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1. Introduction

Welcome to the LEARNERs’ Trust privacy notice. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of this Privacy Notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how the LEARNERs’ Trust collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our newsletter, purchase a product or service, or take part in a competition.

Controller

The LEARNERs’ Trust is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

3. The Data We Collect About You

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

  • Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
  • Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Technical Data: includes 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 this website.
  • Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in section 4 above:

  • Internal Third Parties: Other companies in our group acting as joint controllers or processors and who are based in the UK and provide IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting.
  • External Third Parties: Service providers acting as processors based in the UK who provide IT and system administration services, professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the UK who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services, HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the UK who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

6. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to withdraw consent, and to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

9. Contact Details

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

GDPR@learnerstrust.org