Center Policies

Privacy Policy

Sayagyi U Ba Khin Memorial Trust Incorporated Association

16 November 2025

At the International Meditation Centre, we respect students’ right to privacy and our obligation to protect personal information. We collect, use and share personal information as is needed for administration, management, operations, teaching and for students’ welfare. This includes paper and electronic records.

  1. This Privacy Policy sets out how the Trust collects, manages and protects the personal information of our students at the International Meditation Centre, NSW.
  2. We handle the personal information we collect about students in accordance with this Policy and our obligations in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act), including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), and any other applicable privacy laws.
  3. We may collect students’:
    (a) name, address;
    (b) email address, mobile and phone number;
    (c) date of birth;
    (d) gender;
    (e) occupation;
    (f) nationality;
    (g) language;
    (h) emergency contact;
    (i) other meditation techniques practice;
    (k) medications.
  4. We collect personal information for the purpose of:
    (a) administration, management, operations and teaching at the International Meditation Centre, NSW;
    (b) protecting the welfare of students.
  5. We disclose students’ personal information as needed for the purposes for which it has been collected to those persons undertaking the relevant responsibility.
  6. With student’s consent, we use the personal information to communicate with you, concerning the International Meditation Centre.
  7. We store students’ personal information in hard copy and digital systems, including the cloud. We take all reasonable care to protect your personal information from misuse, interference and loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
  8. We keep students’ personal information for as long required for the purpose for which it was collected or as otherwise permitted or required by law. If we no longer need to hold a student’s personal information for any reason or we are no longer required by law to keep it, we will take reasonable steps to securely destroy that information.
  9. We will take reasonable care to ensure that the personal information collected about students is up to date, accurate and complete. Please let us know when the details you have provided to us change.
  10. Students may request access to, or correction of, the personal information we hold about you. Subject to any applicable legal exceptions or requirements, we will generally provide students with access to their requested personal information within a reasonable time.
  11. If we decide to refuse a student’s request, we will tell him or her why in writing, and how to complain.
  12. You can make a complaint in writing to the Centre’s Privacy Officer, the Secretary of the Trust, at imcnsw@optusnet.com.au or at PO Box 3059, Bonnells Bay, NSW 2264, Australia. We will acknowledge your complaint within a reasonable time and inform you of the next steps.
  13. If you are not satisfied with our response you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at www.oaic.gov.au or to the NSW Information and Privacy Commission at https://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au/about-us/contact-us.

Approved by the Sayagyi U Ba Khin Memorial Trust Incorporated on 16 November 2025.

Refund Policy

If a meditation student leaves a course early, a pro-rata refund is available.