Privacy Policy

Here you can read how the Buddho Foundation handles your data on buddho.org. Which data we collect, why, who else gets to see it, and what rights you have.

We process personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We collect no more than we need, and we sell nothing.

Who We Are

Buddho.org is the website of the Buddho Foundation (Stichting Buddho), registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 75081350. The foundation is responsible for the processing of your data on this website.

Questions about privacy? Get in touch.

Through the contact form and the sign-up form for the meditation course, we ask for your name and email address. For the course you can, if you like, also tell us a little about yourself.

Your message reaches us by email. We use your details only to reply to you and, when you sign up, to arrange the course with you. We do not share them with third parties.

To keep out spam, Cloudflare Turnstile checks whether the form was filled in by a person when you send it. For this, Cloudflare processes data such as your IP address and characteristics of your browser, only for that check. See the Cloudflare privacy policy.

When you subscribe, we store your first name and email address. We run the newsletter ourselves with Noptin, on our own server.

We send you an overview of new posts about once a month, and now and then an extra message about meditation, Buddhism or the foundation.

You can unsubscribe at any time, through the link at the bottom of every newsletter or by contacting us.

Emails from the website, including the newsletter, are sent through SMTP2GO. This service delivers the email and does not use your address for anything else. See the SMTP2GO privacy policy.

Donating

If you donate online, the payment is handled by Mollie. Mollie processes your payment details for this. See the Mollie privacy statement. If you pay by credit card or PayPal, the privacy statement of that party applies as well.

We store your name and email address in our secured database for our administration. With a bank transfer, we see the details that appear on every bank statement.

We may use your email address to thank you personally, but no more than twice a year.

Statistics

We measure visits to the site with Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager. This shows us which pages are read and how visitors use the site, so we can improve it. Google Analytics uses cookies for this.

We have set up Google Analytics in a privacy-friendly way. We have a data processing agreement with Google, Google Analytics does not store IP addresses, and we do not share data with Google for other purposes. We use the statistics only in aggregate, not to follow individual visitors.

Speed and Security

Our website runs on our own server in the Netherlands and is secured with https. You can see this by the padlock in your browser’s address bar.

To load the site quickly all over the world, we use the network of bunny.net (BunnyWay d.o.o., Slovenia). Bunny delivers our pages and images from a server near you and blocks attacks. For this, Bunny processes data such as your IP address. Bunny is a European company. See the bunny.net privacy policy.

Like every web server, ours keeps log files that include IP addresses. We use them only to secure the site and to solve problems. They are deleted automatically after a limited time.

Embedded Content

Some pages contain content from other services.

YouTube videos only load when you click play. After that, the rules of YouTube and Google apply.
Books in our library are shown with Adobe’s PDF viewer. Your browser then connects to Adobe.
The search function works with Algolia. Your search term is sent to Algolia’s servers for this.

These services may collect data about you, just as when you visit their own websites. See the privacy policies of Google, Adobe and Algolia.

Cookies

Buddho.org uses as few cookies as possible.

Google Analytics, for the statistics.
WordPress, to keep our editors logged in. As a visitor, this does not concern you.
YouTube, once you play a video.

We do not use cookies for advertising or to follow you across other websites.

How Long We Keep Data

Messages through the contact form: as long as needed to handle your question or to guide you.
Newsletter subscription: until you unsubscribe.
Donations: as long as the law requires for our administration, usually seven years.
Statistics: no more than 14 months.
Server log files: a limited time, after which they are deleted automatically.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

see your data;
have incorrect data corrected;
have your data deleted;
have the processing restricted;
receive your data in a common format;
object to the processing;
withdraw your consent, for example for the newsletter.

If you would like to use any of these rights, please get in touch. We respond within one month, as the law requires.

If you feel we are not handling your data properly, you can lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or with the supervisory authority in your own country.

This privacy policy was last updated in October 2026.