We do not share, nor retain, any personal information on casual visitors to this site. However, depending on your option selection, the following performance cookies may be held by our internet service provider:
1. Cookie Key: PHPSESSID
Cookie Type: First party
Purpose: Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain
user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is
maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.
Expiration: Session
Country: South Africa
Should you wish to check our site for verification, click here and await the result of the check.
Your IP Address (a string of numbers unique to your internet enabled device) will be recorded by our web server when you request any page or element on our website, monitoring your usage of the website.
Once a Member, we will hold no other information on you other than that you knowingly provide us with:
First and last name
Location (country and city/town)
Language preference
Email address
Design field
Status (student, professional, hobbyist, other)
Institution of study, if applicable
Times, dates, duration of sessions
We may also retain:
Video recordings of your sessions (for a maximum period of two years from the date of the session) but will delete all records at your written request.
These details will only be used for the purposes of efficiently delivering to you the services that you request, as well as for the purposes of in-house reviews of sessions (as may be deemed necessary for further training of our ‘critters’, or to review sessions that have been flagged as problematic, for whatever reason).
Any personal information we collect from this website will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable laws.
We do not process any banking transactions through this website, and will never willingly request:
Your banking details
Other contact details
Other personal details (such as age, gender, ethnicity, etc.)
On cancellation of your membership, these records will be irrevocably deleted immediately (at your specific request), or will be held for a period of two years from the date of cancellation.
All records are held on protected and encrypted physical storage devices; membership details are additionally held on our domain service provider’s servers, but are also encrypted.
There are no trackers on our website, we do not knowingly share any information with the likes of Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, etc. (we actively avoid the use of social media), nor any other known data brokers. However, we do have an embedded link on our site to our LinkedIn™ page (see here for LinkedIn’s privacy policy page and here for their cookie policy page).
To learn more about opting out of interest-based advertising, and to better understand your choices, see here…
The only cookies that may be retained will be functional ones for the proper working of the site and your membership. To find out more about cookies, see here…
Other companies whose software we have added to the site may also store information, and this can also impact your experience of other websites you may visit after leaving ours.
You can change your browser settings to refuse cookies and delete them at any time. If you continue to use this site without taking action to prevent the storage of this information, you are effectively agreeing to this use.
Additionally, some of your details may be held by Calendly™ as a result of the session booking process (see here… for their cookie and and here… for their privacy policy), and you will be requested to agree or disagree with their policies when making a calendar appointment.
With regards to Zoom™, through which our video sessions are run, you will be requested to consider their cookie and privacy policies when first launching their app / browser page (but find their cookie and privacy policy here).
