• About Drogmi
  • Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe
  • The Sakya tradition
    • The Sakya lineage
    • The five Sakya founders
    • Throneholders of Sakya
  • Sakya masters
    • His Holiness the Sakya Trizin
    • His Eminence Chogye Trichen Rinpoche
    • His Eminence Luding Khenchen Rinpoche
    • His Eminence Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
    • His Eminence Gyana Vajra Rinpoche
    • Her Eminence Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding Rinpoche
    • His Eminence Luding Khen Rinpoche
  • Photo gallery
  • Getting there
  • Contacts
• Drogmi Retreat Centre project
  • History of Drogmi Retreat Centre
  • A letter from His Holiness the Sakya Trizin
  • A message from the founder and spiritual director
  • The development project
  • Get involved
• Lam Dre 2009
  • Lam Dre 2009 in Australia
    • Event information
    • Teaching costs
    • Registration and bookings
    • Venue and transport
    • About Sydney: accommodation, food and climate
    • Accommodation suggestions
  • A letter from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • A message from Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe
  • About Lam Dre
  • A brief overview of the Lam Dre by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin
  • The history of Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Sakya Lam Dre lineage gurus
• Spiritual programme
  • Practice calendar
  • Shamatha retreat
  • White Tara retreat
  • Green Tara and Vajrasattva retreat
  • Khenpo's teaching programme
• Dharma and practice aids
  • Meditation guides
  • Prayers
  • Shrine room etiquette
  • Dharma links and resources

Privacy policy

Drogmi Retreat Centre values and respects your privacy of personal information while interacting with our content, products and services. In keeping with the Information Privacy Principles of the Privacy Act 1988, our aim is to provide you with a satisfying experience while allowing you to control your privacy and give you a means to voice any questions or concerns you may have.

This website privacy page explains our policy for dealing with personal information that we collect through our website and not to other companies or organisations to which our website is linked. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices and you should check those websites for their respective privacy statements.

Throughout this policy, we refer to your 'personal information' which means information which identifies you as an individual or from which your identity can be reasonably ascertained. Your email address, home address and home telephone number are examples of personal information.

If our privacy policy changes, we will post these changes on the website, so we encourage you to check this page from time to time. Your continued use of this site following the advice of any changes to this policy will mean you accept those changes.

In addition to the provisions of this website privacy page, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions that apply to certain sections of the website. Because those specific and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, we recommend that you review them wherever they appear. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this website privacy page and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.

Information collected and its use

It is our usual practice to collect personal information directly from you. Depending on the service you are accessing you could be asked to provide information such as your name or email address. It is entirely your choice whether to respond or not. We do not collect personal information about you if you only browse this website.

Personal Information

The information about you which we may collect through the website includes:

• the content of electronic forms you submit via the website, requesting us to provide services or information, or take action
• any messages or comments you submit to us via the website, eg through an email or contact form
• information collected when you participate in an online survey, and
• where you have used the website to provide information to be a Drogmi volunteer.

You do not have to disclose any personal information to us, but we may not be able to provide the full range of services through the website if we are not provided with the information outlined above.

Drogmi Retreat Centre will only use personal information you have chosen to provide us for the purpose for which you provided it. We will not use it for any other purpose without your consent.

We may also use your personal information to keep you informed of our services, events, and other matters. If you do not wish to be contacted for those purposes, please let us know using the contact details set out below. We aim to provide you with information and invitations that we consider may be of interest or relevance to you.

Drogmi Retreat Centre uses the services of PayPal for online purchases or donations. When you use PayPal to pay online, you only provide us with your email address; PayPal do not share your financial information with us, nor do we collect any banking or financial details from you. However, you should refer to PayPal's own privacy statement at https://www.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

Non-personal (anonymous) information

In common with other websites we may also collect information which tells us about visitors to the Drogmi Retreat Centre website. For example we may collect information about the date, time and duration of visits.

This information generally doesn't tell us anything about who you are or where you live - it simply allows us to monitor the effectiveness of our website.

No cookies

The Drogmi Retreat Centre website does not use 'cookies' (small text files which are placed on your hard drive by some websites to store information).

Security

We use a number of mechanisms to protect the security and integrity of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as completely secure. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once any personal information comes into our possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Access to information

You may access personal information that we hold about you or you can ask us to correct personal information we hold about you.

If you are on one or more of our email lists you may opt out of further contact from us by sending the message "unsubscribe" to info@drogmi.org.

Contact details

If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, or wish to make a complaint about the way in which we have handled your personal information, you may contact us as at info@drogmi.org.