Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Guidelines + Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Spirituality Week is a city-wide festival to nourish the spiritual needs of New Yorkers and beyond. This Policy describes how we collect and use your information provided to us online. We want you to understand how we will protect and safeguard your privacy in the interactions you may have with us. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.


What information do we collect?
We collect information when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter and/or email mailing list or fill out a form. When buying tickets or registering on our site, you may be asked, as is appropriate, to enter your name, email address, mailing address or credit card information and other information. With regard to credit card information – we do not have access to that when you purchase tickets through Eventbrite.

What do we use your information for?
Any information we collect from you may be used in one or more of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)

  • To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive)

  • To improve customer service (your information helps us to respond more effectively to customer service requests and support needs)

  • To process transactions

  • To send periodic emails

  • To process your registration or order

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, follow the detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.


How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and they are required to keep the information confidential.


After a transaction, your private financial information (credit card numbers, social security numbers, financial information, etc.) will not be stored on our servers. We may retain such information as your name, address, email and information relevant to your order or reservation.


Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than as necessary for delivering a product or service purchased or requested by you or as described below.

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 permit it) that enables the site or service provider’s system to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.


We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.


If you prefer, 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 via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. Period.


We may however release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies or protect our rights or the rights of others. We may provide non-personally identifiable, aggregate visitor information, such as data drawn from the visits of many people to the site, to other parties for research, statistical analysis or marketing purposes.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age and do not encourage visitors to the website who are under 13 years of age.

Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our online Privacy Policy.

Additional Information for EEA Users

Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent. These rights can be exercised as described in the "Your Rights and Choices section above. EEA users also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local supervisory authority.

As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA only where we have a legal basis for doing so. Our legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. We process your information on the following legal bases:

  • You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose;

  • We need to process the information to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services;

  • It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, personalizing the Services, and marketing and promoting the Services; or

  • We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations.

International Data Transfers

Spirituality Week LLC is based in the United States and we process and store information on servers located in the United States. We may store information on servers and equipment in other countries depending on a variety of factors, including the locations of our users and service providers. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, where you may not have the same rights as you do under local law.

When we transfer the personal data of users in the EEA, UK and/or Switzerland, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission for such transfers or other transfer mechanisms deemed ‘adequate' under applicable laws.

Change to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. Any modifications will be reflected online, so check back often. If we make a significant or material change in the way we use your personal information, we will make you aware by prominently posting a notice on our Web sites.


This policy was last modified on January 15th, 2023.

Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy you may contact us using the information below.
info@spiritualityweek.org

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION STATEMENT

Spirituality Week is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Spirituality Week diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; transfers; social and recreational programs; layoffs; terminations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:

  • Respectful communication and cooperation between all employees and stakeholders

  • Teamwork and employee participation, permitting the representation of all groups and employee perspectives.

  • Work/life balance through flexible work schedules to accommodate employees’ varying needs.

  • Employer and employee contributions to the communities we serve to promote a greater understanding and respect for the diversity.

All employees of Spirituality Week have a responsibility to treat others with dignity and respect at all times. All employees are expected to exhibit conduct that reflects inclusion during work, at work functions on or off the work site, and at all other company-sponsored and participative events. All employees are also required to attend and complete annual diversity awareness training to enhance their knowledge to fulfill this responsibility.

Any employee found to have exhibited any inappropriate conduct or behavior against others may be subject to disciplinary action.

Employees who believe they have been subjected to any kind of discrimination that conflicts with the company’s diversity policy and initiatives should seek assistance from a supervisor or an HR representative.