Who we are
The Privacy Notice applies to BJU International (“BJUI“, “we” and “us“) products and websites whose addresses are https://bjuinternational.com and https://bjuiknowledge-portal.bjuinternational.com.
We are the data controller of the Personal Information (explained below) that we collect about you. We have a current registration (number Z2302931) in the Data Protection Register and we have appointed a Data Protection Manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Notice. If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Data Protection Manager using the details set out below.
Our full details are:
BJU International
A private company limited by guarantee without share capital
Company Number: 01793312
Personal information
For the purposes of this Privacy Notice “Personal Information” consists of any information that relates to you and/or information from which you can be identified, directly or indirectly. For example, information which identifies you may consist of your name, address, telephone number, photographs, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookies identifiers and your IP address) or to one or more factors specific to your physical, economic, cultural or social identity. When we combine other information (i.e. information that does not, on its own, identify you) with Personal Information, we treat the combined information as Personal Information.
We may collect use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Information about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name and title.
- Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone number.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, the type of browser used while visiting our website and the numbers of users who visit our websites.
- Usage Data includes usage session dates and duration, page views, and how you use our websites, products and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
How is your Personal Information collected?
BJUI collects information when a user visits our websites, when a customer purchases our services and products, and when a customer contacts us whether by the telephone, email or post.We use different methods to collect data from and about you including:
Personal Information you provide directly. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Marketing and Communications Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email, phone or otherwise. This includes Personal Information that you provide when you:
- Purchase any of our services or products,
- Voluntarily participate in interactive features of our service; or
- Otherwise interact with us.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our websites, we may automatically collect Technical Data and Usage Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this Personal Information by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see section 10 below.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources set out below:
- Technical Data from third party analytics providers, such as Google Analytics.
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources.
How do we use your information?
We may use the Personal Information that we collect for the following purposes:
- Make the Websites Available and Deliver our Products and Services – as well as to administer systems and accounts and allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so;
- Analysis Purposes – for assessment and analysis of our market, customers, products, and other Services, and to create sales, marketing and promotional plans;
- Statistical Purposes– for research, statistical and behavioural analysis;
- Services and Websites Improvement – to enhance our products and services, to ensure content from our websites is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer, to enhance the user experience, and to develop new products;
- Customer Support Services – to provide customer support services;
- Business Purposes – for business monitoring and internal record keeping including maintaining our accounts, complying with good practice and for other administrative, operational and security reasons;
- Legal Obligations – to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; and
- Updates – to communicate with you, including communicating with you about your transactions with us, giving you important information about your products, sending you notices about any material changes to our Privacy Notice, and, where permitted by you and applicable laws, marketing, sending you offers and promotions for our products.
The law allows us to use the Personal Information as set out above on the basis that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or we are acting in our “legitimate interests” in the promotion and efficient running of our business.
Marketing communications
BJUI may use your Personal Information to provide you with email notifications and other communications by email, on the basis that we obtain your consent to use your Personal Information for these purposes. For further information on this, see the ‘Your Choices’ section of this Privacy Notice.
Personal Information
We may combine the Personal Information that we collect from you (including information received from our affiliates) to the extent permitted by applicable law. For example, we may combine various different databases that contain your Personal Information to allow us to provide better support services and more personalised content (such as, marketing).
Cookies
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.
The website https://bjuiknowledge-portal.bjuinternational.com is provided by third party supplier. This third party supplier uses several different types of cookies to make https://www.bjuinternational.com and https://bjuiknowledge-portal.bjuinternational.com work.
Functional Cookies.These cookies are used to enable core site functionality, to track the identity of the user’s session, and to automatically log the user back into the websites if they choose the “keep me logged in” option on the login screen.
Analytic Cookies.These cookies to count page visits and traffic sources (provided by Google Analytics) so we can measure and improve the performance of the websites.
Third Party Cookies. The websites have functionality provided by YouTube and Vimeo embedded videos. As such when you use pages with these elements you are actually opening a window on the page from YouTube or Vimeo, which may use cookies. YouTube and Vimeo provide information on privacy on its website.
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.
Who we share your data with
We will only use your Personal Information for our internal business purposes, some of which are mentioned above. We may disclose your information to the following entities:
BJUI Affiliates
We may need to transfer your Personal Information to other BJUI affiliates (as defined in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006) to provide the products you require or any other services/assistance you request. All BJUI affiliates are required to follow the privacy practices set forth in this Privacy Notice, or such other privacy notice that they may notify to you.
Service Providers
We use third party service providers to help us to administer certain activities and services on our behalf, such as hosting our websites and publishing our journals (“the Journals”) and providing software in order for us to deliver our Services, facilitating payments made by you for our Services and analysing usage of our Services. We may share Personal Information about you with such third party service providers solely for the purpose of enabling them to perform services on our behalf and they will operate only in accordance with our instructions. Here are examples of third-party service providers we use:
- IT Service Provider – the website www.bjuinternational.com is hosted by BrightMinded Ltd. They may transfer Personal Information outside of the EEA but only on our consent and provided that all such transfers are protected by appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
- The Journals – The Journals are published by John Wiley & Sons Limited.
- Software Providers – software providers are used to assist us in providing you with our Services. The software providers we use host the platform which stores our learning content, tracks your participation in our learning content and enables you to log your CPD activities. They assist us in the managing the creation of content including peer review and analysing your usage of our interactive learning content including when you access a module, your progress through a module and your attempts at and success of final assessments.
- Payment Provider – we use Stripe Payments to facilitate payments made by you for our products. All payments processed by Stripe use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption.
- Analytics Service Providers – analytics providers are used to assist us in understanding the usage of our websites, products/devices and other Services and to enable us to improve our Services. The analytics provider we currently use is Google Analytics. For further information see section 10 below.
Anonymous statistics
We prepare and develop anonymous, aggregate or generic data and statistics for various reasons (such as aggregate usage statistics including “page views” on our website, and analysing how users use our content). As this data is anonymous (i.e. you cannot be identified from it) we do not consider this information to be Personal Information. As such, we may share it with any third party (such as our affiliates, partners, advertisers or otherwise).
Third parties when required by Law or to Protect our Services
We will disclose your Personal Information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from our regulators, law enforcement or other government agencies; to protect our customers (e.g. to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of our products); to operate and maintain the security of our websites and products (e.g. to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks); or to protect the rights or property of BJUI, including enforcing any terms or agreements governing the use of our products.
Other Parties in Connection with Corporate Transactions
We may disclose your Personal Information to a third party (or other BJUI affiliate) in the event that all or substantially all of our business or assets are or are intended to be sold or otherwise assigned to another entity.
Other Parties At Your Direction
We may share Personal Information about you with third parties when you request such sharing.
How long we retain your data
BJUI retains Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which your Personal Information has been collected as outlined in this Privacy Notice unless a longer retention period is required by law. When your Personal Information is no longer required for the purpose it was collected or as required by applicable law, it will be deleted and/or returned to you in accordance with applicable law.
For users that register on our website for a BJUI Knowledge subscription (whether an individual subscription or a subscription via your organisation), we also store the Personal Information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. We retain your Personal Information (including your CPD records) for up to one year in order to allow you to renew your subscription effectively if you choose to do so.
If you submit a query, the query and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up queries automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What we do to keep your information secure
We have put in place appropriate physical and technical measures to safeguard the Personal Information that we collect in connection with our products. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your Personal Information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. However, please note that although we take appropriate steps to protect your Personal Information, no website, product, device, online application or transmission of data, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information.
International Transfer of Data
The Personal Information that we collect from you may be stored and processed in your region, or transferred to, stored at or otherwise processed outside the United Kingdom (UK), including but not limited to the European Economic Area (“EEA“), the United States of America or in any other country where BJUI or BJUI affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.
By using our websites or using or participating in any Service and/or providing us with your Personal Information, you acknowledge that we will collect, transfer, store and process your information outside the UK. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Information is kept secure and treated in accordance with this Privacy Notice and the requirements of applicable law wherever the data is located.
Where we transfer your Personal Information outside the UK to other third parties, we will ensure that appropriate transfer agreements and mechanisms, such as the UK Standard Contractual Clauses, are in place to help ensure that our third party service providers provide an adequate level of protection to your Personal Information. We will only transfer your Personal Information outside the UK in accordance with applicable laws or where you have given us your consent to do so.
What rights you have over your data
BJUI will collect, store and process your Personal Information in accordance with your rights under any applicable data protection laws. Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Information:
Subject Access – you have the right to request details of the Personal Information which we hold about you and copies of such Personal Information.
Right to Withdraw Consent – where you have consented to our processing of your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time. In the event you wish to withdraw your consent to processing, please contact us using the details provided in section 13.
Data Portability – you may, in certain circumstances, request us to port (i.e. transmit) your Personal Information directly to another organisation.
Rectification – we want to ensure that the Personal Information about you that we hold is accurate and up to date. If you think that any information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, please let us know. To the extent required by applicable laws, we will rectify or update any incorrect or inaccurate Personal Information about you.
Erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) – you have the right to have your Personal Information ‘erased’ in certain specified situations.
Restriction of processing – you have the right in certain specified situations to require us to stop processing your Personal Information.
Object to processing – You have the right to object to specific types of processing of your Personal Information, such as, where we are processing your Personal Information for the purposes of direct marketing.
Prevent automated decision-taking – in certain circumstances, you have the right not to be subject to decision being taken solely on the basis of automated processing.
Enforcing your rights
If you wish to enforce any of your rights under applicable data protection laws, then please see section 13 below. We will respond to your request without undue delay and by no later than one month from receipt of any such request, unless a longer period is permitted by applicable data protection laws, and we may charge a reasonable fee for dealing with your request which we will notify to you. Please note that we will only charge a fee where we are permitted to do so by applicable data protection laws.
Complaints
If you are concerned that we have not complied with your legal rights under applicable data protection laws, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk) which is the data protection regulator in the UK which is where BJU International is located. Alternatively, if you are based outside the UK, you may contact your local data protection supervisory authority.
Your Choices (e.g. marketing-related emails or otherwise)
When you purchase our products, request information on our websites, or otherwise communicate with us, we and other BJUI affiliates may use your Personal Information (such as your contact details (e.g. name, address, email address, telephone number)) to send you marketing-related correspondence by email related to our products. When we process your Personal Information for marketing purposes, we do so on the basis that we have obtained your consent to use your Personal Information for these purposes.
We may also use your Personal Information to personalise and to target more effectively our marketing communications to ensure, to the extent possible, that any marketing-related correspondence is relevant to you.
To opt out of receiving marketing-related correspondence from BJUI, please click “Unsubscribe” from any marketing or promotional email you receive from us.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
It also is important that you check back often for updates to the Privacy Notice, as we may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. The “Date last updated” legend at the bottom of this page states when the notice was last updated and any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Privacy Notice.
We will provide notice to you if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will seek your consent. We will provide this notice by email or by posting notice of the changes on the BJUI website or through any relevant S
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your Personal Information or if you wish to correct, block, rectify, object, access, revoke your consent to any applicable aspect of this Privacy Notice or delete any of your Personal Information, please contact us:
By mail:
Data Protection Manager
BJU International
3 Junction Mews
London
W2 1PN
England
By email: [email protected]
By telephone: +44 (0) 207 706 0178 – 10.00 – 16.00 GMT, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays in England)
Date last updated: 24 May 2025
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