Privacy Policy
Privacy Notice for Participants of Courses, Events, Programmes, and Other Third Parties
Future Asset, part of Didasko Education Company Limited
Important information and who we are
This privacy notice sets out how Didasko Education Company Limited (Company Registration Number 352872 and Charity Registration Number SCO40205) “Didasko”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice) collects, uses and protects your personal data across its various business functions, including the Library of Mistakes, the Future Asset programme, the Advanced Valuation in Financial Markets course, and the Leavers’ Money Skills programme. The sections that apply to you will depend on how you interact with us.
Didasko operates a number of educational programmes and initiatives, including the Library of Mistakes, the Future Asset programme, the Advanced Valuation in Financial Markets course, and the Leavers’ Money Skills programme. These names describe different business functions operated by Didasko. They are not separate legal entities.
The types of personal data we collect about you
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Types of personal information | Description |
Identity Data | ID information including your name, age, sex, and institution/school |
Contact Data | Where you live and how to contact you |
Financial Data | Bank account and payment information |
Technical Data | Information such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform, cookie identifiers, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website. |
Transactional Data | Details about payments to and from you and other details about services you purchase from us |
Contractual Data | Information obtained by providing legal services to you |
Communications Data | What we learn about you from letters, emails, call recordings and conversations between us |
Consents Data | Any permissions, consents or preferences that you give us |
Usage Data | Information about how you use our website and services |
Profile Data | Username and password, course enrolments, purchases, interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses |
Special Category Data | Some types of personal information are defined as special. We collect and use these types of information where we need to and if the law allows us to. This includes for example, information about racial or ethnic origin, health data (including dietary requirements and access requirements) and criminal convictions data. |
How we collect your personal data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions.
You may give us your personal data by filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- apply for our services, for example, by registering for an event, signing up for a course, or becoming a member;
- participate in a competition or other programme;
- create an account on our website;
- request marketing to be sent to you;
- give us feedback or contact us.
Cookies.
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies that are necessary for the operation, security and functionality of the website. We also use analytics cookies, including Google Analytics, to collect information such as the number of visitors to our website in order to improve our website. Analytics cookies are only placed with your consent, which you can give or withdraw at any time using the cookie settings on our website.
Third parties or publicly available sources.
We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources. This may include, for example, your school or institution, or your parents or guardians.
Purpose/Use | Didasko function | Type of data | Legal basis |
To register or enrol you for participation in any paid for structured learning, courses or events (i.e., contractual services) | Library of Mistakes; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course; | Identity; Contact; Profile; | Performance of a contract with you (i.e., facilitating registration, enrolment, access, teaching, assessment, certification) |
To register or enrol you for participation in any non-paid for programmes or events | Future Asset; Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Identity; Contact; Profile; | Our legitimate interests (to enable us to administer the programme or event and to understand more about the people that attend it |
To process and deliver services including managing payments, fees and charges, and collecting and recovering money owed to us. | Library of Mistakes; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course | Identity; Contact; Financial; Transactional | Performance of a contract with you; Our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
To provide catering and accessibility arrangements for events | Library of Mistakes; Future Asset; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course; Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Special Category Data (in particular, dietary needs and accessibility requirements) | Consent |
To capture photos and video | Library of Mistakes Future Asset Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Photos; video footage; likeness | Our legitimate interests (in promoting and sharing information about the events we hold and programmes we deliver) |
For equality, diversity or inclusion purposes | Future Asset | Special Category Data (in particular, ethnic background) | Our legitimate interests (in to monitor and promote equality, diversity and inclusion across our services) and, where Special Category Data is processed, substantial public interest (equality of opportunity and/or treatment) |
To deliver course teaching, assessments, progression, tracking and certification | Library of Mistakes Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course | Communications; assessment results; scores; comments and interactions; progress; certification details | Performance of a contract with you (i.e., to deliver and manage the course and programme) |
To gather learner or participant feedback | Library of Mistakes Future Asset Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course | Communications; opinions; comments; evaluation; submissions | Our legitimate interests (i.e., to improve the delivery of our services, courses, events and programmes) |
To administer alumni engagement and updates | Future Asset | Identity; Contact; participation history | Our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and manage our relationship with you) |
To manage our relationship with you which will include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy notice, and dealing with any requests, complaints and queries | Future Asset; Library of Mistakes; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course; Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Identity; Contact; Profile; Communications | Performance of a contract with you Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and manage our relationship with you |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, or otherwise to carry out market research through your voluntary participation in surveys | Library of Mistakes; Future Asset; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course; Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Identity; Contact; Profile; Usage; Communications; Consents | Our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | Library of Mistakes; Future Asset; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course; Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Identity; Contact; Technical; Profile | Our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) |
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, customer relationships and experiences and to measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing | Library of Mistakes; Future Asset; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course; Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Technical; Usage | Our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To send you relevant marketing communications and make personalised suggestions and recommendations to you about services that may be of interest to you based on your Profile Data | Library of Mistakes; Future Asset; Advance Valuation in Financial Communication course; Leavers’ Money Skills programme | Identity; Contact; Technical; Usage; Profile; Communications; Consents | [Our legitimate interests (to carry out direct marketing, develop our products/services and grow our business), where you are an existing customer or we are otherwise permitted to send you marketing communications; or] Consent, where we are required to obtain your prior consent before sending you direct marketing communications |
To process and administer donation payments, maintain donor records, and manage donor communications | Library of Mistakes Future Asset Leavers’ Money Skills Programme | Identity; Contact; Transactional; Financial | Legitimate interests (i.e., receiving and administering voluntary donations and keeping appropriate donor records) |
Marketing
We may use your personal data to contact you with information about our events, services, activities, and charitable work that may be of interest to you.
We will only send marketing communications where permitted by law. This may include contacting you where you have provided your consent or where you are an existing supporter or have previously engaged with us, and we are permitted to contact you under applicable electronic marketing rules (sometimes referred to as the ‘’soft opt-in’’). You can opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by following the instructions in our communications or by contacting us directly.
We will not share your personal data with any third party for their own direct marketing purposes.
Disclosures of your personal data
We may share your personal data where necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice with the following categories of recipients:
- Course, event and programme organisers. Individuals and organisations involved in the planning, organisation, delivery and administration of our courses, competitions, programmes and events. This may include tutors, facilitators, assessors, mentors, judges, speakers, coordinators and moderators.
- Event delivery and support personnel. People involved in the practical delivery of events and activities, including safeguarding leads, welfare officers, chaperones, photographers, videographers, accessibility support providers and catering providers, where relevant to the event and necessary for its operation.
- Marketing and communications providers. We use third-party email marketing and communications platforms (including Mailchimp) to help promote our events and services, manage communications with attendees and prospective attendees and support future engagement activities, including in relation to the Library of Mistakes.
- Service providers and professional advisers. Third parties who provide services to us and process personal data on our behalf, such as IT and systems providers, learning platforms, communications tools, payment processors, website hosts, and professional advisers (including legal, accounting and auditing services).
All such recipients are required to process your personal data only on our instructions, to keep it secure and confidential, and to use it solely for the purposes for which it is shared.
We use an email marketing and communications platform (Mailchimp) to help us communicate with attendees and prospective attendees and to promote our events and services, including in relation to the Library of Mistakes. Mailchimp is based in the United States and may process personal data outside the UK.
Whenever personal data is transferred outside the UK in this way, we ensure that there is an adequacy decision or appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with UK data protection law.
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The specific retention period depends on the type of personal data and the purposes for processing it. Once personal data is no longer required, it will be securely deleted.
You have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
You have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request“). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- Request erasure of your personal data. In certain circumstances you can ask us to delete or remove your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, you can ask us to stop processing your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data. In certain circumstances you can ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
Contact details and complaints
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or about the use of your personal data or you want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact david@didaskoeducation.org.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
If you are unhappy with our response, you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues. You can find out how to do that on the ICO’s website: http://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
We keep our privacy notice under regular review and may update it from time to time.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us, for example a new address or email address.