Privacy Policy

RESEARCHED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who are interested in educational research and how it can play a positive role in education. While gathering information about the people who use researchED.org.uk, our apps, platforms and related sites (collectively referred to as “researchED Sites”), we take your privacy very seriously and make every effort to safeguard your personal data. This privacy policy is intended to inform you of what information we collect, how this information is used and what steps we take to protect this information, as well as providing you a process to update, change or delete your personal data.

By using researchED Sites, you agree to our privacy policy. If you wish to update your personal information or any specific consent that you have provided to researchED on any of researchED Sites, please contact researchED at support@researchED.org.uk.

At account registration, you provide personal information, such as your name, email address, physical address if you sign up for the magazine and password.

Conference information

When required for researchED Conference registration, we collect and process your personal information including your name, address, in some cases telephone number and email address. At times, you may be asked to provide additional information, such as payment to provide under a secure conference registration process. When you provide your credit card number, it will only be shared with verified third parties who perform tasks required to complete the purchase transaction, and only the last four digits will be stored.

Tracking information for our site

The site automatically stores non-personal information about the sites’ usage, popularity, and positive or negative impact. We perform statistical analyses of users of the site, and their viewing and participation patterns, for product development purposes and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our audience.

Device data

We may collect non-personal information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access researchED Sites, such as IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language and other preferences automatically collected.

Tracking usage

We use various technologies, such as Google Analytics cookies, to manage researchED.org.uk and track use of the content we provide, as well as Facebook to help us better target advertising on platforms that market researchED to their users, including:

• standard web analytics information,
• aggregated data about email click-through rates and video viewing,
• data collected through HTML cookies, flash cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, and
• demographics and other details to help us customise our sites based on your preferences.

Cookies provide a mechanism for us to understand how you use the site over time so that we can provide you the best user experience according to your expressed preferences. We do not sell this information to any third party, but may provide information to partners that assist us in updating, managing or maintaining our websites.

LOCATION INFORMATION

We may collect and use your location data (such as your country) to provide a tailored, country-specific experience for your region, but we don’t collect any geolocation-specific data from you or your device. You can change the settings on your computer or mobile device to prevent your location data from being shared. If you wish to opt-out of tracking and cookies, please manage your privacy settings on your browser, or select other ways to turn off cookies and/or ad features.

We use your data for limited purposes and do not sell it to any third parties. Specific uses are defined below.

Providing requested services

We may use the data to fulfil your requests for services and information. For example, using your contact information to respond to your customer service requests, or to enable registration for one of our conferences.

Communication

We use data we collect to send email newsletters, or information about conferences and researchED events (if you have opted in for this information). We may also use the data to send you email communications, such as information about your account or updates to the site.

Enforcement

We may use the data to prevent illegal activities, to enforce the researchED.org.uk Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.

Personalisation

researchED connects Google Analytics client ID data with researchED user ID data so that we can create a more personalised experience for users, even when not logged in.

Behavioural advertising

In the future in order to help researchED better market on third party platforms, researchED will work with third parties to collect information about your use of our website so that researchED can provide advertising about researchED’s offerings (such as products and services) tailored to your interests, including free educational resources and content recommendations. That advertising may appear either on our website, on our apps, or on other websites.