SES Aviation Website

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 14/12/2022

Who we are

SES Aviation, SES Group.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Your privacy is important to SES Academy. This Privacy Policy is to provide you with information on how we process your personal data when you interact with our business or eLearning courses or visit our website (www.seccen.co.uk)

“Personal data” is information relating to an identified or identifiable real person.

Categories of Personal Data Processed by SES Academy

Personal data that is processed when you sign up to an eLearning account:

We ask you to provide your email address, name, username and job position (if applicable) to administer a learning account for your eLearning experience as part of our services.

Personal data that is processed when you engaged SES Academy to undertake services; data that is provided for the billing purposes.

SES Academy, will only hold the most basic of information for this purpose. This information will be identified prior to being provided.

Purposes and Legal Grounds:

  • Much of the information we hold will have been provided by you or your organisation for the purposes of SES Academy being able to undertake legitimate business interests in delivering our services to you or your organisation.
  • SES Academy will hold basic information that allows us to deliver our services in the provisions of services, invoicing and accounting; along with individual services such as eLearning (As detailed further in this policy)
  • Data collected will be retained for a period of 6 years in order to satisfy any HMRC query; this information will be basis.
  • Where data is personal; SES Academy will comply with Article 5 of the GDPR that requires personal data to be:
  • processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;
  • collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;
  • adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;
  • accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;
  • kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and
  • processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.”
  • For eLearning; SES Academy process your email address because you use your email address and your password to sign in to your learning account. The legal ground for processing your email address for this purpose is based on SES Academy’s legitimate interest in protecting the security of your account
  • SES Academy also processes your email address for sending you important information about SES Academy products, apps or accounts, such as important safety information or material changes to this Privacy Policy.

The name you provide is associated with your account profile and is displayed when you submit comments or other material on the Open Learning training environment.

The legal ground for processing your email address and name for these purposes is SES Academy’s legitimate interest in providing you important safety or other information about your SES Academy products, apps or account or material changes to this Privacy Policy, and in providing you an opportunity to engage with other SES Academy users.

  • By providing your email you consent to receiving marketing information from SES Academy.

The legal ground for processing your email address for this purpose is your consent.

You may withdraw your consent to receiving marketing at any time by unsubscribing via a link on the email.

The marketing emails you receive from SES Academy are based on the initial interaction with SES Academy (i.e. if eLearning, marketing will only be for eLearning).

The legal ground for processing this data for this purpose is SES Academy’s legitimate interest in reducing the number of marketing emails sent to each customer by selecting which customers receive a marketing email rather than sending every marketing email to every customer who has consented to receiving marketing emails.

We may disclose personal data about you to others:

  1. if we have your valid consent to do so;
  2. to comply with a valid summons, legal order, court order, legal process, or other legal obligation;
  3. to enforce any of our terms and conditions or policies; or (d) as necessary to pursue available legal remedies or defend legal claims.

We may also transfer your personal data to an affiliate, a subsidiary or a third party in the event of any reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of SES Academy’s business, assets or stock, including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, provided that any such entity that we transfer personal data to will not be permitted to process your personal data other than as described in this Privacy Policy without providing you notice and, if required by applicable laws, obtaining your consent.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Websites:

To help analyse how you and other visitors navigate SES Academy websites and compile aggregate statistics about site usage and response rates, we, with assistance from third-party analytics service providers, collect certain information when you visit our site. This information includes IP address, geographic location of the device, browser type, browser language, date and time of your request, time(s) of your visit(s), page views and page elements (e.g., links) that you click. We may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs or other similar tools on our site or in our email messages to assist us in collecting and analysing such information.

We use this information to provide better, more relevant content on our site, to measure the effectiveness of advertisements, to identify and fix problems, and to improve your overall experience on our site.

If you reside in the European Union or other jurisdiction that requires us to obtain your consent to use cookies on our sites, then you will have an opportunity to manage your cookie preferences on the sites; except that certain cookies are required to enable core site functionality, and you cannot choose to disable those cookies.

Here are examples of third-party providers of analytics and similar services we currently use:

Analytical Services:

Google: Google Analytics is used to track site statistics and user demographics, interests and behaviour on websites.

We also use Google Search Console to help understand how our website visitors find our website and to improve our search engine optimisation.

IONOS: IONOS is our hosting and email domain; utilised for managing all our email and website analytics. As With google, IONOS is also used to track site statistics and user demographics, interests and behaviour on our website.

We also use Google Search Console to help understand how our website visitors find our website and to improve our search engine optimisation.

WordPress & Jetpack for WordPress: Our website is built through WordPress and utilises Jetpack for various attributes including additional analytical services to track site statistics and user demographics, interests and behaviour on our website.

Social Networks:

Third-party social networks that provide interactive plug-ins or social networking features (e.g., to allow you to connect to Facebook or Google to find friends to add as connections or to “Like” a page) on SES Academy websites or mobile apps, may use cookies or other methods (e.g., web beacons) to gather information regarding your use of our websites and apps.

The use of such information by a third party depends on the privacy policy available on that social network’s website, which we encourage you to carefully review.

Such third parties may use these cookies or other tracking methods for their own purposes by relating information about your use of our site with any of your Personal Information that they may have.

We may also obtain analytics information from social networks that help us measure the effectiveness of our content and advertisements on social networks (e.g., impressions and clicks).

Social media will cover, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn or any other platform we utilise for the marketing of SES Academy. You are reminded to review each individual social media platform privacy policies as SES Academy, cannot be held responsible for information you have provided to these organisations.

Children:

We request individuals under 16 not to provide personal data to SES Academy. If we learn that we have collected the personal data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Privacy Policy Updates:

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as we add new products and apps, as we improve our current offerings and as technologies and laws change. You can determine when this Privacy Policy was last revised by referring to the “Last updated” legend at the top of this page. Any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Privacy Policy.

We will provide notice to you if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent. This notice will be provided by email or by posting notice of the changes on the SES Academy websites and apps that link to this Privacy Policy.

Retention of Personal Data

We will retain your personal data as long as your SES Academy eLearning or arrangement is considered to be active and for a period of 12 months thereafter, to serve as reasonable information for the resolve of any disputes of services provided and for marketing purposes. If you do not want to receive marketing information following the cessation of any arrangement, you should advise so in writing to SES Academy, The Barrows, Roydon Road, Harlow, CM195DY

Data Controller:

SES Academy, The Barrows, Roydon Road, Harlow, CM195DY