These terms cover your use of yogaaustralia.org.au. By using the site you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
Yoga Australia Ltd (ACN 103 198 081) is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and the peak body for yoga in Australia. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Yoga Australia Ltd. You can reach us at [email protected] or PO Box 54, The Junction NSW 2291.
You may read, print and share our public pages for your own purposes. Please do not use the site to break the law, to interfere with how it runs or with its security, to collect data from it by automated means, or to send unsolicited commercial messages to the people listed on it.
Membership, teacher registration and course registration are governed by our Constitution, our Code of Professional Conduct, and the criteria published on the relevant pages of this site. Membership is personal to you and cannot be transferred. We may suspend or cancel an account where those documents are breached.
Directory listings are supplied by members and published as they are given to us. We take reasonable care with them without guaranteeing that any listing is current or accurate, and a listing is not a recommendation of any individual or course. Please do not copy directory data for marketing or resale.
Text, images, logos, video and documents on this site belong to Yoga Australia or to those who licensed them to us, and are protected by copyright. You may quote short extracts with attribution. Anything beyond that needs our written permission.
When you send us an article, event proposal, image, recording or comment, you keep ownership of it and you give us a non-exclusive licence to publish it, edit it for clarity and house style, and promote it across our channels. Our Content Contribution policy sets out how that works in practice. Only send material you have the right to send.
We link to sites we do not control. A link is not an endorsement, and we take no responsibility for what those sites publish or do.
Material on this site is general information about yoga, teaching and professional practice. It is not medical advice and it does not replace consultation with a qualified health practitioner.
We work to keep this site accurate and available without promising either. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it at any time.
Nothing in these terms excludes any right you have under the Australian Consumer Law. So far as the law allows, we exclude liability for loss arising from your use of this site, and our liability is limited to supplying the relevant service again or paying the cost of doing so.
Personal information is handled under our Privacy Policy.
We may update these terms. The version on this page is always the current one.
These terms are governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Australia and of the State in which Yoga Australia’s registered office is located.
Questions about these terms go to [email protected].
Last updated 26 August 2026.
Your privacy is very important to us. As part of the normal operation of this site, Yoga Australia may collect certain information from you. This privacy policy details what information we collect, how we use that information, and what your rights are regarding any information that you supply to us. Yoga Australia is subject to the requirements of applicable Australian law and strives to meet the requirements of the Australian National Principles for the Fair Handling of Personal Information.
Unless you specifically tell us, this site will never know who you are (applies to Yoga Australia members only). You can elect to tell us more about yourself so that Yoga Australia can provide enhanced services, such as your entry on the ‘Find a Registered Teacher’ database, or access to publications and other membership services. This is your choice.
Yoga Australia will under no circumstances sell, trade or rent any personal information that you supply to us to any third party. In short, information you supply to Yoga Australia stays with Yoga Australia. You have the right to review and alter any personal membership information that Yoga Australia stores about you. After all, it is your information, so you should be the person that controls it.
If you choose and inform us accordingly, Yoga Australia will not send you unsolicited email, that is, make you part of a Yoga Australia mailing list. Yoga Australia uses this method to communicate quickly with members. You have the right to refuse inclusion on a mailing list. Members can make a request to remove their email address from a mailing list by contacting the Yoga Australia office.
As part of the normal operation of this site, your Internet Browser will be sent a “cookie” (a temporary Internet file). This cookie enhances our site’s functionality with features such as membership logon and electronic ordering. By itself, this cookie can only identify your computer to our server; it is not used to identify you personally.
Your personal password to access the ‘Yoga Australia Members Only’ section of the Yoga Australia website protects your membership privacy. We suggest that you do not disclose, share or reveal this password to any other individual.
The Yoga Australia website collects browse statistics from this site to track traffic patterns. This may include the URL (web address) you came from, the URL you are going to, the browser you are using, and your IP address. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand and better serve our users. This information is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis.
If you decide to become a member of Yoga Australia, and we hope that you do, Yoga Australia will ask you for personal details such as your address, contact phone numbers and your email address. You may also opt to provide Yoga Australia with more information such as the special interest areas you may be interested in, where you are employed and your date of birth. Relevant information is only disclosed to the public on the internet via Yoga Australia’s ‘Find a Registered Teacher’ online searchable database. Through a personal log in you can update or change these details at any time. You are responsible for keeping this information relevant. Whether you decide to use this service is your choice.
We use your email address, your mailing address, and phone number to contact you regarding administrative notices, publications, and communications relevant to your use of the site and your Yoga Australia membership. If you do not wish to receive these communications, you have the ability to opt out by contacting the Yoga Australia office.
From time to time, we may decide to collect different kinds of information. When this occurs, we will update this privacy page.
We use standard mechanisms to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers. However, it is important to recognise that “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.
Yoga Australia does not permanently store credit card information anywhere on this site.
Yoga Australia has a strong commitment to protecting your privacy, and ensuring the confidentiality and security of personal information provided to Yoga Australia by its members.
Members have the right to access the personal information held about themselves by the Yoga Australia, and to correct information which is inaccurate.
Information you have provided to the Yoga Australia is used to:
Information provided by members may be disclosed to persons who have a contractual arrangement with Yoga Australia, including business partners. However, Yoga Australia undertakes not to disclose sensitive information without the member’s consent.
From time to time, Yoga Australia arranges mailings using the contact information you have provided, from its business partners. This includes all corporate partners and endorsed product manufacturers/suppliers. These mailings aim to provide members with information and benefits available to them.
If you do not wish to receive information from Yoga Australia’s business partners, you should advise the Yoga Australia office.
(a) Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.
When you visit our website.
When you come to our website (https://www.yogaaustralia.org.au/), we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.
Cookies
We may from time to time use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyses website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google AdWords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.
Third party sites
Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Yoga Australia is not responsible for the privacy practises of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.