As the operators of the website (“Website”), BUSINESS2SCHOOLS (“We”, “Us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy and Cookies Policy (“Policy”) (together with and any other documents referred to therein) sets out the basis on which the personal data collected 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.

 YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Information we collect from you

We collect and process some or all of the following types of information from you in the course of your use of the website or providing our services:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website or filing in forms as part of the registration process. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Website, subscribing to our service, or requesting further information or services. We may also ask you for information when you enquire about services.
• Specifically, personal details such as name, email address, or any information input by when using the Website, completing our forms, using our services.
• If you contact Us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data, and the resources that you access.

The provision of your name, address as well as other personal data is required from you to enable us to fulfil our regulatory and legal obligations. We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to Us.

USES MADE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Lawful basis for processing

We rely on your consent as provided when you sign up to using our Services as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal data. Our legitimate interests in this data are to fulfil our contractual obligations to you and to fulfil our service proposal.

Purposes of processing

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To provide you with our services.
• To ensure that content on the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for the device(s) you use to access and view the Website;
• To provide you with information and offers that you request from us or which we feel may interest you.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and Us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
• To notify you about changes to our service.

Marketing

In addition to the above uses we may use your information to notify you about goods or services which may be of interest to you. Where we do this, we will contact you by electronic means (e-mail) only if you have consented to such communication. If you do not want us to use your data in this way please either unsubscribe from our electronic communications using the method indicated in the relevant communication; or (iii) inform us at any time by contacting us at the contact details set out below.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We routinely disclose your personal data to third parties as follows:

• We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks when you ask us to.  Part of our service is to rehome furniture inventories where we will connect schools to those companies fulfilling that donation, or third party suppliers.

We may also disclose your personal data to third parties:

• If we offer a service related offer that involves connecting the two entities.

• In relation to selected third parties only, only to the extent that you have consented to such selected third parties notifying you about certain goods or services, which may be if interest to you.

Other than as set out above, and save insofar as is necessary in order for us to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, we will not share your data with third parties unless we have procured your express consent to do so.

 STORING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Security

We take appropriate measures to ensure that any personal data are kept secure, including security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where We are legally required to do so.

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 the Website; 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.

The Website may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and terms of use and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies and terms of use. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Keeping your personal data up to date

If your personal details change you may update them by accessing this data by contacting Us. If you have any questions about how We use data collected which relates to you, please contact Us.

We will endeavour to update your personal data within seven (7) working days of any new or updated personal data being provided to us, in order to ensure that the personal data We hold about you is as accurate and up to date as possible.

How long we keep your personal data

• We will hold personal data (e.g. name, address and contact details) for as long as you ask us to.  In the event you Unsubscribe from our mailing system your data will be deleted. 

If you would like further information please contact us at: info@business2schools.org. We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom OR EEA or to any organisation (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

 YOUR RIGHTS

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

• Access to your personal data and to certain other supplementary information that this Policy is already designed to address
• Require Us to correct any mistakes in your information which We hold
• Require the erasure of personal data concerning you.
• Receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to Us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
• Object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you our mailing purposes.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

• email, call or write to us at: info@business2schoos.org

HOW TO COMPLAIN

We hope that We can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

 CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time. Any changes We may make to our Policy in the future will be notified and made available to you using the Website. Your continued use of the services and the Website shall be deemed your acceptance of the varied privacy policy.

 CONTACT

All questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed to info@business2schools.org write to us at: Business2Schools, 8-10 Hill Street, London, W1J 5NQ.

Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for Business2Schools accessible from https://www.business2schools.org

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Account related cookies

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

• Login related cookies

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

• Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

However, if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: info@business2schools.org