Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Mahasi Sayadaw Foundation explains below which personal data it digitally processes and how it does so.
The foundation’s contact person is Guus Went, Transeedijk 2 – 08, 6915 XX Lobith, 00 31 6 204 303 37, guus@mahasi.net
Anyone visiting our website has the following options for providing personal data to us.
1. Via the contact form. With this, you provide us with your e-mail address, first and last name, telephone number if you wish, and give us the reason why you are contacting us.
- We aim to reply to your message within 24 hours, by e-mail or by phone if you wish.
- Your name and e-mail address will be manually added to the address file guus@mahasi.net.
- Your name and e-mail address will be manually added to the address file for the Guus Went / Newsletter, which is sent 1 – 3 times a year via the Mailchimp programme (see below).
2. By registering for a retreat through payment through our webshop.
- Our webshop works with Mollie. You can currently pay with IDEAL, Bancontact and Bankoverdracht. In doing so, you provide us with your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, bank account number and reason for payment (retreat or donation).
3. By signing up on the reserve list for one or more retreats. In doing so, you give your name and e-mail address and, if desired, age, place of residence, and special wishes and/or motivation for participation.
- If a participant cancels within one month before the start of a fully booked retreat, those on the reserve list will be contacted by e-mail or telephone to ask whether they wish to participate.
4. When you have previously expressed an interest in our activities through the Contact page, through signing up for a retreat, through signing up for the reserve list of a retreat, or by telephone, you will receive the Guus Went / Newsletter. This newsletter provides you with news and information about the foundation’s activities two to three times a year.
You, the recipient, have a simple and automated option with every newsletter to remove yourself from the newsletter’s address file.
When you do so, your address will then be manually removed from the foundation’s address file within seven days.
If you do not open a newsletter for two consecutive years, your data in the address file will be manually archived, removing you from the address file.
Cookies – or similar techniques – that we use
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you first visit this website.
The Mahasi Sayadaw Foundation uses only technical cookies, functional cookies and analytical cookies that do not invade your privacy.
You can opt out of cookies by setting your internet browser to stop storing cookies. In addition, you can also delete any information previously stored via your browser settings.
Technical cookies
The technical cookies we use are necessary for the operation of the website and for your ease of use. They ensure that the website works properly and remember, for example, your preferences and the contents of your shopping cart. They also allow us to optimise our website.
Functional cookies
To compile and send our newsletter, the Mahasi Sayadaw Foundation uses the programme Mailchimp. This programme offers the foundation some insight into your reading behaviour, if desired.
- If and when you open the newsletter
- If and when you click on a link in the newsletter
You, the recipient, have a simple and automated option with every newsletter to remove yourself from the newsletter’s address file.
When you do so, your address will then be manually removed from the foundation’s address file within seven days.
If you do not open a newsletter for two consecutive years, your data in the address file will be manually archived, removing you from the address file.
Analytical cookies
Our website uses Google Analytics and Google Search Console. This programme gives us a monthly overview of how many visitors our website has had, in which country and city they live, via which keyword someone arrived at our website and which pages of the website they visited and how long they stayed there. This data is completely anonymised.
Based on this data, we can improve our website.