Privacy Policy in Brief
Blueberry Institute is committed to protecting your privacy and has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website at URL: www.blueberryinstitute.com.
Blueberry Institute does not disclose visitors’ information to third parties.
Any information that you provide us with, whether it be business or personal information (such as your name or address), cannot be seen by third parties.
This site may at times contain links to other, third party websites; Blueberry Institute is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
This privacy statement is not presented as a legally binding contract.
Blueberry Institute will comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU May 25th 2018)
Privacy Policy in Detail
Information We Collect and Use
There are sections in our website where we may ask you to register in order to gain access to high value documents, or to be able to download various items, or to make contact with Blueberry Institute. Any information you provide will remain the secured property of Blueberry Institute. Under no circumstances will it be sold or rented to any third party or provided to any Third Parties for marketing purposes.
Blueberry Institute may, however, use your supplied contact information to send you any information you have requested or any other information or news about our company and services. You are able to opt out of receiving communication from the company at any time. Your details maybe used in an aggregated form for marketing analysis of our website traffic.
Blueberry Institute collects this data during the usage of this website. Some of that data may be Personally Identifiable Information. This may be entered into web forms or provided to the website by the browser (such as IP address).
In addition to any personal information you may provide, Blueberry Institute may, on occasion use software or other tools that enable the collection of relevant technical information, for example the IP address (Internet protocol) (IP), the operating system deployed on your computer, the browser used for access, various traffic patterns, as well as the address of any referring websites. Blueberry Institute always traces how a visitor arrives at the Blueberry Institute website, however we will not attempt to gather information from websites that you have visited prior to visiting the Blueberry Institute website.
Blueberry Institute works with some Third Parties to provide our service.
In all cases there is either an explicit contract in place between Blueberry Institute and the Third Party, Terms and Conditions or another legally binding relationship.
The data will likely be shared with: WP WebWorks– our website host/provider.
The data is also rarely shared with the following:
- Mobile phones – our staff may enter your contact number into their phones for the purpose of a meeting.
- Mail services – our staff may enter your email into their mail service for the purpose of a meeting.
Blueberry Institute may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To enable you to use the site without repeatedly entering passwords or logins.
- To provide information or services that you have requested.
To help us manage our content to ensure it is relevant and appropriate to you.
To alert you to company news, product upgrades, other updated information and new products and services from Blueberry Institute.
Hyperlinks to Other Websites:
- Blueberry Institute may provide links on our site that direct to external, third party websites.
- We have no control over the content other sites, nor the usage of information they gather.
- We recommend that you always review the privacy policies at any third party sites you visit; they may not follow the same policies as us.
Opting Out:
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options to discontinue receiving future communications by any of the following means:
- Send an e-mail to our client services team hello@blueberryinstitute.com indicating your request to be unsubscribed from a specific list.
- In writing to: PO Box 464, ALEXANDRIA NSW 1435
Our Use of Cookies
The Blueberry Institute website cookie
The Blueberry Institute website uses a “session cookie” to identify your browser “session” as you move between pages on the website and perform activities.
The website cookie allows our website to recognise each subsequent request from your browser as being the same browser that made the initial request to our website.
By knowing that each subsequent request is related to the first, our website is able to track your actions as you move around the website and to provide interactive features. By analysing how our website is being used in general, we can improve the website experience for future visitors. Should you experience any problems in using our website, our website developers may be able to use this information to track down your specific “user journey” and investigate and fix any issues that might arise.
The cookie itself is a very small text file that is stored on your device (for example, your PC or your phone) by your web browser. It contains a simple text code that your browser sends back to our website each time you browse to a new page. This allows the website to look up your specific session and associate data for that session with your browser. The data itself is not stored in your cookie but on the server(s) operating the website.
Each page on our website is generated by a sophisticated Content Management System (CMS). This system provides a number of interactive features where your experience may be tailored according to your past activity on the website. Such features require the “session cookie” to operate.
- The session cookie provides the ability for you to log on to our website using your unique user name (or e-mail address) and password.
- Each page on our website may be tailored to you uniquely, based on your past activity on the website, for example to show your name.
- The session cookie provides the means to remember your log on state and hence your discussion forum preferences, such as your nickname and the date of your last post.
- The session cookie provides the means for you to take part in votes (or polls) on the website.
- The session cookie provides the means to remember that you have submitted a form so that you are not asked to re-submit it.
- The session cookie provides the means to remember which files you have requested to be sent to you by email and the date and time at which such requests were made.
- The session cookie provides the means to remember whether you have ‘liked’ our Facebook page.
- As we improve our website over time, similar and more advanced features may be added that also require a “session cookie” to operate.
Third Party Cookies
Blueberry Institute can largely operate without the use of third party cookies. However, in many cases third party cookies improve the website experience.
Blueberry Institute will not add social sharing buttons to the page unless the Data Subject has opted in to social cookies.
Blueberry Institute will not include any tracking systems unless the Data Subject has opted in to tracking cookies.
Blueberry Institute will allow Google Analytics to operate on this website in order to provide necessary anonymous analytical data. This may result in a small amount of Personally Identifiable Information being collected but this is only used as statistics and not for identification purposes.
Google Analytics
The Blueberry Institute website uses cookies to allow Google Analytics to function correctly. Google Analytics is a free web analytics tools that helps us understand how visitors engage with the Blueberry Institute website. These cookies have names that begin with __utm such as __utma and __utmz.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously; it reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. The cookies store information such as the number of visits to the website and what site referred the visitor to the web page. We use the information to view reports about how visitors interact with the website and to help us improve the website. A different set of cookies is used for each website, and visitors are not tracked across multiple sites.
Information about these cookies and how to reject or delete them: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html and http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ads/#toc-analytics.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Google’s privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
How to control and delete cookies
You may restrict or block the cookies which are set by the Blueberry Institute website, or any other website, through your browser settings.
To find out more about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Blueberry Institute website.
Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies)
The Blueberry Institute website uses Adobe Flash Player to provide video content. Local Shared Objects (commonly known as Flash Cookies) may be used to improve user experience, for example to save your playback preferences. Flash Cookies are similar to cookies, however they are managed differently.
How to disable Flash Cookies:
Information on how to disable and delete Flash Cookies is provided on the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/security.
Your experience of the Blueberry Institute website may be affected if you restrict the use of Flash Cookies.
Data Security and Storage
Blueberry Institute will store data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was obtained. Some data may be held for longer if it is either held on other systems that have not been updated, in backup data that has not expired or because of another lawful basis.
Blueberry Institute takes security seriously and makes use of technology where feasible to secure data and protect against breaches.
Personal data protection principles
We adhere to the principles relating to processing of Personal Data set out in the GDPR (as follows) which require Personal Data to be:
(a) processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner (Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency)
(b) collected only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes (Purpose Limitation)
(c) adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which it is processed (Data Minimisation)
(d) accurate and where necessary kept up to date (Accuracy)
(e) not kept in a form which permits identification of Data Subjects for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data is processed (Storage Limitation)
(f) processed in a manner that ensures its security using appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage (Security, Integrity and Confidentiality)
(g) not transferred to another country without appropriate safeguards being in place (Transfer Limitation)
(h) made available to Data Subjects and Data Subjects allowed to exercise certain rights in relation to their Personal Data (Data Subject’s Rights and Requests).
Data Subject’s rights and requests
Data Subjects have rights when it comes to how Blueberry Institute handles their Personal Data. These include rights to:
(a) withdraw consent to processing at any time
(b) receive certain information about the Data Controller’s Processing activities
(c) request access to their personal data that we hold
(d) prevent our use of their personal data for direct marketing purposes
(e) ask us to erase personal data if it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed or to rectify inaccurate data or to complete incomplete data
(f) restrict processing in specific circumstances
(g) challenge processing which has been justified on the basis of our legitimate interests or in the public interest
(h) object to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling (ADM)
(i) prevent processing that is likely to cause damage or distress to the Data Subject or anyone else
(j) be notified of a personal data breach which is likely to result in high risk to their rights and freedoms
(k) make a complaint to the supervisory authority
(l) receive or ask for their personal data to be transferred to a third party in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
Updates to our Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice will be reviewed regularly and this page will be updated with changes.
Contacting the Data Protection Officer (DPO)
If you have any concerns about how Personally Identifiable Information is used by Blueberry Institute please contact the Data Protection Officer: hello@blueberryinstitute.com