Privacy & Terms of Service
Who we are
Taro & Yuka Iwamoto LLC provides services focused on the Feldenkrais Method🄬, movement-based practice, and wellness to help people improve their health, lives and performance by cultivating awareness through movement. Awareness Through Life is a trade name of Taro & Yuka Iwamoto LLC and used by Yuka Iwamoto, co-owner of Taro & Yuka Iwamoto LLC, to identify her business.
Changes to this policy
Awareness Through Life may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" below in this section.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Last updated: October 3, 2024.
How this policy applies
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to describe how we, Awareness Through Life, collect, use, and share information about you through our website, www.awarenessthroughlife.org. Protecting your privacy is important to us. Please read this policy carefully to understand what we do. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
All written statements in English are effective.
Collection of your personal data
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our site, Awareness Through Life may collect personally identifiable information, such as:
- Your First and Last Name
- Your Email Address
- Other information relevant to customer surveys
- Forms
You can find following forms by clicking the links below:
- Private Feldenkrais Sessions Policy
- Waiver, Release of Liability & Assumption of Risk Form
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Cookie policy
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookies helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. You can also decline cookies by modifying your website browser settings. This will prevent you from taking full advantage of the website’s functionality.
This site uses Squarespace’s cookie banner function to improve your experience and to help our website run effectively. To learn and review their cookie policy, visit: https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy.
How we use Personal Data
Awareness Through Life may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information with Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
Awareness Through Life will retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Law enforcement: Under certain circumstances, Awareness Through Life may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements: We may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Sharing information with third parties
Awareness Through Life may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Awareness Through Life and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. These companies have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review them.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Squarespace: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
Mailchimp: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://mailchimp.com/legal/
Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You. Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC. For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
We also use the marketing services of Instagram and Pinterest. To review Instagram’s privacy policy, visit: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875. To review Pinterest’s privacy policy, visit: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy-2016.
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
Square: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://squareup.com/legal/privacy-no-account
Stripe: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at
https://stripe.com/ja-us/privacy
PayPal: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Acuity Scheduling: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
Usage, Performance and Miscellaneous
We use third-party Service Provider, Google ReCAPTCHA, to provide better improvement of our Service. Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB
Controlling your personal information
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Awareness Through Life, you may opt out of such communications by unsubscribing from emails by replying “stop” or clicking on the unsubscribe button.
CCPA privacy
If you live in California, please read CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act).
Your rights under the GDPR
If you live in Europe, please read GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Contact information
Awareness Through Life welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that Awareness Through Life has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact Awareness Through Life.