Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.uniteyoga.co.uk.

Unite Yoga is the trading name of Sarah Wilson.

Unite Yoga takes the security and privacy of our customers very seriously. This Privacy Policy is designed to provide you with important information about Unite Yoga’s use of personal data as required by the EU GDPR.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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.

Media

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

Cookies

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. The cookie helps analyse web traffic or allows web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes, and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our websites.

We are not in control of the delivery of cookies from service providers such as Facebook, Google Analytics, and YouTube. Any comments or questions that you may have should be raised with the originator of those cookies.

Your use of this site is taken as consent to the placing of cookies on your system. If you disagree, please take the following action (for technical support, please get in touch with your IT support technician)

  • Close this website
  • Use your web browser’s tools to “delete your cache”
  • Quit your browser
  • You can then choose to disallow cookies from this website via browser settings

If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from our website.

If you leave a comment on our site, 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 visit our login page, 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.

Embedded content from other websites

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 had 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.

Your Personal Data 
Unite Yoga stores the following information about its clients:

  • Enquiries from non-customers – message, name, and email address – received via our website or by email – held for up to a year, and used to answer queries and follow up.
  • Mailing list – name and email address – populated by people registering on our booking system registration form or via the newsletter itself.  People completing a health declaration or registering for classes are not automatically added to the mailing list, and there is an opt-out link on each mailing.
  • Health and registration forms from students  – name, contact details and health information – completed via our website or in class – used for class management, and held for at least seven years for insurance purposes.
  • Information that you provide during any voluntary or mandatory registration process (such as first and last name, company name, email address, phone number, billing address, geographic location, and industry), when you call or email us, or when you use our services, will be stored by Unite Yoga via our online booking software (Bookwhen).
  • Information about your class attendance and membership status – data collected in class – is used for class management and held for at least seven years for insurance purposes.
  • Notes on classes and sessions – data collected in class – used for class management, and held for at least seven years for insurance purposes.
  • Emails – sent from clients and non-clients.  Important messages are saved in our filing system; otherwise, emails are retained for up to two years.
  • Payment information that you provide to us through our booking system, Bookwhen. Your payment details are not held by Unite Yoga.
  • Your IP Address (will be recorded by our web server when you use our website).
  • Website cookies set automatically by our software.  We do not knowingly access these or pass to third parties.
  • Information held by Unite Yoga is accessed by staff and contractors working for Unite Yoga, and contractors working on Unite Yoga’s IT, and may be shared, on a need-to-know basis, with other teachers at Unite Yoga eg if they are covering a class.

For queries about Data Protection, please contact info@uniteyoga.co.uk

 

How Personal Data May be Used

  • Unite Yoga uses data to identify trends in the popularity of our classes.
  • We may use this data to offer you special offers via email if you have actively opted in to receive email notifications.
  • Your medical information is used to inform class planning, so that classes can be better tailored to your needs.

Bookwhen

You can read our online booking system’s Privacy Policy here

Personal Data and Third Parties

Unite Yoga does not and will not ever share or sell your data to any third party, except where required by law.

Unite Yoga does not collect data on members or potential members from any third parties.

How long we retain your data

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

For users that register on our 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.

What rights you have over your data

You can 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.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.