For tes.co.uk and related sites
This is the Privacy Policy that applies to use of the www.tes.co.uk website (“the website”), which is brought to you by TSL Education Limited of 26 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4HQ (“TSL Education”). References to “we”, “our” and “us” are references to TSL Education.
We take your privacy seriously and we have notified the Information Commissioner’s Office that we will process your personal data in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
This Privacy Policy explains what we do with data relating to you. If you have any questions about this or about personal information that we may hold about you please contact us by email at webmaster@tes.co.uk
By submitting your personal information to the website or by email, you consent to our processing of your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you do not accept this privacy policy you should not submit your personal data to us and you may find that you will not be able to make full use of the website.
Information about your visits to our sites
We automatically gather information about your visits to our sites. This includes demographic data and browsing patterns, but it is only collected in aggregate form - no individual user is identified. This is used to build up marketing profiles, to aid strategic development, to manage our relationship with advertisers and to audit usage of the site.
We may use ’cookies’ to identify you when you visit the tes.co.uk and associated sites to confirm that you are logged in and to build up a demographic profile. A cookie is a small collection of data sent by a web server to a web browser, which lets the server to collect information back from the browser. Our use of cookies also may allow registered users to be presented with a personalised version of the site.
Use of personal information
We collect personal information from you through enquiry and registration forms and every time you email us your details or log on using your user name and password. This data will be used by us to authenticate your identity and to provide you with our services. We may also use this information to personalise aspects of our services, to carry out market research surveys, to contact you about opportunities that we believe may be relevant to you and to provide you with updates about developments on the sites and information about the products and services we offer.
If you do not wish to receive information about our products or services, or the products or services offered jointly with or on behalf of other organisations, please email us at webmaster@tes.co.uk.
We will not disclose any information we keep about you to any third parties, except for other companies in the TSL Education group of companies and any suppliers we engage to provide services which involve processing data on our behalf.
Content posted by you
If you make your personal data available to friends, colleagues and/or any wider TES community then it will be shared within the relevant community. Also, if you post any personal information to any of our forums, this information will immediately be made available to other users throughout the world who may use it to send you unsolicited communications. In some circumstances we may display some of your personal information (your username for example) when you post material to the website to allow users to identify each other.
If you post any content in breach of our website terms and conditions we may inform any relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Our website uses ad servers (such as Doubleclick) to serve the advertisements that you see on pages of our Website. That partner uses cookies to help target ads to you. To find out more about the use of cookies and the information-gathering practices and opt-out procedures of DoubleClick.
Please not that if you do disable cookies, certain services on this Website may not be available.
Third Party Data Processors
In order to deliver our services, we will need to process and store your personal information and may need to transfer it to the relevant partners for processing both inside and outside the European Economic Area (EEA). These third parties simply process data on behalf of TSL Education and have no right to use your personal data in any other way. By submitting your personal information, you consent to such processing and transfers in connection with your use of our services.
Security and possibility of international transfer
Please note that countries outside the EEA may not have the same level of protection as countries within the EEA, but we always demand that those parties to whom we transfer data adhere to the same security procedures that we follow ourselves. By submitting your personal information, you consent to such processing and transfers in connection with such orders, offers or services and for any other purposes to which you consent at the time you provide the information.
Additional Terms
In some circumstances (for example where you use our Jobs service) it may be necessary for us to use, share or transfer your personal data in other ways and we will let you know about this additional use of your personal data where relevant.
