Privacy Policy

DesignThinkers Academy takes your privacy at heart and will process and use your data in a secure way. To guarantee your data privacy, DesignThinkers Academy acts according to the Law protecting personal data (AVG or also called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)). In this Privacy Policy DesignThinkers Academy explains which data they process and with what purpose. You can find our Terms and Conditions on our website: www.designthinkersacademy.com/london under title; Terms and Conditions.

DesignThinkers Academy B.V. is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is a part of our Terms and Conditions; by agreeing to Terms and Conditions you also agree to this Policy. In the event of collision of terms used in Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, the latter shall prevail.

Table of Contents

1. Definitions used in this Policy
2. Data protection principles we follow
3. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
4. What Personal Data we gather about you
5. How we use your Personal Data
6. Who else has access to your Personal Data
7. How we secure your data
8. Information about cookies
9. Contact information

Definitions

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – DesignThinkers Academy B.V.

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

• Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
• Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
• Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
• Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
• We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
• We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

Data Subject’s rights

The Data Subject has the following rights:

1. Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
2. Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
3. Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
4. Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
5. Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
6. Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
7. Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
8. Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
9. Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
10. Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
11. Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

Data we gather

When you provide documents (digitally) to DesignThinkers Academy A for further processing, DesignThinkers Academy will have access over certain information including persona information that can be found in those documents. Explanation: The information that DesignThinkers Academy receives from your answers, registrations to courses consist of; Company name, Name, invoice/company address, Email address, phone-number, IBAN/BIC. Product data that you have purchased, cost of services purchased, tax registration number, chamber of commerce number. To apply to one of our courses you will need to register online and provide us with personal and company details. If you are registering a number of participants on your company behalf you need to share their names, email addresses, country of residence, company name.

Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

• Provide our service to you. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those services; communicating and interacting with you, and notifying you of changes to any services.
• Enhance your customer experience;
• Fulfill an obligation under law or contract;
• To invite you to our courses and communicate with you in general regarding courses that you have registered for, to produce your certificate, to send you or your company an invoice for services provided.
• To send you information related to services you have purchased from us, to inform you about future courses and events from DesignThinkers Academy, DesignThinkers Group, the DT Conference and DesignersDNA.
• (Anonymized data) for statistical purposes around the usage of our website.
• To adapt or improve our website and services.

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To identify you;
• To provide you a service
• To communicate either for sales or sending invoices;

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
• To administer and analyze our client base (purchasing behavior and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of our services offered/provided;
• To conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction.

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners).

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligations rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

• The link between purposes, context, and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
• Further Processing would not harm your interests.
• There would be an appropriate safeguard for Processing.

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

Passing on of your data to countries outside the EU can sometimes be necessary for technical and operational reasons. This can happen in the case of us using (cloud) services like Microsoft Azzure and Mailchimp. However this will never take place on servers that are located outside the European Economical Space.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymizing and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. DesignThinkers Academy will take the appropriate technical and organizational precautions to protect your data against loss or any other unlawful processing. DesignThinkers Academy stores personal information regarding courses and event registration, the newsletter mailing distribution, and website information. This information is stored in our personal environment. To this environment only our own staff members have personal access to.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
• Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
• Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
• Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Contact Information

Supervisory Authority of The Netherlands 
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +31 70 888 8500

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy.
Last modification was made May 22, 2018.