We are committed to protecting your privacy. We only store, use and disclose the information that we collect lawfully (in accordance with the Canadian Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA). For more information about the CPPA, click here.

When signing up for events, to receive the newsletter, to use the contact/inquiries forms or to make a donation, some personal information is required such as the person’s name, home address, email address, phone number and, in some cases, debit or credit card details. This information shall only be used for purposes such as processing any payment you have made, providing the course, event or newsletter that you have signed up for and for our records.

We may need to share your personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. However, we will not share your email address or any other personal information with any other organization without your consent, unless we are required to do so by law.

Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada is a non-profit organization (charity no: 861356970 RR0001) and a member of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). For more information about the NKT-IKBU, click here.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, your IP address.

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or an app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, click here.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including: information about your browser, network, or device, your IP address.

This website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you have reached our website via an advertisement sent by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on a Google-served ad. These cookies loose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on our website and the cookie has not expired yet, we and Google may recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked through the websites of advertisers. The information gathered using the conversion cookie is used to Conversion statistics for AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users.

If you do not want to participate in the tracking, you can refuse the required setting of a cookie – for example, via a browser setting that generally disables the automatic setting of cookies or sets your browser to block cookies from the domain “googleleadservices.com”.

Please note that you are not allowed to delete opt-out cookies as long as you do not want to record measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must set the respective opt-out cookie again.

Personal data is any information that relates to a specific or identifiable person. An affected person is a person through whom personal information is processed. Editing includes all dealings with personal information, regardless of the means and procedures used, including, but not limited to, storing, posting, obtaining, deleting, storing, modifying, destroying, and using personal data.

We process personal information for the duration necessary for the purpose or purposes. For longer-term storage obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict the processing accordingly.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, web pages you view while on this website, your IP address.

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form for statistical purposes. For more information about Squarespace privacy policy, click here.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data as described above. The data will not be passed on to third parties.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we endeavor to protect the databases as far as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or counterfeiting.

We point out that the data transmission in the internet (i.e. the communication by email) can exhibit security gaps. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

When you make a transaction on this website, we collect personal information from you for registration purposes or to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your name, email address, phone number and address.

In the case of a registration to one of our event, we share this information with Ticket Tailor, our online ticketing provider, so that they can provide registration services to us. For more information about Ticket Tailor privacy policy, click here.

In the case of a donation or a purchase done via our online bookstore & gift shop (i.e. Online Celebration Shop), we also share this information with Square Register, our online membership and transaction provider, so that they can provide services to us. For more information about Square Register privacy policy, click here.

When you submit information to this website via a form (i.e. contact or inquiry form, subscription to our newsletter), we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions appropriately. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

In the case of the newsletter, we also share this information with Google Drive and Mailjet. For more information about Google Drive privacy policy, click here. For more information about Mailjet privacy policy, click here.

In the case of the general contact form, we also share this information with Gmail and Google Drive. For more information about Gmail and Google Drive privacy policy, click here.

When you sign up to join our email list, we collect your email address in order to track and respond to your request appropriately.

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Drive and Mailjet. For more information about Squarespace, click here. For more information about Google Drive privacy policy, click here. For more information about Mailjet privacy policy, click here.

Statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs help us to monitor and improve our e-newsletter.

We will send you news and marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email or emailing ‘unsubscribe’ to info@kadampa.ca.

If you have joined our email list or registered for classes and events on our website, 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.

Send an email to info@kadampa.ca for us to delete your data.

Images may be captured during events organized and hosted by Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada charity using film photography, digital photography, video or other medium and may be used on the website, event publicity or brochures, other publicity material (such as internal and external newsletters, facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, etc.).

To request that a photo of you be removed from our website or social media, please email: info@kadampa.ca.

Our website, newsletter and other emails sometimes contain links to other websites. This privacy policy does not apply to other websites so, if you visit them, you should read their own privacy policies.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we endeavor to protect the databases as far as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or counterfeiting.

We point out that the data transmission in the internet (i.e. the communication by email) can exhibit security gaps. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. 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.

Please e-mail festivals@kadampa.ca for any questions and inquiries.