Elementor #3217

21C Privacy Notice (Effective Date 1st August 2024) 

This Privacy Notice sets out how 21st Century Digital Teaching Limited (“21C”) processes personal data in connection with our 21C business, including the provision of our website at https://www.21c.digital/ (“Site” or “Platform”) and the services we offer, including through our Platform (our “Services”). 

The Privacy Notice applies whether you are using the Service (i) via your school or other organisation (for example, as a teacher, student, or sometimes as a parent/guardian) or whether (ii) you sign up directly with us and have your own subscription and account (for example, as a parent, child, or tutor). Different parts of the Privacy Policy apply in different ways to these two scenarios. This will be explained further below, especially in sections 2 and 8. 

We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect any changes or proposed changes to our use of your personal data or to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. We may notify you by email of any significant changes to this Privacy Notice, but we encourage you to review this Privacy Notice periodically to stay up to date on how we use your personal data. 

This Privacy Notice explains our approach to any personal data that we might collect from you or which we have received or obtained about you from a third party, as well as the purposes for which we process your personal data and how we share it with others. This Privacy Notice also sets out your rights in respect of our processing of your personal data. 

When we talk about “personal data”, we mean any information which relates to an identified or identifiable living individual, such as their name, address, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (such as an IP address), or other factors specific to them. 

This Privacy Notice is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Platform and our Services. Please take a moment to read and understand it. It should be read in conjunction with the relevant 21C contract with your school or other organisation (if you are accessing through their account) or in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions and our Cookie Policy. 

This Privacy Notice only applies to the use of your personal data obtained by us, whether from you directly or from a third party. It does not apply to personal data collected by third parties during your communications with those third parties or your use of their products or services (for example, where you follow links to third-party websites over which we have no control or you purchase goods or services from those third parties). 

The Platform and our Services are made available by 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL TEACHING LIMITED (known as “21C”, “we”, “us”, “our”). 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL TEACHING LIMITED is an English company (No: 13527420) with its registered office at Suite 117, Worlds End Studios, 132-134 Lots Road, London, England, SW10 0RJ. 

If you are accessing and using the Service via your school or other organisation (for example, as a teacher, student, or sometimes parent), that organisation to which you are affiliated is the relevant Data Controller (and you should review their privacy notices), and 21C is their Data Processor. In this situation, we only have access to and use your Personal Data under the relevant Data Controller’s instruction and to fulfil our contract with that organisation, i.e., to provide you with access to the Services they have contracted us to provide. We have no independent rights regarding your personal data. 

If you sign up directly with us and have your own subscription and account (for example, as a parent or child, or a tutor), 21C is the Data Controller, and we have broader permissions (and obligations) in relation to your Personal Data, as detailed below. 

Different parts of the Privacy Policy apply in different ways to these two scenarios. This will be explained further below. 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or want to exercise your rights as a data subject set out in this Privacy Notice, you can contact us using the following methods: 

We collect, receive and process personal data about the following people: 

The Platform enables educational establishments and/or parents and guardians (and tutors) to make the services on the Platform available to students/children via their subscription agreement. The students/children will only be able to access the Platform if the educational establishment or parent/guardian or tutor has provided the student/children with the appropriate login or ID access code. 

The educational establishment/teacher or parent/guardian or tutor will need to provide the following data on behalf of the students/children: Identity Data and Registration Data (see below for what this means). Additional information which will be collected from students/children in connection with signing into the Platform will be username and password only, or they may log in via Microsoft or Google accounts, etc. 

Students should refer to their educational establishment’s privacy policy to understand more about how the personal data provided or captured in relation to the Services is used in the course of the provision of education by that establishment, and also see Section 9 below about “Sharing Personal Data”. 

It is the responsibility of each educational establishment and/or teacher or tutor to ensure that in relation to any students to whom they intend to provide a login or an ID access code (including, without limitation, students under the age of 13), they have been provided with all necessary consents and permissions (including from a parent and/or guardian) to use the Platform and for 21C to receive, collect and process any personal data. The educational establishment and/or teacher and/or the parents and guardians or tutors acknowledge and warrant that they have and will provide all requisite authority from, and on behalf of, the student/child, including, where relevant, the parent/guardian of the student. 

When a student/child reaches the age of 13, there is a legal requirement to retake consent directly from the student/child, and 21C relies on the relevant educational establishment and/or the parents and guardians or tutors to secure that consent. 

The types of personal data we collect or receive and process depend on who you are and how you use our Platform and Services and may include the following: 

Please note that we receive and process data about ethnicity if you have consented. 21C relies on the relevant educational establishment and/or the parents and guardians or tutors to secure that consent. Consent can be withdrawn at any time by notifying us. 

Otherwise, we will not process any special (or sensitive) categories of personal data (relating to race, ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetics, biometrics, health, sex life, sexual orientation) or personal data relating to criminal convictions or offences except where we are able to do so under applicable legislation or with your explicit consent. 

We collect and receive personal data using different methods: 

We use personal data for the purposes set out in this section. This use by us will depend on whether we are using your Personal Data only under the instruction of your educational establishment (we act as their Data Processor) – usually relating to teachers and students (and sometimes parents/guardians); or whether you have signed up and subscribed directly (therefore we are the Data Controller) – usually parents/guardians and their children, or tutors.