This privacy policy applies to www.bloomtrigger.com or www.bloomtrigger.co.uk (Website). The Website is operated by Bloomtrigger CIC, a company incorporated under the laws of England whose registered office is at Yew Tree Farm, Bexton Lane, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA169BH, United Kingdom (Bloomtrigger) References to we, us or our in this privacy policy means Bloomtrigger CIC. Bloomtrigger comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. This regulates the processing of personal data relating to you and grants you various rights in respect of your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we will use the personal data you provide to us through the Website. Please read it carefully before you proceed. By using the Website or by registering your personal details with us, you signify your consent to us processing your personal data in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.
One thing is for certain: We will never, ever sell or share your information for commercial reasons and do our very best to protect the data you share with us. We collect information for two main reasons: to uniquely identify you as a user (using your email address) and to enable us to keep you updated with relevant news about ‘the bloomtrigger project’. All of this is set out in our privacy policy in more detail below.
1. Personal Information
In order to use certain features of the website, you will need to register. When registering you will be asked to provide an email address and password. You can also create a more detailed profile by optionally choosing to submit additional personal information, including your real name. All information that you provide on your profile page is published on the website and is available to be viewed by other users of the website. For purposes of this Policy, the terms "personal information" shall mean all information provided during your initial registration on the website, during your creation of a user profile, including, for example, your real name, e-mail address etc and all information you post on Bloomtrigger as part of your use of the site (for example comments that you might post). Bloomtrigger has no control over who views this information while it is available on the Website. You are advised to make nothing public that could put your security at risk. When you remove content that you have posted to Bloomtrigger and made public, you should be aware that other users may have saved, stored or cached this information, and that it may still be available to them.
2. Location-based, browser information and cookies
Bloomtrigger automatically collects certain location based and browser specific information when you visit our website through google analytics. This includes information such as browser type, IP address, pages accessed and length of visit. We also keep track of the domains from which people visit Bloomtrigger. We do not know a user's exact location unless you provide this information on your profile page. If you choose to include information about your city or country of residence when setting up your user profile, please be aware that such information may be available for viewing by other users of the website and to the general public.
We also use cookies to identify you as a valid user and to help personalise your Bloomtrigger experience in conjunction with your profile. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you.
3. Use of Personal Information
We use the email address provided by you on registration together with your password to identify you as a user of the site. We will also use your email address to contact you for security reasons and to keep you updated about Bloomtrigger. We will never send you notices on behalf of others to market their products and services or share your email address with any third parties for commercial reasons.
4. Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. You should never disclose your account password to unauthorised people. We use certain security measures to help keep your personal information safe, but we cannot guarantee that these measures will stop any users who try to get around the privacy or security settings on the website through unforeseen and/or illegal activity. Consequently, you acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal information may be accessed by unauthorised persons. In the event that we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised or could be at risk, we will seek to notify you, either by email or through other means of communication. You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification.
5. Comments / Communications With Other Users
We currently offer limited functionality to comment on content and other users on Bloomtrigger. In the future we may offer other interactive features. Please note that all personal information you display or communicate using such functionality becomes public information and we are not responsible for any information you choose to make public. We may, but have no obligation to, monitor such traffic via electronic software or otherwise in order to check for obscenity, defamation or abusive language, which we reserve the right to remove at any time. In addition, if you choose to personally communicate or meet with any other Bloomtrigger user by exchanging postal/email addresses, telephone numbers or otherwise via the interactive functionality of Bloomtrigger, you do so at your own risk. Bloomtrigger cannot be held responsible for any consequences, which flow from your decision to communicate or interact with other Bloomtrigger users in places or under circumstances that we do not control. We advise you to use extreme caution whenever you post information, submit or share a comment, socialise or interact with people whom you have met via the internet.
6. Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. Once you have used these links to leave our site, we have no control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy.
7. Data Protection
Bloomtrigger complies with the Act. Pursuant to the Act, you have the right to be informed of, and to have access to, all of the personally identifiable information we hold about you, and you may do so by visiting your user profile when logged-in to your account on the website, or by emailing us at: legal (at) bloomtrigger (dot) com. We may store information provided by you on our servers, which may be located in more than one single location or country.
8. Transfers of your Information
We may use third-party partners located outside of the European Economic Area in order to help operate our website, and we may share your information with those partners. Those might include but is not limited to database hosting companies and e-mail service providers. Bloomtrigger may in the future operate an 'open API' and web services program, which enables developers and other third parties to freely use statistics and data collected by Bloomtrigger to create programs and other interesting services which help develop the Bloomtrigger community. Our partners may be located in countries outside the EEA, including the United States. By continuing to use this Website, you consent to such transfers taking place.
9. Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent or guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to Bloomtrigger’s website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information. Only a school administrator or teacher can submit information about a user under 16 when creating a class profile. The only information required by Bloomtrigger is the child’s first name and the first initial of their surname, this is the minimum information required to enable usability of the website by users, while taking measures to protect the privacy of children under the age of 16.
10. Legally-Compelled Disclosures
We believe in privacy and therefore will take all reasonable measures to ensure that your personally identifiable information remains private. However, in the event that we are required to disclose personally identifiable information by a court, the police or other law enforcement bodies for their investigations, regulation or other governmental authority we will make such a disclosure without being in violation of this policy.
11. Changes to the Privacy Policy
If Bloomtrigger makes any changes to this Policy these changes will be detailed on this page in order to ensure that you are fully aware of what information is collected, how it is used and under what circumstances it will be disclosed. If you are concerned about how your information is collected, used or disclosed, you should periodically check back at this page. If you have any specific concerns not addressed in the Policy, please contact us using the feedback page on the website. If you decide that you do not want your personal information to be used in the way described in this Policy, you can send us a notice that you wish to withdraw your consent as set out above by emailing legal (at) bloomtrigger (dot) com. If you do not provide your consent, or if you withdraw your consent, you should not use the website as a registered user, since many of the website's features are based on users' consent and will therefore be unavailable to you.
12. Changes to our business
In the event that our business is sold or integrated with another business, your details will be disclosed to our advisors and any prospective purchaser’s advisors and will be passed to the new owners of the business.
13. Updating your information
You can review the personal information you provided to us and make any desired changes to the information you publish, or to the settings for your account at any time by logging in to your profile. Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed, We may, for a time, retain residual information about you in our backup database.
If you opted to receive emails or other communications from us at the time you registered on the Website but have subsequently changed your mind, you may opt-out by contacting us: Please email us at: unsubscribe (at) bloomtrigger (dot) com