Welcome To Education Evolved!

The following policy is written to inform you of your rights to privacy and the use of your data in consultation with GDPR, U.K., and internal for one of our digital services or products. We value your trust and the security of any personal information is very important to us.

We regularly review Our Privacy Policy carefully. For further information, be sure to read our Terms and Conditions and our Cookie Policy which is posted below. If you find any issue with our privacy policy, please contact us using the information provided below.

1.1 About Us

Within this Privacy Policy, any reference to “we” or “us” refers specifically to Education Evolved Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland under company number SC687282 and is registered at the address: 272 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JR, Scotland.

1.2 What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

2. What information we collect

2.1 Registering with Education Evolved

When you register and create an account on the Education Evolved Ltd. website or learning community, when you create and update your user profile in our learning community and when you purchase access to any online course available on our website, we and third parties working with us will collect the following information:

• Name, email address, and age (required)

• Home address, date of Birth, telephone number, country of nationality (Optional)

• Other personal data if you choose to register for an Education Evolved account via a third party site such as Google or Facebook, and provided them your personal information on their platforms

• Credit/debit card information

• Data relating to your use of Our Site and any enrolment for an online course

• Information shared with us during surveys

• Information provided from third party sources, such as our Partners who invite you to take a course we offer.

2.2 Learning Community and during courses

When you participate in any of our online courses or membership platforms, we and third parties may collect and store the following additional information:

• Comments you voluntarily post or make while engaging with online discussions with either the Course Directors, Course Instructors, and other learners during the course.

• Any information within email communication with Education Evolved Ltd. for user support or to send inquiries related to the course

• Any content submitted by you during the course

2.3 When you request additional information about an upcoming or currently running course or activity in our Learning Community

We collect information from visitors to Our Site when they contact us and express interest in a specific course and who wish to be contacted by us concerning that course or future courses. This information can include:

• Name, email address, educational background, employment background, address, country of residence and phone number.

2.4 Using Our Site

When you access and use Our Site we may use cookies which enable us to track, collect, and collate information about your use of Our Site, including pages you visit, the specific URL which brought you to Our Site, and any links embedded on our Website that you access. This information can include IP addresses, and any information collected by cookies. This may include information such as the length of time you spend on certain pages on Our Site and any information concerning page interactions. For more information on our Cookie Policy, please refer to the Cookie Policy information provided at the end of our Privacy Policy.

3. How we use your information

• 3.1 By providing our online digital services to you, we and third parties we partner and work with will collect, store, and use your personal information for the following reasons:

• 3.1.1 Managing your Learning Community Account;

• 3.1.2 To provide you with technical support;

• 3.1.3 To send you email notifications and updates about Services you use such as courses you are enrolled within or services your institution has a contract with us to provide;

• 3.1.4 Where you are invited by a third party institution such as your university to join our Learning Community, and to monitor your use of any of our services;

• 3.1.5 If you are taking a Course through your institution, to allow the university or other institution to monitor and track your progress, to award you with the relevant recognition as applicable, and to make direct contact with you regarding progress and completion of the course;

• 3.1.6 To contact you occasionally to invite you to share your opinions and experiences with Education Evolved Ltd. and to publish customer reviews and ratings of our services on Our Site or on other media platforms and channels;

• 3.1.7 For marketing purposes, where you give consent to receive marketing communications, which includes emails with information, news, and offers for our services on Our Site;

• 3.1.8 For creating potential customer databases by matching demographic information from your depersonalised information with members of the general public;

• 3.1.9 To use your information in an aggregated format to identify trends on Our Site and any trends in our customer database. We may use this information in an aggregated and completely anonymous format and may share our findings with third parties;

• 3.1.10 In connection with specific courses or campaigns with higher education institution partners, to provide a specific partner you have expressed an interest in, with your personal information so they may assess common areas of interest between their students and Education Evolved Ltd.’s Learners to improve their educational programs created in conjunction with Education Evolved Ltd. This data will be stored and used pursuant to the universities’ own privacy policies;

• 3.1.11 To share general user data with our course partners for research on how to better our services; and

• 3.1.12 To enable you to participate in our refer-a-friend reward program.

• 3.2 We will use cookies to collect information relating to your use of Our Site to enable, maintain, and improve the function of Our Site and the quality of our services. For further information, see our Cookie Policy below.

4. Whom we may share your information with

• 4.1 For the purposes listed above, we may share your information with the following third parties. Please note that any third parties’ use of your personal data will be governed by their own privacy policies and may have separate obligations under applicable data protection laws. We suggest that you review any third party privacy policies that may apply to you carefully.

• 4.2 Third parties that can potentially receive your information include:

  • 4.2.1. our payment service providers (i) PayPal (UK) Limited, (ii) Stripe Inc;

  • 4.2.2 Universities or other entities that provide services in the creation process of courses on Our Site;

  • 4.2.3 Assessment Advisors or markers when you participate in a course which offers assessment or when you submit a piece of work for marking in connection with one of our courses;

  • 4.2.4 customer relationship management service providers such as services which allow us to send personalised emails to you;

  • 4.2.5 Our file storage and management service providers;

  • 4.2.6 if any or all of our assets are acquired by a third party entity provided that they follow the terms in this Privacy Policy, in which case information held by us will be one of the transferred assets; and

  • 4.2.7 Any entity which we are under a duty to disclose or share your information to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and other legal requirements, to protect our rights, property, safety of our users or others; including the exchanging of information with companies or organisations to enable fraud protection and reduce credit risk.

5. Legal Basis for Processing Your Information

• We have multiple legal bases for collecting and utilising the personal information described above.

• 5.1 Where the use of your personal information is necessary to perform our obligations under any contract with you (including providing you with access to our courses and learning community on Our Site for which you have registered and/or made a purchase);

• 5.2 Where we have your explicit consent to collect, store, and use your information for particular purposes, including where you consent to receiving email marketing and promotional communications for services on Our Site or third party websites;

• 5.3 Where use of your personal information is necessary for purposes of pursuing Education Evolved’s legitimate interests as long as these interests are not outweighed by your own interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms. For example, ensuring that any case involving your personal information is reasonable, and any information used has a minimal impact on your personal privacy. Such legitimate interests are:

  • 5.3.1 Conducting our day-to-day business, including keeping Our Site fully functional and offering educational services;

  • 5.3.2 To build relationships with higher education institutions working in the online education sector;

  • 5.3.3 to test, and release new services which we believe benefit our customers and prospective customers;

  • 5.3.4 To ensure we deliver a high level of customer satisfaction and service through continuous communication and responses to customer queries;

  • 5.3.5 To track and ensure we complete contractual obligations;

  • 5.3.6 To carry out market research and develop our business;

  • 5.3.7 Operating Our Site;

  • 5.3.8 To consider your application for employment if you apply for a role at our company; and

  • 5.3.9 In some limited cases, we may have legal obligations to collect personal information from you.

6. Storage and Security of Information

• 6.1 All of the information we collect is stored on secure servers. Upon registering, we will ask you to choose a password which enables you to access the courses you paid to access and our Learning Community. You are responsible for ensuring this password remains confidential. We request that you do not share this password with any person or entity.

• 6.2 Additionally, we (or third parties acting for us) may store or process information we collect about you in countries which may have different of data protection laws than in the UK. We have used our best efforts to ensure the security of your data, it is your responsibility to make an informed decision to avail yourself of our services or if your concerns about the handling of data require you to refrain from using Our Site.

7. Data Retention

• 7.1 We keep personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing and legitimate business need to do so (such as providing you with a service you have requested, or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements.)

• 7.2 When we no longer have an ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it, or if this remains impossible, then we will secure and store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until we can delete the information.

8. Your Rights

• Under the Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

  • a) The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data.

  • b) The right to access the personal data we hold about you.

  • c) The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete.

  • d) The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold. Please contact us to find out more.

  • e) The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.

  • f) The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.

  • g) The right to withdraw consent. This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data, you are free to withdraw that consent at any time.

  • h) The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.

  • i) Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way.

9. Children

We take very seriously our legal obligation to protect the privacy of children. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under thirteen (13) years of age, and no part of Our Site is directed to persons under thirteen (13) years of age. If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, then please do not use or access Our Site at any time or in any manner. We will take appropriate steps to delete any personal information of persons less than thirteen (13) years of age.

10. Cookies

This website uses cookies and follows the Cookie Policy as established by SquareSpace. Cookies are small files which are stored on your computer’s hard drive and are used to collect your personal information. You can refuse cookies, but if you choose this option, some of the functionality of Our Site or our services may no longer be available to you. For further information on our and Square Space cookie policy, please see below.

11. Contact details

Education Evolved Ltd.
FAO: Data Protection Officer
272 Bath Street Glasgow
G2 4JR
Scotland
Email: support@educationevolvedltd.com

12. Updating the Privacy Policy

We retain the right to edit this Privacy Policy when necessary to comply with the law and in accordance with the best practices in our industry or to meet any changing business requirements. Any updates or amendments will be posted on Our Site. By continuing to use Our Site partake in any of our services, or provide any information you will be deemed to have accepted the Priavy Policy as amended at the time of your access and use.

Cookie Policy

Analytics

• This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

  This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

  We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

• This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

• These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Customer Accounts

• If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service. This information may include your:

• Billing and shipping address(es)

• Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)

• Email address

• Name

• Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.

Emails

Marketing Emails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Order and account emails

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

• You’ve created a Customer Account

• Your Customer Account password has been reset or updated

• You’ve made a purchase

• Your order has shipped

• It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

• We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

• This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Your IP address

Visitor data

For customers

• When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

• Billing and shipping address

• Details relating to your purchase

• Email address

• Name

• Phone number

• We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

• As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For website visitors

• This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

• Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.