Mixtures and Dissolving

Introduction

Contained here are the Terms and Conditions which you must read and agree to before registering for the Shalom Education Website. Please take a time to read and understand the Terms and Conditions before registering for the Shalom Education Website. Continued registration with Shalom Educationist deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions may change from time to time.

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Definitions

The following expressions are given the following meanings:
(a) “Booking” means tuition lessons that are scheduled using the Shalom Education Website.
(b) Contract” means the agreement between the Tutor and the Tutee for the Tutor to perform tuition services for the Tutee or the Tutee’s nominee.

(c) “Booking Tutor” means a Tutor who uses the Shalom Education Website to schedule tuition lessons and uses Shalom Education as an agent to collects payments on his behalf.

(d) “Complaint” means a claim by a Tutee that the service provided by a Tutor falls below the standards the tutee expected of a Booking Tutor.

(e) “Failed Payment” means an outstanding Lesson Fee, for which Shalom Education has been unable to make a successful charge against the payment details provided by the Tutee
(f) “Independent Tutor” means a person that has appropriate qualifications and experience to provide tuition services in the areas advertised by the Tutor on the Shalom Education Website, with the intention of entering into a Contract.

(g) “Lesson Fee” is the combined hourly fee of the Tutor fee and the Website Fee.

(h) “Members” means Tutors and Tutees.

(i) “Subscription” means packages that are sold on Shalom Education Website and incur a recurring charge.

(j) “Tutee” means a person that uses the Shalom Education Website with the intention of entering into a contractual relationship with a Tutor for the provision of tuition services by the Tutor to the Tutee or the Tutee’s parent/guardian.

(k) “Tutor” means a Booking Tutor and an Independent Tutor.

(l) “Tutor Fee” is the hourly rate of the Booking Tutor.

(m) “Shalom Education Website” means the website operated by Shalom Education.

(n) “Website Fee” is the hourly fee of Shalom Education Website.

In these Terms-
(a) words importing the singular shall include the plural and vice versa; and
(b) words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender and vice versa. General

General

All business undertaken by Shalom Education, a Tutor and/or a Tutee or his parent/guardian is transacted subject to these Terms. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and any other terms and conditions, these Terms shall prevail.

Obligations of Shalom Education and related provisions

The Shalom Education website https://www.shalom-education.com/ is an Ofsted-registered organisation that provides educational services to learners between the ages of 5 and 16. The Shalom Education Website also allows members to open a tutoring account, where they can check the timetable for upcoming lessons, see any homework that has been assigned, send in homework, message tutors and customer support, track their progress with progress reports, and access worksheets via the platform library.
Shalom Education will take precautions it considers appropriate to keep the details of a Tutor and Tutee secure but will not be liable for unauthorised access to the information provided by a Tutor and Tutee on the Shalom Education Website.
Shalom Education is not responsible for appraising information on the Shalom Education Website. Members should exercise complete caution. Despite prohibitions, Members may provide information or otherwise behave in a way that is unreliable, misleading or illegal. Further, Shalom Education can offer no guarantee that Members are who they say they are.
Tutor Duties

A Tutor warrants that –
(a) he/she is of at least eighteen years of age;

(b) he/she has the necessary qualifications and/or experience to provide tuition in the subjects specified by the Tutor on the Shalom Education Website;

(c) his/her profile and subject information provided on the Shalom Education Website is up to date, accurate and truthful; and

(d) he/she has the legal right to work in the UK on a self-employed basis.

A Tutor must disclose any criminal convictions or cautions they may have to Shalom Education, including any criminal convictions or cautions received at any time after having registered a tutor account on the Website and for as long as the Tutor remains registered.
A Tutor who contacts a Tutee who is under the age of 18 must ensure that the Tutee has consent from a parent or a guardian to provide tuition services to the Tutee.
A tutor takes full responsibility for all information that he provides on the Shalom Education Website and must indemnify Shalom Education in relation to any liability incurred by Shalom Education as a result of such information.
A Tutor shall indemnify Shalom Education for all claims and liabilities arising out of any use by the Tutor of the Shalom Education Website, including any associated costs and expenses incurred, whether direct or indirect.
A Tutor must contact a Tutee through the Shalom Education Website. Any other means of communication is prohibited.
A Tutor must not be in any way be abusive about a Tutee or his nominee on the Shalom Education Website or any other place.
A Tutor is not an employee of Shalom Education and accepts full responsibility for all Income Tax, National Insurance and other liabilities arising from the use of the Shalom Education Website.
All information provided by a Tutor on the Shalom Education Website must be accurate and kept up-to-date. This includes a correct name, address, telephone number and qualification/experience details. Details entered by the Tutor on the Shalom Education Website will be publicly visible and may appear in search engine results.
Use of the Shalom Education Website is entirely at a Tutor’s own risk. A Tutor must exercise complete caution when using the Shalom Education Website and entering into any agreements to provide tutoring services to a Tutee.
A Tutor must not complete on behalf of the Tutee any coursework, essays, or other assignments.
A Tutor must not request any upfront fees. A Tutor must only accept payment for a single lesson at a time, to be paid at the completion of that lesson.

Tutors – Additional Duties

A Tutor must book all lesson given to a Tutee found on Shalom Education website using the Shalom Education Website.
A Tutor must not make any agreement with either a Tutee or any member of the Tutee’s family or the Tutee’s guardian which is intended to circumvent the relationship between Shalom Education and the Tutee and to benefit the Booking Tutor at Shalom Education’s expense.
A Tutor must not, during the period of any tutorial engagement with a Tutee and for a period of 6 months from the conclusion of the tutorial engagement, give any tuition services to that Tutee. If a Booking Tutor does provide tuition services to a Tutee in breach of this clause the Booking Tutor must pay Shalom Education a penalty fee of £370.00.
A Tutor must not accept any payments directly from a Tutee.
Shalom Education has the right to withhold payments to tutors where we believe lessons are being booked outside the Shalom Education website. This may include tutors who have a very small number of booked lessons per student we have referred to them.
A Tutor must only make bookings for lessons in agreement with a Tutee.
If a Tutor makes a booking for a lesson which a Tutor fails to deliver to a standard expected by a Tutee and Shalom Education, the Tutor will be liable to refund the Tutee the entire Tutor Fee for the lesson.
A Tutor must allow at least 15 minutes from the scheduled start time of a lesson for the Tutee to attend the lesson. If a Tutor fails to do so, the Tutor will be liable to refund the Tutee the entire Tutor Fee for the lesson.
A Tutor may cancel a booking three hours before the scheduled start time of a lesson by informing the Tutee directly and cancelling the booking on the Shalom Education Website.
A Tutor must not take payment for a lesson that is cancelled by a Tutee more than 12 hours from the scheduled start time of the lesson.
A Tutor agrees to take no payment or a reduced 50% of the Tutor Fee for a lesson that is cancelled on the Shalom Education Website by a Tutee less than 12 hours before the scheduled start time of the lesson.
A Tutor has 48 hours to inform Shalom Education of his intention to dispute a Complaint. Should a Tutor not dispute a Complaint within 48 hours of being notified, the Lesson Fee will be refunded the Tutee and the Tutor Fee will not be paid to the Booking Tutor.
If the Complaint is disputed by a Tutor, Shalom Education reserve the right to hold the payment until the dispute is resolved. If a Booking Tutor cannot provide sufficient evidence against a Tutee’s claim, the Tutee will be refunded the entire Lesson Fee and the Booking Tutor will not be paid the Tutor fee.
Shalom Education will not be liable to the Booking Tutor for any loss of earnings resulting from any failed payment. Shalom Education reserves the right to pay a Booking Tutor, as a gesture of goodwill, an amount equal to the Tutor Fee for any Lessons for which there has been a Failed Payment. This right is entirely at the discretion of Shalom Education.

Tutee Duties

A Tutee who is under 18 years of age must have consent from a parent or a guardian to register and that parent or guardian must enter into any agreement with a Tutor to provide tuition services. It is the responsibility of that parent/guardian to check the credentials of the Tutor. Shalom Education is not responsible for any disputes regarding parental consent or any problems that a Tutee or a parent/guardian has experienced with a Tutor.
A Tutee, or where relevant their parent/guardian, is responsible for verifying the credentials, expertise, references, CRB checks and qualifications of any Tutor with whom he enters into or proposes to enter into a contract. Shalom Education does not offer any guarantee that any information provided on the Shalom Education Website is accurate and correct.
A Tutee, or where relevant their parent/guardian, accepts that his Contract for tuition services is with the Tutor. Shalom Education is not a party to such a Contract and is not responsible for the performance of any obligations agreed or impliedly agreed through actions between the Tutor and Tutee.
A Tutee must contact a Tutor through the Shalom Education Website. Any other means of communication is prohibited.
A Tutee agrees not to use Shalom Education to advertise, promote or search for tuition services for their own company, nor may an agency acting for a company register to promote their services or opportunities. Tuition agencies wanting to promote their service on Shalom Education should contact us.
A Tutee cannot act as an agent to promote the services or opportunities of a company.
A Tutee must not publish any abusive comments about a Tutor or a Tutee on the Shalom Education Website or any other place. This includes defamatory or derogatory comments.
Shalom Education is not responsible for examination entry; this is the sole responsibility of the Tutee.
A Tutee must not pay the Tutor for lessons in advance. Shalom Education is not liable for any financial loss that may occur as a result.
A Tutee must not request a tutor to complete coursework, essays, or other assignments for them.
To confirm the first lesson with a Tutor, a Tutee must enter, or have already entered, valid payment details on Shalom Education Website.
When a Booking is made more than 24 hours in advance of the start time of the first lesson with a new Booking Tutor, a Tutee has up to 12 hours before the first lesson is due to commence to confirm the Booking.
When a Booking is made within 24 hours of the start time of the first lesson with a new Booking Tutor, a Tutee has up to 2 hours before the first lesson is due to commence to confirm the Booking.
A Tutee agrees not to make any agreement or arrangement with a Booking Tutor which is intended to circumvent the relationship between Shalom Education and a Booking Tutor. Also, the Tutee agrees that during the period of any tutorial engagement and for the period of 6 months’ from the conclusion of the tutorial engagement the tutee will not book lessons directly with the Tutor.
By confirming the first lesson with a Booking Tutor, the Tutee authorises the Booking Tutor and Shalom Education to make further Bookings on their behalf and authorises Shalom Education to take the entire Lesson Fee from the payment details provided. Further Bookings made by Shalom Education on behalf of a Tutee after the first lesson will be confirmed automatically.
A Tutee authorises Shalom Education to charge his credit/debit card 24 hours after the scheduled end time of each lesson for the entire Lesson Fee for the relevant Booking.
When a Booking is confirmed, a Tutee enters directly into a contract with the Tutor for the provision of lessons and Shalom Education accepts no liability in relation to the Booking Tutor’s provision of lessons.
When a confirmed Booking exists, a Tutee must ensure that he has a valid debit/credit card registered on Shalom Education Website, with sufficient funds to cover the Booking.
A Tutee must ensure that he has given enough information to the Booking Tutor, including his correct address, to allow the lesson to take place. If a lesson is to take place at the Tutee’s home, the Tutee must ensure a suitable setting for the lesson.
A Tutee must use his own judgement about the services of Booking Tutors detailed on the Website. Tutees are responsible for checking the credentials, expertise, references, qualifications and insurance policies of any Booking Tutor with whom they confirm a Booking.
A Tutee is responsible for checking that Bookings made by a Tutor or Shalom Education on their behalf are done so correctly and understand they will be informed of these lessons by Shalom Education via email.
If a Tutee cancels a lesson less than 12 hours before the lesson is due to commence, payment may be taken less than 24 hours after the lesson is due to end.
If a lesson does not take place because a Tutee does not attend, or if the Tutee cancels the lesson with less than two hours’ notice, the Tutee will be charged the full Lesson Fee.
A Tutee may cancel a lesson at any point before the scheduled start time of the lesson. Cancellations made more than 12 hours before a lesson is due to commence will incur no charge. Bookings cancelled by a Tutee less than 12 hours before a lesson is due to commence will incur a charge of 50% of the Lesson Fee. However, if a Tutee cancels a lesson less than 2 hours before the scheduled start time of a lesson the full Lesson Fee must be paid.
A Tutee must cancel a lesson by cancelling the relevant Lesson on the Shalom Education Website. Cancellations made outside Shalom Education Website may result in a full Lesson Fee being charged to the Tutee.
55a. I understand that, if I confirm a booking with a tutor, and then all (or all but one) lesson(s) are subsequently cancelled, I may be charged an administration’s fee of £25.99. This charge is at the sole discretion of Shalom Education and I understand I may be charged without notice after receiving my tutor’s contact details.

A Tutee should inform Shalom Education of a Complaint by either phone or email within 48 hours of the scheduled finish time of the relevant lesson. The Tutee will be charged the entire Lesson fee and Shalom Education will hold the payment until the dispute is resolved.
In the case of a Failed Payment still being outstanding 48 hours after the scheduled end of the relevant lesson the Tutee authorises Shalom Education to automatically retry the charge.
If a Tutee has an outstanding Failed Payment for over 48 hours then all future lessons will be cancelled.
Shalom Education may continue to seek payment to cover Failed Payments from the Tutee for ninety days following the scheduled end of the relevant Lesson, by contacting the Tutee by email, SMS and Phone.
A Tutee accepts that Shalom Education reserves the right to pass bad debts for the entire lesson to third party debt collection service and acknowledge that their credit rating may be affected.
Member Duties

Members must not use the Shalom Education Website for illegal, unlawful or prohibited purposes. This includes sending or posting junk e-mail or spam, publishing misleading, defamatory, indecent, obscene or advertising material, or send viruses and worms.
Members must not impersonate any other person or entity or use a false name or a name that they have no authority to use.
Members must not post material to the Shalom Education Website in which the copyright or intellectual property is or may be the property of another person or body.
Members agree to manage their Subscription charges using Shalom Education Website. If a member cancels their subscription, they will not receive a refund of any fees already paid.
Shalom Education reserve the right to accept or refuse subscriptions. Members must not transfer or assign their subscription or any other Plan to another account.
A member authorises Shalom Education to charge his credit/debit card for Subscription charges on the subscription renewal date.

Liability, Indemnity and other provisions

Shalom Education has no control over or responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any material available on the Shalom Education Website, whether provided by Members or others. Third-party websites may appear on the Shalom Education Website. Shalom Education does not endorse or have any responsibility for the site in question or anything which appears on it.
Shalom Education is not and cannot be responsible for the behaviour of Members, whether on the Shalom Education Website or outside of it. Shalom Education is an OFSTED-registered tutoring agency that provides high-quality tutoring to students between the ages of 5 and 16. Shalom Education does not pre-screen or monitor the material contributed by Members.
Shalom Education is not liable for direct, indirect consequential or any other form of loss or damage that may be suffered by a Member through the use of the Shalom Education Website including loss of data or information or any kind of financial or physical loss or damage.
Members agree to indemnify Shalom Education against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of these Terms and Conditions or through use of the Shalom Education Website.
Shalom Education does not guarantee that a Tutor will be secured to meet the Tutee’s needs.
Shalom Education is not responsible for any grade received by a Tutee or any consequence that examination grades entail.

Intellectual Property

The code, brand and intellectual property of the Shalom Education Website cannot be reused without consent. All copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in and relating to the Shalom Education Website (including the material which is contributed by Members) are owned by Shalom Education. It is prohibited to copy, distribute, show in public or create any derivative work from the Shalom Education Website, or any of the material which is found on the Shalom Education Website without the consent of Shalom Education Please see our Copyright Notice, which forms part of these Terms and Conditions.
By submitting any material to the content to the Shalom Education Website, you:
(a) are representing that you are fully entitled to do so;
(b) grant Shalom Education a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material in any form and any place; and

(c) authorise Shalom Education to adapt the relevant material and you waive the right to be identified as the author of the material in question.

Miscellaneous provisions

Shalom Education reserves the right to withdraw or modify aspects of the Shalom Education Website, or the entirety of it.
Shalom Education reserves the right to suspend or terminate a Member’s access to the Shalom Education Website, or parts of it. Shalom Education reserves the right to remove or require the Member to remove, material posted on the Shalom Education Website. Any person whose access has been suspended or terminated must not re-register for, or re-access, the Shalom Education Website without prior consent from Tutor Hunt.
The open-access nature of the Shalom Education Website means that Shalom Education cannot prevent determined people whose Membership has been suspended or terminated from re-accessing or re-registering as Members, in breach of their obligations under these Terms.
Shalom Education reserves the right to withdraw any material on the Shalom Education Website which appears, whether based on information received from Members or others or our own determination, to be capable of breaching any part of these Terms and Conditions or to bring the Shalom Education Website into disrepute. Shalom Education does not generally monitor material which appears on the Shalom Education Website and Shalom Education is not liable for breach these Terms and Conditions on our website.
Shalom Education may, at their sole discretion, vary the features of the Shalom Education Website and the Terms of use at any time.
Shalom Education may restrict access to the Shalom Education Website for any period and if necessary permanently at the sole discretion of Shalom Education Members shall not be entitled to any reimbursement of any fees or expenses incurred as a result of such restriction or for any inconvenience caused.
Shalom Education may monitor postings to the Shalom Education Website and communications through the Shalom Education Website and have the right to delete and/or block such postings or communications at their sole discretion.
Shalom Education give no guarantee that the Shalom Education Website is free of viruses’ worms or any other form of harmful components.
Shalom Education may contact its members by the details we have stored on their account, this could include by email and phone.
Shalom Education may use data for statistical analysis and may provide this to interested third parties.
Privacy Policy (which can be found on the Shalom Education home page). Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms and Conditions, and by agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you also give your consent to the way we may handle your personal data as detailed in that policy. Given the global nature of the World Wide Web, any posting on the Shalom Education Website (including any which contain personal information) is, of course, accessible to internet users around the world.
Entire Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions include Privacy Policy and copyright notice. Non-Members do not have a right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any term of these Terms and Conditions.
91. Severability. In the event that any term of these Terms and Conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of these Terms and Conditions shall remain valid and enforceable.
English Law and the jurisdiction of English Courts applies to these terms.

Privacy Policy

It is our – Shalom Education’s (https://www.shalom-education.com) policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website and/or services. This Privacy Policy applies to us, our service and our website (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, https://www.shalom-education.com or “Shalom Education”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website (either electronically, on paper or other means available to you). We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected from you when using our service, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website and services.

At Shalom Education Tuition Centre, tutors and staff may come in contact with or use confidential information about the learners and other employees. All of the personal data we collect from our customers is securely stored and will only be used to communicate with clients about the services we provide. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us. We have ensured that our policy complies with required Data Protection laws such as the Data Protection Act 2018 (Act) accordingly incorporating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared.

Acceptance of privacy policy

By accessing and using https://www.shalom-education.com and/or choosing to use our service, you agree that you have read, understood and accept all the contents of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you should immediately discontinue access or use of the site and our Services.

Data management

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you depending on your use of our website and the service you have selected or provide (as applicable). We have collated these into groups as follows:

Learners and Parents

Your identity includes information such as first name, last name, title, date of Birth (DOB), nationality/ethnicity, sex, and other identifiers that you may have provided at some time.
Your contact information includes information such as email address, postal address, telephone numbers, and any other information you have given to us for communication.
Technical data includes your internet protocol (IP) address, 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.
Transaction data includes details about payments or communications to and from you and information about the services you have purchased from us.
Your profile includes information such as your username and password, your interests, preferences, any special educational needs, the learner’s school year and report, and feedback and survey responses. Please note that if you choose a username that includes or reveals your name or any other personal information, this will be publicly available on when you comment/review on our website.
Marketing data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us; communication preferences; responses and actions in relation to your website and information provided on it.
Your profile includes information such as your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, and feedback and survey responses.
Booking history including booking requests, subjects booked, set-up test while using our digital resources, any online meeting and recordings of your bookings
Electronic recordings from CCTV, tutoring session, video conference calls, communication history with other users, your interaction with Shalom Education Tutors, records of referral codes shared, redeemed and any promotions that have been applied to your account. All photo’s, videos and conference recordings may be used to protect learner’s, Tutors and employees and may be used as evidence to support any complaint.
Tutors and Employees

Your identity includes information such as first name, last name, title, date of Birth (DOB), nationality/ethnicity, sex, and other identifiers that you may have provided at some time.
Your contact information includes information such as email address, postal address, telephone numbers, and any other information you have given to us for communication.
Technical data includes your internet protocol (IP) address, 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.
Transaction data includes details about payments (including National Insurance Number), references, DBS Verification and communications to and from you and information about the services you have purchased from us.
Your profile includes information such as your username and password, interview bookings and meetings, interactions with other users etc.
Electronic recordings from CCTV, tutoring session, video conference calls, communication history with other users, your interaction with Shalom Education Tutors, records of referral codes shared, redeemed and any promotions that have been applied to your account. All photo’s, videos and conference recordings may be used to protect learner’s, Tutors and employees and may be used as evidence to support any complaint.
Any other information relevant to your role as a tutor on our website.
We employ for advertisement may collect when you view our ads on either our platforms or third-party platforms (e.g., IP address, referrer, browser information, request timestamp, etc.). We would like to refer you to the privacy policy of these third-party websites so that you are aware of what information may be collected and how to opt-out.

Information we process because we have a contractual obligation with you

When you create an account on our website or use our services, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a contract is formed between you and us.

In order to carry out our obligations under that contract, we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal information.

We may use it in order to:

verify your identity for security purposes
provide you with our services and ensure the effective use of our service
provide you with suggestions, updates and advice on the services provided and how to obtain the most from using our website.
We process this information on the basis there is a contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before we enter into a legal contract.

We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract or where you stop using our website for a consecutive 6 months period. If you would like us to destroy information, we hold about you, please let us know by contacting us on the contact information provided on our website or email us on complaint@shalom-education.com or call 0303 123 1113 or 01625545745. However, please note that if you use any of our services which require you to provide personal information, deleting our records may mean that you will need to resubmit it to continue using such services.

How we use your data

To effectively provide you with our services, we collect and process the information you give us. We use this information in the following ways:

To maintain and ensure easy access to our website. Your Username or email address and password are required to identify you when you log in to the website. We also keep a track of the devices you use from time to time. This is to ensure that you control the devices that have access to your profile.
Monitor and develop the learner’s academic performance.
To enable access to our site, social media platforms and to create an account.
Enable payments.
Enable communications between users.
To monitor and prevent inappropriate behaviour, spam and fraud.
To develop and test new features, conduct surveys, analyse existing data to evaluate and improve our services and perform checks and troubleshooting.
To improve our service and to ensure that our users have the best possible experience and to effectively safeguard the terms of use between us and the users.
We may use your data for other purposes not stated herein this Privacy Policy. We shall endeavour to notify you of any such purpose from time to time. We shall only use your data for any purpose herein or as might be communicated to you at a later date with your express consent.

Disclosure of information

Shalom Education may disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on the Shalom Education’s behalf or to the provide services (the information) available on our website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using our website or service, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Shalom Education will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described earlier, Shalom Education may also disclose potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Shalom Education believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Shalom Education, its users, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a user of our website (https://www.shalom-education.com) and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, newsletter, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Shalom Education. We shall keep this type of email to a minimum.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Shalom Education takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.

Learners or parents/legal guardians understand that to provide services to them, some personally identifiable information will need to be shared with the Tutors. Leaners or Parents/legal guardians hereby grant us the right to share such information with tutors they have purchased from. We acknowledge that you have only provided this information for the sole purpose of delivering our services to you. We shall therefore ensure they are kept confidential.

Information we process with your consent

Through certain actions when otherwise there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you more information about our website, materials on it or our service, you provide your consent to process information that may be personal. Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information. If you have given us explicit permission to do so, we may from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful. We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists. You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us at our website (simply email complaint@shalom-education.com or call 0303 123 1113 or 01625545745). However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our website or certain information provided on it.

Information relating to your method of payment

We store information about your debit or credit card or other means of payment when you first provide it to us or when you sign up for our service. We store this payment information [at your request] in order to make repeat purchasing of services easier next time you visit our website.

[We also store it to help us prevent fraud.]

We take the following measures to protect your payment information:

We keep your payment information encrypted on our servers.
We do not keep all your payment information so as:
to prevent the possibility of our duplicating a transaction without a new instruction from you;
to prevent any other third party from carrying out a transaction without your consent
Access to your payment information is restricted to authorised staff only.
If we ask you questions about your payment information, we only show [partial detail OR the first four OR the last four digits of the debit or credit card number], so that you can identify the means of payment to which we refer.
We delete your payment information upon your request or when a credit or debit card expires.

In some cases, at the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the website or some other reputable payment service provider. That page may be branded to look like a page on our website, but it is not controlled by us.

opt Out

We offer you choices when we ask for personal information, whenever reasonably possible. Shalom Education provides you with the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes. You may decline to provide personal information to us, although some of our features or services may not function properly as a result. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of this by contacting us on the contact information provided on our website or contact our data protection representative officer on complaint@shalom-education.com. By providing information to Shalom Education, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of such personal information in the manner described in this privacy policy.

Other rights offered to you under the Data Protection Act regarding any information provided to us include;

The right to ask us to rectify any information you think is inaccurate. You can visit your member profile, where you are able to view and amend your details online (you will need your login details), You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
The right to ask Shalom Education Tuition to erase the personal information that we hold about you. Please note that we may be required under the law to retain some information.
The right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information or personal data e.g. using your video or photos for marketing. Please note that we may be required under the law to process some information you provide to us.
The right to ask us to transfer your data to another organisation, or you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Shalom Education may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Shalom Education’s sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Links to External Sites

Our website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites, products or services.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Internet Cookies

We use cookies on this website to provide you with better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device/computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, refer you to a third-party website. Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website. We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies and control which cookies are saved to your device/computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options. Shalom Education uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Our visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of the Site may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to our use of cookies.

Breach of “Privacy”

Users have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against us if we fail to adhere to the privacy laws. Privacy laws under this agreement shall include reasonable privacy laws acceptable and used in commercial businesses. These laws require not only that users have enforceable rights against us, but also that users have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by Shalom Education.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about our company’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer on complaint@shalom-education.com or simply call our helpline: 0303 123 1113 or 01625545745. Alternatively, you can send a letter to our postal address at 86 London Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 9DW, United Kingdom. Furthermore, if you are unhappy with how we have used your data, you can also send a complaint to the UK ICO supervisory authority with the details below:

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF