Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://go-edu.org
What personal data we collect, how we get it and why we collect it
Most of the personal information that we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
Your name and e-mail address
We collect this information when you send a message through our website.
We also collect this information when you subscribe to receive our newsletter. We will ask for your active consent to collect and process this data.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
Please refer to our cookie policy.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We reserve the right to make use of analytics software on this site. We will update this privacy policy as and when we connect such software to the site.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the lawful bases we reply on for processing this information are:
Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting info@go-edu.org
What we do with the information we have
We use the information that you have given us in order to:
Provide you with a high quality user experience.
Where you have given us permission to send you marketing emails, we use the information in order ot send you those marketing emails.
Who we share your data with
Your privacy matters to us. We want you to be able to use the go-edu.org site comfortably and that ALL of the data that you input on our site will only be seen by our team. In order to ensure that, we use various industry standard companies to help protect your data.
2. When you browse our website, we receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) automatically. This provides us with information that helps us learn about an estimated location.
3. We may send you e-mail marketing, with your consent, about changes to our service, website, new products and other updates.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We may disclose your personal information if we are legally required to do so.
We use these 3rd party suppliers and send the required data to gain the service to make your browsing experience as seamless as possible:
- MailChimp
- TsoHost
How we store your data
You information is securely stored at TSOHost shared database servers.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information excluding the content of journal entries. We keep your personal information for as long as you hold an account.
What rights you have over your data
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 information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing – you have 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 info@go-edu.org if you wish to make a request
Additional information
If you sign up for marketing emails your details are stored on Mailchimp where you are asked to double opt in.
How we protect your data
go-edu.org has a regimented approach to privacy and information security. We have developed internal measures to ensure personal information is processed on an “as needed basis”. We endeavour to have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your information. When sharing your information with third parties we will ensure that these parties conform to our information security standards.
Third parties we receive data from
We receive data from Mailchimp.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We use a cookie to determine the various state of the website you are currently browsing. We make various automated decisions to deliver this content to you where applicable. No profiling is made on you on this website.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We are not aware of any industry regulatory disclosure requirements. We will update this policy should we become aware of any.