Your privacy is really important to us. With this in mind, we have written this privacy policy to explain what of your personal data we collect and how we use and store it.
This policy only refers to how we process your data when you visit and interact with The Foundation Stage Forum website. Our terms and conditions are separate to this and can be found here: https://eyfs.info/terms_and_conditions.html /
We are The Foundation Stage Forum Ltd. We are registered at WaterCourt, 65 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XG. If you have any questions about anything in this policy please contact us by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info. Our data protection officer is called Lauren Foley and can be contacted directly by emailing dpo@eyfs.info
Our website uses a cookie control system which allows to you to agree or disagree to the use of cookies on the computer/device you are using to access our website. If you agree to them, you give your consent for the following:
If you sign up for a Foundation Stage Forum account, we will collect the following contact details:
If you post on this forum we will also collect and store any information you leave as part of comments. Please be aware that this is a publicly accessible forum so those comments will be visible to anyone who comes to that page. We have no control over what they do with that information.
Credit card payment information is given directly to a payment service provider. We do not hold any credit card information ourselves.
If you opt in to receive FSF newsletters, you give consent for the following:
In some of our newsletters we may link to our own podcasts hosted by Simplecast. If you listen to these, you give your consent for the following:
In some of our newsletters we may link to our own videos hosted on YouTube. If you watch these, you give your consent for the following:
We collect information from the computer you use to access our site, to access our newsletters, to watch our videos, and/or listen to our podcasts so we can:
Our legal basis for this is consent. You can change your cookie preferences within your browser. If you do not consent to cookies you will still be able to navigate around the website but your experience of it might be negatively affected. Your viewing patterns will not be considered when we are deciding what content to add next.
We collect your contact details when you sign up for a Foundation Stage Forum account so we can:
Our legal basis for this is contract.
We collect and share your email address with Mailchimp when you sign up for the newsletter so we can:
Mailchimp obtain information about you from third-party sources, such as social media platforms and third-party data providers so they can:
They take steps to ensure that such third parties are legally or contractually permitted to disclose such information to them. Mailchimp may use your personal information for their legitimate business interests.
Please see their privacy policy for more details:
https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/#3._Privacy_for_Contacts/
Our legal basis for this is consent. You can withdraw that at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter.
We make use of subcontractors to provide our service to you and they may see some or all of the following data. They act on our behalf and do not do anything with your data other than what we instruct them to. Those instructions will be in line with this privacy policy.
Your personal data is stored within the EU. Our processing of your personal data is carried out within the EU.
Our forum is accessible from outside of the EU, so material you post may be viewed from outside of the EU.
We may also share some of your data with:
Please see the ‘What data do we collect and when?’ section of this privacy policy for more details.
Data shared with google may be transferred outside of the EU. In order to do this, they rely on the model contract clauses for data transfers approved by the EU. The data processed by Google will not include any personally identifying information but will include statistical data for establishing patterns.
Simplecast is based in the US so data shared with them will be transferred outside of the EU. This does not include and personally identifiable information. They may share non-personally-identifiable information with third-parties.
Mailchimp is based in the US so data shared with them will be transferred outside of the EU. They are certified in EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework.
You can see the privacy policies of the above companies here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy/
https://simplecast.com/privacy//
https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy//
You can change your cookie preferences within your browser. If you do not consent to cookies you will still be able to navigate around the website but your experience of it might be negatively affected. Your viewing patterns will not be considered when we are deciding what content to add next.
You can stop subscribing to the forum by not renewing after 12 months. If your forum account has lapsed, we will only use the personal information that you have provided us to:
We will delete the personal information that you have provided us at most 7 years after your forum account has lapsed. At our discretion, the material you have posted may remain on the forum.
You may contact us to ask us to remove it sooner by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info. We will need to hear from the email address linked to your account, or otherwise verify your identity to carry out your instructions.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any point by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our newsletters. We will only keep your email address for as long as you give your consent to receive our newsletters.
If you are based in the European Union, you have a number of rights under the GDPR. They include the right to be informed of how and why we collect your data, the right to access the data we collect for you, the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete data we hold on you, and the right to have us delete any data we hold on you. You can see a full list of your rights and more detail about what they mean here:
If you would like to enforce any of your rights, you can do so by emailing us to request them. Our email address is customer.service@eyfs.info.
You also you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you think we have misused your data. For the UK that is the ICO: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
If we change anything about what data we collect or how we handle it, we will update this policy to reflect that. You can see when the last time we updated our policy from the date at the very start of this policy. Please review it regularly. If we change anything substantial or anything to your detriment and we have your email address, we will contact you to let you know.