A. Privacy policy – website

juniorchemistrychallenge.com (“this site”) is operated by Andrew North. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information (“personal data”).

This policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to in it) describes how we collect and use your personal data during your use of our site for the purpose of administering the Junior Chemistry Challenge competition (“the competition”), in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and associated data protection legislation.

B. Who is using your personal data

Andrew North is the “data controller” for the information that you provide to us when visiting this website. This means that we decide how to use it and are responsible for looking after it in accordance with the GDPR.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We may update this policy at any time.

By visiting our site you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.​

C. Glossary

Where we refer in this policy to your “personal data”, we mean any recorded information that is about you and from which you can be identified. It does not include data where your identity has been removed (anonymous data).

Where we refer to the ‘processing’ of your personal data, we mean anything that we do with that information, including collection, use, storage, disclosure or retention.

D. Types of data we collect

This site will require teachers who wish to register to give their name, email, school, and role in school. We will collect the vast majority of data about you when you provide that information to us, for example when you register for the competition, correspond with us by the website, phone, e-mail or otherwise enter the competition/challenge, and when you report a problem with our site.

When you visit our sites we may also automatically collect technical information about your visit from your computer, for example, the type of device (and its unique device identifier) you use to access our site, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, mobile network information and platform.

E. How we use your data

We process your data for one or more of the following reasons – only as necessary for us to meet our obligations to you or to take steps requested by you for the purpose of your participation in the Junior Chemistry Challenge, and because it is necessary for our legitimate interest, these being known as our legal bases for processing:

• to administer the Junior Chemistry Challenge, including scoring the competition and awarding certificates and prizes,
• to operate this website and to ensure that we understand how our site is used and to improve our website and ensure it is secure.

Name and school information provided to us will be used only for the purposes of the competition.

We do not send you marketing or other types of communication by email except where you have specifically indicated that you consent to receive such communications by email request or by signing up on our main competition website. You can withdraw your consent with respect to such marketing at any time by contacting us per the contact details provided below, by replying to such emails, or contacting us by the website.

We will only use your data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless otherwise required or permitted by law.

F. Sharing your data with third parties

We may share your data with third parties who provide services on our behalf, including without limitation Formspree, Inc. All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your data in line with our policies. We do not allow them to use your data for their own purposes. We permit them to process your data only for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

The databases used for the administration of the student data, teacher data and the administration of the competition are stored on secure distributed servers in the UK.

We may also share your personal data with third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our site terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our site, our users, and others.

Where your data is shared with third parties, we will seek to share the minimum amount necessary.

G. Where we store or use your data

We may store data collected by the website manually or electronically. The data is stored on our secure servers and/or in accordance with Section F above.

There may be occasions when we transfer your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), for example, when we communicate with you using a cloud based service provider that operates outside the EEA such as Formspree. Such transfers will only take place if one of the following applies:

the country receiving the data is considered by the EU to provide an adequate level of data protection;

the transfer is governed by approved contractual clauses;

the transfer has your consent;

the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps requested by you prior to entering into that contract; or

the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract with another person, which is in your interests.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to the website and any transmission is at your own risk.

H. Third party websites

Our site may contain links to and from various third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.​

I. Retaining your data

We will only retain your data for as long as we need it to fulfil our purposes, including any relating to legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Personal information relating to students will remain in the competition database until after the students’ data has been collected. This is to issue certificates and prizes. Thereafter, all such information will be anonymised.

Contact information for teachers may be retained to facilitate communication about future competitions.

Requests to have student or teacher data removed at any point should be communicated to andrew@juniorchemistrychallenge.com, the competition coordinator.

J. Cookies

Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Our website https://juniorchemistrychallenge.com use only cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of the service, e.g. to keep track of user sessions. By using this site you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

K. Changes to this policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

L. Your rights

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

Request access to your data (commonly known as a “subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of your data and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of your data. This enables you to ask us to correct any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you.

Request erasure of your data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove your data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

Object to processing of your data where we are relying on our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your data for direct marketing purposes.

Request the restriction of processing of your data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your data, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

Request the transfer of your data to another party.

Depending on the circumstances and the nature of your request, it may not be possible for us to do what you have asked, for example, where there is a statutory or contractual requirement for us to process your data and it would not be possible to fulfil our legal obligations if we were to stop. However, where you have consented to the processing (for example, where you have asked us to contact you for marketing purposes) you can withdraw your consent at any time. In this event, we will stop the processing as soon as we can. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your withdrawal of consent and you may no longer be able to use the site in the same way as you did before.

M. Contact

If you want to exercise any of the rights described above or wish to raise any queries or concerns in relation to our processing of your personal data, please contact either or both of the following:

Andrew North
c/o The Perse School
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 8QF

Email: andrew@juniorchemistrychallenge.com

We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR. Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues which you raise.

If you remain dissatisfied, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.