This privacy policy is for the website www.pmsystems.thinkific.com and is served by Performance Management Systems Limited and governs the privacy of those who choose to use it.

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This policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations and requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.

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If you have any questions or wish to amend, correct, delete or request a copy of the personal information we hold on you, the data controller can be contacted via jonathan@pmsystems.co.uk.

 

The Website

This website is hosted on the Thinkific.com platform. Its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience.

 

1. What information do we collect and what do we do with it?

When you enrol as a student or subscriber (“learner”) on our site or related courses, as part of the enrolling process, we collect the personal information you give us. This includes your name and email address, and may include your company name, phone number and country of residence.

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Email Marketing

We may send you emails about our site and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion. 

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Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. As well as storage by Thinkific, as outlined in Section 4, your personal information may be held by Performance Management Systems Limited; where this is the case, it is kept private and stored securely in cloud-based systems and on our own systems until a time when it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998.

 

 

2. How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to become a learner on our site, make a purchase, or participate in the course, you imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

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If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

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Your details may be shared with trusted third parties that are named on our website or in this Privacy Policy, for example with Thinkific.com or Stripe, or where it is required by UK law.

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How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us via jonathan@pmsystems.co.uk

 

 3. Disclosure

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

 

4. Thinkific

Our courses and site are hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with the online course creation platform that allows us to sell our product/services to you.

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Your data is stored through Thinkific’s data storage, databases and the general Thinkific application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

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Payment

If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third-party payment processor such as Stripe or Paypal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. 

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All direct payment gateways 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.

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PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.

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For more insight, you may also want to read Thinkific’s Terms of Service here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/terms-of-service/ or Privacy Statement here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/privacy-policy/

 

5. Third Party Services

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. 

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However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

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For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

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Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

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Once you leave our course website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

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Links

When you click on links on our course site, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

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Adverts & Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts, such as those provided by Thinkific.com. Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and may track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

 

6. Security

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

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If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption.  Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

 

Cookies

We collect cookies or similar tracking technologies. This means information that our website’s server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may also be used to customise our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.

• We use cookies to recognise your device and provide you with a personalised experience.

• We also use cookies to attribute visits to our websites to third-party sources and to serve targeted ads from Google, Facebook, Instagram and other third-party vendors.

• Our third-party advertisers use cookies to track your prior visits to our websites and elsewhere on the Internet in order to serve you targeted ads. For more information about targeted or behavioural advertising, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising.

• Opting out: You can opt out of targeted ads served via specific third-party vendors by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page.

• We may also use automated tracking methods on our websites, in communications with you, and in our products and services, to measure performance and engagement.

• Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

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Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

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To opt out of this website collecting cookies, please activate the relevant setting on your browser to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note this may affect access to parts of this website.

 

Web Analysis Tools

We may use web analysis tools, such as Google Analytics, that are built into the Performance Management Systems Limited website to measure and collect anonymous session information.

 

7. Age of Consent

By using this site, you represent that you are at least 16 years old, or at least the age of consent in your state, province or country of residence if this is higher than 16 years of age.

 

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

 

This privacy policy was last updated by the data controller on 21/06/2019.

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If our site or course is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

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Performance Management Systems Limited is a registered company in England and Wales:

Registered address: 11 The Oaks, Billericay, CM11 2RP

Company registration number: 07561392