Privacy Statement
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Polaris Learning Limited ("we", “us” and “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This statement (together with our terms and conditions of use as set out on our website and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personastyle="text-align: justify;" l data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us or for us by our suppliers. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Polaris Learning Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland with company number SC295434 and having its registered office at 12 Meadows Industrial Estate, Station Road, Oldmeldrum, Inverurie, AB51 0EZ. Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Keith Adam. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU We may collect and process the following data about you:
IP ADDRESSES We may collect information about your computer or other access device, including (where available) your IP address, operating system and browser type. We may use this information for system administration, and to report anonymous statistical data about our user’s browsing actions and patterns to our advertisers. COOKIES Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. They cannot be used to identify you personally. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. Most browsers or access devices allow you to refuse or accept cookies. However, blocking cookies will have a genuine impact upon the usability of some websites. For more information on cookies, what they are, and how they can affect your privacy, please see www.allaboutcookies.org or visit the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office – www.ico.org.uk WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy statement. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION We use information held about you in the following ways:
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post or telephone. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION We may disclose your personal information to our suppliers who process such information for us and any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
YOUR RIGHTS You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@polaris-learning.com. Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. ACCESS TO INFORMATION The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. LOG FILES Our server tracks requests made of it to centrally held log files. Log files can contain any or all of the following types of data:
Log files do not contain any personal information and the information gathered from them is typically used for server administration, identifying broken links and the production of usage statistics and such information may be kept indefinitely. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT Any changes we may make to our privacy statement in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. CONTACT Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy statement are welcomed and should be addressed to info@polaris-learning.com. |
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