Privacy Policy
Eye-Opening-Education respects your right to privacy and complies with its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The goal of this website privacy policy is to help you understand how we deal with any personal data you provide when you visit this website. By visiting the Eye-Opening-Education website you are accepting the terms of this website privacy policy. This website may contain external links to other websites but Eye-Opening-Education is not responsible or liable for the privacy policies of any third-party website.
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What types of information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you visit our website and register for a course. When registering for a course as a delegate or speaker, you will be asked to provide personal details such as name, email address, registered address, phone number and payment information as needed. You may also be asked to provide professional information such as field of practice, research, study, etc. Eye-Opening-Education does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any personal information to us. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information online without their permission.
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What do we use your information for?
The law requires that there be a legal basis for Eye-Opening-Education to process your personal data. In general, this will be one, or a combination, of the following:
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your consent
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the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you
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compliance by Eye-Opening-Education with a legal obligation to which it is subject
The Society can also process your personal data in the rare event that it is necessary in order to protect your, or another person’s, vital interests or in the performance of a task being carried out by Eye-Opening-Education in the public interest. In practical terms, the information that Eye-Opening-Education collects from you may be used in one or more of the following ways:
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Membership records
To keep up-to-date and accurate details of your membership with Eye-Opening-Education
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To register you for a course
We will use your information to register you for your chosen course and to provide you with updates and information relating to it. This can be via specific e-mail updates (some of which may be industry sponsored). Personal information provided when registering for an event as delegate or speaker, will be used to provide you with updates and information relating to Eye-Opening-Education. Personal information may also be shared with our specific third-party suppliers to facilitate participation in our courses. At any time, you can unsubscribe from receiving future emails from Eye-Opening-Education by emailing: info@Eye-Opening-Education.co.uk and letting us know.
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To process payments and confirm transactions
When completing online transactions or when paying a course registration fee, we will use your personal data to complete your order and to follow up, where relevant or requested, by email, phone or post on any transactions
and issue payment receipts.
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To keep you informed about Eye-Opening-Education events
At any time, you can unsubscribe from receiving future emails from Eye-Opening-Education by emailing: info@Eye-Opening-Education.co.uk and letting us know.
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How do we protect your information?
We use a variety of security measures to securely process and keep your personal information safe when you interact with our website. We use a secure server so that all supplied sensitive/payment information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into the database of our payment processing providers (PayPal and Sage Pay). We do not see or store your full card details when you make an online transaction.
The Society takes, and will continue to take, all reasonable steps (which includes relevant technical and organisational measures) to guarantee the safety of the data you provide to us and we will only use the data for the intended purpose. However, the nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet will be 100% secure.
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Do we use cookies?
We may use cookies, pixels and tags (which we shall collectively define as “Cookies”) on this website to help us remember and process activity during your visit and compile anonymous data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that lets them recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information. This website uses Google Analytics to gather anonymous statistics about visitors to the site and which pages are visited. If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly.
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Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not disclose your personal data to outside parties except as set out in this policy.
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Do we retain data indefinitely?
No. Our policy is to keep your personal information only for as long as is required by us to work in an effective manner and to comply with our various statutory obligations. The data retention periods we use are set out in a data retention policy which is reviewed and updated from time to time.
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Your rights under the GDPR
You have various rights under the GDPR. In particular, you may object to the processing of your personal data. When you want to exercise one of these data subject rights – and you are eligible to – Eye-Opening-Education will respond according to the GDPR.
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The right of access: you have the right to know whether Eye-Opening-Education is processing data about you and, if so, you can request access to it.
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The right to rectification: if your personal data is inaccurate, Eye-Opening-Education will facilitate its correction once it becomes aware of the inaccuracy.
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The right to erasure or right to be forgotten: you are able to ask us to delete your personal data if you no longer want it to be processed and there is no legitimate reason for Eye-Opening-Education to keep it.
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The right to restriction of processing: you have the right to limit the processing of your personal data.
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The right to withdraw consent: you have the right to withdraw consent where we have relied upon your consent to process your personal data.
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The right to be informed: you have the right to clear and understandable information about who is processing your data, what they are processing and why they are processing it.
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The right to data portability: you have the right to ask us to transfer your personal data to another service provider.
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The right to object: you can say if you don’t want processing of your data to be undertaken.
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The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing: This includes profiling, which produces legal effects or significantly affects you.
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights please send a written request to: info@eye-opening-edication.co.uk
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Online privacy policy only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
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Changes to our privacy policy
We reserve the right to make changes to our web privacy policy at any time without prior consultation; these changes will be posted on this page together with the privacy policy revision date.
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Contacting us
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at:
Eye-Opening-Education
Email: info@eye-opening-education.co.uk
Date Last Revised:
24th July 2025