General Overview and Use of Data

This privacy policy sets out how Little Sparks Science uses, stores, protects and manages any information you provide to Little Sparks Science when you use this website.
Little Sparks Science is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If we ask you to provide information by which you can be identified, we will only use that information in accordance with this privacy statement.
Little Sparks Science may change this privacy policy over time. If we do, then this page will be updated in line with any amends made to the privacy policy. This current privacy policy is effective as of October 2023.

What Data We Collect
Through this website, we may collect the following information:

· Parent/carer name

· Contact information including telephone number and email

· Emergency contact details

· Child name and age

· Allergies or any relevant medical information about the child

· Photo consent

How Do We Use the Information We Gather
We gather the information detailed in the ‘What Data We Collect’ section to help us to understand your needs and educate us around how to provide you with a better service.

We collect the data for the following reasons:

· Internal record keeping

·  Improvement of our products and services

· We may periodically send you promotional emails about new services, special offers or other information to the email address you’ve provided. We would do this if we think the content would be of interest to you

· We may occasionally contact you for market research purposes via email, phone or mail

Data Security
Little Sparks Science is committed to ensuring that your information is stored securely. To prevent unauthorised access to your data, we have put suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures in place. In particular: 

· All documents in electronic form will be kept securely and password protected.

· All information submitted through the Little Sparks Science website are submitted through a secure site with an up to date security certificate.

· Information will be stored for only as long as it is needed or required statute and will be disposed of appropriately.

Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small file that gets entered into the memory of your browser by a website. The file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Little Sparks Science uses cookies to help us to identify which pages of our website are being used. This helps us to analyse data surrounding web page traffic and subsequently improve our website by tailoring it to customer needs.

Cookies ultimately help us to provide you with a better website experience, by enabling us to monitor the pages which you do and do not find useful. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you outside of the data you choose share with us. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually monitor your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to Other Websites
The Little Sparks Science website may contain links to other websites of interest. Please be aware that once you follow any of these links, you should note that we do not have any control over that website or how they use your information.

We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting such websites. Such websites are also not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling Your Personal Information and Deletion of Your Data
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
 

Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can unclick to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at toni@littlesparksscience.co.uk.
 

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information we hold about you under the GDPR which came into force on 25th May 2018. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, or you would like us to delete any data we hold about you, please email toni@littlesparksscience.co.uk. Selected data such as billing data may need to be retained for a length of time until the data is no longer reasonably required.

If you believe that any information, we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Email Communications
We adhere to the following guidelines with our email communications:

· Emails will clearly identify us as the sender.

· Emails sent to you for marketing purposes will include an unsubscribe option.

· You may unsubscribe from all mailing lists - with the exception of any emails regarding legal notices, invoices or information about classes you are booked onto - at any time.

· Any third parties who send emails on our behalf will be required to comply with legislative requirements on unsolicited emails and the use of personal data.