Privacy Policy Statement
This page provides information on the privacy policy maintained by the Bodhi Dharma Store. Because the internet server and ecommerce facilities are provided by Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo also provides its own privacy statement, which may be found at the bottom of this page.
The Bodhi Dharma Store is managed by Nitartha international to support charitable activities by providing e-commerce facilities and other technological support for Nalandabodhi, Nitartha international and other organizations in the mandala of activities of The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Your are at the web site of the Bodhi Dharma Store.
Our postal address is:
Bodhi Dharma Store
3902 Woodland Park Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103
We can be reached via e-mail at storemaster@bodhidharmastore.org or you can reach us by telephone at (206) 985-8887.
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes the visitor's domain name and e-mail address (where possible). However, we collect only aggregate information on what pages visitors access or visit, and the information we collect is used for internal review and to improve the content of our Web page, and is then discarded.
We do not set any cookies.
Although as of August of 2004, we have never sent any unsolicited email from store, we may on rare occassions provide email addresses to the component organizations who use the Bodhi Dharma Store platform to support their charitable activities. If you do not want to receive e-mail from those organizations, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address or email those organizations directly per the addresses on our information page.
If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the items for which you provided us your address.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive contact if necessary to clarify issues about the items for which you provided us your telephone information, typically to clarify order details or delivery problems.
We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice, but all uses will be in keeping with the non-profit mission of the store and component organizations. Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by calling us at the number provided above.
Consumers can have any information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address.
With respect to security, the Bodhi Dharma Store always uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau.
Yahoo! Privacy Policy
Yahoo requires merchants using the Yahoo! platform, such as the Bodhi Dharma Store, to provide the Yahoo! Privacy Policy information, as follows: "This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information."