1. As a Connecting Consciousness member, we encourage you to connect with other CC members and Coordinators. These connections can be made on community platforms such as Mighty Networks and other platforms offered in your area. We welcome your participation in CC Events such as our in-person meetings or on scheduled group zoom meetings. Spiritual people grouping together with good intentions such as shifting to higher consciousness, healing or just simply taking part in high vibration conversations together really does make a positive difference to the Collective during these challenging times.
2. Our Founders have made a decision to only allow members of our Organisation ( unless invitations have been pre-approved ) to attend meetings on any CC social platforms. This is to ensure the safety of our members and Coordinators and to comply with our GDPR laws in the UK so that there is no inappropriate use of information shared in this safe space. The rule applies to any of our CC Social Media Platforms where attendance is by invite only.
   It is therefore prohibited by the CC Founders for any person to use the CC contact information to create or co-opt into the CC group for a different purpose, such as creating a separate non-CC group (including separate social media groups, etc.). This can lead to removal of your membership and prosecution if you have broken the GDPR laws.
3. Members are welcome to host CC events and participate in events such as peaceful protests under our CC banners or CC representation at holistic fairs. However, this can only be carried out with prior permission and guidance from their CC trained country or state coordinator, who will obtain any special permissions from our Founders if required, so as not to breach any laws.
4. We expect our Coordinators to conduct themselves with integrity and respect, honouring their sovereignty and their place in this world. We are all sovereign beings, and no one has dominion over another sovereign being. We ask therefore that you treat all other members and Coordinators with the same respect showed to you. Treat other CC members and your Coordinators as you would like to be treated.
5. Open, transparent, and spirited discussions among members can be healthy when carried out with respect and mindfulness for one another. However, when boundaries are crossed, these debates devolve into unpleasantness, and arguments. Disruptive behaviour and unkindness can lead to negativity, fear, and lack of cohesion within the group.
6. Members who are rude and out of control or lack propriety, boundaries or display outbursts of out-of-control behaviour or behave in a manner that is deemed to be against our CC Ethos, will be removed from the meeting for the safety of other members and the integrity of our Organisation. This may result in a member(s) being removed from the group and potentially from CC altogether. The coordinator reserves the right to shut down the meeting to contain the negativity and to make the decision to remove the member or members from our Organisation.
   We appreciate all efforts to keep the vibration of these gatherings kind, compassionate, mindful and respectful.
7. Intimidation and threats will not be tolerated within CC. We are a Spiritual Organisation and anyone displaying these traits does not belong in our Organisation. They will be removed from CC. If a member ever feels threatened, they must report this immediately to the country or state coordinator.
8. Any discrimination against a member or a Coordinator or Team member will not be condoned in our Organisation. If any member feels that any of the above rules have been broken, and they feel unsafe he/she must contact their country/state coordinator immediately.
9. We would be grateful if you would carry this through to other CC forums such as on social media and in emails. Whilst we encourage you to share skills and strategies to cope with challenges, low vibration comments and hurtful words, attacks on one another do cause harm, and as spiritual beings we know when it affects one, it affects the whole of humanity. We will not tolerate offensive, sexist, racist or gender comments. Posting images or written stories of abuse, including disturbing or excessively graphic images, satanic worship or violence is prohibited. Our Coordinators and Moderators have the right to terminate a thread, chat, channel or individual membership. Please understand this when posting on our sites.
10. When posting on social media or networking platforms such as Mighty Networks, please be mindful of CC’s growing worldwide membership and the overall volume of posts. Posting consecutively and too frequently clogs up the feed and makes it time consuming for other members to navigate. We respectfully ask that you do not post more than 10 times in 24 hours.
    A s a non-profit Organisation I am sure you will appreciate that we are reliant on donations, and running these platforms cost us money. Using up our bandwidth costs us an enormous amount of money but we are happy to use funds for this purpose if it is to generate good and not upsetting or low vibration posts. Note that these guidelines are for new posts only; members may send as many responses and private chats as desired.
11. It is important to understand that comments, opinions, and videos posted on CC platforms such as Mighty Networks do not necessarily reflect the views of Connecting Consciousness, nor that of the Founders or organisers of the group. As videos may come from other social media sites, it is the responsibility of those organisations to take them down such as YouTube etc. It is not CC’s responsibility to remove them from Social Platforms. All written comments and videos posted are subject to CC’s Code of Conduct guidelines.
12. To avoid CC being used as means to generate unlawful business, we ask members to refrain from self-promoting or advertising for financial remuneration on CC platforms. However, members on occasion may refer to their personal websites or healing services for example with prior consent from CC.
13. As a spiritual Organisation, we do not condone the practices of dark magic. We request politely that magic is not practiced within our groups. We ask that you seek advice from your coordinator if in doubt. To illustrate, it is acceptable to start a meeting with a spiritual protection prayer or meditation, however, invoking spirits is strictly prohibited. Under no circumstances may any material be introduced, or shared, that carries a negative energy connection.
    CC reserves the right to ban anyone who is satanic or who wilfully wishes to harm others and/or seeks to be a disruptive influence.
14. Part of the CC experience is making friends with fellow CC members. Please be aware that all sharing and exchanging of personal information such as emails, phone numbers and addresses are the sole responsibility of the members. Sharing of your personal information in this way is done so by your own choice and will be at your own risk. CC will not be held responsible for any misuse of your personal information exchanged in this manner.
15. As a spiritual Organisation we understand that we are all here to grow and learn. We honour the soul within every one of our members. We have a membership ranging from 18-year-olds to elderly and we feel truly blessed and honoured to have you as our members. No one is more spiritually advanced than other members, we just have different lessons. We value all our members. We appreciate all your questions, ideas, and expertise regardless of tenure of membership, spiritual training, culture and level of spiritual awareness.

Updated January 2024

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we, Connecting Consciousness collect about individuals who interact with our organisation. It explains what personal information we collect and how we use it.

If you have any comments or questions about this notice, feel free to contact us at admin@connectingconsciousness.org

1. Personal data that we process

The following table explains the types of data we collect and the legal basis, under current data protection legislation, on which this data is processed.

Purpose	Data (key elements)	Basis
Enquiring about our organisation and its work	Name, email, message	Legitimate interests - it is necessary for us to read and store your message so that we can respond in the way that you would expect.
Signing up as a member	Name, email, contact information, reasons for wanting to be a member of CC	Contract – by submitting the application form you have entered into a contractual relationship with us as set out in our membership terms and conditions.
Website functionality	Website activity collected through cookies	Legitimate interests – it is necessary for us to store a small amount of information, usually through cookies, to deliver functionality that you would expect.

2. How we use your data

We will only use your data in a manner that is appropriate considering the basis on which that data was collected, as set out in the table at the top of this policy. We do not share your data with Third Parties.

For example, we may use your personal information to:

• reply to enquiries you send to us;
• where you have specifically agreed to this, send you marketing communications by email relating to our work which we think may be of interest to you.

3. When we share your data

We will only share your data within our organisation.

You have provided your explicit consent for us to pass data to your relevant country coordinator

We will only pass data to our country coordinators outside of the EU where appropriate safeguards are in place as defined by Article 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation.

4. How long we keep your data

We take the principles of data minimisation and removal seriously and have internal policies in place to ensure that we only ever ask for the minimum amount of data for the associated purpose and delete that data promptly once it is no longer required. Where data is collected on the basis of consent, we will seek renewal of consent at least every three years.

5. Rights you have over your data

You have a range of rights over your data, which include the following:

• Where data processing is based on consent, you may revoke this consent at any time and we will make it as easy as possible for you to do this (for example by putting ‘unsubscribe’ links at the bottom of all our marketing emails).
• You have the right to ask for rectification and/or deletion of your information
• You have the right of access to your information.
• You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner if you feel your rights have been infringed.

A full summary of your legal rights over your data can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website here: https://ico.org.uk/

If you would like to access the rights listed above, or any other legal rights you have over your data under current legislation, please get in touch with us.

Please note that relying on some of these rights, such as the right to deleting your data, will make it impossible for us to continue to deliver some services to you. However, where possible we will always try to allow the maximum access to your rights while continuing to deliver as many services to you as possible.

6. Cookies & usage tracking

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded on to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things, eg remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket, and counting the number of people looking at a website.

Where cookies are used to collect personal data, we list these purposes in section 1 above, along with other personal data that we collect. However, we also use some cookies that do not collect personal information but that do help us collect anonymous information about how people use our website. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website usage by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information collected by Google Analytics about usage of our website is not personally identifiable. The data is collected anonymously, stored by Google and used by us to create reports about website usage. Google's privacy policy is available at http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

7. Modifications

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time and will publish the most current version on our website. If a modification meaningfully reduces your rights, we'll notify people whose personal data we hold and is affected.

For the opportunity to connect with other Connecting Consciousness members locally and around the world we use Mighty Networks to host our community platform. Please click below to view the Mighty Networks privacy policy:
www.mightynetworks.com/privacy-policy