Privacy Notice
Still & Path is a contemplative practice guidance service. You can reach us at hello@stillandpath.com.
What we collect and why
When you send us a note through this form, we receive your email address and the text you write. We use this information to send you our honest written guidance and, over time, to understand how to improve the recommendations we give.
Some of what you write may touch on your health, including your mental health — you never have to share more than you want to. Where it does, we treat it as sensitive, and hold it only to prepare your guidance, with your agreement.
How it is stored
Your form submission is stored in a secure database hosted in the European Union. Only the people preparing your response can see it.
Analytics and error monitoring
To understand how the site is used and to keep it working, we rely on two privacy-conscious tools. We use a cookieless analytics tool that records anonymous, aggregated visit information (such as page views and approximate region). It does not use cookies, does not track you across other websites, and does not identify you personally.
We also use an error monitoring tool that alerts us when something breaks; it records technical diagnostics only, and we deliberately exclude the contents of your note and your email address from it.
How long we keep it
We keep your submission for one year.
If you would like us to delete it sooner, email us at hello@stillandpath.com and we will do so within 5 working days.
Who else sees it
We don't share your information with retreat centres, teachers, or anyone else.
Your rights
You can ask us at any time to see what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it. Email us at hello@stillandpath.com and we will respond within 5 working days.
Guidance and its limits
The recommendations we offer are informed by our own experience of practice — retreats attended, teachers studied with and traditions explored. We are not medical, clinical, or therapeutic professionals, and nothing we say constitutes or should be read as a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice. Our guidance is informational: what you do with it is your decision entirely.
We do our best to read your situation honestly, but we can be wrong. If a recommendation doesn't feel right, trust that instinct — and feel free to tell us.
Intensive meditation and retreat practice can surface difficult experiences. If you have a history of serious mental health conditions, we encourage you to speak with a qualified professional before attending a retreat or undertaking intensive practice.
If you are in a mental health crisis or emergency, please contact a qualified professional or your local emergency services (EU: 112).
Content limits
Some of our writing names and describes teachers, centres, traditions, and retreat formats. When we do, we are offering honest, considered opinion — formed with the same care we bring to guiding a practitioner: fair, well-rounded, calm, and kind. It is meant to help you think for yourself, not to be the last word on anyone, and not a statement of fact about any organisation.
We form these views independently. They are written in service of the practitioner reading them, and no teacher, centre, or tradition pays to be written about here. We work to be accurate and fair, and to describe each tradition on its own terms — and we can still get things wrong, and would rather know. If you are someone we have written about and something doesn’t sit right, please tell us that at hello@stillandpath.com. We will listen, and where we have got it wrong, we will put it right.