Privacy Policy & Cookies
Privacy & Cookies Policy
GENERAL
The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website monasteryblessing.com owned by "Monastery Blessing" hereinafter "the company", requires your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy on the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If he does not agree, he should leave it and NOT make any use of its services and content. This privacy policy may change from time to time in accordance with legislation or developments in the industry. We will not explicitly inform our customers or users of our website of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you occasionally check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Your continued use of the monasteryblessing.com website even after any changes to the Privacy Policy mean that you unconditionally accept these terms.
Personal data protection
We collect and process your personal data only when absolutely necessary. We will never sell, rent, distribute, or make public in any way your personal data. If you are under 16 years of age, you MUST have your parents' consent before using the services of this website.
Relevant legislation
In parallel with our company's internal IT systems, this website has been designed to comply with the following legislation/regulations regarding the protection of users' personal data:
1. EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
2. EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
Personal Information This Website Collects and Why We Collect It
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Site Traffic Tracking
Like most websites, this one uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people using our website, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their progress around the website. Although GA records data such as your geographic location, your device, your web browser and your operating system, none of this information identifies you personally to us. GA also records your computer's IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not provide us with access to it. We consider Google to be a third party data processor that is compliant with European law.
Contact forms and email links
If you choose to contact us using a contact form or a link in our email, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website or transferred to or processed by any third party data processor, as defined below in the section "Our third party data processors". Instead, this data will be sent to us in an email message via the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) protocol. Our SMTP servers are protected by the TLS (sometimes known as SSL) security protocol, which means that the email content is encrypted before it is sent over the internet. The email content is decrypted by our local computers and devices.
Email newsletter
If you choose to subscribe to our email newsletter, the email address you submit to us will be forwarded to Mailchimp, which provides us with email marketing services. Mailchimp is a third party data processor (see the section “Our third party data processors” below). The email address you submit will not be stored in the database within the website or in any of our company's internal IT systems. Your email address will remain in Mailchimp's database for as long as we continue to use its services for our email marketing or until you explicitly request to be removed from the list. You can do this by using the unsubscribe link contained in all email newsletters we send you. As long as your email address remains in Mailchimp's database, you will receive periodic (approximately once a month) newsletter emails from us.
About cookies
What is a cookie?
A "cookie" refers to a small data file consisting exclusively of a string of information in text format, which a website transfers to your web browser located on your computer's hard drive, either temporarily for the duration of your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, they distinguish you from other visitors to the same website or remember certain things about you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your experience as a user of them. Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the domain from which the cookie originated, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).
Types of cookies
The main types of cookies that websites may use are described below
- Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in your device's browser's cookie file only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
- Persistent cookies
These remain in your device's browser's cookie file even after you close your browser, sometimes for a year or more (the exact length of time depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are across multiple visits (e.g. to remember your username or your preferences for customizing the website).
- First-party cookies
These are cookies that are installed in your browser and/or on your device's hard drive by the website you are visiting. This involves assigning a unique identifier to you in order to track your navigation on the website. Website administrators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
- Third-party cookies
These are cookies that are used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to the various websites on which they advertise. The website administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.
Cookies on this website and how to manage them
On this website, we use cookies to improve the experience of using the website by its visitors. The functioning of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies. Below is information about the third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and the effect of disabling them on the functioning of the website. If you would like more information about how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org .
Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics cookies are performance analysis/tracking cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can tell us how many visitors use the website, the time and duration of access, and also provide information about how visitors navigate around the website. This information helps us to improve the way our website works. It is anonymous information and does not contain personal data.
The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred and stored on Google servers in accordance with Google's privacy policy.
For more information about Google Analytics, please click on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
You can disable tracking by Google Analytics by clicking on https://tools.go ogle.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl =en=GB
If you disable these cookies, your use of the website will not be counted, nor will it be used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the website. The functionality of the website will not be affected.
Cookies from video service providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc.)
These providers may place cookies on your device if you watch videos on our website that they provide to us as an external service. If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos from our website.
Cookies from social networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share content from our website with them by clicking on one of the embedded "Share" buttons. If you disable these cookies, the "Share" feature will not be available.
About this website's server
All internet traffic (file transfers) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transmitted over the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Our third-party data processors
We use a number of third-party data processors to process personal data for us. These data processors have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation referred to in this text.
Data breaches
All necessary measures will be taken to safeguard any personal information stored in our database. We will report any illegal breach of this website's database or the database of any third party data processor to any and all directly interested parties as well as to the authorities within 72 hours of the breach, provided that it is obvious that personal data stored in identifiable form has been stolen.