It is important to us that you are confident we are protecting your privacy and not using personal information inappropriately. Please read our Privacy Notice from time to time to ensure you understand & are aware of any chances we may make.
We are mindful that privacy is very important for both safeguarding and online protection.
Who we are:
Our website address is: https://echoacademy.co.uk.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
As a visitor using Echoacademy.co.uk, we collect data for our own business purposes to enable a better customer experience of our website. Without login the only information collected is an IP address. We do also use cookies. See below for more information.
Any data collected will not be shared nor otherwise distributed or sold. This data captured does not disclose any details about specific location, names or personal details outlined in the privacy policy.
Using the contact forms:
Sending a message to us, we capture your message and details in order to contact you directly in reply. You will not be added to our mailing list without consent and you do have the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time.
Your rights:
If at any time you would like to remove your details from our database or you would like to revise the information you have provided to us because you are aware is incorrect, you can so do by contacting us at echoacademyuk@gmail.com.
You can request at DSAR (Data Subject Access Request) you will need to provide us with some details such as your name, address and email details in order for us to locate any activity on the site.
How we use personal data:
Research- Information from analytics to assess site usage etc enables us to understand what our site users want to see and do when they visit. We will also contact you following a booking for our classes.
Technical support – Occasionally we use third party service providers to provide business operations support (including advertising and marketing advice and support), financial services and technology services. Please note that these third parties are under contract, and our service agreements dictate that they only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit. If the Police or a regulatory or government authority investigating illegal activities ask us to provide information concerning your activities whilst using our website, we will cooperate and do so.
Email – We use a third party called MailPoet to help distribute emails. They are fully GDPR compliant and store email addresses for us and these are not distributed.
Internet concerns:
We aim to give our commitment to follow current laws and legislation surrounding privacy, however the internet cannot be 100% secure. If you give information, you do so willingly and your own risk. We cannot be responsible for any damages which you, or others, may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of such information. Remember, if you post information on public forums on message boards, through email or social media, that information can be collected and used by others. Don’t forget to close browser windows to ensure others cannot access information once you have finished. If it is a communal computer be mindful of this as others could track your usage.
Comments:
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media:
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Cookies:
We use cookies – Google lets us check what’s going on. By using or accessing the Website, you are consenting to Echo Performing Arts Academy to use of Cookies as follows:
This policy helps to explain the occasions when and why cookies may be sent to visitors to the Website (referred to in this policy as “we”, “us” or “our”). “Cookies” are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow the Website to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. As with most selling websites Cookies are stored on your computer to enhance your user experience & enable functionality of the website. If you have chosen to block cookies the website will be limited and in some cases will not work. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Certain cookies will be used on the Site regardless of whether you are logged in to your account or not. Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience, for analytics and for marketing, but specifically we use Cookies on the Website for the following purposes:
Analytical Purposes: We use Cookies to analyse user activity in order to improve the Website. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Website.
Your Preferences: We use Cookies to store certain user preferences on our Website. For example, we may store the recent searches you have performed in a Cookie so that we can allow you to easily repeat those searches when you return to our Website.
Marketing: We use Cookies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for marketing purposes. These Cookies allow us to display Pedddle promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet. In order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you. To find out more about your social networking sites use Cookies click through to their website..
If you have any enquires about our privacy notice and data protection issues please contact us at echoacademyuk@gmail.com and leave your contact number and if deemed an emergency we will endeavour to call back.
We reserve right to edit and amend our Privacy Policy at any time to adhere to EU and UK data protection Laws.