Privacy Notice

academy+  Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Notice is provided by Academy Plus Group Limited (a company limited by shares which is incorporated in England and Wales and registered with company number 08761384), whose registered office is at 6 Corunna Court, Warwick, CV34 5HQ and which trades as ‘New Skills academy+’, ‘Staff Skills academy+’, (plus such other potential trading names as may be used from time to time) (referred to as we, us or our).

 

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data.

 

This Privacy Notice is intended to inform you as to how we look after your personal data – however you inter-react with us (including via use of our web-site(s) – and – regardless of where you visit any of them from) and to tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

 

This Privacy Notice has sought to have been prepared in plain English (and is provided with ‘Headings’ with the aim that you can easily review the specific areas set out below).

 

Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this Privacy Notice.

 

  1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

Purpose of this privacy notice

 

This Privacy Notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data, including any data you may provide through use of our website(s) when you purchase a product or service (or sign up to any of our newsletter(s), or take part in a competition).

 

Our website(s) are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

 

It is important that you read this Privacy Notice (together with any other Privacy Notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you) so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

 

This Privacy Notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

 

Controller

 

We are the controller and responsible for your personal data.

 

We have appointed one of our Director’s (or another appropriate senior member of staff) to be our data protection officer (DPO). They are responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Notice.

 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, including any requests to exercise your rights, please contact our DPO using the contact details as set out (from time to time) upon the web-page:-

 

https://academypl.us  – such details including – by an email sent to:-

 

data@academypl.us.

 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

 

ICO registration no: ZA370564

 

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

 

Changes to the Privacy Notice and your duty to inform us of changes

 

This version was last updated by reference UK data protection law changes arising pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on Friday, 25th May 2018.

 

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current.

 

Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

 

Third-party links

 

Our website(s) may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave any of our website(s), we encourage you to read the Privacy Notice of every website that you visit.

 

  1. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.

 

It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

 

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you – which we have grouped together as follows:

 

Identity Data including first name, last name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.

Contact Data including billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone number.

Financial Data including bank account, payment card and electronic payment details.

Transaction Data including details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services that you have purchased from us.

Technical Data including internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our website(s).

Profile Data including your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

Usage Data including information about how you use our website(s), products and services.

Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and third parties and your communication preferences.

We may also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

 

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

 

If you fail to provide personal data

 

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

 

  1. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

 

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

apply for our products or services;

create an account on any of our website(s);

subscribe to our service or publications;

request marketing to be sent to you;

enter a competition, promotion or survey; or

give us some feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with any of our website(s), we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.

Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties (and public sources) based both inside and / or outside the EU – such as those as are set out below:

Technical Data from the following parties:

analytics providers;

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