At The Guided Meditation Site we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. 

The Guided Meditation Site (a website owned by Spire Audio) is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.

We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.

A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.aoic.gov.au.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form or enter information on our site.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

• To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
  
  
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
  
  
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
  
  
• To quickly process your transactions.
  
  
• To ask for ratings and reviews of services or products.
  
  
• To follow up with you after correspondence via email.
  
  
  

How do we protect your information?

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.

All financial transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Do we use 'cookies'?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:

• Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.
  
  
• Understand and save user's preferences for future visits.
  
  
• Keep track of advertisements.
  
  
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

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 each browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you disable cookies in your browser:

If you turn cookies off this will turn off some of the features of our website.

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information. We will only disclose your information to third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure, or when we are required to by law.

Third-party links

We include or offer links to some third-party products or services on our website.

Google

Google Analytics Cookies

The Guided Meditation Site uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy

The Guided Meditation Site uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on...
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.

Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users.
https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

We use third-party advertising companies (https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9012903) to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that...

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you or you may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google Ad Settings page. 

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

The Spam Act

The 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.
  
  
• Send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
  
  
• Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

To be in accordance with the Spam Act, 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 address of our business or site headquarters.
  
  
• Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
  
  
• Honour opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
  
  
• Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
  
  

Policy Updates

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.

Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us here: CONTACT US

Updated: January 1,