Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn® operates the funnel.golden-dawn.com website (the “Service”), offering educational courses, digital resources, and related traditional study materials in Hermetic philosophy.

This Privacy Policy outlines our data practices for this Service. By utilizing the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

Information Collection and Use

While using our Service to request educational resources, enroll in courses, or purchase materials, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, or to process your transactions. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Your name and email address
• Your phone number and billing/shipping address
• Your payment information (processed securely through authorized third-party gateways)

We collect this information to deliver requested materials, process your orders, maintain your customer account, add your email to our digital mailing list to receive ongoing educational updates, optimize your user experience, and communicate ongoing insights.

Sensitive Data and Personal Belief Protection

We recognize that our educational resources, courses, and commercial materials touch upon historical, philosophical, and traditional esoteric studies.

In strict accordance with platform compliance standards, we do not intentionally collect, process, or store any sensitive personal data through our Service.

This includes, but is not limited to, data regarding an individual’s personal religious beliefs, philosophical worldviews, political affiliations, race or ethnic origin, physical or mental health conditions, sexual orientation, or negative financial status.

Our data collection is strictly confined to standard, non-sensitive communication and transactional markers (such as name, email address, and billing/shipping information) voluntarily provided to fulfill orders, maintain customer accounts, and deliver our ongoing educational insights.

Log Data

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“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, and other statistics.

In addition, we use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor, and analyze this type of information to help us improve our educational and commercial offerings. These third-party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

We use cookies to collect information to analyze site traffic, manage shopping cart functionality, and personalize your experience. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Behavioral Remarketing

We use remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after you visit our Service.

We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

You can opt out of these customized advertising features at any time through your individual browser settings or platform-specific opt-out tools.

Service Providers & Transactional Partners

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties include, but are not limited to, email delivery and marketing automation platforms (such as Ontraport) and secure e-commerce merchant processors.

These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these specific tasks on our behalf—such as delivering your educational emails or processing your payment details—and are strictly obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Communications

We may use your personal information to contact you with newsletters, transactional receipts, course updates, or marketing materials regarding our traditional studies.

By interacting with our Service or purchasing our materials, you consent to join our mailing list for these ongoing communications.

You may opt out of receiving marketing updates from us at any time by following the "unsubscribe" link provided at the bottom of any email we send, or by contacting us directly via our Contact Us page.

Compliance with Laws

We will disclose your personal information where required to do so by law or subpoena, or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement, or to protect the security, safety, and integrity of our Service and customers.

Transactional Security

The security of your personal information is paramount to us. We utilize standard HTTPS encryption across our Service, and all financial transactions are handled via industry-standard, encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) merchant integrations.

While we deploy maximum commercial efforts to protect your personal and financial data, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

International Transfer

Your information, including personal 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 from those of your jurisdiction. Your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites 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.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service is designed strictly for adults aged 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us so that we may take immediate steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We 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.

​​​​​​​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.