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Privacy Policy

South West Grid for Learning Trust Ltd (referred to as “SWGfL", "The Grid", “We” and “Us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Policy (together with our Terms of Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

By using our Site, you indicate that you accept the provisions of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree, please refrain from using our Site.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is South West Grid For Learning Trust Ltd of Belvedere House Pynes Hill, Woodwater Park, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom, EX2 5WS.

Information About Us

Online Safety BOOST is a site operated by SWGfL. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 05589479 and have our registered office at Belvedere House Pynes Hill, Woodwater Park, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5WS. Our main trading address is Belvedere House Pynes Hill, Woodwater Park, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5WS. Our VAT number is GB 880 8618 88.

  1. Information We May Collect From You

    1. We may collect and process the following data about you and your organisation:
      1. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site(s):
        1. www.swgfl.org.uk and
        2. boost.swgfl.org.uk
          (“our sites”).
    2. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use such sites as Online Safety BOOST, purchasing or subscribing to services advertised via our sites, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with any of our sites.
    3. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
    4. We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
    5. Details of your visits to our sites including, but not limited to, purchases, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

  2. Where We Store Your Personal Data

    1. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or on secure servers provided by our service providers.
    2.  All data we store is stored within the European Economic Area or with service providers (data processors) that comply with the U.S. – E.U. Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal data from the European Union. Information regarding the E.U. Safe Harbor Framework can be found at: http://export.gov/safeharbor. Where possible our data processors also comply with TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that their privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trust mark and innovative trust solutions.
    3. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our sites; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

  3. Cookies

    1. Our sites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our sites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our sites and also allows us to improve our sites.
    2. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
    3. The cookies we use are "analytical" cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our sites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our sites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
    4. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our sites.
    5. You can find our more about how to do this here:
      www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=1
    6. You can find a Browser add on to opt out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

  4. Promotional Offers

    1. Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of users on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please unsubscribe by following the instructions in the email we sent to you.

  5. Third Party Service Providers

    1. We sometimes employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include, delivering training sessions, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links, processing credit card payments and providing customer service. They have access to account and the limited personal information we keep needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as permitted by the UK's Data Protection Act.

  6. Your Rights

    1. You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at enquiries@swgfl.org.uk.
    2. Our sites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

  7. Access to Information

    1. The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10.00 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

  8. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

    1. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

  9. IP Addresses

    1. We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to review aggregate information. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

  10. Contact

    1. Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to enquiries@swgfl.org.uk

  11. E-mail Communications

    1. To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from us if your computer supports such capabilities. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please email enquiries@swgfl.org.uk and we will remove you from our lists.

  12. Uses Made of the Information

    1. We use information held about you in the following ways:
      1. to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
      2. to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
      3. to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
      4. to enable use of the Online Compass and 360 degree safe self-assessment tools;
      5. to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so; and
      6. to notify you about changes to our service.
    2. We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by email, post or telephone.
    3. If you are an existing user, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or service provision to you.
    4. If you are a new user, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
    5. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (e.g. the order form or registration form).

  13. Disclosure of Your Information

    1. South West Grid for Learning Trust Ltd is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Although we currently do not have any subsidiary companies we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006, should we set up such subsidiaries or holding companies in the future.
    2. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
      1. In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
      2. If SWGfL or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its users and customers will be one of the transferred assets; and/or
      3. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of SWGfL, our users and customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of crime and fraud protection and credit risk reduction.