EESW Teacher Privacy Notice

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Engineering Education Scheme Wales (EESW) Website Teacher Portal Privacy Policy

EESW Ltd is the owner and operator of www.stemcymru.org.uk (the “Site”).  This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from registered users of our Site.  The EESW teacher portal section of the website is intended for use by teachers working in schools in Wales. 

For all data collected from our Site, EESW is the Data Controller.  For further information on collection of data from young people in respect of the activities we provide, please refer to our general Privacy Policy. 

Collection Purpose and Use

While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.  This information may include (but is not limited to) your full name, email address, school and password (“Personal Information”).  This information will be used to monitor usage of the Site and may also be used for email marketing purposes. 

Log data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends when you visit our Site (“Log data”).  This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit and other statistics.  The Site uses reCaptcha for security to protect the website from spam and abuse and Google Analytics which tracks and reports Site traffic. 

Lawful basis for processing your data

We require this information in order to provide you with use and access to our online services.  The relevant lawful bases within the GDPR for collecting your personal data are:

  • Consent
  • Legal obligation
  • Public task
  • Legitimate interests

Who else will receive my data?

EESW only shares information with third parties where absolutely necessary.  EESW uses email marketing campaigns to teachers, schools and participants (EESW and Headstart Cymru only where participants are 16 or over). 

The MailChimp website is hosted outside of the European Economic Area and the only data that is uploaded by EESW to MailChimp includes name, school/company and email address.  MailChimp are committed to achieving complaince with the GDPR and has self-certified to both the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield regimes, and lawfully transfers EU/EEA personal data to the U.S. pursuant to our Privacy Shield Certification.  If you would like to opt-out at any time, please click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.  Please note that if you unsubscribe we may keep a record of your personal information to ensure that we do not send any further communication.

Intellectual Property Notice

All images, text, graphics on our Site are owned by and property of EESW.  You may NOT use our intellectual property in any way, which includes republishing text, image, design or any other property on another website, or posting a quote or image from our Site to any third-party website including social media WITHOUT PRIOR consent to do so. 

Your rights

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data, as follows, however not all of the rights apply in all circumstances.

  1. The right to be informed – this privacy notice sets out what information is collected and who it will be shared with
  2. The right of access – you have a right to access the personal information we hold about you
  3. The right to rectification – you have the right to have any inaccurate information rectified or completed if it is incomplete. You can make this request verbally or in writing.
  4. The right to erasure – you have a right to request your Personal Information to be deleted from our Site for which we are the data controller
  5. The right to restrict processing – this right applies to data provided via the Site for which we are the data controller
  6. The right to portability - this right applies to data provided via the Site for which we are the data controller
  7. The right to object – this right applies to data provided via the Site for which we are the data controller
  8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – we will not undertake any automated decision-making, so this right does not apply.

For more information, please refer to https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/

Who should you contact?

If you have any questions/queries relating to the above, or to make a Subject Access Request, please contact info@stemcymru.org.uk 

If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection lead either verbally or in writing:

Rebecca Davies

EESW
Waterton Centre
Bridgend
CF31 3WT 

Telephone: 01656 669381
Email: info@stemcymru.org.uk

You will receive a response within the required time limit (one month in most circumstances). 

Changes to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 25th June 2020.  We keep this privacy notice under regular review and may change it from time to time by updating this page in order to reflect changes in the law and/or privacy practices.  We would encourage you to check this privacy notice for any changes on a regular basis.