This Privacy Notice for British Studies (“we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how and why we may collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:

• Visit our website at british-studies.com, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice.
• Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events.

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@british-studies.com.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice. You can find more details about any of these topics in the relevant sections below.

What personal information do we process?
When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.

Do we process sensitive personal information?
We do not process sensitive personal information.

Do we receive information from third parties?
We do not receive any information from third parties.

How do we process your information?
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, ensure security and prevent fraud, and comply with applicable laws. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information?
We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties.

What are your rights?
Depending on where you are located, applicable privacy laws may provide you with certain rights regarding your personal information.

How do you exercise your rights?
The easiest way to exercise your rights is to submit a data subject access request or contact us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us

In short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities through the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal information provided by you. The personal information we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include:

• Names
• Telephone numbers
• Email addresses

Sensitive information. We do not process sensitive information.

Payment data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Stripe.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information automatically collected

In short: Certain information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity, such as your name or contact information, but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information.

This information is primarily necessary to maintain the security and operation of our Services and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

The information we collect includes:

Log and usage data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information that our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files.

Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type and settings, and information about your activity within the Services, such as date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and other actions you take, as well as device event information such as system activity, error reports, and hardware settings.

Location data. We collect location data, such as information about your device’s location, which may be either precise or imprecise. The amount of information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services.

For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location, including information based on your IP address.

You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information by refusing access to the information or disabling the Location setting on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, ensure security and prevent fraud, and comply with applicable laws. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for various reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

To save or protect an individual’s vital interests. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interests, such as to prevent harm.

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In short: We process your personal information only when we believe it is necessary and when we have a valid legal reason — a legal basis — to do so under applicable law, such as with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with Services, to enter into or fulfil our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfil our legitimate business interests.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases on which we rely in order to process your personal information.

Accordingly, we may rely on the following legal bases:

Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission — consent — to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

Legal obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, such as cooperating with a law enforcement body or regulatory authority, exercising or defending our legal rights, or disclosing your information as evidence in legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Vital interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with certain third parties.

We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

Business transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations relating to, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or part of our business by another company.

5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, such as for tax, accounting, or other legal requirements.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information or, if this is not possible — for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives