Academy of Cheese complies with its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure; by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data and by guaranteeing total transparency on how we manage your data.
Why we collect your personal data
Other legitimate interests
When we send you news regarding our products we will do so on the basis that we have your consent. However, to allow us to provide continual best in class service we believe we have legitimate interest to process your personal data so that we can:
What personal data we collect
We may collect the following information about you:
How we collect your personal data
Sharing your personal data with third parties
For us to provide you with services and goods, we must on occasion share some of your personal data with certain approved third parties, however we make sure that your personal data remains secure at all times.
When do we share your personal data?
What personal data do we share?
We need to process some of your personal data to fulfil your registration on any events or courses. We will share your payment details with our bank or clearing house so that we can process payment for your purchases or orders
How do we keep your shared personal data secure?
Data retention – how long do we hold your personal data
Your rights
You have several rights under data protection law, these are summarised below
The right to be informed
You have the right to total transparency on how we are using your personal data, we will endeavour to make this clear by ensuring that this document is regularly reviewed and updated.
Your right of access
You have the right to know what information we hold about you and how it is processed. If you wish to access your personal data, contact members@academyofcheese.org
When you ask us to delete your personal data, we assume that you no longer wish to hear from us again. To ensure we do not send you any further communications regarding our products or services in future we will retain just enough of your personal data for suppression purposes.
If you ask for a data transfer, we will give you a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form (for instance, in a CSV file format). We can provide the personal data to you directly.
When making a transfer request, it would be helpful if you can identify exactly what personal data you wish us to transfer.
We will comply with your request within one month or, if the request is complex or there are several requests from you, within two months.
Our Promise: