1. Definitions

Us, We, Our means Buddhika, an Australian registered business with the ABN  31 687 689 360.

You means the person using this Website.

 

2. Scope of this Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting personal information that we collect about you through your use of this website, https://buddhikas.com (“this Website”).

 

3. Using this Website

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.  If you have objections to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use this Website. Your use of this Website will be deemed to be confirmation that you have had sufficient opportunity to access this Privacy Policy and that you have read it and that you agree to it.

You do not have to provide us with any personal information, however it is possible that declining to provide information may affect your use of this Website.

We may change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time.

 

4. Newsletter subscriptions

If you subscribe to our electronic newsletter, we may collect your name and email address. We use the services of MailChimp to deliver such newsletters to you. MailChimp’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy. Its Terms of Use policy is located here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms. Your subscription to our newsletter will be deemed as acceptance of the manner in which MailChimp manages your personal information according to these policies.

 

5. Comments on, and uploading media to, this Website

If you make comments on this Website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string for the purpose of spam detection.

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. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 Please remember that your comments are visible by the general public. Please only share information that you are happy to share with the general public.

If you make a comment on this Website, that comment is deemed to be non-confidential information in the public domain and we are free to use that information on an unrestricted basis.

Uploading media to our Website – If you upload images to this Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to this Website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we may recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on this Website (if any), 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 (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

 

6. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this Website may include embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

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.

 

7. Cookies

If you leave a comment on our Website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

This website may use cookies to monitor browsing preferences. If you allow cookies to be used, personal information may be stored by us for the purpose of creating anonymous usage statistics and analytics for the site or system. If you do not agree to this possible monitoring of preferences, you agree to disallow cookies before using this Website.

If you do not agree with the use of cookies in the manner outlined above, before using this Website, you agree to disable cookies in your browser.

 

8. Website Analytics and Facebook Business Tools (including Facebook Pixel)

Please be aware that we may use Facebook Business Tools and Facebook Pixel, Automattic’s Jetpack, Google Analytics or other analytics tools to understand how people use this Website.

If you do not agree with this use of analytics and tools, you agree to decline to use this website.

How Facebook uses information it collects is outlined at: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php 

You may also choose to adjust your Facebook privacy settings. 

Information about how Jetpack manages information can be found here: https://jetpack.com/support/privacy .

How Google uses information it collects is outlined at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites .

You can also choose to opt out of Google Analytics (see this link for help opting out of Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) however we note that we may also be using Jetpack and opting out of Google Analytics will not mean that you have opted out of Jetpack.

 

9. What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this Website, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

10. Disclosure to third parties

We will never sell your personal information to any third party under any circumstances whatsoever. We will not give your personal information to any third party except to provide services to you, in the limited circumstances specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required to do by law.

 

11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Use of this Website is governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia at all times. By using this Website is agreement to be bound by the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia in relation to any privacy matter.

 

 

Contact Us

Please be assured that we take your privacy seriously. 

If you would like to contact us about a privacy issue, email us at hola@buddhikas.com and specify ‘privacy‘ in the  subject line.