Privacy Notice

D-teach online school collects data about you. These data are processed in accordance with and within the limits of the purposes provided for during the collection.

The purpose of this privacy policy aims to provide the information about how d-teach online school, acting as controller, collects, processes, shares and protects your personal data collected during the visit of its website, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the applicable national laws. This includes what you tell us about yourself, what we learn by having you as a participant on our programmes, and the choices you give us about what marketing you want us to send you. This notice explains how we do this, tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

You declare that you have read and that you agree to this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), and therefore accept the processing of your personal data as described herein.

I. Who are we as controller?

The controller as defined in the GDPR and the applicable national laws is:

D-teach online school
F.D. Rooseveltlaan 349/D, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
E-Mail: training@d-teach.com

II. Why do we collect your personal data?

1. Registration and onboarding onto Europe 101 programme
Based on the necessity to perform an agreement as well as our legitimate interest, we collect your data to onboard you onto the Europe 101 programme. This processing includes the following purposes:

  • To contact you in light of the Europe 101 programme.
  • To form statistics on the pool of the participants in terms of nationality and whether participants work or study.

This processing includes the following data: first name, last name, country of residence, nationality, information about the applicant’s professional life.

2. Participation in the Europe 101 programme
Based on the necessity to perform an agreement as well as our legitimate interest, we collect your data to participate in the Europe 101 programme. This processing includes the following purposes:

  • To contact you in light of the Europe 101 programme.
  • To allow you to be in contact with other participants and the members or sponsors of the Europe 101 programme participate in the Europe 101 programme.
  • To keep you up to date about our alumni offering.
  • To send you occasional email updates and newsletters.
  • To provide advice or guidance about our programmes.

This processing includes the following data: first name, last name, country of residence, nationality, information about the applicant’s professional life.

  • Based on your consent, we can also collect your data:
    To publish your name, job title, employer organization and programme attended as part of our promotional materials.
  • To publish your contact details strictly to members of your own participant group as part of the information distributed to participants.

3. D-teach online school website management
Based on our legitimate interest, we collect your data to manage our website. This processing includes the following purposes:

  • To share with you, on your demand, various information relating to d-teach online school and its offers.
  • To follow the requests for information or contact made by email.

This processing includes the following data: first name, last name, email, company or school.

4. Newsletter management and marketing activities
Based on your consent, we collect your data for marketing activities in order to keep you updated with the latest news of d-teach online school and the Europe101 programme, including the newsletter and any other updates. This processing includes the following data: first name, last name, email.

5. Business management and improvement
Based on the necessity to perform an agreement as well as our legitimate interest, we process your data for the following purposes:

  • To manage our relationship with you or your business.
  • To manage our relationship with our suppliers.
  • To carry out statistical analysis.
  • To develop new ways to meet our customers’ needs and to grow our business.
  • To study how our customers use products and services from us and other organizations.
  • To run our business in an efficient and proper way. This includes managing our financial position, business capability, planning, communications, corporate governance, and audit.

This processing includes the following data: first name, last name, country of residence, nationality, information about the applicant’s professional life, and billing details.

6. Manage security and risk
Based on the necessity to perform an agreement as well as our legitimate interest, we process your data for the following purposes:

  • To manage risk for us and our customers.
  • To obey laws and regulations that apply to us.
  • To respond to complaints and seek to resolve them.

III. Where we collection your data from

We may collect personal information about you (or your business) from the following sources:

  • Data you give to us
    • When you apply for our programmes
    • When you talk to us on the phone or in person
    • When you use our websites
    • When you give us your business card
    • In emails and letters
    • In participants surveys
  • Data shared with us by Common Purpose and its partners in accordance with their privacy policy.

IV. How long do we store your personal data?

The GDPR introduces the storage limitation of personal data. We remind you that under the principle of minimization data and purpose limitation, your data will be processed and stored only if necessary for the purposes of the processing in question.

We will keep your personal information for as long as you are a participant on the Europe 101 programme.

After you become an alumnus, we will keep your data for the purposes previously outlined, or if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons.

If you are not a current participant or alumnus of the Europe 101 programme, we will keep your records for 2 years, for the purposes previously outlined, or if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons.

We will always make sure that your privacy is protected and only use it for those purposes.

V. With whom do we share your data?

D-teach online school makes use of data processors who process your personal data on behalf of d-teach online school. D-teach online school makes or may make use of the following categories of processors within the framework of the abovementioned purposes:

  • Our partners, including Common Purpose
  • Our financial advisors
  • Our providers such as insurers, financial payroll service providers and pension providers
  • Partners who are responsible for the hosting of the website
  • Partners who provide e-mail marketing and other communication services
  • Ambassadors and investors of the Europe101 programme
  • Statutory, regulatory or government agencies (such as HMRC and Companies House)
  • Agents working on our behalf

VI. Do we transfer any personal data outside the European Union?

In some cases, your personal data will be transferred to and/or processed in countries outside the European Union. In such a case, we will ensure that this is done in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and will provide for appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses where required under such legislation, in order to guarantee an adequate level of protection of your personal data.

VII. What are your rights as data subject?

Any data subject of which d-teach online school, as controller, processes personal data may exercise the following rights, to the extent allowed under applicable laws, by contacting our team at school@d-teach.com:

  • Right of access: you have the right to obtain confirmation that we are processing your personal data and where this is the case to obtain a copy of these data.
  • Right of rectification: you have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data .
  • Right to erasure: in specific cases, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data. We may, however, retain certain information about you as required by law or when we have a legal basis to do so.
  • Right to restriction of processing: you can ask for the limitation of certain treatments carried out on your personal data.
  • Right to object: you have the right to object at any time, on grounds related to your situation, to any processing of your personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or based on legitimate interest.
  • Right to data portability: you have the right to receive personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit these data to another controller. However, when the personal data are not processed by automated means, you do not fulfil the conditions to exercise your right to portability.
  • Right to withdraw your consent: you can withdraw your consent at every moment when the processing activity is based on it.
  • Right to lodge a complaint: you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. For Belgium, this is the Autorité de protection des données/Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit, Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, contact@apd-gba.be.

VIII. How do we make your personal data secure?

We shall implement, test, and maintain the appropriate security measures, among other, access to facilities, hardware and software, storage and networks, monitoring and logging, breach detection and incident response to protect against unauthorized or accidental access, loss, alteration, disclosure or destruction of personal data.

IX. Revision

This privacy notice can be modified by d-teach online school according to the rules and regulations that come into force.
Last update: April 2024