We will only process personal data where we have a genuine need to do so and in line with our obligations under data protection laws. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
• Where we need to perform a contract, we are about to enter or have entered with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or your legitimate interests or those of a third party).
• With your consent.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to, and only for the purpose agreed to when you provided it. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
• Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter or have entered 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.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground.
We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
• To create a new account we may process your identity and contact details for the performance of our contract with you.
• To process and deliver your teaching, we may process your identity, contact and communications for the performance of our contract with you or where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. to recover debts due to us).
• To manage our relationship with you which will include (a) notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) asking you to leave a review or take a survey we may process your identity, contact details, profile and marketing and communications preferences for the performance of our contract with you, where it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations or where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products and services).
• To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey we may process your identity, contact details, profile, usage information and marketing and communications preferences for the performance of our contract with you and where necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. to study how customers use our products and services, to develop our products and services and grow our business).
• To administer and protect our business and our websites (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) we may process your identity and contact details, and technical information (e.g.Cookies) where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) or where it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you we may process you identity, contact details, profile, usage information, marketing and communications preferences and technical information where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy).
• To use data analytics to improve our websites, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences we may process your usage and technical information (e.g.Cookies) and marketing and communications preferences where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our websites updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy).
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you we may process your identity and contact details, profile, technical and usage information (e.g.Cookies) and marketing and communications preferences where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. to develop our products/services and grow our business).
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
We may send you marketing about our own goods and services if you have opted in to receive our marketing messages, or you have previously bought similar products from us and you have not opted out from receiving our marketing messages. You can, should you wish, unsubscribe to any or all our marketing material at any time. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the 'unsubscribe' link in any marketing email we send, or by letting us know.
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.
Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third-party service providers for marketing purposes.
Opting out
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us because of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our websites may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see here.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
what legal bases do we rely on to process your information?
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e. legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfil our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfil our legitimate business interests.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e. consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you.
Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
Send users information about special offers and discounts on our products and services
Develop and display personalised and relevant advertising content for our users
Analyse how our Services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users
Support our marketing activities
Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities
Understand how our users use our products and services so we can improve user experience
Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.