Privacy Policy

1. Data controller

• • TES is the controller of data collected via the Website. The contact information of TES can be found here.
  • The data protection officer of TES can be contacted via e-mail: info@est.edu.ee.

2. Relevant data

• • Newsletter subscription

If you subscribe to the TES newsletter via the Website, TES may send you newsletters. The plugin used for subscribing will record your name and e-mail address, and also the time when a subscriber opens a newsletter. The subscription data is stored until the subscriber has unsubscribed from the newsletter.

• • Application and contact forms

The Website has forms for sending TES applications and other messages. Information entered into the forms will be received by a designated employee via e-mail. The information is also stored by the Website, but a designated employee of TES deletes all such archives at least once within every three months.

• • Website browsing statistics

TES may gather browsing statistics and anonymized visitor data of the Website (including Google Analytics). This may be done for marketing purposes, to improve the user experience, and to develop products and services to better meet the needs of our visitors.

• • Logs

The server where the Website is hosted may record requests you make to the server (e.g. web address, device and browser used, IP address, date and time of access). This data is used only for technical purposes (functionality, security, post factum investigation of possible incidents).

The reason and basis for collecting and using such data is TES’s legitimate interest in ensuring the technical availability and security of the Website.

• • Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of text data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing. A cookie enables for websites to remember certain information (such as items added in the shopping cart, logging in, or pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields such as names, addresses, etc).

TES website is based on WordPress. Some WordPress features or plugins used on the website use cookies. TES website cookies improve the website’s usability. TES does not store cookies for commercial or analytical purposes. You may deactivate or block cookies in your browser settings.

3. Access to the data

• • The list of subscribers to the newsletter is accessible to the employees of TES who administer the Website.
  • The data entered into forms is accessible to the employees of TES who administer the Website and sent to the employees whose task is to reply to messages and/or process applications.

4. Your rights

By contacting TES (info@est.edu.ee) you may:

• • ask for access to your personal data;
  • ask for rectification of your personal data;
  • ask for erasure of your personal data;
  • withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data, where applicable (e.g. unsubscribe from the newsletter);
  • ask for the restriction on processing your personal data;
  • object to the processing of your personal data.
  • The above rights are granted by EU and Estonian law.
  • In case personal data is erased upon request, TES nevertheless has the right to keep copies of the information if it is necessary to protect our or third-party legitimate interests, comply with governmental orders, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, or to enforce any agreement you have entered into with TES.
  • If you think your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (aki.ee), or a respective authority of another EU country, if your habitual residence is there (see http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080)

Download the Privacy Policy for the Website of Tallinn European School