Privacy Policy

London School of Childcare Studies Ltd (LSCS), is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We comply with all applicable requirements following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and all other relevant data privacy laws.

This privacy policy explains how LSCS collects, uses, and shares your personal information, how we ensure the privacy and protection of this information, and your data protection rights in connection with our website and related services.

The personal information you provide to us will only be used by LSCS for purposes relating to your education and training, employment, and advice. We may also use your information for marketing and research purposes.

Personal information we may collect

We may collect and process the following information:

  • Your contact details, including your name, telephone number, email address, and other personal sensitive information when you apply for and complete a course enrolment form
  • The type of browser you use, IP address, information about your device, and browsing activity when visiting and using our website.
  • Payment information when completing a transaction for our LSCS services
  • Confirmation of your marketing preferences
  • Your name, telephone number, and email address when you download our prospectus or sign up for our webinars or newsletter
  • Any additional personal information that you may provide to LSCS, from time to time, if you contact us by email, letter, or telephone, through the LSCS website, or any other means.

Why we use your personal information

The personal information collected may be used to:

  • Provide you with the LSCS services that you have requested
  • Manage our relationship with you, which may include notifying you about changes to the LSCS services
  • Provide our LSCS webinars and newsletter
  • Request that you take a LSCS survey or leave a review
  • Reply to enquiries from you, third parties, or law enforcement agencies
  • Evaluate the usefulness of the advertisements LSCS may provide you
  • Satisfy our legal commitments and contractual obligations; and
  • Permit LSCS to establish, exercise, or defend our legitimate rights and lawful claims.

How we collect your personal information

The methods we may collect and process your personal information include:

  • When you communicate with LSCS through our website, including completing enrolment forms
  • Through the use of cookies as you interact with the LSCS website
  • When you communicate with LSCS by email, phone, post, and mail
  • When you sign up to receive our LSCS webinars and newsletters
  • When you purchase our LSCS services
  • When you take a LSCS survey
  • When you submit feedback through our website or other means
  • When you communicate with us through any social media channels we use
  • Via direct marketing campaigns that we may run, and
  • Information LSCS may receive from external third parties and gain from publicly available sources.

Our basis for processing personal information

LSCS will only ever process your personal information where we have a legal basis that includes the following;

  • Where LSCS has requested you to provide consent to process your data for a particular purpose.
  • The processing of your information is required by LSCS to satisfy a contractual arrangement that we have agreed with you.
  • Where LSCS relies on our legitimate interests as a purpose for processing, but only if we have a compelling reason and there is negligible effect on your rights and freedoms.
  • If LSCS has a statutory or other legal obligation to process your information to comply with any applicable law.

Communications from Us

LSCS may process your personal information for our marketing activities, where you have given your consent and opted in. We shall also contact you with news of any special promotions, offers, discounts, new courses and other information that you may be interested in. We also operate a Webinar reminder service. This is intended merely to remind you of the subject, date and time of the particular Webinar. A push notification will come to you via SMS (text message) specifically to alert you .Naturally, great care will be taken regarding this, alongside your other personal contact information that we hold. If you wish not to be part of this updating reminder service, then please contact us and we will remove you from it. You can of course opt-out at any time, as well as checking your other consents for us to contact you directly. If you would like to opt out of receiving these communications in the future, you can do so at any time by emailing us at info@childcarestudies.co.uk.

Who do we share your data with?

LSCS may share personal information with third parties for the following purposes:

  • Third-party providers that support LSCS operate our business, including providers of analytics, technology services, marketing, advertising, data storage, payment processors, and hosting
  • Law enforcement agencies and regulators, to meet LSCS’ legal responsibilities and process requests or orders received from those bodies
  • Courts, legal counsels, or other parties, where required by LSCS, and in respect of legal proceedings, claims, and complaints in this context
  • Where LSCS is sold or amalgamated with another organisation, our advisers and any potential purchaser’s adviser, and the new owners of the business.

Your confidentiality is of the highest importance to LSCS. We will not sell your information to third parties.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters.

Upon using our website, it will place cookies on your computer. LSCS uses cookies to help you effectively browse our website and perform certain operations.

You can disable cookies, though this may restrict the functionality of the LSCS website.

To discover more about our use of cookies and how you can control or delete them, please review our Cookie Policy.

Marketing Communications

LSCS may process your personal information for marketing activities, where you have given your consent and opted in. If you would like to opt out of receiving these communications in the future, you can do so at any time by emailing us at renata@childcarestudies.co.uk.

Data security

LSCS is committed to ensuring that the personal information you provide to us is secured to avoid unauthorised access or disclosure. We deploy appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure we protect your information that is under our control.

Our security measures are consistent with the sensitivity of the information processed, and we frequently assess these measures to check that they continue to be suitable.

Data retention

Your information will not be processed or held for longer than is required for the purpose it was collected, which means once the storage period expires and we have no justifiable reason to continue processing or retaining your information, it will be destroyed.

In certain circumstances, LSCS may anonymise your information for research or statistical purposes (meaning it will no longer be associated with you), in which case LSCS may use this information indefinitely, without further notice.

Third-party links

This website may contain hyperlinks to third-party websites not operated by LSCS. Please note that LSCS has no control over the privacy practices of these websites, and we do not assume any responsibility. When you leave our site through a hyperlink, we suggest that you read the privacy policy of each third-party website you visit before submitting any personal information through these websites.

Children’s privacy protection

LSCS website services are not for individuals under the age of 18 years of age. We do not deliberately collect, retain, or target information about children.

Your rights

Under the GDPR and other applicable data protection regulations, subject to your jurisdiction, you have certain data protection rights, including:

  • Your right to request that we supply you with copies of the information we hold about you.
  • Ask that we correct any inaccuracies or complete any incomplete personal data about you.
  • Request that we erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Request that we suppress or restrict the processing of your information.
  • Your right to withdraw your consent, where we have asked and you have granted consent for processing your information.
  • Your right to object to the processing of your information, unless we can prove we have a compelling reason to continue processing.
  • Notifying us of your request to opt out of marketing communications.

If you are unhappy with how we have addressed your concerns, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). However, we would like the opportunity to resolve any issue you may have before you contact the ICO.

Data transfer

LSCS will not transfer your information to jurisdictions outside of the UK. If this changes in the future, we will only transport your information outside of the UK where suitable protection is in place to ensure the privacy and security of your information and appropriate security measures followed that observe the GDPR and all other applicable data protection laws.

If you are accessing the LSCS website and services from a jurisdiction outside of the UK, please note that your information may be transferred outside of the jurisdiction you reside in, following the data transfer process detailed for UK residents.

Changes to this policy

LSCS may make changes to this policy when needed, for example, compliance with legislative changes.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or want to exercise any of your data protection rights, you can contact us by telephone on 020 3701 8317 or email us at renata@childcarestudies.co.uk.