Last Updated: February 08 2022
Quality Teaching Solutions International Limited (“us”, “we”, or “our” “QTSi”) operates the www.qualityteachingsolutions.com website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
For the purposes of data protection, Quality Teaching Solutions International Limited outlines how we use your information.
What information do we collect?
Quality Teaching Solutions International Limited will request an up to date CV from candidates.
A CV will include:
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Personal information – contact details including email address, telephone number(s), address, date of birth, marital status, number of dependent children.
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Education background – qualifications achieved, dates and institutions.
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Professional experience – current and previous places of employment.
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Referees – contact details of professional referees who will only be contacted with a candidate’s expressed permission.
We collect this data for the purposes of providing details of job vacancies and ensuring suitability. Email addresses will be included on our mailing newsletter. At any point you are able to update your mailing preferences by contacting enquiries@qualityteachingsolutions.com
How do we use your information?
To be able to recommend potential job vacancies based upon your experience, background and preferences.
Delivering marketing and events communication.
By registering with Quality Teaching Solutions International Limited your email address will be included on our mailing list. At any point, you can amend your subscription preferences by contacting enquiries@qualityteachingsolutions.com
When do we share your data?
Quality Teaching Solutions International will treat your data confidentially. We will only share your data with your prior expressed permission when submitting your CV as an application to an international school. We will never sell your data to third parties.
Our business partners may also share information with us about you that they have independently developed or acquired in accordance with their respective privacy policies, in order to provide information to us so that we may better understand your interests and preferences and provide you with information relating to products and services that may be of particular interest to you. Any information that we receive from our business partners concerning you will be treated by us in the same manner as information we receive from you or develop in accordance with our Privacy Policy. The legal basis for sharing your Usage Data and Personal Data with our business partners is based upon consent.
Where do we store your data?
Quality Teaching Solutions International promises to keep your data stored on a secure server. Your data will only be accessed by employees or consultants working in association with QTSi.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), The Phonics School Ltd legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd may process your Personal Data because:
We need to perform a contract with you;
- You have given us permission to do so as part of our customer consent;
- The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights;
- For payment processing purposes;
- To comply with the law.
Retention of Data
Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United Kingdom and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Data
Disclosure for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Legal Requirements
Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information. The payment processors we work with are:
PayPal
Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We ask that you carefully review your account and immediately report any unexpected activity to us and to your issuing bank or credit card company. We also ask that you take measures to help protect information in your account, including the following:
- Install the most recent security updates and antivirus software on your computers in order to resist malware and viruses;
- Frequently reset email account passwords;
- Use passwords with sufficient length and character diversity;
- Refrain from using the same password on more than one site;
- Do not share your passwords with others;
- Be sure to actively sign-off from websites to prevent open sessions that may be accessed by others – particularly on shared or public computers.
Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at enquiries@qualityteachingsolutions.com
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Quality Teaching Solutions International Ltd relied on your consent to process your personal information.
Please note we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
How to access your personal information?
Quality Teaching Solutions International can provide you with all your information held on our database and should you have any questions or concerns you can contact us by email:
enquiries@qualityteachingsolutions.com
Alternatively, you can write to us at:
QTSi, Ash Cottage, Berrow Road, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, TA8 2JJ