Privacy Policy:

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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Low Cost E-Learning Limited are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will handle your personal information.
1.2 We will ask for your consent to our use of “cookies” in accordance with the terms of this policy upon your initial visit to our website. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
2. COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION
2.1.We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths.
• Information that you provide to us when registering with our shopping cart including your email address
• Information that you provide when completing your profile on our website including your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details.
• Information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use
• Information relating to any purchases you make of our goods/ services/goods or combination thereof or any other transactions that you enter into through our website including your name, address, telephone number, email address and card details.
• Information that you post to our website for publication on the internet including your user name, your profile pictures and the content of your posts.

2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
3. USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
3.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
3.2 We may use your personal information to:

• Administer our website and business
• Make personalised changes our website for you
• Customise your use of the services available on our website
• Send you goods purchased through our shopping cart
• Supply services purchased through our shopping cart
• Send you transaction related communication
• Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested
• Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter)
• Send you marketing communications relating to our business [or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties] which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications
• Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information
• Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website
• Keep our website secure and prevent fraud
• Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website

3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
3.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
3.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
3.6 All our shopping cart financial transactions are handled through our payment services providers PayPoint and Stripe. We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.
4. DISCLOSING PERSONAL INFORMATION
4.1 We may disclose your personal information to [any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors] insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.3 We may disclose your personal information:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
• In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
• To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling
• To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

4.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
5. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
5.1 Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
5.2 Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
5.3 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.
5.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
6. RETAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION
6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
6.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
6.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
• In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

7. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
7.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
7.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewallprotected) servers.
7.3 All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
7.4 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
7.5 You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
8. AMENDMENTS
8.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
8.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
8.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy [by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
9. YOUR RIGHTS
9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

• The payment of a fee (currently fixed at £20 GBP)
• The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

9.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
9.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
9.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
10. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
10.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
10.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
11. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
11.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
12. RETAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION
12.1 Our website uses cookies.
12.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
12.3 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
12.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
12.5 We use both session and persistent cookies on our website
12.6 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
12.7 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
12.8 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
• In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies";
• In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data".

12.9 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
13. DATA PROTECTION REGISTRATION
13.1 are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
13.2 Our data protection registration number is ZA209013.
14. OUR DETAILS
14.1 This website is owned and operated by Low Cost E-Learning Limited.
14.2 We are registered in [England and Wales] under registration number 10372858 and our registered office is at Suite 310e Sterling House, Langston Road, Gatwick, IG10 3TS
14.3 Our principal place of business is as shown above.
14.4 You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by email to info@lowcoste-learning.co.uk or by telephone on 0203 874 9851 0203 874 9851