Inner Peace QiGong, Inc. (the “Company”, “we” or “our”) is providing this policy to provide to you, when you use this Site, information as to our online practices regarding information you provide to us.

By accessing our Web site maintained at www.innerpeaceqigong.com and other websites owned by the Company (the “Site”), you expressly consent and agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, including our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the choices you have made the Site. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS OUR SITE. Each time a user accesses the Site, the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use should be reviewed because the Company reserves the right to change them from time to time without notice. Your continued use of the Site after such changes have been made constitutes your acceptance of such changes. This policy was last updated June 2023.

This Privacy Policy describes Inner Peace QiGong Inc.’s collection, use, disclosure, and protection of personal information collected or provided through our websites. By using our website(s) or otherwise providing personal information, users agree to this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound and abide by our Terms of Service.

Our websites are not intended for individuals under the age of majority, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from such individuals.

Information Collected

We may collect the following categories of personal information in connection with the use of our websites, including but not limited to:

Registration information, such as email addresses for newsletters, updates, contests, surveys or promotions. We may also collect, or users may submit information such as their first and last names, contact information and any other required information for such purposes.

Technical and navigational information may be collected relating to a user’s interaction with our websites, including computer browser type, pages visited, average time spent on our websites, IP address, unique device identifier, operating system version or app version. If a location-enabled aspect of our websites is used, we may collect location information from a user’s device and will notify the user of this collection (the sharing of location information can be controlled or disabled using device settings).We may request or receive other personal information including feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas to improve upon our websites (users may provide, or decline to provide, this information).

Information Use

We may use personal information to:

• Improve our websites
• Respond to inquiries
• Analyze site usage
• Provide notification regarding software compatibility issues
• Deliver relevant administrative notices, alerts or communications
• Offer products, programs, or services that we believe may be of interest
• Perform market research, project planning, product development, troubleshooting, analysis of user behavior, marketing and promotions
• Enforce our Terms of Services and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy
  Mobile Versions & Apps

When mobile apps or mobile versions of our websites are used, we may collect the unique device identifier assigned to that device by phone makers, carriers, or makers of the operating system. This device ID allows app developers and advertisers, etc., to uniquely identify a device for purposes of storing application preferences and other data.

Personal Information Disclosure

We will not, without permission, sell, publish, or share personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

We may provide personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws. We may also disclose personal information where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property.

Information Security

We take the security of personal information seriously, and use technical, physical, and administrative safeguards such as, but not limited to, firewalls, encryption techniques and authentication procedures, to maintain the security of personal information. However, no collection or transmission of information over the Internet or other publicly accessible communications networks can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and therefore, we cannot warrant the security of any such information.

Note also that we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site.

ALTHOUGH THE COMPANY USES REASONABLE SECURITY PRECAUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED FROM AND STORED ON OUR SERVERS, THE COMPANY CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA STORED ON OUR SERVERS, OR TRANSMITTED TO OR FROM THE SITE, WILL BE FREE FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS AND SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR DAMAGE TO, OR INTERCEPTION OF ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA BEING STORED ON OUR SERVERS OR ON THE SITE OR TRANSMITTED TO OR FROM THE SITE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE SERVICES.

Newsletters & Alerts

Subscribers to email newsletters, notifications, promotions, or other information may choose to sign-up or stop receiving them by indicating following the unsubscribe instructions included in the email.

Third Parties, Advertisers & Data Collection

Inner Peace QiGong may offer products and services provided by third parties advertised on our websites. If these products and services are used, or information is provided to the third party, or the third party is allowed to collect information from users, such information is subject to the applicable third party’s privacy policy and terms of service. In such case, we suggest users review the practices of the third party before deciding to use their service or provide information.

From time-to-time, we may use third party service providers to analyze certain online activities or measure online performance. Services such as Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to determine data that can be used to better serve our visitors (click here to visit the Google Analytics opt-out page).

Access to Personal Information

Users have the right to access, update and correct inaccuracies in their personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. Users may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in other personal information we have in our custody or control by emailing or writing to us at the contact information set out below. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access personal information records.

Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time-to-time. Such changes take effect immediately upon posting.

Opt-Out, Unsubscribe

You may choose to opt out of receiving communications, such as phone calls, e-mails or mailings from the Company, and/or if you wish to have us delete any names, email addresses, phone numbers, content or communications you send to us or the like, you may use the opt out mechanism that is provided here: click on the UNSUBSCRIBE link at the bottom of any email that has been sent to you or send by certified mail, a written opt out election to the attention of our Opt-Out Email Administrator, sending an email to: innerpeaceqigong@icloud.com.

Personal Information Collected

Visitors to our Site can access the Site’s home page and browse the Site without disclosing any personally identifiable information depending on your privacy settings. See our “cookie” policy below. We may track information provided to us by your browser, including the Web site you came from (known as the "referring URL"), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you.

We may also collect the following information (your “Personal Data”):

1. Your name;
2. Your email address, mailing address, email address, telephone and other contact details;
3. Your device’s IP address;
4. Your participation and attendance at our services, classes and events;
5. Payment information (see also the privacy policy of our payment processor);
6. Records of your communication with us (including your communication with your teacher(s));
7. Your opinions, beliefs and other information you choose to provide when you participate in our classes or contribute to online message boards or forums we provide;
8. Information about your visits to our website (see 'Cookies' below).

Please also note that some of the Personal Data you supply and that we process may include what is known as 'sensitive' data about you, for example, if you post information on the Site regarding your ethnic origin or political, philosophical, and religious beliefs.

If you do not provide us with specific non-sensitive Personal Data when requested, we may not be able to register you as a student, respond to a query or otherwise provide you with our classes, events or products.

Further to the extent that you post “User Content” (as defined in the Terms of Use), and you identify yourself in your post, you thereby authorize us to use your name, and any other personal information you include with your User Content as further detailed in the Terms of Use. Please be aware that any information including, without limitation, User Content that you post to the Site may be accessible by other users of the Site. Please be sure that any such information is information that you are comfortable sharing with the public.

How you choose to submit your Personal Data and How we collect your Personal Data:

• We collect Personal Data about you in various ways as follows:
• When you register with us directly;
• When you join our mailing list to receive information, newsletters or other marketing communications from us;
• When you pay for services, classes and evens or make purchases in our online store;
• Through your relationship and communications with us, for example, if you contact us to ask a question about a class, or when you exchange emails with your teacher;
• When you sign up to attend a class or event via a third-party online reservation service (e.g. via Meetup or Eventbrite);
• When you contribute to online message boards or forums we provide (you will be identified when you post);
• When you interact with us via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or another online platform; or
• When you visit our website (see 'Cookies' below).

How the Information is Used

We use your Personal Data for the following reasons and purposes (as further detailed below):

• for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract; (for example, when you register for a service, class or event, request materials from us, or when you purchase products or services);
• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
• where we pursue our legitimate interests except where such interests are overridden by your own rights and interests; or
• where you have given consent.

Sensitive Information:

If we process sensitive data as referred to above (for example, if you post on the Site), including information about your philosophical or religious beliefs, we will only do this with your explicit consent where you have made public such information, and therefore the processing is carried out in the course of our legitimate activities or if otherwise permitted by applicable law.

We may use your Personal Data for one or more of the following purposes:

• Class and event administration: including responding to any queries you may have regarding classes or events you may be interested in, registering you as a student, confirming your class registration, providing you with all the information you need to attend events and to participate in classes you have enrolled in, recording your milestones, providing our events, classes and connected resources to you. We may contact you for the purposes of class and event administration using any of the contact details you provide to us, including text message.
• Fulfil an order for a product: processing your order and payment, keeping in touch regarding your order and delivering it to you.
• Identity checking: where necessary, conducting checks to identify our donors and verifying their identities.
• Operational reasons within our legitimate interests: such as improving efficiency, ensuring your teacher(s) have all the information they need to help you get the most out of classes (this may involve teachers sharing information about students when necessary), training and quality control, responding to queries you may have, ensuring that our internal policies are complied with, maintaining and updating our records, preventing unauthorised access and modifications to systems.
• To comply with legal or regulatory requirements: keeping all relevant tax records and for any other purpose required by law, regulation, the order of a court or regulatory authority.
• Marketing within our legitimate interests: providing you with direct marketing communications about what we are doing as well as products, services, classes and/or events which may be of interest to you by email, mail or phone. If required under applicable law, where we contact you by SMS, email, fax, social media and/or any other electronic communication channels for direct marketing purposes, this will be subject to you providing your express consent. You can object or withdraw your consent to receive direct marketing from us at any time, by contacting us using the following email: innerpeaceqigong@icloud.com
• To enforce and/or defend any of our legal claims or rights.

The Personal Data that you provide during the purchase process on the Website is handled by a third-party e-commerce platform managed through Bookmark for Membership, Class and event purchases.

Gift Recipient’s Personal Data:

In addition, when you submit data to us about other individuals (for example, when you purchase a gift), you thereby agree, represent and warrant to us in each instance that you have obtained consent from each such individual to the submission, transfer and processing of the information.

Sharing of Information

We may share or disclose non-personally identifiable information, whether aggregated or otherwise, with third parties.

Personal Information of Minors

The Company does not knowingly solicit, nor does it knowingly collect, through the Site Personal Data from children under the age of sixteen. If the Company learns that a child under the age of sixteen has submitted Personal Data online, the Company will take reasonable measures to delete such information from its databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required by law).

However, a parent or legal guardian may register a child under the age of sixteen for a service, class or event. In such case, we will only use that child’s information for that event, or as other expressly agreed to by the parent or legal guardian.

External Distribution of Personally Identifiable Information and of Confidential Information

The Company does not externally distribute Personal Data of a user, except if a user specifically opts-in to permit that certain of the user’s Personal Data be distributed to a third party, or if in connection with attribution for User Content contributed by a user through the Site, including by use of Facebook Connect or other social media links. External distribution does not include certain limited distributions such as sharing Personal Data with a third party working on behalf of the Company, transfer of Personal Data in connection with the sale of the Company’s assets or the merger of the Company or the disclosure of Personal Data in connection with legal proceedings, investigations of crimes, or other governmental investigations. Transferring Personal Data in connection with a sale or merger and sharing Personal Data with an entity or person working on behalf of the Company is considered an Onward Transfer. [link to below Onward Transfer section]

We may share your Personal Data with:

• Other Company locations, who may assist us in providing you with newsletters, products and services, and provide us with operational assistance; and
• Third parties we use to help deliver our products and services to you e.g. payment service providers, online reservation service providers, delivery companies.
• We may also share Personal Data with external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our accounts.
• We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
• In the event of a merger, reorganization or change of control of Inner Peace QiGong Inc., Personal Data may be transferred to that reorganised entity or incoming controlling entity so that the Company can continue to operate.

Use of Your Information to Protect the Company and Others:

We may release account and other Personal Data if we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our other users, or third parties. This includes exchanging information with other companies and entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We do not, however, sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose Personal Data from users for commercial purposes without your consent.

Use of Cookies

The Company uses “cookies”. “Cookies” is a text file that downloads small bits of information to your device. Cookies can note that a user’s browser was used to visit certain sites or pages on a certain date. The Company uses cookies to enhance navigation and functionality of its Site. The Company also uses cookies to enable the Company to understand how visitors are using its Site, so that the Company can modify its Site and enhance its offerings. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us provide you with a good experience when you browse and also allows us to improve our website.

Our website uses the following types of cookies:

• Necessary cookies: these cookies are essential for the website to function properly and cannot be disabled without severely affecting the usability of the website. The law does not require us to ask consent to use these cookies and they will always be placed when you use our website.
• Functional cookies: these cookies remember various choices you make on the website to improve your experience. They are also used to display recommendations for you based on your past activity on the website. Functional cookies may be required for actions such as watching a video.
• Any Personal Data that these cookies collect is anonymized before being used for any other purpose, so we don’t keep records of your data or track you personally or monitor how you browse on other websites.
• We also use cookies from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to allow you to share information via your timeline or by liking or sharing content.
• Analytics cookies: these cookies gather anonymous data on how visitors use the website, for example, what pages are most visited and how long visitors stay on them. They also gather information on errors which may occur during visits which can help us fix them.

Managing cookies: most web browsers allow you to manage which cookies you accept via their settings. You can normally use the ‘Help’ functionality on your browser to find out about how it handles cookies and how you can manage your cookie preferences.

Onward Transfer

External distribution does not include certain limited distributions such as sharing Personal Data with a third party working on behalf of the Company, the transfer of Personal Data in connection with the sale of the Company’s assets or the merger or acquisition of the Company or the disclosure of Personal Data in connection with legal proceedings, investigations of crimes, or other governmental investigations. Transferring Personal Data in connection with these limited distributions is considered an onward transfer to third parties and is permitted under this Privacy Policy.

Without limiting the foregoing, third parties may be engaged by us to perform a variety of services and functions, including providing technical and hosting services for our Site. These third parties may have access to your Personal Data if necessary to perform such services and functions; however, they are only authorized to use such personal information for the purpose of performing such services and functions and are not authorized by us to use your Personal Data for any other purpose.

Additional Disclosures

You acknowledge and agree that the Company may preserve or disclose any Personal Data if it reasonably believes disclosure is required by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process, including but not limited to civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders or other compulsory disclosures; (b) enforce this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of the Site; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of the Company, its members, employees, licensees or affiliates, other Site users and the public.

How Long We Keep Your Personally Identifiable Information

We retain the Personal Data you provide to us for as long as is reasonably necessary in connection with our business operations and your use of the Site, or for us to provide other services in connection with the Site.

We only retain Personal Data identifying you for as long as you have a relationship with us, or as necessary to perform our obligations to you (or to enforce or defend contract claims), or as is required by applicable law.

Personal Data we no longer need is securely disposed of and/or anonymized so you can no longer be identified from it.

Use of Analytics Technology

We use Google Analytics to enhance navigation and functionality of the Site, and to let us know how users are using the Site, so that we can make Site improvements, where necessary. Google Analytics uses “cookies” (as described above) and “web beacons” which are typically images used to pass information from your computer to a website or server. The information about your usage of the Site collected through cookies and web beacons is transmitted to and stored on Google’s servers.

You may prevent Google Analytics from collecting information by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) running on websites to prohibit sending information to Google Analytics. To opt-out of analytics for the Site, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page and install the add-on for your browser.

You may also opt out of the use of cookies (and web beacons when used in connection with cookies) by configuring your own browser settings directly to handle cookies. If you elect to opt out of cookies and web beacons, it may affect your ability to use the Site.

Links

The Site may provide links to web sites of third parties. The Company is not responsible or liable for the privacy practices of these other web sites. ANY WEBSITES LINKED FROM OUR SITE ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEWING THE PRIVACY POLICIES OF ANY LINKED WEBSITES TO DETERMINE HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL BE COLLECTED, UTILIZED, AND PROTECTED BY SUCH WEBSITES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT, FEATURES, OR ACTIVITIES OF ANY LINKED WEBSITES (INCLUDING THEIR PRIVACY PRACTICES), AND THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND/OR LIABILITY FOR THE CONTENTS, FEATURES, AND ACTIVITIES, AND THE COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL DATA BY SUCH WEBSITES.

The prices on our Site are subject to change at any time. Purchases for merchandise ordered from third party retailers are subject to the privacy policies and other terms of those third-party retailers. Before you make a purchase of products from a third-party retailer, you may be asked to establish an account or otherwise register with those third parties. Please review each third party’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use before making a purchase or our product through those third parties.

Access; Review and Correction

Customers can, by emailing us at innerpeaceqigong@icloud.com to access, review and correct the Personal Data that has been collected from them by this Site.

Binding Agreement; Changes

This Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of the Site constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the use of the Site, the Site Content and the User Content. If any provision of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. The Company’s failure to enforce any right or provision shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision. Headings are for convenience only and should not be given any interpretative effect.

Any user that accesses all or any part of this Site agrees that such user is at least sixteen (16) years old or has accessed this Site with the consent of a parent or legal guardian and that such user has consented to this Privacy Policy. Each time a user accesses this Site, this Privacy Policy should be reviewed because the Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice. Your use of our Site constitutes your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.

The Site is operated by Inner Peace QiGong, Inc., Welland, Ontario, Canada. All questions regarding the Site, this Privacy Policy or these Terms of Use shall be directed by email at: innerpeaceqigong@icloud.com.

Last updated June 2023.