Privacy Policy

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Welcome to PLAY Education's privacy policy.

PLAY Education respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

 

   1. Introduction

 

This privacy policy tells you how PLAY Education uses your personal data when you visit our website, interact with us, and buy our goods and services.

It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

 

It is important that you read this privacy policy, together with any other privacy policies we may provide, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

This privacy policy was last updated on the 25th of May, 2018.

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If you have any questions, or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please follow the instructions in this privacy policy. See how to contact PLAY Education about privacy below.

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   2. Our website 

 

Our website at playeducation.ca sells print goods and provides services which are aimed at users in many sectors, such as Education, Recreation and Sport. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

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PLAY Education is made up of one legal entity:

• PLAY Education located in Canada; and

• PLAY Education located in Macau.

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PLAY Education is the data controller responsible for this website and any handling of personal data carried out by or on behalf of PLAY Education. PLAY Education is a data controller for any handling of personal data carried out by or on behalf of PLAY Education.

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  3. Personal data which we collect about you

 

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

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We collect a variety of information about our wonderful customers (you!) and visitors to the PLAY Education website. This personal data falls into these categories:

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Identity Data includes title, first name and last name.If you interact with us through social media, this may include your social media username.

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Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

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Financial Data includes payment card details.

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Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.

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Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, preferences, feedback and survey responses, as well as any profile data which we have added (for example, using analytics and profiling).

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Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

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Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.

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Tracking Data includes information we or others collect about you from cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, and mobile identifiers.

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Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving direct marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

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We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences. If you use any of these types of personal data on products you design or create on moo.com, we will not be able to tell. We will treat all the personal data included in designs or products as ordinary personal data.

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Remember, if you choose not to share personal data with us, or refuse certain contact permissions, we might not be able to provide the products and services you’ve asked for.

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  4. How is your personal data collected?

 

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or through chat or social media.

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This includes personal data you provide when you:

• subscribe to PLAY Education's email blasts;

• make enquiries or request information be sent to you;

• order our products or services;

• ask for information to be sent to you;

• engage with us on social media;

• enter a competition, promotion or survey;

• leave comments, reviews or testimonials on our products or services (please be kind!).

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Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with us, including via the playeducation.ca website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your browsing actions and patterns. We may also collect Tracking Data when you use our website.

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Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various types of third parties, including:

• Technical Data and/or Tracking Data from analytics providers, advertising networks and search information providers;

• Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of payment and fraud prevention services;

• Identity and Contact Data from data partners; and

• Data from any third parties who are permitted by law or have your permission to share your personal data with us, such as via social media or review sites We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to.

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Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

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  5.  How we use your personal data

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The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, PLAY Education is relying on the following lawful grounds to collect and process any personal data you may have provided:

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• Legitimate Business Interests: To provide you with information requested from us relating to our products or services and to provide information on other products which we feel may be of interest to you if you have consented to receive such information, which are legitimate business interests. To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service. If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.

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• Performance of Contract: To meet our contractual commitments to you and in performance of contractual obligations to you.

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• User Consent: We may use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, so that you can be provided with information about unrelated goods and services which we consider may be of interest to you. We or they may contact you about these goods and services by any of the methods that you consented to at the time your information was collected. If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third parties to contact you only when you have provided consent and only by those means you provided consent for. If you do not want us to use your data for ourselves or third-parties, you will have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this when you provide your details to us on the form on which we collect your data.​

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  6. Advertising, marketing and your communications preferences

 

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Tracking, Usage and Profile Data to form a picture of what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you and tell you about them. This is what we call direct marketing.

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We may carry out direct marketing by email, phone, text or post. For example, you might have an update or a cool promotion come into your inbox.

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On our website, we always try hard to make it really clear what we are doing and what communications you will be sent, whether it’s you deciding to sign up to receive future correspondence and promotions or as part of the purchase journey – and you have a right at any time to change your mind and say no thank you and opt out (but we’d be really sorry to see you go, so please gives us a chance by fine tuning your preferences before really leaving us!). The easiest way to opt out is to use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the communication.

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Tracking Data, and in particular cookies, help us to deliver website and social advertising that we believe is most relevant to you and to potential new customers of PLAY Education. Cookies can also tell us if you have been to a specific page on our website, and how long it has been since you have seen it. Cookies also help us understand if you’ve opened a marketing email because we don’t want to send you things you don’t read.

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If you want more information about Tracking Data, in particular cookies, see Cookies below.

Almost all the cookies that relate to advertising are part of third party online advertising networks. If you’d like to read about how you can control which adverts you see online, see opt-out programs established by the Digital Advertising Alliance (United States), the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance. We do not control cookies which are set by advertising networks.

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  7. Cookies

 

You can see from Advertising, marketing and your communications preferences above, that cookies are a tool which we (and everyone else who operates online) uses for advertising. That is just part of why cookies are used. Generally, they are pretty clever.

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Cookies help PLAY Education work better and provide lots of help in the background to make the process of being a PLAY Education customer a lot easier. You’d miss a lot of these things if they were gone – like it being easy to log in and move from page to page, and things staying in your cart while you go off and look at other pages.

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Other cookies collect information about how visitors use playeducation.ca, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and used to improve how PLAY Education works.

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There are also cookies that allow PLAY Education to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.

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There are cookies that collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising delivered to you more relevant to you and your interests (see Advertising, marketing and your communications preferences above). They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

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When you use playeducation.ca, your device or browser may be sent cookies from third parties, for example when using embedded content and social network links. It's important for you to know that we have no access to or control over cookies used by these companies or third-party websites. We suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

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You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

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  8. Disclosures of your personal data

 

We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated within this policy or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared.

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We will share your information in the following ways.

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• With third party service providers, agents, or contractors.  We use other companies, agents or contractors (“Service Providers”) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with providing services to you. For example, we may engage Service Providers to process credit card transactions or other payment methods.  Or, we may engage Service Providers to provide services such as marketing, advertising, communications, infrastructure and IT services, to provide customer service, to collect debts, and to analyze and enhance data (including data about users’ interactions with our service). These Service Providers may have access to your personal or other information in order to provide these functions. In addition, some of the information we request may be collected by third party providers on our behalf. We do not authorize them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services.

• Analytics: Specifically for analytics providers, we use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

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You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/  

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.​

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Please note at this time, we do not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “do not track” instructions.

We may work with Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie Google, as a third-party vendor, who would use cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.

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  9. Payment information

 

We may provide paid products and/or services within the site. When we do, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).  We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their own privacy notice. The payment processors we work with adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa and Mastercard. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

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The payment processors we work with currently are:

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• Square – Privacy Policy – GDPR

• Paypal – Privacy Policy

• To comply with legal process or to protect PLAY Education.  If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal or governmental request; to enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations thereof; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any person, or PLAY Education as required by law; or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address, security or technical issues or illegal or suspected illegal activities (including fraud).

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• Business Transfers. We may engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the information described in this Policy.  In such transitions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. In the unlikely event that we or substantially all of our assets are acquired or enter a court proceeding, you acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that your personal information can continue to be used as set forth in this privacy policy.

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  10. Data security

 

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

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In addition, we do not provide access to your personal data to employees, agents, contractors and other third parties. 

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We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

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  11. Third-party links

 

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications (for example, the ability to sign in with Facebook). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

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  12. Data retention

 

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

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We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

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  13. Your legal rights

 

If the General Data Protection Regulation applies to you because you are in the European Union, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

• The right to be informed – that’s an obligation on us to inform you how we use your personal data (and that’s what we’re doing that in this privacy policy);

• The right of access – that’s a right to make what’s known as a ‘data subject access request’ for copy of the personal data we hold about you;

• The right to rectification – that’s a right to make us correct personal data about you that may be incomplete or inaccurate;

• The right to erasure – that’s also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’ where in certain circumstances you can ask us to delete the personal data we have about you (unless there’s an overriding legal reason we need to keep it);

• The right to restrict processing – that’s a right for you in certain circumstances to ask us to suspend processing personal data;

• The right to data portability – that’s a right for you to ask us for a copy of your personal data in a common format (for example, a .csv file);

• The right to object – that’s a right for you to object to us processing your personal data (for example, if you object to us processing your data for direct marketing); and

• Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – that’s a right you have for us to be transparent about any profiling we do, or any automated decision making.

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We aim to take reasonable steps, so you can correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

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We outline your choices below:

• Email.  As described above, if you do not wish to receive promotional emails from us, you may opt out at any time using the unsubscribe link.  If you opt out of a promotional email, we may still send you transactional and administrative emails about this privacy notice or about the products or services you have purchased.

• Cookies.  Your browser’s help function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or to not receive cookies at any time.

• Advertising.  You can opt out of online targeted advertising by opting out within the advertisement itself or by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance, , the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada (http://youradchoices.ca/) or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe (http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/).  You can also opt out of the Digital Advertising Alliance using your mobile device settings.

• Your rights under certain circumstances.   To initiate any of these actions please contact us via email; tracy.playeducator@gmail.com, or by using the contact form on our website.

• Right to Lodge a Complaint.  For European Union residents, if you feel that our processing of your personal data infringes on data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.  You may do so in the EU member state where you habitually reside, your place of work or the location of the alleged infringement. If you are located outside of the European Union, you may have rights under privacy laws in the jurisdiction where you live.

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  14. How to contact PLAY Education about privacy

 

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or would like to exercise any of your rights, please email please contact us via email; tracy.playeducator@gmail.com, or by using the contact form on our website.

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  15. A little request from PLAY Education to you

 

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. You can do this by updating your account. Thank you.

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  16. Changes to this privacy policy

 

The General Data Protection Regulation is new and the ICO is still issuing new bits of guidance about how businesses should follow it. So, you may see little updates to our privacy policy over the coming months. Be sure to check in and have read every now and then. Thank you.