
Cookie Policy
This cookie statement was last updated on 6th October 2024 and applies to citizens of the European Economic Area.
1 Introduction
Our website, https://meditateinsheffield.org.uk (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2 What are cookies
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3 What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4 What is a webbeacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5 Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “All cookies”, you consent to us using all cookies and plug-ins as described in the pop-up and this cookie statement. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
6 Third parties
We have made agreements about the use of cookies with other companies that place cookies. However, we cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. Parties such as Google are to be considered as independent data controllers within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation. We recommend that you read the privacy statements of these companies.
7 Cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
We use analytical cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place analytical cookies.
We do not use any advertising cookies on this website.
On our website we have included buttons for Facebook and Instagram to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook and Instagram themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook and Instagram are located in the United States.
8 Placed cookies
Use of cookies by KMC Sheffield
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
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Cookie |
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Purpose |
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Universal Analytics (Google) |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
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-fbp |
The functionality is: to store and track visits across websites. The purpose is: Marketing Expiration period: 3 months |
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apilocal_csrf-token |
A security measure against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. |
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cookieyes-consent |
Cookie consent is the legal requirement to obtain consent from website visitors before setting cookies on their devices. |
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Sourcebusterjs |
sbjs_current sbjs_current_add sbjs_first sbjs_first_add sbjs_migrations sbjs_session sbjs_udata |
SBJs cookies are part of a library called Sourcebuster. js, which is used for tracking where your website visitors come from. They collect information about the user's source, medium, campaign, content, and term with respect to marketing campaigns. |
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Tawk |
TawkConnectionTime twk_idm_key twk_uuid_60081d62c31c9117cb709356 |
This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. |
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Dailymotion |
ts |
Provides load balancing functionality. |
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PayPal |
ts_c |
Provides fraud prevention |
9 Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie statement. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10 Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.
11 Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our cookie policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Kadampa Meditaton Centre Sheffield
685-691 Ecclesall Road
Sheffield
S11 8TG
United Kingdom
Website: https://meditateinsheffield.org.uk
Email: admin@meditateinsheffield.org.uk
Phone number: 0114 266 1142
If there are still some open questions, don't hesitate to contact us 🙂
Safeguarding Policy
This is a summary of our Safeguarding Policy.
The full policy is available on application to: info@meditateinsheffield.org.uk.
Original created and agreed: 24th August 2017; updated version adopted 17th September 2024
General Safeguarding Information
Kadampa Meditation Centre Sheffield is open to the public for meditation classes, retreats, group prayers, school and organisation group visits and other events. We maintain our duty of care to safeguard the public in general and specifically children and adults at risk at all times. Our general duty of care to the public is covered in our risk management policy. Our safeguarding policy specifically includes additional information relating to children and adults at risk but it applies to everybody who comes in contact with Kadampa Meditation Centre Sheffield (KMCS), including residents, volunteers and visitors.
The Object of the Charity is to promote the Buddhist Faith, and a fundamental commitment of followers of the Buddhist Faith is not to harm others. In the Charity’s Internal Rules it states that the Centre shall always remain as a pure, peaceful and harmonious society. All Trustees, managers, staff, residents and volunteers of Sheffield Kadampa Meditation Centre personally abide by these Internal Rules.
- Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility
- The present Designated Safeguarding Officer ("DSO") is Tessa Givnan.
- The policy applies to everyone involved with KMCS including trustees, managers, volunteers and residents
- The purpose is to give guidelines for safeguarding everyone coming into contact with KMCS, which is committed to organising and carrying out its activities in a way that safeguards and promotes the welfare of everyone who comes into contact with the Charity, particularly children and adults-at-risk.
- As a Buddhist community, a fundamental commitment of followers of the Buddhist Faith is not to harm others. In the Charity’s Internal Rules it states that the Centre shall always remain as a pure, peaceful and harmonious society.
- This policy is in accordance with the relevant Acts of Parliament
- All children and adults-at-risk have a right to equal protection from all types of harm or abuse, regardless of age, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, sexual orientation or identity. Some children and adults-at-risk are especially at risk because of the impact of past experiences, their level of dependency or their communication needs, or because of other issues.
- The policy has clear statements for safeguarding children and adults at risk
- There are clear procedures for raising concerns, guidelines for dealing with and recording disclosures, maintaining confidentiality and keeping appropriate records and monitoring disclosures.
- The DSO and others receive appropriate training
- The policy is regularly reviewed.