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Sustainable Design Academy

Privacy Policy

Introduction

At the Sustainable Design Academy, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data while visiting and using our website.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in SDAcademy website. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

What We Collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information. 

If you contact us directly, we will receive information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. 

When you register for an Account or make a purchase, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

Cookies

Click here to view our Cookies Policy.

Third Party Marketing

We do not share any personal data with third parties under any circumstances.

GDPR

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. 


If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

WooCommerce

This website uses WooCommerce to process and manage sales. While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping / billing address: this is required to process your order.
  • We’ll also use cookies to keep track of basket contents while you’re browsing our site.
 

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to: Send you information about your account and order Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints Process payments and prevent fraud Set up your account for our store Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes Improve our store offerings Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses. We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

  • Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds and support you.

Stripe Payments

Payments on this website are managed using Stripe. To read Stripe’s Privacy Policy, please click here.

How Long We Keep Your Data

Your data will remain on our system until you manually delete your account.

Contact Us

If you would like to speak to us about your data, or this policy, please contact us.