Last Updated: August 1, 2025
1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit our website, ChinaTEFLer.com. We operate in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, and, where applicable to our services provided to residents of the European Economic Area (EEA), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). By adhering to these stringent regulations, we aim to uphold a high global standard for data protection, providing a consistent level of privacy and security to all our users, regardless of their location.
1.2 This policy applies to all visitors and users of our website and services. It explains how we, as the data controller, process your personal data. This means we are responsible for determining the purposes and means of the processing of your personal data.
1.3 We use cookies on our website. Where these cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of the site, we will ask for your explicit consent to use them. You will be able to manage your preferences through our cookie consent tool.
1.4 In this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to ChinaTEFLer.com, operated by Ben Noon. For more information about us, please see Section 13.
2. Credit and Purpose
2.1 This document was created to be transparent about our data processing activities and to comply with our legal obligations.
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
3.1 This section details the categories of personal data we may process, the reasons for processing it, and the legal basis we rely on to do so.
3.2 Usage Data: We may process data about how you use our website and services (“usage data”). This may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, duration of your visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths. This data is collected using our analytics tracking system, Google Analytics. The purpose is to monitor and improve our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in monitoring and enhancing our business operations and website functionality.
3.3 Profile Data: If you create a personal profile on our website, we may process the information you provide (“profile data”), such as your name, contact information, profile pictures, and other details you choose to share. This data is used to enable and monitor your use of our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our website and business.
3.4 Publication Data: We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services (“publication data”). This is used to enable and administer such publications. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our website and business.
3.5 Enquiry Data: If you submit an enquiry about goods or services, we will process the information you provide (“enquiry data”). We use this data to respond to your enquiry and, with your consent, to market relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
3.6 Transaction Data: We process information related to transactions you conduct with us (“transaction data”), which may include your contact details and transaction history. This is processed to supply the goods and services you have purchased and to keep proper records. The legal basis for this is the performance of a contract with you or taking steps to enter into one, as well as our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our business and for record-keeping.
3.7 Notification Data: If you subscribe to our email notifications or newsletters, we will process the information you provide (“notification data”). This is used to send you the requested notifications and/or marketing material. The legal basis for this is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing.
3.8 Correspondence Data: We may process information contained in or relating to any communication you send to us (“correspondence data”), including the communication content and associated metadata. We use this data to communicate with you and for record-keeping. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our website, business, and communications with users.
3.9 Legal and Risk Management Data: We may process any of your personal data where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, or for obtaining insurance coverage, managing risks, and seeking professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in protecting our business and legal rights.
3.10 Compliance with Legal Obligations: We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another person.
3.11 We ask that you do not supply us with any other person’s personal data unless we specifically prompt you to do so.
4. Providing Your Personal Data to Others
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and professional advisers as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining professional advice, managing risks, or in the context of legal claims.
4.2 Financial transactions on our website are handled by our payment services providers, such as PayPal. We will share transaction data with them only to the extent necessary to process your payments, issue refunds, and handle related complaints and queries. You can review their privacy policy at: https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
4.3 We may, with your explicit consent, disclose your enquiry data to selected third-party suppliers of goods and services identified on our website. This is to enable them to contact you to offer, market, and sell their services. Each third party will be a data controller and will provide you with their own privacy policy.
4.4 We may also disclose your personal data where required by law, to enforce our terms and conditions, or to protect our rights, property, or safety, and the rights, property, or safety of others.
5. International Transfers of Your Personal Data
5.1 Our web server is hosted in the United Kingdom. Personal data processed for visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA) is transferred from the EEA to the UK.5 The European Commission has issued an adequacy decision for the UK, meaning that data can be transferred from the EEA to the UK without additional safeguards.6
5.2 We use third-party services that may process your data outside of the UK and the EEA. For example, Google, whose services we use for analytics and advertising, may process data in the USA.
5.3 When we transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK and the EEA that does not have an adequacy decision, we ensure it is protected by implementing appropriate safeguards. This includes using standard data protection clauses (Standard Contractual Clauses or SCCs) approved by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). You can obtain a copy of these clauses by contacting us.
5.4 You acknowledge that personal data you submit for public display on our website may be accessible globally via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such data by others.
6. Retaining and Deleting Personal Data
6.1 We will not keep your personal data for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
6.2 We have a retention policy in place to ensure we comply with our legal obligations. The retention periods vary depending on the type of data and the purpose of its processing. For example, we retain financial transaction records for a period required by tax and accounting laws.
6.3 We may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or to protect your or another person’s vital interests.
7. Amendments to This Policy
7.1 We may update this policy periodically by publishing a new version on our website.
7.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
7.3 In the event of significant changes, we may notify you by email.
8. Your Rights
8.1 Under UK and EU data protection laws, you have several rights regarding your personal data.7 The following is a summary. For a full explanation, please refer to the ICO’s guidance in the UK or your local data protection authority in the EU.
8.2 Your principal rights are:
(a) The right to access your personal data.
(b) The right to have inaccurate data rectified.
(c) The right to have your data erased (the “right to be forgotten”).
(d) The right to restrict the processing of your data.
(e) The right to object to processing.
(f) The right to data portability.
(g) The right to withdraw your consent at any time.
(h) The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
8.3 Right to Access: You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, to access a copy of that data, along with additional information about the processing. You can request this by emailing us at [email protected]. The first copy is free; subsequent copies may incur a reasonable fee.
8.4 Right to Rectification: You can have any inaccurate personal data about you corrected and incomplete data completed.8
8.5 Right to Erasure: In certain circumstances, you have the right to have your personal data erased without undue delay.9 This applies, for example, if the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or if you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for processing. Note that there are exceptions, such as for compliance with a legal obligation.
8.6 Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, for example, if you contest the accuracy of the data.10
8.7 Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data where the legal basis is our legitimate interests. If you object, we will stop processing your data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your rights. You have an absolute right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
8.8 Right to Data Portability: Where our processing is based on your consent or for the performance of a contract and is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
8.9 Right to Withdraw Consent: Where our processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
8.10 Right to Complain: If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at https://ico.org.uk. For visitors from the EU, you can lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country of residence.
8.11 You can exercise any of your rights by sending us a written notice using the contact details in Section 13.
9. Cookies and AdSense
9.1 A cookie is a small text file that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. It allows the server to identify and track the browser. Cookies can be “persistent,” remaining valid until a set expiry date, or “session” cookies, which expire when the browser is closed.
9.2 Cookies do not typically contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
10. Cookies We Use
10.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) Strictly Necessary: Essential for the website to function, such as managing your login session.
(b) Performance: To analyse website usage and performance, for example, with Google Analytics.
(c) Functionality: To remember your preferences and settings.
(d) Advertising: To display advertisements that are relevant to you, including through Google AdSense.
10.2 Google AdSense: We publish advertisements from Google AdSense on our website. Google uses cookies to serve these ads based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. This is known as “interest-based advertising.” Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet. You can learn more about how Google uses data from these cookies and how its partners use them by visiting their partner site: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
10.3 We use the Google-provided cookie consent solution to manage your preferences. When you first visit our site, you will be given the option to consent to or decline the use of non-essential cookies, including those used for advertising.
11. Cookies Used by Our Service Providers
11.1 Our service providers, such as Google, also use cookies.
11.2 Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. The information gathered is used to create reports on our website’s usage. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
11.3 Google AdSense: We publish Google AdSense advertisements, which use cookies to track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web to tailor advertisements to your interests. You can manage your ad settings with Google by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org.
12. Managing Cookies
12.1 You can manage your cookie preferences through the cookie consent tool provided on our website.
12.2 Most browsers also allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete them. You can find up-to-date information on how to block and delete cookies for common browsers via the following links:
(a) Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
(b) Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
(c) Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
(d) Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
(e) Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
(f) Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
12.3 Be aware that blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability and functionality of many websites, including ours.
13. Our Details
13.1 This website and business, ChinaTEFLer.com, is owned and operated by Ben Noon.
13.2 You can contact us:
(b) Via our website contact form at: https://chinatefler.com/contact-us/.
(c) By email at: [email protected].
13.4 For all data protection and privacy-related inquiries, please contact us using the above details.