Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is for this website essential-aba-childcare.com and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

The DPA & GDPR May 2018

esSENtial ABA Childcare Ltd and this website comply with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and already comply to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into effect from May 2018. We will update this policy accordingly after the completion of the UK's exit from the European Union.

We have undertaken a companywide review of the information we hold, both personal and nonpersonal, any information that is unnecessary for us to keep has been destroyed. All computer systems that we use are compliant. We do not forward or sell any information. We will keep information for a maximum of 48 months.

Below you will find links to all current GDPR legislation that will assist you to know your rights under current guidance. Should you be unhappy with how your information is being used we request you contact us via email info@essential-aba-childcare.com addressing your concerns to Data Protection Officer.

Cookies

By using essential-aba-childcare.com, you consent to the usage of data captured using cookies. Cookies allow us to do multiple things to enhance and improve your browsing experience on our website. If you wish to turn off cookies, please adjust your browser settings. Our website will continue to function without cookies.

We use cookies to track visitors to our website; these details are in no way personal or identifiable details and will never be shared. Our cookies are for the sole purpose of improving the performance of our website for you, the user; this includes allowing us to geo-target our users, to make websites more personal and relevant to you. Below are the third-party tools we use:

Google Analytics

Page views, source and time spent on website are part of the user website activities information we can see with this cookie. This information cannot be tracked back to any individuals as it is displayed as depersonalised numbers; this is in order to help protect your privacy whilst using our website.

Using Google Analytics, we can take account of which content is popular, helping us to provide you with reading and viewing materials which you will enjoy and find useful in the future.

We use Google Analytics Remarketing cookies to display adverts on third party websites to our past site users, based on their past visits. The data we collect will only be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

Google AdWords

We use Google AdWords to see which pages led to our users submitting contact forms to us, which allows us to create a more effective marketing campaign and make better use of our paid search budget.

DoubleClick

We may use DoubleClick cookies and remarketing codes on our website to record user activity. The information we collect allows us to create targeted advertising in future work and across Google's network of partners.

Website Optimiser

Our website optimiser uses cookies to remember your search history. The information collected is anonymous and not personally identifiable and allows us to generate more relevant results for your searches in the future.

Downloads & Media Files

Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.

We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third-party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting us through this website, via email or by phone do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely unless requested otherwise. esSENtial ABA Childcare will not share your data with third parties.

Feedback

As part of our commitment to offering the best possible service for our customers, esSENtial ABA Childcare will seek reviews and feedback from them. To achieve this, we may use Trustpilot, Facebook, Google or another third party review website to facilitate the distribution of feedback request emails to customers and consolidate their replies. Customers may opt out from receiving further contact from any of these sources by clicking the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email, or by opting out of via their privacy policy.

External Website Links & Third Parties

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website or across our social media channels.

External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites.Shortened URL’s. URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Policy & Usage

We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.

Futher Information

Data Protection Act 1998
legislation.gov.uk

Overview of the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
ico.org.uk - GDPR

Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
ico.org.uk - PECR