Privacy Policy

Introduction

Pedagogy.store is provided by the Pedagogy founder Mike Villiers-Stuart (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.

Through your use of our website, we collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.

This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only. However, it explains that when you use our website, your personal data may be collected and stored by limited third parties. Further information and links to the privacy policies of those third parties are provided in this policy.

Hosting

Our website - Pedagogy.store - is hosted on the WIX.com platform. WIX.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to market our products and services to you. Therefore, through your use of our website, your personal data will be stored through WIX.com’s data storage, databases and the general WIX.com applications. WIX.com stores your data on secure servers behind a firewall using appropriate international process and protocol. Please see WIX.com’s own privacy policy for more information about how they will store your personal data: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy .

The personal data we collect

Direct collection of your personal data: When you use this website, we only directly collect personal data about you when you complete the ‘Get in Touch’ form for any ‘Quick queries’ on the final page of the website. The form asks for your work, company or institution email, not your personal email. Ideally, please do not supply personal details or information. You have a choice whether to submit your personal data to us by using this form.

The only personal data we collect through the Get in Touch form is your email address, although you may elect to provide us with additional personal data on that form such as your name or contact details.

When you submit the Get in Touch form, it sends an email with your query directly to the Gmail account mike@pedagogy.com (as part of the WIX.com hosting service explained above) where your email details and message will reside. For more information regarding the storage of your personal data on this Gmail account, please see Google’s own Gmail privacy policy: https://safety.google/intl/en-GB_ALL/products/gmail/.

Indirect collection of personal data: Cookies are also used on our website to indirectly collect some other personal data about you. You have the choice to accept the use of cookies or not, or to disable them. Please see the ‘Cookies and data’ and ‘Other links within our website’ section below for more information.

Why we collect your personal data

Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason.

We directly collect your personal data via the Get in Touch form to enable us to answer any specific questions you may have regarding our products and services and/or so that we can get back to you with an appropriate reply to your ‘Quick enquiry’. Under data protection law, this reasoning is known as our “legitimate interest”.

Please see the ‘Cookies and data’ and ‘Other links within our website’ section below for more information about why your personal data is indirectly collected via the use of cookies.

Who we share your personal data with

Your data will be collected by WIX.com if you use this website, as well as with Google (Gmail) if you complete the Get in Touch form as explained in this policy. Other than this, we will never routinely share your personal data with any third party. If this changes, we will update this privacy policy (see ‘Changes to this privacy policy’ below). We would only allow a third-party organisation to handle your personal data if we were satisfied that they would take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.

Transferring your personal data out of the UK

Countries outside the UK have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy. As part of the collection and storage of your personal data as explained in this policy, it may be necessary for your personal data to be transferred outside the UK. In those cases, we will comply with applicable UK laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.

How long we will keep your personal data

We will delete any personal data about you that has been directly collected from our website (and that is not needed in the pursuance of our professional relationship with you as a client or by us as a tax paying entity) at the end of every financial year unless you specifically request otherwise. See ‘How to contact us’ below.

Cookies and data

Our website uses GDPR compliant third-party website tracking technologies from WIX.com USERCENTRICS (“cookies”). A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device when you use our website. These cookies help WIX.com recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

A cookie banner pop-up will ask for your consent for us to store those cookies. This is a legal requirement to ensure data is not collected without your consent. The banner appears on a first visit, explaining what data is collected (for analytics, ads, etc.), and offers choices to save, deny or accept this statement:

“This site uses third-party website tracking technologies to provide and continually improve our services, and to display advertisements according to users’ interests. I agree and may revoke or change my consent at any time with effect for the future.”

For further information on the use of cookies, when your consent will be requested before placing them and how to disable them / withdraw your consent, please see the following links supplied by WIX.com (https://support.wix.com/en/article/cookies-and-your-wix-site) explaining how to access cookie settings in various browsers:

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Children

Pedagogy.store and the Pedagogy business exists to supply and advise on teaching and learning in higher and professional education. Our website is not intended for children under 18 years of age (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal data from children under 18. If you believe that we have collected, used or disclosed personal data of a child under the age of 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction), please contact us so that we can take appropriate action (see ‘How to contact us’ below).

Your rights

You generally have the following rights in relation to your personal data, which you can usually exercise free of charge:

Access to a copy of your personal data
The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data
Correction (also known as rectification)
The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data
Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten)
The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations
Restriction of use
The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data
Data portability, (the right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations).
To object to use
The right to object:

- at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling)
- in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, e.g. where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement

- The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website.

The right to withdraw consents.

- If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time. Other than in relation to cookies, we do not rely on consent to process your personal data. You can withdraw your consent to the use of cookies as explained above.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). You may also find it helpful to refer to the guidance from the UK’s Information Commissioner on your rights under UK GDPR.

Keeping your personal data secure

We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it, see “Hosting” and “Who we share your data with”, in this Policy.

We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

How to complain

Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner. They may be contacted using the details at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time — when we make significant changes, we will take steps to inform you, for example via an iteration date at the top of this Policy for version control, and the option to view a description of those changes for a reasonable period.

How to contact us

You can contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint. Our contact details are shown below:

Our contact details:

By e-mail: mike@pedagogy.store by post 55, Regent Road, Birmingham, B17 9JU or by ‘phone 07836388654.

Do you need extra help

If you would like this policy in another format (for example audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).