This Policy was last modified on 24 May, 2018.
The Commonwealth Centre for Connected Learning (“us”, “we”, “our” or “Connected Learning”) operates https://3clevents.com (the “Site”) as its events arm. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information (data) we receive from users of the Site.
Connected Learning is the ‘Data Controller’ in relation to any personal data you provide us in using this site. At present, we do not have an enewsletter subscription form operable on this site for the purpose of collecting site user emails.
This data protection and privacy policy sets out how Connected Learning uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
Connected Learning is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information when using this site by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this data protection and privacy statement.
We regularly review this policy to ensure it remains within current regulatory guidelines and therefore the information on this page may change over time. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
We have collected user details on this site for the purposes of Event registration. That data was provided by speakers and participants at the Blockchain, Credentials and Connected Learning Conference that took place 17-18 May, 2018. These individuals’ personal data is held securely on our computers in Malta; this data includes names, the entities for whom individuals’ work and whom they represent, along with their email addresses and in some cases billing data relating to the invoicing of conference fees.
Names, entity names, and email addresses only are stored on our mail service provider, Mailchimp, which operates its own rigorous privacy and data protection policies fully in line with the EU’s GDPR which you can read here. Past speakers and participants are contacted from time to time via our mailouts from Mailchimp to update them on post-conference news and to alert them to future events. Should any of these individuals wish to remove themselves from our database and/or remove themselves from future enews relating to the conference, future Commonwealth Centre for Connected Learning events and related news, they may contact us to have their personal data removed with immediate effect from both computer-held databases and our mail service provider Mailchimp. See below for more details on the Right of Removal.
When someone visits https://3clevents.com, we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, nor allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect information that can identify site users personally, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, postal address and phone number (“Personal Information”).
We may collect the following information:
At present (date as above), we do not offer an enewsletter sign-up form nor use a contact us form on this site, nor do we have registration nor contact forms operating. This means that any personal information you provide us will be via direct email, social media and social media messaging, or by telephone or SMS.
Security: We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
We do not use cookies to:
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site, our site may not work as you would expect.
Allowing you to add comments to our site
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use: Google Analytics.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Connected Learning has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services and they are consequently not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@connectedlearning.edu.mt.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
Right of removal
At any time, you have the right to request removal of your data from our records. If making a request for your data to be removed, you should do so by email stating which piece(s) of data you wish to be removed (you do not have to say why).
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at http://connectedlearning.edu.mt .
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Further information on the implementation of GDPR as pertains to the jurisdication of Malta, can be found on the site of the office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner in Malta.