We are Safeguarding Guru Limited, a company dedicated to providing support to individuals and agencies to enable them to meet their responsibilities in relation to keeping children and young people safe. We provide online resources, elearning and training sessions aimed at organisations that work with children and young people.
We are registered with Companies House, our registration number is xxxxx.
Our registered address is Chimmels, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EQ.
Our website address is https://safeguarding.guru.
We are also registered with the Office of the Information Commissioner, our registration number is xxxx.
If you have any questions about this information or the way that Safeguarding Guru handles the privacy of your information please get in contact via:
Online: Please use our contact form.
Post: Safeguarding Network Ltd., Chimmels, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EQ
Telephone: 01803 xxxxxx
This privacy notice relates to the way in which Safeguarding Guru’s uses any personal information we collect from you. Data collection may be from several different sources, including:
Safeguarding Guru is a data controller; however, you have a number of rights in relation to the information that we hold about you which are summarised below. You can exercise your rights by contacting us via the contact details above. You may also wish to contact your employing or supporting organisation for information they hold as a data controller. You have the right to:
The accuracy of the information that we hold about you is important to us. You can therefore check this information at any time through your online account (if you are a registered user of our website) or by contacting us using the methods above.
You have a right to ask for a copy of the information Safeguarding Guru holds about you, and this can be done using the contact details above.
In this section we set out who may have access to your data either in part or in full.
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties and will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. There are some occasions where your information may be passed to others outside of Safeguarding Guru and we will ensure that this is only done for specific reasons.
The following people and organisations have access to part or all of your data:
Safeguarding Guru staff: The staff at Safeguarding Network have access to your data and use this in the ways set out in this document.
Your employing agency / professional body: Where the services that Safeguarding Guru provide to you are as a result of a contract between Safeguarding Guru and your employing or sponsoring organisation (this is the case for volunteers for example), or your professional body (e.g., local safeguarding children board) then we will share information with them so that they can evidence that their staff have completed the necessary training. The information is shared securely with subsequent storage and use of any information passed to that agency or professional body coming under their privacy policy. Questions relating to how they then use and store your information should be directed to them.
Third Party Providers working on our behalf: We may pass your information to our third-party service providers for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example providing business metrics). However when we use third party providers we will only disclose personal information that is necessary to deliver the service. Where we use third party providers we will have contracts in place with third party providers that require them to keep your information securely, not use it for any other purpose than the agreed task and to destroy the relevant records once the task is complete.
Use of credit / debit cards on our website: When making purchases through our website and paying by credit or debit card your payment will be processed by a third-party payment processor. These payment processors specialise in the online capture and processing of debit / credit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding this please contact us.
We may be required by law to disclose your personal information, for example through a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.
If Safeguarding Guru were to sell some or all our business to a third party then we may transfer your personal information to that third party. We will however take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
We will do everything to ensure that the welfare of any children using our site is protected. If you are a child please get a parent or guardian’s permission before you provide us with information.
When you provide us with personal information we will take steps to ensure that it is kept safe. Communications between your computer and our website are protected using Secure Socket Layer encryption and you can confirm this through the padlock icon appearing in your browser.
We will make every attempt to ensure that information transmitted to us through our website remains safe, however we cannot guarantee that anything is 100% secure. As a result, you provide information to us at your own risk. Where you have created an online account with us you will have a password associated with this. This password will enable you to access your personal information when used with your logon details and you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not allow others to access your account, for example by sharing your login details with a colleague.
Use of Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other video calling platforms
When booking on our training courses, webinars, and forums, you will be notified if the session will be recorded, this is for other participants who unfortunately cannot join the sessions. You may wish to switch your camera off if you are not comfortable with being recorded, however it is recommended to switch it on for any group chats within our training sessions (break out rooms are not recorded).
All recordings for our training sessions are only accessible to Safeguarding Guru staff and other course participants. The recordings will be kept for 3 weeks after the course date finishes to allow participants to catch up if needed, after this time they will be removed from the course page.
Recordings of our training sessions are kept for 12 months and are accessed by participants only. Webinar recordings may be kept for longer than 12 months and can be accessed by any website visitors.
Use of cookies
Like many websites, the Safeguarding Guru website uses cookies. Cookies are an industry standard, and are used by most websites. They are small packages of information sent from a website to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow the website to recognise you when you visit.
Our website uses three different categories of cookie:
You can switch off cookies through the settings on our website; however, this may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Links to other websites
Our website may provide links to websites provided by other organisations. This privacy notice only applies to Safeguarding Guru and our services, so if providing information to another website you should read their privacy notice before doing so. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites, even if you have accessed them through our website.
If you linked to our website from a third party we cannot be responsible for their privacy policies and practices and recommend that you check the policies of those sites.
Transfer of your information outside of the United Kingdom
It may sometimes be necessary to transfer personal information overseas. Any transfers made will be in full compliance with all aspects of the data protection guidance in place at the time of transfer.
If you are not happy with the way that we have handled any request in relation to your personal information or the manner in which we store your information or allow access to it please contact us.
You can at any time approach the Information Commissioner’s Office at any time – more information about reporting a concern to the Information Commissioner can be found at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or by contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephone on 0303 123 1113.