Privacy Notice

Effective Date:  April 20, 2023

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Zenshin Holistic Self Defense and our website http://www.zensinselfdefense.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by these websites, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:

  • What information we collect;

  • With whom it is shared;

  • How it can be corrected;

  • How it is secured;

  • How policy changes will be communicated; and

  • How to address concerns over misuse of personal data. 

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing 

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. 

We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to ship an order or provide a requested service.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new products or services, new blog posts or newsletters, or changes to this privacy policy. 

Your Access to and Control Over Information 

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address on our website (info@zenshinselfdefense.com):

  • See what data we have about you, if any.

  • Change/correct any data we have about you.

  • Have us delete any data we have about you.

  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data

Security 

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. 

Wherever we collect information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page. We use HTTPS protocol and SSL encryption.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g. responding to requests or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Cookies 

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.  

We use these cookies to evaluate the performance of our website and how you and other users engage with our website. This information helps us understand how we can improve our website and products. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site. 

For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

Data collected for Website Analytics

Our website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace and Google Analytics, our website analytics providers, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Links 

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Notification of Changes

Whenever we change or modify this privacy policy, we will notify you via the email address you provided. We will also keep the privacy policy up to date on the website.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email at info@zenshinselfdefense.com or via telephone at 816-248-4570.