Berry Education Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 31, 2024
Summary of Key Points
Personal Data Collection: We collect personal data such as email addresses, names, phone numbers, addresses, and usage data to provide and improve our services.
Marketing Consent: By subscribing to our email list, you consent to receive marketing communications. You can opt out at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in any email.
Legal Basis for Processing: We process personal data based on your consent, contractual necessity, legal obligations, legitimate interests, or vital interests.
Cookies and Tracking: We use cookies (essential, statistics, marketing, functional, and preferences) and similar tracking technologies to enhance the functionality and performance of our website. You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Use of Personal Data: Personal data is used to provide services, manage accounts, perform contracts, contact you, and comply with legal obligations.
GDPR User Rights: You have rights under GDPR, including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection. You can exercise these rights by contacting us.
Data Retention: We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy or to comply with legal obligations.
Data Transfer: Personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries with different data protection laws, including the United Kingdom. We take steps to ensure your data is protected.
Disclosure of Data: Your personal data may be disclosed during business transactions or to comply with legal requirements.
Security of Data: While we use commercially acceptable measures to protect personal data, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure.
Children’s Privacy: We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under the age of 13. If we become aware of such data, we will remove it.
Third-Party Links: Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.
Policy Updates: We may update this Privacy Policy periodically and notify users via email or on our website.
Contact Us: If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, you can reach us at privacy@berryeducation.com.
Table of Contents
- Interpretation and Definitions
- Marketing Communications and Consent
- Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
- Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
- Use of Your Personal Data
- User Rights under GDPR
- Retention of Your Personal Data
- Transfer of Your Personal Data
- Disclosure of Your Personal Data
- Security of Your Personal Data
- Children’s Privacy
- Links to Other Websites
- Changes to This Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
1. INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS
1.1 Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
1.2 Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for the election of directors or other managing authority.
- Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Berry Education Ltd, Traynor North, Traynor Way, Peterlee, SR8 2RU.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country refers to: United Kingdom.
- Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cell phone, or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Website.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, provide the Service on behalf of the Company, perform services related to the Service, or assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to Berry Education, accessible from https://berryeducation.com.
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
2. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS AND CONSENT
By signing up for our email list through the form on our website, you consent to receiving marketing communications from us, including updates, promotions, and news about our products and services. We obtain this consent in accordance with the UK GDPR, and you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can easily opt out by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link included in any marketing email you receive from us. Once unsubscribed, you will no longer receive marketing communications, but you may still receive important service-related emails, such as account notifications or updates related to your use of our services.
3. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA
We process your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and, where applicable, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). Depending on the context of your interaction with our Service, the legal basis for processing your personal data may include:
- Consent: Where you have provided clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to newsletters or marketing communications).
- Contractual Necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps prior to entering into such a contract (e.g., providing the services you requested).
- Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation (e.g., retaining information for tax purposes).
- Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided that your rights and freedoms are not overridden by these interests (e.g., improving our services, enhancing user experience, or protecting our business).
- Vital Interests: Where processing is necessary to protect someone’s life (although this is unlikely to apply in the context of our services).
4. COLLECTING AND USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
4.1 Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
4.2 Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential Cookies: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.
- Statistics Cookies: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
- Marketing Cookies: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
- Functional Cookies: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
- Preferences Cookies: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage consent” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again, enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org and www.allaboutcookies.org.
5. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- To comply with legal obligations: To comply with any applicable law, regulation, or legal request.
6. USER RIGHTS UNDER GDPR
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. The Company aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@berryeducation.com.
7. RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
8. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United Kingdom and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
9. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Legal Requirements
The Company may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
10. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The security of your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
11. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
12. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
13. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
14. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
- By email: privacy@berryeducation.com