Personal Data and Privacy Policy

The address of LIFESCHOOL ACADEMY LP (owner of the website worldartfest.com) is as follows:
101 Rose Street South Lane
5 South Charlotte Street
Edinburgh, EH2 4AN
Scotland, United Kingdom

Its identification number is: SL034876

A. Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit the site.

B. Collection of Personal Information

The website formations-spiritualite-energetique.com ensures the collection and processing of users' personal data in compliance with privacy laws, specifically Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, on data protection and individual freedoms.
Under the Data Protection Act, users have the right to access, correct, delete, and oppose the processing of their personal data. Users can exercise this right:

• By deleting their account through their personal area, where all data will be immediately erased.

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

• Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
• Information about your visits and use of this website, including the referring source, duration of visits, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
• Information such as your email address that you provide when registering on the website;
• Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests, hobbies, educational background, and professional history;
• Information such as your name and email address provided to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
• Information you enter when using services on our website;
• Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
• Information relating to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you conduct through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and banking details;
• Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and content of your posts;
• Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including their content and metadata;
• Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain their consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us via our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

• Administer our website and business;
• Personalize our website for you;
• Enable your use of the services available on our website;
• Send you goods purchased through our website;
• Supply services purchased through our website;
• Send you statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collect payments from you;
• Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
• Send you email notifications you have specifically requested;
• Send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
• Send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties which we think may interest you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
• Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
• Handle inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
• Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
• Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service); and
• Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party's direct marketing.

E. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
• To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
• To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
• To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retaining Your Personal Information

This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Without prejudice to the preceding paragraph, we will generally delete personal data of the categories specified below at the date and time set forth below:

• This type of personal data will be deleted upon user request or account deletion; otherwise, it may be retained indefinitely by the website.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
• To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

H. Security of Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy.
We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

J. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, subject to the following conditions:

• Payment of a fee of €50 for the resulting administrative work;
• The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for these purposes, we will usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed.

Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

Cookies we use include:

• Google Analytics and Adwords for:Recognizing a computer when a user visits the website;
  Tracking users as they navigate the website;
  Enabling the use of a shopping cart on the website;
  Improving website usability;
  Analyzing website usage;
  Administering the website;
  Preventing fraud and improving website security;
  Personalizing the website for each user;
  Sending targeted advertisements that may interest certain users.
  

Blocking cookies:
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” then “Advanced.”
• In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and deselecting “Accept cookies from sites.”
• In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” “Content settings,” then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Deleting cookies:
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
• In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” and clicking “Show Cookies,” then clicking “Remove All Cookies”;
• In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” “Clear browsing data,” and selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plugin data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

N. Newsletter

Each member registered on the site is offered the option to subscribe to the Newsletter.
They are informed that they can unsubscribe at any time by sending a request to contact@worldartfest.com or by clicking the dedicated link at the bottom of each email.