Privacy Notice

Introduction

Summerfields Technology Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This notice is to inform you about how we collect and process your personal data when you visit the website at https://summerfields.thinkific.com (“Website”) or purchase any of our online courses. We'll also tell you about your privacy rights and how you are protected by the UK data protection law.

Data Controller

Summerfields Technology Limited is the data controller and is responsible for the Website. Our contact details are:

Summerfields Technology Limited
Lytchett House
13 Freeland Park
Wareham Road
POOLE
BH16 6FA
Phone: 07870 165269
Email: [email protected]

The type of personal information we collect

We collect the personal information you give us such as your name and email address. And we collect your payment details.

How we collect personal information and why we have it

When you enrol as a student on the Website, we collect the personal information you give us to administer the course(s) you subscribe to.

We may send you emails about the Website and registration, course content, your course progress, changes to the course or other updates.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is our contractual obligation.

We may also use your contact data to survey you about your usage of our services or collect your opinion about those services. The lawful basis for doing so is a legitimate interest.

And we may send you marketing emails about related course(s) if you opt-in to receive direct marketing. The lawful basis for doing so is your consent. You can opt-out at any time by emailing us at [email protected].

How we store your personal information

Thinkific Labs Inc

Our Website and courses are hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with an online course creation platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.

See Thinkific Privacy Policy - https://www.thinkific.com/privacy-policy/.

Security

To protect your personal information, Thinkific takes reasonable precautions and follows industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, Thinkific follows all PCI-DSS requirements and implements additional generally accepted industry standards.

Cookies

Thinkific uses cookies that are essential for navigating and enabling certain functionality of Thinkific websites

Thinkific uses non-essential cookies in the following ways

To understand how customers use Thinkific websites and services in order to improve their performance.
To remember your selections while visiting a Thinkific website.
To personalize your experience while visiting a Thinkific website.
To deliver tailored Thinkific advertising to you.

Non-essential cookies expire after 2 years.

You can choose which non-essential cookies Thinkific can set by updating the cookies settings from their linked policy page, Thinkific Cookies Policy.

Web Analysis Tools

Thinkific may use web analysis tools that are built into the Website to measure and collect anonymous session information.

International Transfers

Thinkific Labs Inc. is a Canadian company that provides services to customers, and their technology processes data from users, around the world.

Accordingly, Thinkific may transfer your personal data outside of the country, state, or province in which you are located.

Thinkific uses at least one of the following safeguards to give personal data the same protection it has in the UK and EEA.

Thinkific will only transfer personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for the processing of personal data.
Thinkific will enter into an agreement with service providers in the form of the standard contractual clauses approved in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Storage Limitation

We store your personal data only as long as necessary

Purchase transaction data is stored as long as necessary to complete the transaction.
Course data is stored until your subscription expires.
Contact data is stored until your subscription expires unless you opt-in to direct marketing.
Contact data used for direct marketing is stored until you opt-out of direct marketing.

We may keep anonymised data indefinitely for statistical research.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

You can complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

Last Updated: March 23, 2023