Privacy Policy

1. Scope

This policy applies to tdibw.com, related The Dharma Institute pages, and the TDI Practice App served through the website.

The website provides Buddhist educational, religious, community, and personal practice support content. It is not intended to sell personal data or use it for behavioral advertising.

2. Information We May Collect

• Information submitted through forms, such as name, email, phone number, subject, and message.
• TDI Practice App account information, such as email, display name, optional avatar, language/notification settings, and practice-count history entered by the user.
• Basic technical information used for security and anti-spam purposes, including hashed request identifiers, security logs, necessary WordPress/Cloudflare cookies, and aggregate analytics if analytics tools are enabled.
• Third-party embeds or links such as YouTube, Google Maps, Facebook, GTranslate/CDN, or anti-spam services may process data under their own policies.

3. How We Use Information

• To respond to contact requests and support TDI community activities.
• To operate TDI Practice App accounts, remembered sessions, practice counts, member-only content, and notifications if enabled.
• To protect the website against spam, abuse, unauthorized access, and technical errors.
• To improve website content and experience in an aggregate, non-sale context.

4. Consent and Processing Basis

By submitting a form, creating an account, signing in, uploading an avatar, entering practice counts, or enabling notifications, you provide information for TDI to process for the purposes described in this policy.

You may choose not to provide optional information, but some related features may not be available.

5. Sharing

TDI does not sell personal information. Information is shared only when needed to operate the website, comply with law, protect legitimate interests, or work with necessary technical providers such as hosting, security, email, analytics, CDN, maps, video, or translation services.

6. Retention and Security

TDI retains information for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described, legal requirements, backups, security, and community operations. Data may be deleted or anonymized when no longer needed or upon a valid request.

TDI uses reasonable safeguards including HTTPS, form rate limits, nonces, spam filtering, WordPress permissions, and server/CDN protection. No system is perfectly secure, but TDI works to reduce unauthorized-access risk.

7. Your Choices and Rights

• Ask what information TDI holds about you.
• Request correction, update, withdrawal of consent, or deletion where legally available.
• Disable notifications, sign out, clear browser-stored data, or ask TDI to help delete account/app data.
• Contact TDI if you believe data has been processed for the wrong purpose or should be restricted.

8. Children

The website is not directed toward collecting personal information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian believes a child submitted personal information without appropriate consent, please contact TDI so it can review and delete the information when appropriate.

9. Privacy Contact

Privacy requests may be sent to Hoangphap2011@gmail.com. TDI will try to respond within a reasonable time.