Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this site.
These terms of website use and acceptable use policy (together with the documents referred to in it) tell you what the permitted and prohibited uses are, and the general terms on which you may make use of the School of Contemplative Life website (“our site”).
Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site. Please ensure you have read and understood this policy. We recommend that you print a copy for future reference.
If you do not agree to this policy, you must not use our site.
The School of Contemplative Life (‘SoCL’) is established for charitable purposes (charity number 1195159). Our registered address is 53 Portland Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 2NX.
Our Privacy Notice also applies to your use of our site and sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, with details about the cookies used by our site.
By using our site, you consent to the processing of your personal data and you confirm that all data provided by you is accurate and, where necessary, will be amended and kept up to date.
By entering your name and email address and clicking ‘sign up’ via our website or pages on third-party sites, you agree that SoCL may send you news, retreat details, and other information to support your practice. You understand and agree that SoCL may use your information in accordance with our privacy policy. You may unsubscribe and update your preferences at any time.
In addition, you confirm that where you have supplied personal data of third parties, you have their consent and will similarly ensure the personal data you have provided is accurate and kept up to date.
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes, as they are binding on you.
We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.
Every effort is made to keep this site and any associated support up and running smoothly. However, we do not guarantee that our site, or any contents, will always be available, uninterrupted, or that support will be available. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis.
We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue, or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if, for any reason, our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
Our offering should be understood as only providing spiritual guidance and advice to help participants deepen their own meditation practice and understanding. You and any people you book a ticket for are entirely responsible for how you choose to understand, misunderstand, use or misuse any of our event content, materials and advice.
Many people have experienced improvements in general wellbeing through meditation practice. However, if you or anyone you intend to book a ticket for suffer from any mental, emotional or physical health conditions, please: a) ask your medical practitioner if it is advisable for you/them to attend an event with us, b) make sure you/they always follow your/their medical practitioner’s advice and c) let us know in general terms without sharing specific details. In the event that your/their participation brings issues to the surface or reveals some form of mental health condition, we recommend you/they seek suitable professional support. Please be aware that we cannot provide any professional care.
We cannot accept any responsibility for any adverse effects, directly or indirectly, that may result from your/their participation in, or use of the information provided during our events or included on our website, in materials, or any other communications, both online and in person. Furthermore, we make no guarantees that any of the programmes, advice and practice material we provide will function in any particular way for you/them. By engaging with us, you/they agree that you/they will use the information, guidance and advice entirely at your own/their discretion.
Where we are delivering an event on behalf of an organisation, it is the organisation’s responsibility to ensure that the event is appropriate for the people they wish to attend, in accordance with the provisions of our Event Terms and Conditions.
If you have any questions or concerns, or need to make contact to discuss anything above, please email [email protected].
Apart from where you have entered information on our site and created any rights (in which case the rights will remain with you or the owner), we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Please note that some content found on this site may be the copyright of third parties, reproduced with kind permission, consent, under licence, or within the acts permitted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Any third party who believes any part of this site infringes any of their rights should contact us immediately.
Information we provide may include, but is not limited to, blogs, podcasts, other written or audio material, events, alerts, announcements, news articles, and other general information in any format. The format includes, but is not limited to, text, images, photographs, audio, video, and may be delivered by multiple mediums including, but not limited to, an associated website, face-to-face, telephone, or email.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties, or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete, or up to date.
The information you contribute must be up to date and correct at the time of contribution, and you must keep it up to date and correct as required by applicable data protection legislation. All personal information will be dealt with in accordance with current UK data protection laws and our Privacy Notice.
Where you contribute information on any part of our site, you must comply with the provisions set out in these terms and conditions. Submissions may be removed (or, if checked in advance, not published in the first place) if they do not adhere to this policy.
We may have to remove a submission for legal reasons (whatever the rights and wrongs). If you are aware that content has been removed, you must not deliberately resubmit the same content.
Content that is deemed against our acceptable use policy includes, but is not limited to:
Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms which may apply to our site or any content in it, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data, or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked to our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes, and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (as amended). We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
You may link to our website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our site on any website you do not have permission to link from. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. The inclusion of any links to other websites does not imply a recommendation or endorsement of the views expressed on those websites. You follow such links entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of those third-party sites.
If you sign up to our database, we may contact you from time to time about details we deem important in relation to changes, updates, improvements to the website, or to these terms.
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
You also agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of these terms, and not to access without authority, interfere with, damage, or disrupt:
If, in our absolute discretion, there is any inappropriate use of our site by you or any breach of these terms, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including withdrawal of your right to use our site and, if appropriate, legal proceedings.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to inappropriate use of the site and any breaches of this policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate, including reporting matters to law enforcement or regulatory bodies.
We are committed to making this site accessible to all and have included a number of features to assist with accessibility. We aim to meet the technical standards set out by the World Wide Web Consortium in their Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 to make this site accessible and to comply with the statutory obligations of the Equality Act 2010 and any subsequent amendments or replacements.
Please note that this policy, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.
To contact us, please email [email protected].
These terms were last updated on 14th August 2025.