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Who we are

You can learn all about One Earth Sangha, our team, mission, and strategy starting here.

  • Our website address is: https://oneearthsangha.org.
  • One Earth Sangha is a fiscally sponsored project of Inquiring Systems, Inc. EIN: 94-2524840

Our Information Management Practices

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

What information do we collect?

When registering for trainings, webinars, newsletters or other content or when making a donation on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, and email address. If you are making a donation or paying a registration fee, we may also ask for your mailing address, credit card information or other details to complete the transaction.

Our Pledge Not to Share

Your trust in us is paramount. We will not sell or otherwise share any personal contact information with any third party without your written consent. In order to provide our content, we use outside vendors for electronic mailing, Constituent Management (CMS) and payments, all of whom are obligated not to share your personal information. We take great care to ensure that we only chose the reliable software solutions so that your data stays secure.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you register for content, make a donation, or subscribe to a newsletter on our site.

We also collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service including the commenter’s IP address, user agent (browser), referrer, and the URL of the page or post you’re commenting on. So that the comment can be shown, we also store any information you provide such as your name, username, email address, and the comment itself.

All searches performed using the internal site search are logged in the database, including the following information: the search query, the number of hits found, user ID for users who are logged in and date and time.

How long we retain your data

The search logs are stored for 30 days before they are automatically removed.

How do we use your information?

We use the information we collect from you for the purposes described above so that we can send you requested information via email, process requested payments or enable requested access to our content.

How do we protect your information?

Protecting your data is vitally important. Accordingly,

  • Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We use regular Malware Scanning.
  • Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
  • We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
  • All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Do we use ‘cookies’?

Our site uses cookies exclusively for internal use only, the purpose of which is to understand anonymous usage patterns and improve the quality of visitors’ experience.

Access and Anonymize Your Data

You can view and manage all the data we are storing in connection with your email address here. Specifically, you can request that we anonymize those entries.

Third Parties

We do not include or offer third-party products or services on our website.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.

Compliance

California Online Privacy Protection Act

CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. Learn more here.

According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following

  • Users can visit our site anonymously.
  • Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website.
  • Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.
  • You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page

You can change your personal information:

Do Not Track signals

We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Third-party behavioral tracking

It’s also important to note that we do not allow third-party behavioral tracking

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

  • We will notify you via email within 7 business days
  • We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

We collect your email address in order to:

  • Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
  • Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.

In compliance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:

  • Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
  • Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
  • Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
  • Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
  • Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
  • Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

Contacting Us

How to Opt out

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. Alternatively, you can use the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

Your experience will not be adversely affected if you elect to turn cookies off. However, your usage patterns will not contribute to our design improvements.

Expected Response Time

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, contact us at

This Page Last Edited on March 6, 2021