What is this Privacy Policy for?

Introduction

Welcome to the Privacy Policy of SK Education Ltd (trading as ‘My Language Lab®’).We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data, including when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.This Privacy Policy is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below.

• IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
• THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
• HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
• HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
• DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
• INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
• DATA SECURITY
• DATA RETENTION
• YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
• GLOSSARY

1. Important information and who we are

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter, purchase a service or take part in a survey.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Controller

SK Education Ltd (trading as ‘My Language Lab®’) is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy).

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

Contact details

Full name of legal entity: SK Education Ltd (trading as ‘My Language Lab®’), incorporated in England with company registration number 08940813 and whose registered office address is: JR House D6, Office 4 & 5, Main Avenue, Treforest Industrial Estate, CF37 5UR.

Name of data privacy manager: Drew Rogers
Email address: hello@mylanguagelab.co.uk
‍Postal address: JR House D6, Office 4 & 5, Main Avenue, Treforest Industrial Estate, CF37 5UR

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the Privacy Policy and your duty to inform us of changes

This version was last updated on 9th Feb 2021. We may update our Privacy Policy in the future in line with business practices and applicable laws. Any new versions of the Privacy Policy will be made available on our website with the date of the last revision noted.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications, including social media platforms and sponsored links and adverts. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls (web addresses) (for example: http://bit.ly/1j7jhGp). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites, plug-ins and applications and are not responsible for them or their privacy statements. You should take caution and use good judgement before clicking on any links on this website as despite our best efforts to ensure that only genuine links are published, other websites, plug-ins or applications may be prone to spam and hacking. We encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website and application you use.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

• Identity Data includes name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data includes postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
• Technical Data  includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
  
• Employment Data: this incudes your employment history, academic qualifications, background checks and information provided in references.
  

We may also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Special Categories of Personal Data include details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We may only process special categories of personal information in the following circumstances:

• In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent.
  
• Where we need to carry out our legal obligations or exercise rights in connection with employment.
  
• Where it is needed in the public interest, such as for equal opportunities monitoring.
  
• Where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.
  

We may only collect and use information relating to criminal convictions and offences where the law allows us to do so. This will usually be where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and provided we do so in line with our privacy and data protection policies. We will use such information in the following ways:

• to assist us in our recruitment activities;
  
• to protect the interests of our clients;
  
• to comply with any requirements of our third party suppliers;
  
• we are allowed to use your personal information in this way to carry out our legal obligations and to pursue our legitimate interests.
  

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  
• make an enquiry about, or engage us to provide, our products and services;
  
• create an account on our website;
  
• subscribe to our service or publications;
  
• request marketing to be sent to you;
  
• enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  
• give us some feedback.
  
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We may collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.
  
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
  
• Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU
  
• Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
  
• Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.
  

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
  
• we are allowed to use your personal information in this way to carry out our legal obligations and to pursue our legitimate interests.
  

Click here to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below how we may use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact usifyou need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

MARKETING

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:

PROMOTIONAL OFFERS FROM US
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We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or subscribed to our mailing list, purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

THIRD-PARTY MARKETING

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside our group of companies for marketing purposes.

OPTING OUT

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, the opt-out will not prevent us from processing your personal data provided to us as a result of a product or service purchase or other transactions

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 this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
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CHANGE OF PURPOSE

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in the ‘How we use your personal data’section of this Privacy Policy.

• Any other companies in our group who are based in the UK and who provide similar services.
  
• Third parties as follows:
  
• business partners, suppliers and contractors (based in the UK, India, Bulgaria and the USA) who provide IT, system administration, technical, payment and online survey services;
  
• professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers (based in the UK) who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services; and
  
• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities (based in the UK).
  
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.
  

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. International transfers

We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).  If we do so, we ensure at least one of the following safeguards is in place to provide a similar degree of protection to it:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
  
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
  
• Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US.
  

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

How long will you use my personal data for?

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

You can obtain further details of retention periods for your personal data by contacting us.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.