Privacy Policy

This privacy statement discloses the privacy policy for www.balanceyogaandhealing.com.

We respect your privacy. Our purpose in collecting any information from you is to help us provide you with a better user experience when you visit our site. We will not willfully disclose any individually identifiable information about you to any third party without first receiving your permission, as explained in this privacy statement. We do not specifically target children under the age of 18, nor do we knowingly collect, without parental consent, individually identifiable information from such. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices available for review.

Information Collection and Use

TYC, Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. We collect information from our users at several different points on our website, including users’ name and email addresses to allow them to post comments on our site and/or to subscribe to our various news feeds and mailing lists.

Data Retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Cookies Usage

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site, and is used to provide an improved user experience while using our site. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user may be limited in some areas of our site.

Log Files and Analytics

We use IP addresses and browser user agent strings to analyze trends, help detect detect spam, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Embedded Content and External Links

Pages on this site may include embedded content, such as images and videos from other websites. Such embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. This website also contains links to external websites.

Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Third Party Services

For users leaving comments on our site, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture from Gravatar, if it exists, will be made visible to the public in the context of your comment. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Visitor comments posted to our site may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Site usage analytics may utilize third party services. Personally identifiable information collected by this site will not be provided to such third party services.

Newsletters and Mailing Lists

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletters and/or mailing lists, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, the information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration and order pages ask users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with SSL.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only those who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. In addition, the servers where we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a highly secured environment.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us via the contact form on this site.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Home page so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.