Who is Responsible for Processing Your Personal Data
Society Educational Services Ltd trading as Society Education is the Data Controller. This is the legal entity responsible for how your personal data is collected, stored and processed.
When you share your personal information with us, you have a right to expect that information to be treated with total confidentiality. Therefore, it is our responsibility to manage your personal data that you provide to us with care and in accordance with all data protection legislation and industry best practice.
Whether you have supplied your personal details online, by phone, by email or in a letter, we will never use them without a lawful reason to do so. We will use your personal data for the purposes for which they were initially requested and as fully explained in this Privacy Policy.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your personal data provided to us is accurate and up to date. You can update your personal contact details, including email address and phone number, by visiting https://societyeducation.online or, if you need to update any other personal details, by ringing our office +356 27555560 or by email info@societyeducation.eu.
Based on your marketing preferences, we use your email and home address to send you details of our latest events and promotions. We also use marketing profiling techniques to determine what product offers may be of interest to you whether that be by email, telemarketing, direct mail or social media. For further information on how we use your personal data to keep you informed about our products and promotions and how you can change your marketing preferences, read the relevant sections below.
We hold your personal data for the purposes of direct marketing to you for a period of two years from the date of your last purchase unless you have an outstanding credit balance or have updated your marketing preferences in which case you will continue to receive marketing information unless you tell us otherwise.
We will obtain your consent to send you details of our latest products and promotions via Email Marketing and Telemarketing in a number of ways. We will obtain your consent when you register your details with us, open an account, make a purchase, sign up to our email newsletters, request a catalogue from us, enter a competition or when we send you electronic receipts via email in store. You can change your email and telemarketing preferences at any time – see Changing Your Marketing Preferences.
We would like to keep you informed about our latest product offers and promotions using the email address you provide to us. To do this, we will ask you to opt-in to receive marketing emails when you first register an account with us , sign up for our newsletter, enter a competition or prize draw or agree for us to use your email address for marketing purposes when we send you electronic receipts in store. You can opt out of email marketing at any time – see Changing Your Marketing Preferences.
We will ask your permission to ring you about our latest product offers and promotions when you make a purchase or open an account with us. You can opt out of telemarketing at any time – see Changing Your Marketing Preferences.
We will use your name and address to send you personalised marketing mails in the post. We have a legitimate business interest to send you information about our products and offers in the post as we know that many of our customers like to browse through catalogues or offers prior to placing an order with us. However, should you wish to exercise your right to stop personalised postal marketing activity, you can do this at any time – see Changing Your Marketing Preferences.
We will use your email address to send you online targeted marketing information about our product offers and promotions via social media platforms. To do this, we will share your email address in a secure manner with social media organisations, such as Facebook, who will match our advertising requirements to your social media profile. We have a legitimate business interest to send you product information via social media which we believe is of relevance to you; this is known as Interest-Based Advertising. However, should you wish to exercise your right to stop targeted social media marketing, you can do this at any time – see Changing Your Marketing Preferences.
We will not share your personal data with third party companies for the purpose of them marketing their products and services to you.
You can change your marketing preferences at any time by:
Clicking unsubscribe in the body of the email sent to you;
Ringing our office on +356 27555560; or
Sending an email on info@societyeducation.eu.
Please allow 48 hours for your changes to be processed.
We want to make sure that we only contact you with online content that you will find relevant and interesting. For this to work effectively, we collect information about your browsing activity using Cookies when you are using our websites. These Cookies pass back to us your browsing information using your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address as the identifier, which we combine with other anonymised, non-personalised and aggregated data, allowing us to determine what content and product information is most relevant to you when you are shopping online.
We have a legitimate business interest to use the aggregated and anonymised data obtained via Cookies and other data sources to help us provide you with relevant product marketing and improve your online shopping experience.
Profiling is a term used to describe a form of data processing where significant volumes of data made up of lots of different data types – such as browser history from Cookies, age, gender, size, transaction history, demographics and buying habits – are all used in an aggregated, anonymised and non-personalised form to evaluate and predict, based on statistical analysis, what you may or may not want to purchase from us by assigning you to a profile type. We use this technique to understand what drives you to buy from us and the types of products you are most likely to be interested in whether that be by email, telemarketing, direct mail or social media. This is sometimes referred to as Big Data and Data Science and is widely used by retailers to improve their customer offering and Interest-Based Advertising.
The data that we collect and use when you browse or shop online, including where we use Cookies, uses your IP address as the unique identifier; however, it will not contain your name, home address or phone number. We may also use your email address to send you online targeted marketing information but we always use hashed email addresses to keep your data secure. The email addresses are scrambled before being utilised to ensure nobody else can gain access to your email address. This enables us to offer our customers the best possible online user experience and equally allows us to improve the relevancy of our advertising. This allows us to provide you with more of the content you want to see.
We will use your personal data to administer and to operate your account as set out below. We will collect and use the contact details that you provide to us to communicate with you about your account and in relation to the products and services we provide to you.
We will hold your personal data for 6 years, plus the current financial year, after the date of your last transaction on your account.
We will use your personal contact details such as name, postal address, phone number and email address that you provide to us in respect of delivering products or services to you. We will share this information with our suppliers who directly despatch orders to you or our delivery partners who may contact you to arrange a convenient delivery time and provide you with updates as to when they will arrive.
We use your customer account and contact details to verify any returns and refunds that we process either by card or via your account. We process all card payments in line with our obligations under the PCI-DSS regulations and will encrypt the payment details before sending to our card payment and banking provider.
We use your personal contact details such as name, postal address, phone number and email address to notify you about any updates, changes or issues with your personal credit account. We use your personal contact data, payment history and credit information obtained from Credit Reference Agencies to determine whether and when to increase or reduce your credit limit. We may also send you notifications via SMS to notify you if you have exceeded your credit limit or a payment is due.
We will use the email address that you provide to us to communicate with you about your account and in relation to the products and services we provide to you. Unless you have specifically requested otherwise, we will send your account statements and other account information and documentation to you electronically using your email address.
We will hold your statement data for 6 years, plus the current financial year, after the date of your last statement.
We record all calls into our offices for quality assurance, regulatory compliance and training purposes. We retain all call recordings for a period of 12 months.
If you have any complaints with regards to the operation of your personal account, please contact our office on +356 27555560 so we can deal with your complaint as quickly as possible. We will need to access your personal data and account history to verify your identity for security reasons and deal with the details of your complaint. Details of any complaints received will be logged and recorded so they can be dealt with accordingly.
We will use your personal data for all general service communications including sending your statements, processing orders, notifying you of orders received, updating you on deliveries, despatched or products out of stock. We need to do this for the performance of the contract and terms and conditions that you have signed.
As a valued customer, we may use your personal data to contact you by phone, SMS, letter or email to ask you to participate in one of our service improvement programmes. We will share your personal contact details with our chosen third party partners and service providers who may carry out these service improvement programmes on our behalf. We will always make you aware of how we will use the information that we gather from you at the time of contacting you for any specific service improvement programme. We have a legitimate business interest in contacting our customers in this way and will always treat your involvement in any service improvement programme, and associated personal data, in confidence.
Should you not wish to participate in our service improvement programme, you can simply decline to participate at the point of contact or, should you wish never to be contacted for the purpose of market research, you can tell us at any time by ringing our office on +356 27555560.
Whenever you make a purchase from us, we will send you an email asking you to provide a review of the product and tell us what you think. If you choose to do so, you will be asked to enter your email address, your thoughts about the product and any relevant details which may include age range, height and size if relevant to the product you have purchased. You will also be asked to agree to separate terms and conditions as we use a third party to process and analyse the data for us. We will use your email address to confirm that we have received your product review. We are really keen to hear what you think about our products and use the information to inform our product development programme.
From time to time, we will contact you to take part in a customer satisfaction survey. We often use third party partners to collect this information on our behalf. We will share your basic personal data – name, address, phone number and email – for them to contact you to ask if you wish to participate in such surveys. We, or our third party partners, may sometimes follow up on surveys with you to get more information from you regarding specific complaints or feedback. You can choose not to participate in such surveys should you not wish for your personal data to be shared in this way by ringing our office on +356 27555560.
From time to time, we employ different market research agencies, who act on our behalf, to contact our customers with the aim of getting a more detailed understanding of what our customers think about our products and services. We will share your basic personal data – name, address, phone number and email – for them to contact you to ask if you wish to participate in our service improvement programme. We may also share more personal data about your shopping habits, including the size and type of products that you have purchased if this is relevant to the market research. Occasionally, we ask our research companies not to tell customers that they are contacting you on our behalf, for example for brand research purposes, as we do not want to influence your answers. However, the market research company is obliged to disclose this information should you ask at the end of the survey. If you do not wish to be contacted for market research purposes, you can ring our office on +35627555560.
We actively use social media platforms as a way of connecting, and getting closer, to our customers to hear and understand what our customers think about us and our products and services. Occasionally, we may contact you directly via those social media platforms if we would like to share your comments or pictures with other customers or publish them in our marketing materials. We will always ask you if you are happy for us to use your data in this way and will keep any data that you provide to us, such as email address, confidential and secure.
As part of delivering our products and services to you, we will share your personal data with carefully chosen Third Party Processors and Partners who carry out a number of services on our behalf. Should you wish to obtain a list of our latest Third Party Processors and Partners, you can request this at any time by contacting our Data Governance team.
Any third party that communicates with you on our behalf must only do so for the purpose of carrying out the services and not for the purpose of direct marketing their own products and services. If you have any concerns about any of our third party processors and partners, please contact our Data Governance team.
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy or our use of your personal data, please contact us at:
Society Educational Services Ltd, 50 Kercem Street, Victoria VCT 9051, Gozo – Malta
Info@societyeducation.eu +35627555560
You may wish to access a copy of the personal data we hold about you – known as a Subject Access Request. You can do so by ringing, writing to or emailing the Data Governance team. We will respond to your Subject Access Request as soon as possible and, in any event, within the statutory 30 days. However, in the event that we need more information from you to verify your identity, which we must do to ensure we disclose your personal data to the right person, the 30 day response period will only commence from the time that we have validated your identity.
Please be aware that for security reasons we do not usually provide details of any bank details that we hold against your account(s). Please speak to our Data Governance team should you need this additional information.
If you believe we have made an error as to the personal data we hold about you, please speak to one of our customer service advisors on +356 27555560 who will be able to process the correction for you.
You have the right to request your personal data to be permanently deleted from our records and systems to avoid any further communication with you. Your request will always be considered in light of the legal bases that we hold, store and process your personal data and the purpose that we collected your data. Where the legal bases permits, we will carry out your instruction without undue delay. Please note, however, that where we have a legal or contractual obligation to hold your personal data, we may not be able to carry out your request but we will explain this fully to you. Please address any request to delete your data to the Data Governance team.
Should you believe that we are processing your personal data in a way that you did not understand or agree to and wish to restrict such processing, please speak to the Data Governance team who will be able to assist you.
You have the right to object to certain types of processing of your personal data. We will always make it clear at the outset of any new arrangement with you how we are going to process your personal data. Should you wish to object to such processing, particularly concerning Automated Decisioning and Profiling, we will give you the option to opt out on application. However, should you wish to discuss this matter further, please speak to the Data Governance team.
In the event that you wish to move your personal data that we hold on you to another organisation in the form of an excel or csv format, please contact the Data Governance team who will be able to assist you.
You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This is commonly known as a ‘privacy statement’ or ‘privacy policy’. We will provide you with the information about how we collect and use your data in various means, such as by ‘just in time’ notice provided to you at the time of collecting your personal data and via this Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy is regularly reviewed in line with our business processes. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated via email and credit account statements to all active customers. We will also advise customers of changes when ringing the call centre via a recorded message. You can ask for a printed copy of our Privacy Policy by contacting the Data Governance team.
