Privacy Policy

In order to operate the Joyful Being website Joyful Being.org ("Joyful Being" or "we") must ask you, upon subscription, to provide us information about yourself. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect and how we use that information.

Joyful Being takes the privacy of your personal information very seriously and will use your information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information or a list of our customers to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies to all services that are hosted on the Joyful Being.org Web site).

By accepting the Privacy Policy and User Agreement in subscription, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Joyful Being User Agreement. This Privacy Policy will take effect on May 1, 2007. This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 1, 2007.

Please note that your personal information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the United States may be less stringent than the laws of your country but Joyful Being will hold and transmit your personal information in a safe, confidential and secure environment. If you object to your personal information being transferred or used as described in this Privacy Policy, please do not subscribe for the Joyful Being service.

Notification of Changes
This policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the Joyful Being service or as we incorporate suggestions from our customers. We will post the amended Privacy Policy on our Web site so that you can always review what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please check the Joyful Being Web site at www.joyfulbeing.org at any time for the most current version of our Privacy Policy.

Some pages on the Joyful Being Web site include links to third party Web sites. These sites are governed by their own privacy statements, and Joyful Being is not responsible for their operations, including but not limited to their information practices. Users submitting information to or through these third party Web sites should review the privacy statement of these sites before providing them with personally identifiable information.

Information We Collect
To subscribe to Joyful Being online (as opposed to in person or via postal mail), you must provide your name, address, and e-mail address.

Web Site Traffic Information
Because of the way that World Wide Web communication standards work, when you arrive at the Joyful Being Web site, we automatically receive the Web address of the site that you came from. We also collect information on which pages of our Web site you visit while you are on the Joyful Being site, the type of browser you use and the times you access our Web site. We use this information only to try to understand our customers' preferences better and to manage the load on our servers, so as to improve our service and your experience with Joyful Being. We do not track the Web sites that you visit before or after you leave the Joyful Being site.

Our Use of "Cookies"
"Cookies" are small files of data that reside on your computer and allow us to recognize you as a Joyful Being subscriber if you return to the Joyful Being site using the same computer and browser. We send a "session cookie" to your computer if and when you log in to your Joyful Being account by entering your username and password. These cookies allow us to recognize you if you visit multiple pages in our site during the same session, so that you don't need to re-enter your password multiple times. Once you log out or close your browser, these session cookies expire and no longer have any effect.

Internet Address Information
We use IP addresses, browser types and access times to analyze trends, administer the site, improve site performance and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Information Security
Joyful Being is committed to handling your customer information with high standards of information security. Your credit card information is stored only in encrypted form, and we restrict access to your personally identifiable information to employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

The security of your Joyful Being account also relies on your protection of your Joyful Being password. You may not share your Joyful Being password with anyone. Joyful Being will never ask you to send your password or other sensitive information to us in an e-mail, though we may ask you to enter this type of information on the Joyful Being website, which will always have a URL beginning with http://www.joyfulbeing.org/.

Any e-mail or other communication requesting your password, asking you to provide sensitive account information via email, or linking to a website with a URL that does not begin with http://www.joyfulbeing.org/ should be treated as unauthorized and suspicious and should be reported to Joyful Being immediately. If you do share your Joyful Being password with a third party for any reason, including because the third party has promised to provide you additional services such as account aggregation, the third party will have access to your account and your personal information, and you may be responsible for actions taken using your password. If you believe someone else has obtained access to your password, please change it immediately by logging in to your account at www.joyfulbeing.org/ and changing your Account settings, and also contact us right away as described on the Contact Us page.