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Privacy Policy

Gamma Quality Mark is a Data Controller. We tend to ask schools, academies and universities for a few demographic details to allow us to provide our clients with the most personalized service possible. Gamma Quality Mark constantly updates this statement to demonstrate firm commitment to the privacy of our website visitors. As such, the following discloses Gamma Quality Mark’s information gathering and dissemination practices through its website www.gammaqualitymark.com:

Cookies and IP Addresses

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information.

Gamma Quality Mark websites use cookies, which are small text files on your computer. A cookie contains identifying information. The cookie is used to make the link between website visitors and the information they have provided to the website. This enables us to automatically complete some of the forms when clients subsequently use them and allows customers’ services basket to be kept separate from other users whenever a course or a service is purchased. The creation of a cookie on visitors’ computers does not give the website any access to other personal information whatsoever.

 

The European Union Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, which came into force on the 31st of July 2002, recognizes that cookies are a “legitimate and useful tool” for many activities, including verifying the identity of website users. The Directive makes it compulsory for websites to inform users if cookies are being used and to provide some information with regards to their usage.

 

We use cookies on www.gammaqualitymark to improve your experience on the site, mainly so that we don’t have to ask clients for their information on every page they visit.

Using Demographic Data

We sometimes collect and store some information about our website users such as their name, their job title and their contact information including email addresses and mobile numbers. We might also collect dietary information if clients are attending an in-person Gamma Quality Mark course or event. We will not collect any personal data that we do not need to provide, oversee and utilize in personalizing the service we offer.  

It is worth noting that we might collect, store and use clients’ personal information for the following purposes:

  • Making this website available to the visitor using it
  • Providing visitors with content tailored to their individual taste
  • Providing clients with services that they request
  • Responding to any enquiries clients submit through our website
  • Monitoring, developing and improving the services and our clients’ experience
  • Providing internal record keeping
  • Sending promotional emails and information about services, courses or products website visitors are interested in or might have purchased
  • Sharing personalized special offers that we think our website visitors might find appealing
  • Sending information Gamma Quality Mark thinks clients might find interesting, using the email address provided

Contact Information

Our website’s subscription, application and contact forms require you to provide us with some contact details such as your name and email address. We sometimes use this data to send you information about our company, our products and services by email. These details are also used to contact you if necessary. If at any time you wish to stop receiving information from Gamma Quality Mark, please contact us and we will update our records accordingly.


Our site might contain links to other websites. Gamma Quality Mark is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

 

We also sometimes run competitions on our site in which we ask for contact information namely, email addresses and phone numbers. We use contact details from competitions to send information about our company. This data is also used to contact you when necessary, specifically if you win a prize or a service. This information is not shared with third parties.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. All instances of unauthorized attempted access to our site are logged and investigated. Where necessary, Gamma Quality Mark will inform law enforcement agencies or other relevant organizations regarding misconduct.

Email

Gamma Quality Mark respects the privacy of email accounts. We store your email addresses just as securely as other information on our website. However, we may use your email to keep you up to date with news about products, services and offers that we think might be of interest to you. If you do not want to be kept informed in this way by email, please let us know. You can do this by ticking the relevant box where your email address is stored when you register or by choosing the unsubscribe option within the email. You can also email [email protected] and ask to be opted out of marketing.

Google Analytics and Advertising

Gamma Quality Mark has implemented the Google AdWords and Google Analytics features. We use the Google AdWords to support Gamma Quality Mark’s click advertising & remarketing campaign by using keywords or phrases which will trigger Gamma Quality Mark’s advert to show on search of similar sites. We also use Google Analytics cookies to analyze visitor traffic to Gamma Quality Mark website to determine how the website was found and what devise the customer was using to view the website.

Where We Store Visitors’ Data

All visitors’ data is stored on a secure and approved server hosted by Gamma Quality Mark.

Opt-out Options

Our site provides you with the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us. You can do this at any point where we request contact information from you. To remove information from our database and prevent you from receiving further communications from us in the future, you can:


• Send your request using our online form.
• Send an email with your name to [email protected] asking us to remove you from our database.

 

If you wish to opt out of Google AdWords/Google Analytics, you can do this by opting out of the use of the Google AdWords/Google Analytics cookies or by clearing the cookies after you have left the website.

 

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held, please write to us. Data will be supplied electronically, in a commonly used format and within one month of receipt of the request. In addition, you have the right to ask us to erase, suspend or transfer personal data.

Updates and Amendments

To amend or update the information you’ve previously provided us with, you can:

  • Use the online form to provide us with the correct or updated information
  • Send us an email with your name to [email protected] asking us to correct or update our database

Contacting this website

 If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with it, you can send your concern to us using the relevant form on our Contact Us page or by sending us an email to [email protected].

Our Pledge

  • We only process and store data with your agreement.
  • We use and continue to update our safeguarding policies and procedures.
  • We continue to update safeguards with regards to data handling.
  • We impose confidentiality requirements on all our staff.
  • We do not retain data that is no longer used or needed.