Who are we and what do we do?
This website, www.evidencebased.education and any of its subdomains, as well as www.greatteaching.com and any of its subdomains (e.g., toolkit.greatteaching.com), are owned and operated by INJ Associates Ltd, trading as Evidence Based Education. We provide professional development programmes and school improvement services in the areas of education research, evaluation and assessment.
Important information about us
We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a data controller and, as such, we are committed to protecting your privacy. We take our responsibilities to secure your personal information very seriously. Personal information means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include information where the identity has been removed (anonymous information). Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (‘UK GDPR’) and the Data Protection Act 2018 we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you give to us. Our Privacy Policy applies only to information that we obtain from you via the website www.evidencebased.education and / or from any of its subdomains, as well as www.greatteaching.com and any of its subdomains (e.g., toolkit.greatteaching.com).
In using the website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the ways set out in the Privacy Policy. The website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy. Should you have any questions about the privacy policy, please contact us at this page, or by post to 1 Grange Crescent, Sunderland, SR2 7BN.
If you contact the owners of this website, you do so at your own discretion and any personal details are given at your own risk.
If you visit a website operated by a third-party through a link included on our website, that website may have different privacy and security policies. We do not have control over any websites other than our own and take no responsibility for information given to any other website.
The information we may collect about you
When using this website, you may be asked to enter information about yourself for a specific reason and by doing so you are consenting to our use of that information. The purpose for collecting this information will be made clear.
The type of personal information we may collect about you includes:
- Identity Information – which includes your first and last names or username, or the name of the nominated billing contact where relevant
- Contact Information – which includes your email address, telephone number, your school name and address, your nominated billing address and email address where relevant
- Financial Information – card payments are handled through a third-party processor (see below)
- Transaction Information – includes details about payments from you
- Technical Information includes IP address and login data on the devices you use to access the site
- Profile Information – includes username and purchases or orders made by your school
- Usage Information – includes information about how you use our website and services
How we may use your personal information
The information you provide to us when using this website may be processed for the following purposes:
- To keep you informed of relevant news, products and services
- To assist in answering any queries you may have submitted
- To subscribe you to an email newsletter
- To book a place at an event run by Evidence Based Education
- To register and/or pay for a course (online or in-person) run by Evidence Based Education
- To register for a webinar
- To perform statistical analysis of the use of the website
- To assist us with product development and research
Further information about booking a place at an event, or an online or in-person course
We arrange and run both online and in-person courses and events. As part of this process, contact details will be taken so that we can be in touch regarding the event and if a booking is made for an in-person event, dietary requirements and access provisions may be required.
Our purpose for collecting personal information in this regard is to arrange and facilitate the event and to provide our customers with an acceptable service. The legal basis we rely on for processing this personal data is consent under Article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR. When we collect any information about dietary or access requirements we also need your consent (under article 9(2)(a)) as this type of information is classed as special category data.
Should the course be fully booked, we’ll let you know and hold your details on a reserve list in case a place becomes available. If you are allocated a place at an event, we’ll then ask for information about any dietary/access requirements. We don’t share this information in any identifiable way with the venue, and we delete it after the event. We don’t publish delegate lists for events.
We may sometimes charge a fee to attend or to sign up to an event. See below for details for more information on this.
By entering information about yourself, you accept that we may retain your information for a period no longer than is necessary for the given purpose, however the retention period can differ based on the type of information processed. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process it and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and any applicable legal requirements.
The information may be held with us or any third-party company with whom we have a contract to process information on our behalf. For further information please refer to the Privacy Policy of the individual third-party company via the links attached.
We will not share your information with any third-parties for the purposes of direct marketing.
All personal information is kept private and is held securely until it is no longer required or has no use, at which point it will be destroyed or deleted by secure means in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
Third-party processors
We use several third-party processors to ensure we are able to provide the highest-quality services. You can see a full list of which processors we use, what personal data we share with them, what the purpose of the processing is, and what legal basis we rely on in this spreadsheet.
Your rights
Under Data Protection legislation you have the following rights:
- You have a right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal information. Everything you need to know should be contained within our Privacy Policy but if there is anything more you need to know then please get in touch.
- You have a right to access the personal information we hold about you. This is commonly known as a ‘subject access request’ or SAR. An individual can make a SAR verbally or in writing, including on social media. A written request can be posted or emailed to us (see our contact details above). A SAR would normally be dealt with within one month of receiving it however it can take longer if it is a complex request.
- You have a right to challenge the accuracy of the information held about you. This is known as the right to rectification and can be used if the information is either inaccurate or incomplete.
- You have a right to get your information deleted or disposed of and this is sometimes known as the right to erasure or the right to be forgotten.
- You have a right to limit the way an organisation uses your personal information if you are concerned about its accuracy or you have a concern about how it is being used. This is known as the right to restriction.
- You have a right to get a copy of the information held about you from us in an accessible and machine-readable way. This is known as the right to data portability.
- In certain circumstances, you may have the right to object to the use of your personal information for a particular purpose or purposes.
- Where we are relying on your consent as our legal basis for using your personal information, you have a right to withdraw your consent at any time. Should you choose to do this, we will update our records immediately to reflect your wishes.
- You have certain rights relating to automated decision making and profiling.
- You have the right to raise a concern with us should you have any query about how we are handling your personal information. Our contact details can be found under ‘Important information about us’ at the top of this page.
You can access further information relating to your rights from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizen’s Advice Bureau.
It is important that the information we hold is kept accurate and up to date. Should there be changes to any information that we hold change please let us know.
Use of cookies
This website uses cookies to improve user experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to visitors’ hard drives that track, save and store information about user interactions and usage of the website. This allows us to provide you with a tailored experience within this website. Cookies typically expire after 30 days, and no personal information is collected. This website uses a cookie control system, allowing you on your first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on each device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent. If you wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website, you should take necessary steps within your web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website.
External links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, you are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links and do so at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the contents of any externally linked website and cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social media platforms
Communication and engagement through external social media platforms on which we are active are subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies of each individual social media platform. This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. You are advised before using such social sharing buttons that you do so at your own discretion.
Shortened links in social media
Through our social media platform accounts, we may share links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs (web addresses). You are advised to take caution and to exercise good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. We cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review to make sure it is up to date, accurate and clear. Any changes will be listed as below. We suggest that you check this page regularly to keep up to date. Your continued use of the website will be deemed to be acceptance of the revised version of the Privacy Policy.
We have reviewed our Privacy Policy in September 2024 and made the following changes:
- Updated our list of third-party processors by deleting Stonly and adding Dropbox.
- We have amended the information on Subject Access Requests under the heading ‘Your rights’. A SAR may be made either verbally or in writing.
- Checked to see that all other information was still complete and up-to-date.
Prior to this, the policy was last updated in July 2023.
