Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 2024

The Shoot Academy (TSA) - Privacy Policy

The Shoot Academy ("Company", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of www.theshootacademy.com (the “Website”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Website, whether as a guest or a registered user.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

1. Information We Collect About You

1.1 Information You Provide to Us. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website.

1.2 Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology. As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies, including Google Analytics, to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This may include information about your location, traffic patterns through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. We may collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.

The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and does not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.

1.3 International Data Transfers: By using our Website and providing us with your information, you acknowledge and agree that your information may be processed and stored in countries outside of your country of residence, including the United Kingdom, where data protection laws may be different. We take steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, regardless of where it is processed.

 

2. How We Use Your Information

2.1 We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.

2.2 The information submitted at the time of submission will be used by the Company only as necessary for our legitimate business interests, including without limitation the improvement of our products, services, and the contents of the Website. We may also share such information with our business and promotional partners to further those interests.

2.3 We do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action, except as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

2.4 We may use the information you provide to us to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.

 

3. Cookies and Tracking technologies

3.1 Use of Cookies: Our Website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyse site traffic, and understand where our visitors are coming from. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device when you visit our Website.

3.2 Types of Cookies: We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them) for the following purposes:

- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems.

- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements to you and track the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

3.3 Managing Cookies: You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Website.

3.4 GDPR Compliance: If you are located within the European Union, you have specific rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including the right to access, correct, and delete your personal data. You also have the right to restrict or object to certain processing of your data and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at louise@theshootacademy.com.

 

4. Use of Cookies and Pixels

4.1 The Website uses "cookies" and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.

4.2 We reserve the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.

4.3 You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service.

 

5. Disclosure of Your Information

5.1 As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action, except as follows:

  • To our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you.

  • To a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company.

  • As part of any merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets and/or business.

  • When legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

 

6. Email Information

6.1 If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone.

 

7. Email Policies

7.1 We are committed to keeping your email address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.

7.2 In compliance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organisation will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list.

 

8. How We Protect Your Information

8.1 We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors.

8.2 We also protect your personally identifiable information offline. Only employees or our partners (for example, our awarding body and external and internal quality assurance officers) who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.

8.3 The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit via the Internet, and you accept that you do so at your own risk.

 

9. Retention of Data

9.1 We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.

 

10. Your Access to and Control Over Information

10.1 If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including:

  • The right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.

  • The right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

  • The right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

  • The right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

  • The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the GDPR.

10.2 Users may contact us via email at louise@theshootacademy.com to:

  • Review the personally identifiable information that the Company has collected about you.

  • Correct any errors in your personal information.

  • Request that we delete your personal data.

  • Opt out of certain uses of your personal information.

 

11. Children Under the Age of 16

11.1 Children Under 16: Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website without verified parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 without such consent. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us without parental consent.

11.2 Parental Consent: If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. Parents or guardians who believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 16 can contact us at louise@theshootacademy.com to request the deletion of such data.

 

12. Policy Changes

12.1 We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed of any updates. If we make significant changes to how we treat your personal information, we may, at our discretion, provide a prominent notice on the Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

12.2 The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

13. Contact Information for Complaints or Concerns

13.1 If you have any complaints or concerns about the Company or about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at louise@theshootacademy.com

13.2 If you are a resident of the EU and have an unresolved data privacy concern, you have the right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Last Updated: August 2024  

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: louise@theshootacademy.com

  • By visiting this page on our website: www.theshootacademy.com/hello

  • By phone number: +44 7973 788128

  • By mail: Hayrake, Infield Road, Glatton, PE285RP

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