Privacy Policy

Our data protection registration number is ZA218406.

Our Contact details

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please contact us at info@careskillsacademy.co.uk

What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website and our services (including your contact details, IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system type and version, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation paths and service usage);

(b) information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services;

(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us;

(e) information that you send to us in order to obtain a quotation for services;

(f) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters;

(g) information that you provide to us for the purpose of using our website-based and other services; and

(h) any other information that you choose to send to us.

Using your personal information

Personal information submitted to us via this website, through our services or by any other means will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

(a) administer the website and our services;

(b) improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;

(c) enable your use of our services;

(d) provide products and supply services purchased and/or used by you;

(e) send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;

(f) send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;

(g) send you email notifications which you have requested;

(h) send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);

(i) provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user; and

(j) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website or our services.

Where you submit personal information for publication on our website or our services, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

Payments

All our website and services financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, Worldpay. You can review the Worldpay privacy policy at www.worldpay.com/uk. We will share information with Worldpay only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website and dealing with charge-backs, refunds, complaints, and queries relating to such payments.

Data disclosures

We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we (or our sub-contractors) operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy. Information which you provide may be transferred to countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area. However, we will endeavour to ensure that any transfer of data is made subject to the conclusion of applicable agreements which seek to protect the security of your data and to notify you of such transfer, if necessary.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website or through our services will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to such transfers of your personal information.

Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information which you provide to us.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.

Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. We will not ask you for your password (except, of course, when you log in to the website or our services).

Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website or on our services. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

We may from time to time also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.

Your rights

You may request us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by sending an email to us. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third party websites

The website or our services may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Cookie Policy

Our website and our services may use cookies. Where such cookies are used, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Cookies consist of small files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

How we use cookies

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

(1) to recognise your computer when you visit our website or our services;

(2) to track you as you navigate our website or our services, and to enable the use of the some of the features on our website (such as our shopping cart and service platform access);

(3) to improve the website’s or our services’ usability;

(4) to analyse the use of our website or our services;

(5) in the administration of this website or our services;

(6) to personalise our website or our services for you, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

Third party cookies

When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Blocking and deleting cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (e.g. Internet Explorer: you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector; Firefox: you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box).

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use many of the features of this website or our services.

You can enable, disable or delete cookies by following your browser instructions, which you can usually find in the Tools or Help or Edit menu of a computer.