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These policies apply to all retreats and events (in-person and online) as well as this website (plumvillage.org).
This website is owned by the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism (PVCEB)Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism (PVCEB), Inc. was founded in 1998 to represent Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and his community in the United States. PVCEB is a U.S. tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.and managed by Congrégation Bouddhique Zen du Village des Pruniers (CBZ)Congrégation Bouddhique Zen Village des Pruniers (CBZ) is the officially-registered Buddhist Congregation nonprofit organization for the monastics of Plum Village France.
— SIREN No. 753112333
— Registered Address: 13 LD Martineau, 33580 Dieulivol, France.
CBZ provides for the spiritual and material needs of the monastics and preserves Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings and legacy in France. Formally recognized as a religious congregation by the French Parliament on June 16, 2012, CBZ is governed by a monastic Board nominated by an elected Assembly of monastic Dharma Teachers. and Bienvenue aux Pruniers (BAP) in France.Bienvenue aux Pruniers, S.A.S. (BAP) is a social enterprise established by CBZ in 2025 to manage the practical aspects of visitors’ time in Plum Village, including food, accommodation, and care of the land, site, and facilities.
— SIREN No. 941806697
— Registered Address: 13 LD Martineau, 33580 Dieulivol, France
This website is hosted by PRESSINFRA SRL, Str. Traian Vuia nr. 18, Timișoara, Timiș County, Romania.
Mindfulness retreats and events at the three hamlets of Plum Village in southwest France The Three Hamlets:
— Upper Hamlet: 437 Chemin du Pey, 24240 Thénac, France
— Lower Hamlet: 1336 Route de Lalande, 47120 Loubès-Bernac, France
— New Hamlet: 13 Martineau, 757 Route Du Duras, 33580 Dieulivol, Franceare managed by Bienvenue aux Pruniers, S.A.S. on behalf of Congrégation Bouddhique Zen Village des Pruniers.
Mindfulness Retreats & Events at Heading Spring Monastery (Verdelot-77510) & Maison de L’inspir (Villeneuve sur bellot-77510) are managed by Le Village Des Pruniers à Paris, the religious nonprofit 1901 association, on Behalf of Congrégation Bouddhique Zen Village des Pruniers
Plum Village online courses are run by the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation, a division of PVCEB, on behalf of Congrégation Bouddhique Zen Village des Pruniers.
By registering for an on-site retreat in Plum Village, all participants agree to the following:
All concerns will be treated with respect, confidentiality, and in accordance with French law.
For retreats from January 3, 2026 onwards, your contribution will be split into two payments:
Your bank statement will show two charges and you will receive two invoices.
Note: For retreats taking place in 2025 until January 3, 2026, retreat contributions are received by Communaute Bouddhique Zen du Village des Pruniers, the religious nonprofit 1901 association operating our activities from 1988-2025.
All the payment of the contribution of Healing Spring Monastery and Maison de l’inspir will be to Le Village Des Pruniers à Paris.
Our online booking system accepts:
All payments are processed via the secure Stripe payment gateway. We do not store payment details. Due to strict French regulations, we cannot accept cash, cheques, or manual bank transfers for retreat payments.
To ensure fair access for all, we have revised our cancellation policy to encourage participants to book a retreat place only when certain they can attend.
If you need to cancel:
This cancelation policy applies for retreats from Jan 3 2026 onwards. For retreats in November and December 2025, our current policy applies. Click here for more information.
We strongly recommend obtaining travel insurance to cover retreat cancellation fees in case of unforeseen circumstances, including personal illness or family emergencies.
For those generously coming to Plum Village to help as a volunteer, the cancellation fee is €25 (to cover admin costs).
Plum Village reserves the right to cancel a retreat under any circumstances. If this occurs, you will receive a full refund of all payments made to us, including the admin fee.
Plum Village accepts no further liability beyond the retreat registration fee refund. We cannot be liable for funds spent on advance travel arrangements, such as flight tickets and visas. We strongly recommend obtaining travel insurance that covers this.
Please see our Privacy Policy at https://plumvillage.org/privacy-policy
All website content, including text, images, audio, video, and teachings, is the property of PVCEB (U.S. jurisdiction) and CBZ (E.U. jurisdiction).
The Plum Village community and its legal entities in France and the U.S. reserve the right to modify, alter, delete, and update these policies at any time. Such alterations do not nullify our rights if infringements or breaches occurred under a previous version of these conditions.
Last updated: 2025
At CBZ Village des Pruniers, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
We may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to privacy@plumvillage.org
We’re CBZ Village des Pruniers, Europe’s largest Buddhist meditation center dedicated to bring mindfulness into people’s lives. CBZ Village des Pruniers is a registered association for Religious activities (SIRET: 753 112 333 and 425 182 565). The registered address is 13 Martineau, 33580, Dieulivol, France.
We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you contact us about retreats, to make a donation or if you register to receive one of our newsletters.
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, which retreats you have attended, donations made, if you have volunteered with us, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. If you make a donation online or book a retreat with us, your banking information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below. Our payment processors also follow the General Data Protection Regulations issued by the European Union.
We may use your information to:
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf: We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to process donations and send you mailings). However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties beyond the CBZ Village des Pruniers Network for them to use for their own direct marketing purposes, unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.
When you are using our secure online donation pages, your donation is processed by a third party payment processor, who specialises in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us by sending an e-mail to privacy@plumvillage.org.
We may transfer your information if we’re under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our supporters and retreatants. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us about the practice and our retreats, then you can select your choices by ticking the relevant boxes situated on the form on which we collect your information.
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not contact you for marketing purposes by post if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us by e-mail: dana@plumvillage.org
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date or you want to delete your information, please email us at: privacy@plumvillage.org.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information CBZ Village des Pruniers holds about you.
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely. Any sensitive information (such as credit or debit card details) is encrypted and protected with the following software 128 Bit encryption on SSL. When you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security in our systems. Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.
Like many other websites, the CBZ Village des Pruniers website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, we use cookies to store your country preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better, more personalised service.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. Turning cookies of may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (“EU”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the EU. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.