Privacy Policy

The Adi Da Foundation (“Foundation”) is committed to protecting your online privacy. This privacy statement describes the Foundation’s policy concerning the gathering and sharing of visitors’ information through the website www. consciousnessitself.org. By using this website, you consent to our privacy policy and you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

Information Automatically Collected

You can browse this website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. The information we gather automatically during browsing is from standard server logs. These include your IP (Internet Protocol) address, domain name, browser type, operating system, the pages, files, documents, and links that you visit or download, the IP address of the website from which you linked to this website, and the dates and times of those visits. This information is stored and used in the aggregate only, and is not used to contact you personally. This information helps us track the use of our website in order to diagnose problems and make improvements.

Web Browser Cookies

In addition to information collected automatically, this website may use cookies, which are small pieces of information sent to your browser by a website that you visit. The cookies do not collect personally identifiable information. Cookies are used to improve your website experience, by, for example, remembering your viewing preferences. Cookies are also used to measure activity on the website. Many content adjustments and customer service improvements can be made based on data derived from cookies. This website may use a third-party vendor, Google Analytics, to place cookies and analyze the information collected by cookies in order to make the website more interesting and useful to you. Information that we collect from cookies is not used to create profiles of individual users and is only used in aggregate form.

Users have the ability to modify settings for most browsers to either accept all cookies, notify the user when a cookie is sent, or reject all cookies. However, you may not have access to some of the services and features on this website if cookies are not accepted.

Personal Information Collected

This website only collects personal information which you knowingly and voluntarily provide by sending us emails, completing our contact form, or making a financial donation.

  • Using our contact form or sending an email: name and email address.
  • Making a financial donation: name, email address, and donation amount.

If you provide us with personal information, we will normally respond to your inquiry or comment and acknowledge receipt of your donation for tax purposes. We may also contact you to provide information about Adi Da Foundation activities, programs, and donation opportunities, products and special events that may interest you.

If you have any questions regarding what personal information the Foundation retains, please contact us at info@adidafoundation.org.

Sharing Information with Outside Parties

We do not sell, trade, or share any personal information volunteered on the Foundation website to any third party without prior consent, except in the following limited circumstances: (1) to share it with contractors who perform services for us, and (2) as required by law.

We do not send mailings to our financial donors on behalf of other organizations, unless a donor has given us specific permission to do so.

How We Protect Your Information

We care about the security of your personal information and apply industry-standard practices and technologies to safeguard it. The web servers used by the Foundation are located in a locked, secure environment, and computer systems are maintained in accordance with industry standards to secure information. We also employ industry-standard practices to protect your personal information from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the organization. You should be aware, however, that “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet, and third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, we do not guarantee the security of your personal information. In addition, we do not assume any liability for third party use of your personal information, whether obtained legally or illegally from or through this website.

The Adi Da Foundation does not have access to and does not store credit-card information or PayPal credentials on our servers. When making a donation to the Foundation, supplied credit-card information and PayPal credentials are transmitted via high-grade encryption and secure protocols directly to PayPal. Please visit the PayPal website paypal.com to review their privacy and security policies.

Opting Out and Changing Your Information

This website gives you the opportunity to change any personal information previously provided to us through this website. To do so, please use our contact form or send us an e-mail at info@adidafoundation.org.

If you provide us with personal information, we may contact you to provide information about Adi Da Foundation activities, programs, and donation opportunities, products and special events that may interest you. When we send you such information by email, you will have an immediate opportunity to decline further communication. Please use the instructions specified in the email or contact us at info@adidafoundation.org so that we can remove you from the list that contains your name.

Links to Other Websites

This website contains links to other websites. Those other websites have their own privacy policies. When you link to other websites, you leave our website and are no longer subject to our privacy and security policies. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices, nor the contents of any other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of other websites that you link to or visit.

Children's Privacy

This website does not seek to collect any information from children. Please do not provide any personal information unless you are at least 13 years of age, and please caution your children not to provide any. If a child provides us with personal information, the parent or guardian may notify us by sending an email to info@adidafoundation.org. We will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected online through our website and not to information collected offline.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

The Adi Da Foundation has the discretion to modify this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our website and revise the last modified date below. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please use our website contact form or send us an e-mail at info@adidafoundation.org.

This policy was last modified on April 15, 2019.