What we collect, and what we do not.

If you give us your email address

You are asked for an email address in four places, and each one says what it is for:

• The Four Paths course (on the Start page, the About page, the Library, the books page, Lesson 1 and every term page) asks for your name, your email address and, if you choose, your country and the part of the course you want first. It also notes which page you signed up from. These are used to send you the course, one lesson every other day. If you answer the question on the course’s answer page, your answer is stored with your address.
• The guide for the anxious mind (on the wellness pages) asks for your email address, and on the Spanish page your name. It is used to send you the guide, then a short series of emails and, from time to time, a note drawn from the archive.
• The contact form and the questions form ask for your name, your email address and your message. See the next section.

Every letter carries an unsubscribe link, and using it removes you at once.

Those addresses, and the messages sent through the forms, are held for us by Brevo, an email service. We do not sell, rent, trade or share your address with anyone else.

If you write to us

The message form on the contact page, and the form on the questions page, send your name, your email address and your message through Brevo to foundation@yogaresearchfoundation.org. The message is read there and passed to whoever can answer, and kept as correspondence. Your address is used to reply, and is not added to any list.

What is measured, and why

This site uses Google Analytics, which sets cookies in your browser and records which pages are visited, roughly where in the world the visit came from, and how people arrive. It is used for one purpose: to learn which teachings people are actually looking for, so the collection can be made easier to search.

We do not use it to identify you. If you would rather not be counted, your browser's privacy settings or Google's own opt-out add-on will stop it, and the site will work exactly as before.

The Foundation advertises through the Google Ad Grants program for nonprofits. If you arrive from one of those advertisements, Google records that the visit happened.

Ordinary server records

The site is served by Vercel, which keeps the usual short-term records every web server keeps — the address a request came from, the page asked for, the time. They are used to keep the site running and secure.

Other people's pages

Links leave here for YouTube, the Foundation's shop, the members' site and elsewhere. Once you follow one, that service's own practices apply, not this page.

Children

This site is meant for adults and does not knowingly collect anything from children under thirteen.

Asking to see it, or to be removed

Write to the office and ask. We will tell you what is held, correct it, or delete it. You do not need to give a reason, and nothing is asked of you in return.