Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy

Developing Experts - Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies only to this website (the {'"Site"'}). If you do not accept this privacy policy, you must not use the Site.

  1. Scope

    At Developing Experts, we take privacy very seriously. We’ve updated our privacy policy ( Policy ) to ensure that we communicate to You, in the clearest way possible, how we treat personal information. We encourage You to read this Policy carefully. It will help You make informed decisions about sharing Your personal information with us. All data subjects whose personal data is collected, in line with the requirements of the GDPR.

  2. Developing Experts

    Developing Experts is a provider of online platform which provides a science curriculum to schools and a careers platform for the whole family. The platform is simple, smart, and secure and gives schools, individuals and business owners more control and visibility of their own data and provides additional tools.

    The Service involves the storage of Data about schools, companies or individuals. That Data can include personal information. “Personal information” is information about an identifiable individual, and may include information such as the individual’s name, email address and what school they’re attached to.

    Developing Experts may collect personal information directly from You when You:

    register to use the Service,

    use the Service,

    are included in a school integration,

    contact the Developing Experts support team, and

    visit our Website.

    You can always choose not to provide Your personal information to Developing Experts, but it may mean that we are unable to provide You with the Service.

  3. Responsibility

    1. The Data Protection Officer (DPO) is responsible for ensuring that this notice is made available to data subjects prior to Developing Experts Ltd collecting/processing their personal data.

    2. All Employees of Developing Experts Ltd who interact with data subjects are responsible for ensuring that this notice is drawn to the data subject’s attention and their consent to the processing of their data is secured.

  4. Privacy notice

    1. Who are we?

      Developing Experts are a company that helps schools and their community access a quality science curriculum and companies to connect to local talent through its careers platform. It allows third party applications to access anonymised school data upon agreement of the school and the terms of their agreements.

      Our DPO and data protection representatives can be contacted directly here:

      Telephone:

      +44 1603273515

      Email:

      [email protected]

      The type of data we collect from you includes:

      Personal Data Type

      Source

      First name

      Sign-up page

      Last name

      Sign-up page

      Email address

      Sign-up page

      Billing Address

      Telephone Number

      Organisation Name

      Sign-up page

      Through our careers service parent users can chose to share:

      • Their ethnicity

      • Date of Birth

      • Gender

      • Careers and job roles they are interested in

      • Postcode

      This data is displayed anonymously to provide our industry partners with indicative data about the number of people interested in entering a sector for employment by postcode. No personal information is shared.

      The information we collect may be used to verify your identity, to create your trigger account, to bill you for the service offered by the Site you have subscribed to, and to correspond with you (such as through email newsletters or correspondence to us initiated by you).

      All email newsletters contain instructions to unsubscribe from the mailing list. You can also contact us at{" "}

      [email protected]

      {" "} to remove your email address from our mailing list at any time.

    2. The personal data we collect will be used for the following purposes:

      Allowing you to access Developing Experts

      Allowing you to access software purchased directly or by the school

      Our legal basis for processing for the personal data include ‘consent’ (the individual has given clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose) and ‘contract’ (the processing is necessary for a contract you have with the individual, or because they have asked you to take specific steps before entering into a contract).

    3. Consent

      By consenting to this privacy notice you are giving us permission to process your personal data specifically for the purposes identified. Consent is required for Developing Experts Ltd to process both types of personal data, but it must be explicitly given. Where we are asking you for sensitive personal data we will always tell you why and how the information will be used. You may withdraw consent at any time.

    4. Retention period

      Developing Experts Ltd will process personal data for as long as required by schools, their approved third parties and any direct services provided to individuals. Developing Experts will only store the personal data for the retention period in line with the requirements of the GDPR.

    5. Your rights as a data subject

      At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights

      Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.

      Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.

      Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.

      Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing.

      Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.

      Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.

      Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

      Right to judicial review: in the event that Developing Experts refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. You have the right to complain as outlined in clause 3.6 below.

      All of the above requests will be forwarded on should there be a third party involved in the processing of your personal data.

    6. Complaints

      In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Developing Experts Ltd (or third parties as described), or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority and Developing Experts Ltd’s data protection DPO.

    7. Online privacy statement

      Personal data

      Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) personal data is defined as:

      “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”.