Terms and Conditions

Terms of Use.

General

Welcome to the Donna Preece Academy website. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using the https://thedpa.uk/ Website.

Your access to and use of the Website is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Website.

By accessing or using the Website you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms, then you may not access the Website.

Donna Preece Academy may, without notice to you, at any time amend these Terms and any other information contained on this Website.  The latest Terms will be posted on our Website, and you should review the Terms prior to using it. Your continued use of the Websites after any changes to these Terms are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes. 

Purchases and Subscriptions

If you wish to purchase any product or service, you may be asked to supply certain information relevant to your purchase including, without limitation, your personal details like email address or phone number.

Each Membership offers different pricing and service options. Once you select your Membership, Donna Preece Academy will never automatically upgrade or downgrade your Membership.

If you have agreed to pay a sum at regular intervals ("payment periods") then:

• We will only terminate the service by giving notice of at least one payment period in length;

• We may increase the price for the service by giving you at least one payment period's notice of the new price.

Termination of Services

You may terminate a paid-for service at any time by giving us notice of termination. Any payment you have already made to us will not be repayable, but we will continue to supply the service — unless you ask us otherwise — until the next payment date.

We may suspend a paid for service if we reasonably believe:

• it is necessary for us to do so to prevent any unlawful activity.

• you have breached this agreement in a sufficiently serious way to justify suspending the service to prevent that breach.

• you have failed to pay us any sum of money you owe.

If we do suspend a service for any of the above reasons, we will take all reasonable steps to inform you promptly of what we have done and we will lift the suspension as soon as we are satisfied that the reason for the suspension no longer applies.

Legal Notice Update

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this notice. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and new additional information.

Scope of Terms

These Terms apply to the Donna Preece Academy Website located at https://thedpa.uk/, including Donna Preece Academy Websites around the world and secure areas of these. These Terms also apply to all online resources, materials, download areas, tools and interactive venues provided on the Website, both now and in the future.  

Ownership of Content

The Donna Preece Academy Website and all pages found within it, whether registered or not are owned, controlled, or licensed by or to Donna Preece Academy, and are protected by intellectual property laws, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, trade dress, domain name, and other proprietary rights and unfair competition laws. In using the Website or the Content, you acknowledge and agree to abide by all applicable Intellectual Property laws, as well as any specific notices contained on the Websites. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. 

The Donna Preece Academy Website and the Content may not be copied, reproduced, modified, adapted, translated, transmitted, displayed, published, posted, resold, or otherwise distributed in any way, without Donna’s express prior written authorization. You are granted permission to display on your computer, print and download the Content on this Website solely for your own personal, non-commercial, and educational use. You must retain copyright and other notices on any copies of the Content you make. Unauthorized use of the Websites, the Content contained on the Websites or any linked Websites may violate applicable Intellectual Property laws or other laws. 

Debit and Credit Cards

For payment, you will provide us with valid debit or credit card information and authorize us to deduct your charges against that card. You will replace the information for any card that expires with information for a valid one. If your card is automatically replaced with a new card by a payment processor, you acknowledge and agree that we are authorized to deduct any charges on your account against the new card. Anyone using a card represents and warrants that they are authorized to use that card, and that all charges may be billed to that card and will not be rejected. If we are unable to process your card order, we will try to contact you by email and may suspend our service to you until your payment can be processed.

Limitation of Liability

You expressly understand and agree that Donna Preece Academy and any contributor to the user generated content via Online Mediums SHALL NOT BE LIABLE to you for:

• Any loss or damage which you may incur, including without limitation because of any reliance placed by you on the accuracy, completeness or suitability of the Content, or any changes Donna Preece Academy may make to the Websites, Online Mediums and Content, or any temporary interruption or permanent cessation in the provision of the Online Mediums and Content, or, if applicable, your failure to safeguard your account details or passwords.

• Since some jurisdictions prohibit the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, portions of the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. 

Privacy Policy.

(Last Updated: November 2023)

Donna Preece Academy takes data privacy seriously. This privacy policy explains who we are, how we collect and use Personal Information, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

How we collect your Information

Personal data means any data that, either on its own or jointly with other data, can be used to identify a natural person.

You may provide us with such data when you use our website or when signing up to our services or interact with us. Through using cookies, we may also collect analytics information when you use the Website to help us improve it.

A third-party intermediary is used to manage credit card processing. This intermediary is not permitted to store, retain, or use your billing information for any purpose except for credit card processing on our behalf.

How we use your information

To the extent permissible under applicable law, we may use your information to:

• provide the services that you have requested or any applications or services that you have ordered;

• compare information for accuracy and to verify it with third parties;

• manage our relationship with you (for example, customer services and support activities);

• monitor, measure, improve and protect our content, website, applications and services and provide an enhanced, personal, user experience for you;

• comply with any other of our regulatory or legal obligations;

• detect, prevent, investigate or remediate, crime, illegal or prohibited activities or to otherwise protect our legal rights (including liaison with regulators and law enforcement agencies for these purposes);

• deliver targeted advertising or information to you which may be useful to you, based on your use of our applications and services;

Providing us with information about others

If you provide us with personal information about someone else, you are responsible for ensuring that you comply with any obligation and consent obligations under applicable data protection laws in relation to such disclosure. In so far as required by applicable data protection laws, you must ensure that you have provided the required notices and have obtained the individual’s explicit consent or otherwise have a legal basis to provide us with the information and that you explain to them how we collect, use, disclose and retain their personal information or direct them to read our Privacy Notice.

Sharing Of Information Collected

Third-Party Service Providers:

We share information, including personal information, with our third-party service providers that we use to provide hosting for and maintenance of our Websites, application development, backup, storage, payment processing, analytics, and other services for us. These third-party service providers may have access to or process your personal information for the purpose of providing these services for us. We do not permit our third-party service providers to use the personal information that we share with them for their marketing purposes or for any other purpose than in connection with the services they provide to us.

We may collect, and we may engage third-party analytics providers to collect, metrics and information regarding your use of the Service, including evaluating how Agents and End-Users use the Service (“Usage Data”), to develop new features, improve existing features or inform sales and marketing strategies, based on our legitimate interest to improve the Services. When we process Usage Data, any personal information shall be anonymized. Any such third-party analytics providers will not share or otherwise disclose Usage Data, although we may make Usage Data publicly available from time to time.

Cookie Notice.

General

Thank you for visiting our website. We may use cookies to help us understand our customers better so we can provide personalised experiences.

How and Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies for technical reasons and to gain a better understanding of how our visitors use the website. Principally we use a limited number to help us tailor the website to your personal need and improve its user-friendliness.

Our cookies do not store sensitive or personally identifiable information. In the unlikely event that they do, information is encrypted to ensure safekeeping and to prevent unauthorised use by anyone else.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to “remember” you and your preferences and help websites perform essential functions.

Controlling Cookies

Users may wish to restrict the use of cookies or prevent them from being set.

Most browsers provide ways to control cookie behaviour such as the length of time they are stored. If you decided to disable cookies, please be aware that some of the features of our websites may not function correctly.

To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, please visit aboutcookies.org.

Legal Notice Update

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this notice. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and new additional information.

Copyright.

International copyright and trademark laws protect the entire contents of this website. The owners of the intellectual property and copyrights are Donna Preece Academy. You may not reproduce, republish, modify, copy, transmit, upload, post or distribute, in any manner, the material on the site, including text, graphics, media and code without prior written approval.

data handling.

If you have any issues regarding our Privacy Policy or the use of your information then you can use the form to the right or get in touch by any of the other means displayed on this website.

If you do not wish to receive direct mail for marketing purposes you can also use any of the above communication methods and you will be immediately removed from our circulation list. If you receive information emails and no longer wish to do so, you will be able to permanently unsubscribe from our email service by using a link in the email footer.

In the event of a data breach or serious complaint you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office directly via the ICO website: www.ico.org.uk