At Inspiring Teachers we take your privacy seriously. We are a registered charity that puts social benefit at the heart of what we do. We are committed to keeping your personal information safe and to the General Data Protection Regulation (2018) (the Regulations). We work hard to make sure that your personal information is processed in accordance with the Regulations and that:
We collect information about you when you become a member of Inspiring Teachers. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys, provide feedback and participate in events and promotions.
We collect:
We collect information about you to register you for an Inspiring Teachers Membership and, if you agree, to email you about other activities or initiatives we think may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of our communications such as newsletters, blogs, and updates by unsubscribing in the link in our emails, replying to email communications to request removal from our mailing lists, or otherwise contacting us via the website chat tool. We may also use our website information to personalise your repeat visits to our website. Inspiring Teachers will not share your information for marketing purposes with other companies unless you opt-in for us to do so. In processing your Membership application, we may send your details to, and also use information from credit reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies.
We collect information about you and the users you add when you use our applications so that we can provide a personalised experience to you and provide you with useful user experience and information. Information you input to our SmartCoach application will be available to other users as part of the application user experiences. We will only make the data you input available to users for the purpose of improving teacher support and educational outcomes.
Safeguarding the information you give us or we receive about you is our priority. We take appropriate security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your information. We have taken steps to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of systems and services processing personal information and to restore the availability and access to information in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident.
We will retain personal information and membership information for as long as it is needed to:
We would like to send you information about our products and services that may be of interest to you. If you have consented to receive marketing, you may opt-out by clicking on the link to unsubscribe where available, or replying to email communications to request removal from our mailing lists, or otherwise contacting us via the website chat tool. You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted, please contact us via the website chat tool.
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. Cookies enable us to display what matters to you, improve your experience and help us improve our services and to let us know if someone tries to access your account or violate our terms.
Required cookies
These make it possible to navigate our website and use its features, such as secure areas and applying for Membership. If you have chosen to identify yourself to our website, we use cookies containing encrypted information to allow us to uniquely identify you. Each time you log in, a cookie with an encrypted unique identifier tied to your account is placed on your browser, allowing us to identify when you are logged in. Required cookies cannot be opted out of because they are essential for us to process your online transactions and requests.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, including the pages visitors go to frequently and if they receive error messages from certain pages. They do not collect information that uniquely identifies a visitor. All information they collect is aggregated and anonymous and is used to improve how our website functions and performs. From time-to-time, we use third parties to track and analyse usage and volume statistical information from visitors to our website. We may also use Flash cookies for this purpose.
Click here to learn how to opt-out of performance cookies and here to manage privacy settings for Flash cookies.
Functionality cookies
These allow us to remember the information you have entered or the choices you make such as your username, language or region and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies also enable you to optimise your use of our website when logged in. Functionality cookies can also help us remember the changes you made to text size, fonts and other customisable parts of the website. Inspiring Teachers may also use local shared objects, known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences or display content based on what you view on our website to personalise your visit.
Click here to learn how to opt-out of performance cookies and here to manage privacy settings for Flash cookies.
Targeting or Advertising cookies
From time-to-time, we engage third parties to track and analyse usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit our website. Inspiring Teachers sometimes uses cookies delivered by third parties to track the performance of our marketing advertisements. For example, cookies remember which browsers have visited our website. The information provided to third parties does not include personal information, but this information may be re-associated with personal information after a company receives it. Inspiring Teachers may also contract third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from web beacons (see below) on our websites. Ad networks follow your online activities over time by collecting website navigational information through automated means, including through cookies. They use this information to send you advertising based on your web browsing activity. This process also helps us to manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing. Third parties who the company partners with to provide certain features on our websites or display advertising based on your web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store information.
To learn more about these and other advertising networks and their opt-out instructions, click here and here.
Web Beacons
We use web beacons alone or with cookies to compile information about customers and visitors’ usage of our website and interaction with emails from the company. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognise certain types of information on your computers, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular website tied to the web beacon and a description of the website tied to the web beacon. Inspiring Teachers may use web beacons in marketing emails that notify us when you click on a link in the email that directs you to our website. We use web beacons to operate and improve our website and email communications.
IP Addresses
When you visit our website, we collect your Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to track and collate non-personal information. For example, Inspiring Teachers uses IP addresses to monitor the regions from which customers navigate our website.
We also collect IP addresses from customers when they sign into the application section as part of our identity confirmation and IP range restrictions security features.
Do Not Track
Various browsers – including Chrome, Firefox and Safari – offer a do-not-track technology known as a DNT header. It sends the user’s browser DNT preference to websites they visit. Inspiring Teachers does not currently respond to DNT signals in part because no consistent standard of interpreting user intent or common industry standard is in place by industry groups, technology companies or regulators. We are committed to providing meaningful choice and will continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology.
Service Providers
Inspiring Teachers may share information about its visitors, customers and attendees with its contracted service providers so they can provide services on our behalf. Inspiring Teachers may also share information about its visitors, customers and attendees with its service providers to ensure the quality of the information provided and with third-party social networking and media websites such as Facebook, for marketing and advertising on those websites. Unless outlined in this Privacy Policy, Inspiring Teachers does not sell, rent or trade any information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
Business Partners
By accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy, you authorise Inspiring Teachers to share any information you provide to us with our business partners for the purposes of providing you with information, support, advice and guidance relating to your Fellowship program and related products or services. You also authorise the sharing of any information you provide to us with other third-party providers (such as excursion partners) as required to enable the delivery of our Fellowship programs. If you do not wish your information to be shared, you may opt not to purchase or express specific interest in a jointly offered product or service, or you may inform us as necessary that you do not want to be contacted about products and services related to Inspiring Teachers Fellowships via email at info@inspiringteachers.org.
Inspiring Teachers does not share customer data in other cases with business partners unless customers specifically opt into such sharing via a registration form.
Billing
Inspiring Teachers uses third-party service providers to manage debit and credit card processing. This provider is not permitted to store, retain or use billing information except for card processing on Inspiring Teachers’ behalf.
Legal compliance
Inspiring Teachers reserves the right to use or disclose information provided by you to us as required by law or if we believe that use or disclosure is necessary to protect Inspiring Teachers’ rights, your safety or the safety of others and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process.
Your request
We will only disclose your personal information to any other third party (not otherwise provided for in this Policy) with your prior consent to do so.
Public forums, referrals and testimonials
We may provide bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms on our website. Any personal information you choose to submit that may be read, collected or used by other visitors to the forums and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. Inspiring Teachers is not responsible for the personal information you provide in these forums.
People may decide to refer a friend to join Inspiring Teachers. In doing so Inspiring Teachers will request the friend’s name and email address and then send the friend a one-time email inviting them to hear more. Inspiring Teachers does not store this information until the consent has been given.
Inspiring Teachers may post a list of Members and testimonials on its website containing information such as the Member’s name and title. When you provide any such testimonial to Inspiring Teachers, you consent to its use alongside your name and title on such a list.
Other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their privacy policies.
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please contact us. We may make a small charge for this service. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove the information you think is inaccurate.
You also have the right to erasure (Right to be forgotten, and your data deleted). If you want to have your data deleted from Inspiring Teachers’ database please speak with a member of our team on the chat tool. We endeavour to process these requests within one month.
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and will place any updates on this webpage. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 1 November 2018.
Please contact us if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or information we hold about you at info@inspiringteachers.org or write to us at Inspiring Teachers, Quill Cottage, Marsh Lane, Taplow, SL6 0DF.
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