The Personality Mandala Research Project activated this Privacy Policy for the Project’s Website and Database on Monday 30 October 2023. You should read this Privacy Policy from start to finish before you join the Research Project.

Contact

If you have any questions about the Website and Database’s Privacy Policy, you should contact The Personality Mandala (TPM) Research-Project Information-Manager. Name: TPM Research-Project Information-Manager. Email: infoman@personalitymandala.com.

Ownership

SCPublishing is the sole owner-and-operator of The Personality Mandala Research Project, Website and Database. SCPublishing is a trading-division of The Steam Crossing Company Limited, a micro-business based in the United Kingdom (UK). The Research Project includes The Personality Mandala Name, Diagram, Personality-Type-Indicator, Type-Calculation, Type-Indication, Type-Names, Type-Descriptions, Anonymous-Demographic-Research-Questionnaire, the Website’s Learning-Lounge and The Personality Mandala Database.

The personal-identifying-information which the Research Project collects

From Monday 30 October 2023, the Research Project collects and processes the following personal-facts about you which others could use to identify you: 1. Your username; 2. Your email-address; 3. Your mobile-phone-number; and 4. Your private-password.

How the Research Project collects your personal-identifying-information

You provide your personal-identifying-information directly to the Website so that you can: 1. Create your Personal-Membership-Account on the Research Project’s Website; 2. Identify yourself whenever you visit the Website to use the learning-resources; 3. Ensure that you have only one Personal-Membership-Account on the Website and Database to protect the validity of the Project’s research; 4. Ensure that you have only one complete Type-Indication on the Website and Database to protect the validity of the Project’s research. The Research Project should not collect or process any other personal-identifying-information about you indirectly from any other source in any other circumstances for any other reason. Your Type-Indication-Document contains your username, Type-Indication, Type-Indication-Code and overall-totals for all eight personality-types under your email-address. Your Type-Indication-Document should not contain any Demographic-Information about you. If you keep this Document on your Dashboard on The Personality Mandala Research Project Website, then the Research Project is responsible for keeping that personal-information secure. If you ask the Website to email your Type-Indication-Document to you, then you are responsible for keeping that personal-information secure. If you choose to share your Type-Indication-Document with anyone else at any time, such as on your Dashboard on the Website or in your Type-Indication Email, then you are responsible for whatever happens as a result of that sharing.

The Type-Indicator-information which the Research Project collects

From Monday 30 October 2023, the Research Project collects and processes the following Type-Indicator-information about you: 1. The numerical sub-totals which you give to the Assessments in Parts One, Two and Three; 2. The overall numerical-totals which you give to all eight of the personality-types; 3. The Primary-Type and Auxiliary-Type which you choose in your Assessments. The Project could use this information in one-to-one or group sessions with you; or for research into personality-type-distribution.

How the Research Project collects your Type-Indicator-information

You provide your Type-Indicator-information directly to the Website so that you can: 1. Complete the Personality-Type-Indicator on the Website; 2. Receive your Personality-Type-Indication from the Website. The Research Project should not collect or process any other Type-Indicator-information about you indirectly from any other source in any other circumstances for any other reason.

Why the Research Project collects your Type-Indicator-information

The Research Project collects and processes your Type-Indicator-information to: 1. Allow the Website to calculate and produce your individual Personality-Type-Indication and your anonymous Personality-Type-Indication-Code; 2. Store your Indicator- and Demographic-Information anonymously under that Type-Indication-Code; 3. Use your Indicator- and Demographic-Information to do research into Personality-Type. The Research Project should not share, sell or exchange your Type-Indicator-information with any other organisation or with any other individual at any other time for any other reason. Your Type-Indication-Document contains your username, Type-Indication, Type-Indication-Code and overall-totals for all eight personality-types under your email-address. Your Type-Indication-Document should not contain any Demographic-Information about you. If you keep this Document on your Dashboard on The Personality Mandala Research Project Website, then the Research Project is responsible for keeping that personal-information secure. If you ask the Website to email your Type-Indication-Document to you, then you are responsible for keeping that personal-information secure. If you choose to share your Type-Indication-Document with anyone else at any time, such as on your Dashboard on the Website or in your Type-Indication Email, then you are responsible for whatever happens as a result of that sharing.

The anonymous-demographic-information which the Research Project collects

From Monday 30 October 2023, the Research Project collects and processes the following anonymous-demographic-facts about you which others cannot use to identify you: 1. Your age, nationality, ethnicity, gender, language, education and work; 2. Your response to your Type-Indication-Description; 3. Your anonymous Personality-Type-Indication-Code.

How the Research Project collects your anonymous-demographic-information

You provide your anonymous-demographic-information directly to the Website so that you can: 1. Exchange that information for a Type-Indication from the Website; 2. Access the learning-resources which the Website provides for you; 3. Participate in the Research Project’s independent research into personality-type. The Research Project should not collect or process any other anonymous-demographic-facts about you indirectly from any other source in any other circumstances for any other reason.

Why the Research Project collects your demographic-information

The Research Project collects and processes your anonymous-demographic-information: 1. In exchange for your Type-Indication and the Website’s learning-resources; 2. To conduct and publish independent research into personality-type-distribution. The Research Project processes, publishes and sells the anonymous-demographic-information of the sixteen auxiliary-personality-types only through SCPublishing and only for educational purposes to cover the cost of maintaining the Project’s Website and Database. The Research Project should not share, sell or exchange your unprocessed anonymous-demographic-information with any other organisation or any other individual at any other time for any other reason. Your Type-Indication-Document contains your username, Type-Indication, Type-Indication-Code and overall-totals for all eight personality-types under your email-address. Your Type-Indication-Document should not contain any Demographic-Information about you. If you keep this Document on your Dashboard on The Personality Mandala Research Project Website, then the Research Project is responsible for keeping that personal-information secure. If you ask the Website to email your Type-Indication-Document to you, then you are responsible for keeping that personal-information secure. If you choose to share your Type-Indication-Document with anyone else at any time, such as on your Dashboard on the Website or in your Type-Indication Email, then you are responsible for whatever happens as a result of that sharing.

United Kingdom (UK) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Legitimate interest in your information

The Personality Mandala Research Project collects and processes your information legally under the United Kingdom (UK) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because the Research Project has a legitimate interest in your personal-identifying-information, your Type-Indicator-information and your anonymous-demographic-research-information.

1. Legitimate interest in your personal-identifying-information

Your personal-identifying-information includes your username, email-address, mobile-phone-number and private-password. To create a Personal-Membership-Account and use the Discovery-Level of the Website, you must give the Research Project this personal-information. The Website stores this information securely in the Project’s Database. The Website uses this information to identify you when you log-in or while you navigate the Site. The Website also uses this information to manage how you use the Site: you should be 18 or over; have only one Personal-Membership-Account; and only one complete Type-Indication and one complete set of anonymous-demographic-responses on the Website and Database.

2. Legitimate interest in your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information

Your Indicator-Information includes your sub-totals for each of the three Parts of the Type-Indicator, your overall-totals for each of the eight Types, and your Primary-Type and Auxiliary-Type-Indication. The Research Project collects and stores your Type-Indicator-Information anonymously in the Database separately from your personal-identifying-information under an anonymous-Personality-Type-Indication-Code.

3. Legitimate interest in your anonymous-demographic-research-information

In exchange for your Type-Indication, the Research Project asks you to give your anonymous-demographic-information to the Project, and the right to use that anonymous-demographic-information in the Project’s research. The Project uses that information anonymously to do independent research into the personality type-distribution of Analytical Psychology’s theory of personality-type. The Project also publishes that research only through SCPublishing and only for educational purposes to cover the cost of running the Website and Database.

How the Research Project stores your personal-identifying-information

The Personality Mandala Research Project Website stores your personal-identifying-information in the Project’s Database. The Project keeps your personal-information in the Database for the duration of The Personality Mandala Research Project. To protect your identity, the Website stores your personal-identifying-information in the Database separately from your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information and your anonymous-demographic-research-information. The Website stores your three types of information under a unique-identifier or Member-ID, so that no one outside of The Personality Mandala Research Project can link the three types of information to identify you. If the Research Project changes the Website’s objectives and outcome, the Project should ask you for your consent to keep your personal-identifying-information on the Website in the Database. If SCPublishing sells The Personality Mandala Research Project, the Website should ask you for your consent to transfer your personal-identifying-information in the form of your Personal-Membership-Account to the new owner of the Research Project. If SCPublishing closes The Personality Mandala Research Project, the Website should delete your personal-identifying-information in the Database. Your personal-identifying-information belongs to you, and you are responsible for keeping this information safe on your side of any interaction which you have with the Website.

How the Research Project stores your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information

The Personality Mandala Research Project Website stores your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information securely in the Project’s Database. The Website keeps your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information for the duration of The Personality Mandala Research Project, Website and Database. You have given your Type-Indicator-information to the Research Project Website so that the Website can calculate your Personality-Type-Indication, so the Research Project owns all the anonymous-Type-Indicator-information which the Website stores in the Project’s Database. To protect your identity, the Website stores your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information in the Database separately from your personal-identifying-information and your anonymous-demographic-research-information. The Website stores your three types of information under a unique-identifier or Member-ID, so that no one outside of The Personality Mandala Research Project can link the three types of information to identify you. If the Research Project closes or sells the Website, or changes the Website’s objectives and outcome, the Project has the right to keep the anonymous-Type-Indicator-information or to sell that anonymous-Type-Indicator-information to another owner.

How the Research Project stores your anonymous-demographic-information

The Personality Mandala Research Project Website stores your anonymous-demographic-research-information securely in the Project’s Database. The Website keeps your anonymous-demographic-research-information for the duration of The Personality Mandala Research Project, Website and Database. You give your anonymous-demographic-research-information to the Research Project’s Website in exchange for your Personality-Type-Indication, so the Research Project owns all the anonymous-demographic-research-information in the Project’s Database. To protect your identity, the Website stores your anonymous-demographic-research-information in the Database separately from your personal-identifying-information and your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information. The Website stores your three types of information under a unique-identifier or Member-ID, so that no one outside of The Personality Mandala Research Project can link the three types of information to identify you. If the Research Project closes or sells the Website, or changes the Website’s objectives and outcome, the Project has the right to keep the anonymous-demographic-research-information or to sell that anonymous-demographic-research-information to another owner.

Data protection rights

Under Data Protection Law, you have the following rights. Right of access: You may ask the Research Project for copies of your personal-information. Right to rectification: You may ask the Research Project to correct or complete your personal-information if you think that information is inaccurate or incomplete. Right to erasure: You may ask the Research Project to erase your personal-information in certain circumstances. Right to restriction of processing: You may ask the Research Project to restrict the processing of your personal-information in certain circumstances. Right to object to processing: You may object to the Research Project processing your personal-information in certain circumstances. Right to data-portability: You may ask the Research Project to transfer the personal-information you gave the Website to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Contact

You should not pay to use your Data Protection rights. If you make a request about your personal-information, The Personality Mandala (TPM) Research-Project Information-Manager should respond to you within one month. If you would like to make a request about your personal-information, you should contact The Personality Mandala (TPM) Research-Project Information-Manager. Name: TPM Research-Project Information-Manager. Email: infoman@personalitymandala.com.

Complaints

If you are unhappy with how The Personality Mandala (TPM) Research Project has used your personal-identifying-information, your anonymous-Type-Indicator-information or your anonymous-demographic-research-information, you should complain to The Personality Mandala (TPM) Research-Project Information-Manager. Name: TPM Research-Project Information-Manager. Email: infoman@personalitymandala.com. You could also complain to the United Kingdom (UK) Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Information Commissioner’s Office Helpline Number: 0303 123 1113. Information Commissioner’s Office Website: https://www.ico.org.uk. Information Commissioner’s Office; Wycliffe House; Water Lane; Wilmslow; Cheshire; SK9 5AF.