Tavistock Tutors Limited (āweā, āourā, āusā or āTavistock Tutorsā) is committed to protecting the privacy of all users of our website tavistocktutors.com, or mobile applications (together, the āSitesā). Please read the following privacy policy that explains how we use and protect your information. Weāll be the ādata controllerā of the information you provide to us.
1. CONTACT DETAILS
If you have any queries or requests concerning this privacy policy or how we handle your data more generally, please get in touch with us using the following details.
By contacting our customer services team at: [email protected]
2. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
We collect your personal information when you interact with us or use our services, such as when you use our Sites to make a request. We also look at how visitors use our Sites, to help us improve our services and optimise customer experience.
We collect information:
- when you submit a contact form;
- when you contact us directly via email, phone, post, message or via our chat function; and
- when you browse and use our Sites (before and after you make a request).
We also collect information from third party sites, such as advertising platforms and our fraud detection provider.
3. INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT FROM YOU
As part of our commitment to the privacy of our customers and visitors to our Sites more generally, we want to be clear about the sorts of information we will collect from you.
When you visit the Sites or submit a form through the Sites, you are asked to provide information about yourself including your name, contact details, institution of study, year of study, subject, exam board or module outline, date of exam or coursework deadline, goal of tuition, academic and non academic interests, when you would like to start, days and times that are most suitable for lessons, how regularly you would like tuition, where you would like lessons, full home address and how you found out about us.
We also collect information about your usage of the Sites and information about you from when you contact us or provide us with feedback, including via e-mail, letter or phone. If you contact us by phone, we make notes in relation to your call.
We collect technical information from your mobile device or computer, such as its operating system, the device and connection type and the IP address from which you are accessing our Sites.
We collect payment information such as credit card, debit card or direct debit information when we have found you a suitable candidate that you are happy with. We either take these details over the phone or send you a form to register your details.
4. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We will only process the data we collect about you if there is a reason for doing so, and if that reason is permitted under data protection law. We will have a lawful basis for processing your information: if we need to process your information in order to provide you with the service you have requested; we have your consent; we have a justifiable reason for processing your data.
Where we need to in order to provide you with the service you have requested, we use your information:
- to enable us to provide you with access to the relevant parts of the Sites;
- to supply the services you have requested;
- to enable us to collect payment from you; and
- to contact you where necessary concerning our services.
We also process your data where we have a justifiable reason for doing soā for example personalisation of our service, including processing data to make it easier and faster for you to submit a request. We have listed these reasons below:
- to improve the effectiveness and quality of service that our customers can expect from us in the future;
to enable our customer support team to help you with any enquiries or complaints in the most efficient way possible;
- to contact you for your views and feedback on our services and to notify you if there are any important changes or developments to the Sites or our services;
- to analyse your activity on the Sites so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our business and for statistical and analytical purposes and to help us to prevent fraud.
5. 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 the Site may become inaccessible or not function properly.
6. RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
We will not retain your information for any longer than we think is necessary.
Information that we collect will be retained for as long as needed to fulfil the purposes outlined in the āUse of my informationā section above, in line with our legitimate interest or for a period specifically required by applicable regulations or laws, such as retaining the information for regulatory reporting purposes.
When determining the relevant retention periods, we will take into account factors including:
- our contractual obligations and rights in relation to the information involved;
- legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;
- statute of limitations under applicable law(s);
- (potential) disputes; and
- guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.
Otherwise, we securely erase your information where we no longer require your information for the purposes collected.
7. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
The information we collect about you will be transferred to and stored on our servers. We are very careful about who else your information is shared with.
We share your information with third party service providers. The types of third party service providers whom we share your information with includes:
- Payment providers (including online payment providers and fraud detection providers): for the purposes of providing services to us, for example when they process information such as credit card payments for us, provide support services to you or carry out fraud checks for us.
- IT service providers (including cloud providers): for the purposes of data storage and analysis.
Tavistock Tutors will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy when it is transferred to third parties.
If our business enters into a joint venture with, purchases or is sold to or merged with another business entity, your information may be disclosed or transferred to the target company, our new business partners or owners or their advisors.
We may also share your information:
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with (and/or where we believe we are under a duty to comply with) any legal obligation or regulatory requirement. This includes exchanging information with other companies and other organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and prevention;
- in order to enforce our agreement with you;
- to protect the rights of Tavistock Tutors, including to prevent fraud; and
- with such third parties as we reasonably consider necessary in order to prevent crime, e.g. the police.
8. SECURITY
We adopt robust technologies and policies to ensure the personal information we hold about you is suitably protected.
We take steps to protect your information from unauthorised access and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will take steps to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Sites; 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.
9. YOUR RIGHTS
Under data protection law, you may have a number of rights concerning the data we hold about you. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details set out above. For additional information on your rights please contact your data protection authority and see below.
The right to be informed. You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why weāre providing you with the information in this policy.
The right of access. You have the right to obtain access to your information (if weāre processing it). This will enable you, for example, to check that weāre using your information in accordance with data protection law. If you wish to access the information we hold about you in this way, please get in touch (see Contact Details).
The right to rectification. You are entitled to have your information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete. You can request that we rectify any errors in information that we hold by contacting us (see Contact Details).
The right to erasure. This is also known as āthe right to be forgottenā and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of certain of the information that we hold about you by contacting us (see Contact Details).
The right to restrict processing. You have rights to āblockā or āsuppressā further use of your information. When processing is restricted, we can still store your information, but will not use it further.
The right to data portability. You have the right to obtain your personal information in an accessible and transferrable format so that you can re-use it for your own purposes across different service providers. This is not a general right however and there are exceptions. To learn more please get in touch (see Contact Details).
The right to lodge a complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle or process your information with the national data protection authority.
The right to withdraw consent. If you have given your consent to anything we do with your information (i.e. we rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information), you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us (see Contact Details). Withdrawing consent will not however make unlawful our use of your information while consent had been apparent.
The right to object to processing. You have the right to object to certain types of processing, including processing for direct marketing and profiling. You can object by changing your marketing preferences or disabling cookies as set out in sections 7 and 8 above.
We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal data to Tavistock Tutors Ltd.ā partner companies, (details of which are provided below). Direct sharing of data will occur only in respect of clients who have entered into, or sought to enter into, a contractual relationship with both or all of the companies participating in the sharing of data, and only insofar as is necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in Section 3. In particular:
- to further the legitimate interests of our company namely provision of our services and maintenance of our reputation
- to allow us to meet our legal obligations
Tavistock Tutors Ltd.ā partner companies are:
10. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to the Sites and, where appropriate, we will notify you of the changes for example by email or push notification.
This privacy policy was last updated: 23/05/2018
11. COMPLAINTS
If youāre not satisfied with our response to any complaint or believe our processing of your information does not comply with data protection law, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissionerās Office (ICO) using the following details:
Address: Information Commissionerās Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone number: 0303 123 1113
Website: www.ico.org.uk
Tavistock Tutors Limited, 30 Brewer Street, London, W1F 0SS, United Kingdom
