Our privacy policy
Information sent and received
We do not pass your email address or contact details on to anyone else. If you’ve given us an address in the past we will only use it to send you tickets / booking confirmation and / or let you know about future events (e.g. post you a copy of the next Buddhafield annual programme).
This website sets a cookie when you visit. It’s completely benign (the cookie helps pass data round our own webpages when you want to book anything) ... and it will self-destruct when you close your Web browser. It doesn’t permanently deposit any information nor can anyone identify your computer remotely because of it. No information you supply is stored on a webserver, so it’s never publicly accessible.
If you’ve previously supplied us with any information and you’d like to know what we have recorded for you, or if you’d like to be removed from our records, then please contact the Buddhafield Office.
Photographs
In principle, when we’re taking photogographs for publicity purposes, we do our best to ask the permission of the subject beforehand. In practice that’s pretty much impossible at our (or any other) festival. To that end, there’s a condition on the purchase of a Buddhafield Festival ticket that requests permisson to use photographs featuring attenders. That said, please get in touch if you’re unhappy about an image of yourself on this website.
Please don’t take images from this website and use them your own purposes without asking the copyright holder first. (Even if it’s you in the photograph!)
Google Analytics
What is it?
This website uses Google Analytics. The information we acquire helps us give you a better service. It’s a free tool from Google that collects information about how our site is used, information more uesful than just how many “hits” we got (which is all but useless knowledge). If we know people are searching Google for “Buddhafield Festival tickets”, that they get to our booking page, but click away immediately, we know that there’s a problem with that page.
How does it work?
At the bottom of every webpage on this site there’s a mini programme that’s executed by your Web browser. This programme sends reports to Google Analytics, including the fact that the page has been visited, how long before the visitor clicked away, what Web browser was used to view the page and other data of that level.
It doesn’t collect any personal information or identify your computer to us in any way.
I don’t want that to happen. How do I make it stop?
If you don’t want your visits to create reports (in this or any other website that uses Google Analytics) it can be turned off by disabling your web browser’s ability to execute the mini programme. This means disabling JavaScript (aka JScript and ECMAScript).
Depending upon your browser and it’s version, you’ll need to do something like the following (this is a guide only):
In Internet Explorer
Go to Tools > Internet Options > Security; click Internet; scroll down to Scripting and check (tick) Disable.
In Firefox
Go to Preferences > Content and uncheck (untick) Enable JavaScript.
In Safari
Go to Preferences > Security and uncheck (untick) Enable JavaScript.
Note that permanently disabling JavaScript has broader consequences: a great many websites use it routinely and if it’s turned off, many such websites will not work properly (or at all).
Note also that most webservers automatically collect this sort of information and that it’s impossible for you to disable that. (Google Analaytics’ main advantage over standard webserver logs is that it offers better reports.)
