General

The Amazings website at www.theamazings.com and any social networking pages operated by (together the “Website”) are provided by Sidekick Studios Limited. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is The Amazings Social Business Ltd of Third Floor, Ferguson House, 124-128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NJ which is registered with the ICO under registered number [TBC].

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Privacy Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal and non-personal information. By disclosing your personal information to us and/or by using the Website, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information as stated in this policy.

What personal information will we collect?

When your register with us via the Website and become an Amazings Member and/or when you choose to teach or attend a class, we will ask you for personally identifiable information. This refers to information about you that can be used to contact or identify you. This information includes, but is not limited to, your name and email address.

To provide you with additional services, we may also request your name, geographical coordinates, IP address, browser platform and type, ISP, various other website usage related information and your telephone number.

If you access the Website through a social networking profile, we may collect, store and use the details of that social networking profile and any information contained therein to populate any forms you might wish to complete on the Website

We may also ask you to complete surveys and give feedback that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

If you choose to provide us with information on other people, or post information relating to other people, you must ensure that they have consented to you providing us with such information and our use of such information in accordance with this policy. By providing us with information on any other person, we are entitled to assume that such other person has consented to you providing us with their information and to us contacting them.

How do we use your personal information?

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

• to manage and administer the Website;
• to improve your browsing experience by personalising the Website;
• to manage and administer any course bookings made by you on the Website;
• to enable you to use the Website;
• to send you newsletters and other relevant and targeted promotional communications;
• to deal with enquiries, complaints and feedback from you and our Amazings;
• to provide third parties with statistical anonymised information about our users;
• to send you emails offering you to take part in a survey and/or give feedback;
• and to analysis and improve the services offered on the Website.

When might we disclose your personal information?

We may give some or all of the information we collect to the Amazings (teachers) providing activities for which you sign up so that they can coordinate their activities.

We will not give your name, email, or other personal information to unaffiliated third parties except with your consent or as otherwise set forth in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may provide personal information to employees, consultants or other business or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. In such circumstances, we require that these parties agree to protect the confidentiality of such information and to comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We may from time to time provide limited anonymised information relating to your usage and browsing habits on the Website to third parties.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by applicable law or governmental body or judicial body or to protect our interests or the safety of others.

Cookies

Cookies are text files stored, either on a temporary or persistent basis on the hard drive of your computer.

Cookies are used for authenticating, session tracking and maintaining specific information about the use and users of the Website (including user site preferences or the contents of electronic shopping carts). Cookie files may also be placed on your computer by our trusted third-party advertising companies for the purposes as set out in this paragraph.

The data collected by cookies is anonymous. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer's hard drive by searching for files with "cookie" in it and deleting them. In addition, if you want to stop cookies from being stored on your computer, you can edit your browser settings so that cookies are blocked. Unfortunately, if you block cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website.

Web beacons consist of a small string of software code that represents a graphic image request on a Web page or email. There may or may not be a visible graphic image associated with the web beacon and often the image is designed to blend into the background of a Web page or email. Web beacons can be used for many purposes - including site traffic reporting, unique visitor counts, advertising auditing and reporting, and personalisation. Web beacons may be used by www.qubbed.com to collect only anonymous data.

In order to improve our Website and the services we offer you, we use (temporary and persistent) cookies, authorised third parties cookies, web beacons and/or other technologies to collect non-personally identifiable data. This non-personally identifiable data helps us to track browsing behaviour, to create specific or tailor-made offers or advertisements, and to monitor and record the visits and use of the Website.

In order to understand how people use our website and for marketing analysis and quality improvement purposes, we (and/or third party service providers) may collect, record, process and use on an anonymous basis, certain information including the total number of transactions, viewed web pages, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp information and other details such as the number and location of mouse clicks on a given page, mouse movements, scrolling activity and the search words you use while being on and using the Website.

If you register with us or if you continue to use the Website, you agree to our use of cookies.

Voluntary Disclosure

Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose in public areas (such as your Profile page) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by other users. You should exercise caution before disclosing your personal information via these public venues.

For example, if you choose to sign up for a free Amazings account, you may have a Profile page on the site, containing your Full Name and some basic information including your location and bio. You may also add additional optional information to your Profile. You may control what type of Profile information is shown to other through your Account Settings. Any information you choose to provide as part of your profile should reflect how much you want other Amazings users to know about you. We recommend that you guard your anonymity and sensitive information and we encourage members to think carefully about what information about themselves they disclose in their profile pages. You can review and revise your profile information at any time.

Children’s Privacy

You must be at least 13 years old to register to use the Service. Accordingly, we do not collect any personal information from children.

Other Sites

The Service may contain links to other Web sites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites or services, and you should review the privacy policy of each such Web site or service to make sure that you are comfortable with it before providing any personal information. For example, all payments for classes are processed through PayPal. As discussed above, we do not receive any of the information you provide to PayPal, and all such information is subject to PayPal’s privacy policy.

Security

All non-personally-identifying information, potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying-information described above is stored on restricted database servers.

Choice/Opt-out

If we ever send you information by e-mail concerning new products, services or information that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an e-mail address by which you may request no further notices.

Privacy Policy Changes

We may, at our sole discretion, modify this Privacy Policy at any time. By accessing the Service at any time after such modifications, you are agreeing to such modifications. This Privacy Policy was last modified as of September 30, 2011.

Facebook Connect

You can log in to our site using Facebook Connect. This service will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name, email address, and picture to pre-populate your profile. Facebook Connect gives you the option to post information about your activities on this web site to your profile page to share with others within your network. We might also use your address list to let you invite your friends more easily.

Miscellaneous

In the event that we are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected from users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

The Service is hosted in England and is intended for and directed to users in England. If you are accessing the Service from the United States, European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from English laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Service, which is governed by English law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring your personal information to England and you consent to that transfer.

The Act gives you the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@theamazings.com.

The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, you can at info@theamazings.com.