Privacy policy

What data we collect

If you create an account: your name, your email and your password (stored encrypted). If you log in with Google, we receive your name, your email and an identifier of your Google account; never your Google password.

If you take part in a sangha: the sanghas you belong to, your role in them and what you publish (materials, events, attendance responses).

If you use your personal space: what you keep in your library and, if you enable your public profile, your display name, your username and what you tell about yourself. Private items are only for you; public ones are visible to anyone while your profile is public. The same applies to your blog posts. Your email is never shown.

If you write to us through the contact form: your name, your email and your message. We only use them to reply and delete them after 12 months.

If you buy from the shop: your name, your email, your phone number, the shipping address and the order details. If you pay with Mercado Pago, your card details go to Mercado Pago, never to us.

What we use it for

To give you access to your account and your sanghas, prepare and deliver your orders, send you necessary emails (account confirmation, password recovery, invitations, notices about changes to events you responded to and the status of your orders) and keep the site secure. We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.

Who we share it with

Only with providers we need to run the site: hosting, file storage, email delivery and, if you choose it, Google for logging in. If you buy, Mercado Pago (if you pay with it) and the company that ships your order receive what they need to charge and deliver it. Other members of a sangha can see your name within that sangha.

Cookies

We use technical cookies to keep you logged in and remember your shopping cart. The bodhicitta-visitor cookie counts distinct visitors, the approximate country reported by the network (we do not store the IP address) and the pages viewed. We keep that data for 90 days. It is not tied to your account, not used for advertising and not shared. We do not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies.

Links to affiliate stores go through our site to count how often they are used, without storing any data about you. The destination store applies its own privacy policy.

Content from other services

Sangha materials may link to services such as YouTube, Spotify, Vimeo, SoundCloud or Google Drive. When you view those materials, your browser loads their thumbnails from those services. Their players only load if you press "Watch here", and from then on each service's privacy policy applies; YouTube videos use its privacy-enhanced mode.

Your rights

You can request access to, correction or deletion of your data, object to its processing, or ask for a copy of it by writing to [email protected]. We keep your data while your account is active.

You can delete your account yourself from "My account". This deletes your account, your profile, your personal library and blog, your memberships, your event responses and the sanghas where you are the only member. Materials and events you published in sanghas with other members stay there without your name; write to us if you want them deleted too. Backups are renewed within 14 days.

Shop orders are kept for as long as tax law requires, even if you delete your account: they keep the purchase details but are no longer linked to the account.