The Sketchbook English
Privacy Policy


Your voice recordings and creative output are your intellectual property.
Who We Are

Our website address is:
https://www.sketchbookenglishmembership.com/
The Sketchbook English Online Course is presented by Blue Noun Language Hub
Our address is:
Blue Noun Ltd. St Ninian’s Lodge, Lodge Street, PH7 4DW
Our Company number is:
SC611653
Website

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here:
https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Please respect all artists and copyright laws.
We ALWAYS get artist permission before publishing any images. This does not extend to you.
Please contact us to get permission to republish any of our images.

Cookies
We use Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics tracking on our site and we temporarily store your data if you leave a comment.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site 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.
Data

Marketing - emails
We use an op-in system for collecting names and email addresses for our newsletter marketing.
This information is stored by a 3rd Party (Mailerlite).
We are committed to making it as easy as possible for you to unsubscribe.
Every marketing email we sent contains opt-out instructions.
If you opt-out Mailerlite removes you from the list.
We do not store marketing email addresses or names anywhere outside Mailerlite.

Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), 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.

What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
3rd Party
We use Mailerlite for storing email addresses and contact data for the Blue Noun mailing list.
We use Thrive Cart and Stripe for taking clients’ payments.
We use Slack to share voice messages / images & video.
Your Work & Voice

Artist Copyright and Client Privacy
Sketchbook English is a course written by artists, for artists.
Throughout the Sketchbook English Online Course we invite clients to use Slack to share voice messages and images / film for feedback.
Your voice recordings and creative output are your intellectual property.
We will never publish your intellectual property without your explicit, prior consent.
In that instance, we would contact you via email to ask for your permission to use an item or a clip in our marketing material.
You have no obligation to grant your permission.
We’ll keep your English learning space private and confidential and handle your artwork under international copyright laws.
Our Work & Voice

Our Copyright and Privacy
Sketchbook English is a course written by artists, for artists.
Please respect our copyright.
To reproduce, copy, share or publish any part or parts of the contents of this course is illegal.
Please respect our right to be artists and course designers – which have been created with the best intentions.
If you purchase our Sketchbook English Online Course, we are sharing our creative methods and content with you – and you alone.
Further Information

Want more information?
The GDPR sets out seven principles for the lawful processing of personal data.
They are explained well by the University of Highlands and Islands here.