Who we are
Education Access Ltd – UK company registration number: 10301661
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 do not currently use external analytics.
Services
Information is shared with us during the course of our work, in order to provides services that have been requested from us. This information may include such personal details as names, addresses, contact details, school records, reports from other agencies, email and paper correspondence. Such information is collected and processed in accordance with the UK Data
Protection legislation and the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR.
Who we share your data with
Information will only be shared with third parties if we have a legal obligation to do so, or to protect someone’s vital interests.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), 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.
Other data will be retained in accordance with our data retention policy, available at https://educationaccess.co.uk/data-retention.pdf.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we correct or erase any inaccurate personal data we hold about you. You also have the right to ask us to delete the records that we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you feel it necessary, you may raise a complaint about the way that we have processed your personal data with the Information Commissioner’s Office https://ico.org.uk/.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
If you wish to contact is about your information, please email rebecca@educationaccess.co.uk