Privacy policy

This is the privacy policy (“policy”) for this website which is run and provided by Macmillan Publishers Limited ("Macmillan"), whose registered office is situated at 4 Crinan Street, Kings Cross, London, N1 9XW. Any queries or comments on the subject of this site should be directed to pictures@macmillaneducation.com

We will only use the personal data gathered over this website as set out in this policy. Below you will find information on how we use your personal data, for which purposes your personal data is used, with whom it is shared and what control and information rights you may have.

  1. Summary of our processing activities

    The following summary provides you with a quick overview of the processing activities that are undertaken on our website. You will find more detailed information under the indicated sections below.

    • When you visit our website for informational reasons without setting up an account, only limited personal data will be processed to provide you with the website itself (see III).
    • If you register for the services of MARS, further personal data will be processed in the scope of such services (see IV, V and VI).
    • Furthermore, your personal data will be used to provide you with interesting advertising for our services and products (see VIII) and for statistical analysis that helps us to improve our website (see IX). Additionally, we improve your website experience with third party content (see X).
    • Your personal data may be disclosed to third parties (see XI) that might be located outside your country of residence; potentially, different data protection standards may apply (see XII).
    • We have implemented appropriate safeguards to secure your personal data (see XIII) and retain your personal data only as long as necessary (see XIV).
    • Under the legislation applicable to you, you may be entitled to exercise certain rights with regard to the processing of your personal data (see XV).

  2. Definitions

    • Personal data: Means any information relating to a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, or an online identifier.
    • Processing: means any operation which is performed on personal data, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or any kind of disclosure or other use.

  3. Informational use of the website

    When you visit our website for informational reasons, i.e. without registering for any of our provided services listed under IV and without providing us with personal data in any other form, we may automatically collect additional information about you which will contain personal data only in limited cases and which is automatically recognised by our server, such as:

    • The date and time of your visit
    • Your behaviour during your visit

    We use such information only to assist us in providing an effective service (e.g. to adapt our website to the needs of your device or to allow you to log in to our website), and to collect broad demographic information for anonymised, aggregated use.

    The personal data automatically collected is necessary for us to provide the website, Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR, and for our legitimate interest to guarantee the website’s stability and security, Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR.

    Personal data that is collected automatically is retained for [1] months and properly erased afterwards.

  4. Registration for our services

    Our website offers a media assets repository system, through which users may view, organise and download various forms of media. In order to use the aforementioned services you have to set up an account. With regard to the registration of an account and its subsequent use, we process:

    • Your email address
    • The date and time of your requests and registration
    • Your forename and surname
    • When you are online
    • Your telephone number

    The information that is necessary for the performance of the service is labelled accordingly. All further information is provided voluntarily.

    We will process the personal data you provide to:

    • Identify you at sign in
    • Provide you with the services and information offered through the website or which you request;
    • Administer to your account
    • Communicate with you

    For this, the legal basis is Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR.

    You can object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing at any time. We will then refrain from any processing to the extent it is related to such purposes. You can inform us about your objection by contacting us at pictures@macmillaneducation.com

    Your personal data is, in the absence of exceptions within the specific services mentioned below, retained for as long as your user account is used. After deletion of your account, your personal data will be erased. Statutory storage obligations or the need for legal actions that may arise from misconduct within the services or payment problems can lead to a longer retention of your personal data. In this case, we will inform you accordingly.

  5. Automated decision making

    We do not use your personal data for automated decision making which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

  6. Analysis

    For statistical analyses we use a tool called Capture Office Online, a web analytics service provided by Capture Ltd. (14 High Street, Goring-on-Thames, Reading, Berkshire, RG8 9AR, United Kingdom), to collect information about the use of this site.

    The tool collects information such as user registration, when users are online and downloads. We use the information we get from Capture only to determine the most useful information you are looking for, and to improve and optimise this website. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Capture Office Online with personal data.

    The information generated about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Capture on servers in the South of England. Capture Office Online collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or any other identifying information. The provider will use this information in order to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide other services relating to website and internet use to us.

    The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. of GDPR and represents our legitimate interest to analyse our website’s traffic to improve the user’s experience and to optimise the website in general

    • Information sharing

    Your personal data will be disclosed to the following third parties for the purposes mentioned above: Capture Ltd., 14 High Street, Goring-on-Thames, Reading, Berkshire, RG8 9AR, United Kingdom. Legal basis for the transfer of your personal data is Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b and f GDPR. This disclosure is necessary in order to process your personal data for communicating with users, fulfilling user orders and other such essential services this site provides.

    We may disclose anonymous aggregate statistics about users of the website in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will include no personal data.

    In the event that we undergo re-organisation or are sold to a third party, any personal data we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party in compliance with applicable law.

    We may disclose your personal data if legally entitled or required to do so (for example if required by law or by a court order).

  7. Cross border data transfers

    Within the scope of our information sharing activities set out above, your personal data may be transferred to other countries (including countries outside the EEA) which may have different data protection standards from your country of residence. Please note that data processed in a foreign country may be subject to foreign laws and accessible to foreign governments, courts, law enforcement, and regulatory agencies. However, we will endeavour to take reasonable measures to maintain an adequate level of data protection when sharing your personal data with such countries. You can find further information about the aforementioned safeguards by contacting Stefan Kaus at stefan.kaus@springernature.com

  8. Security

    We have reasonable state of the art security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal data under our control. For example, our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorised personnel have access to personal data. Whilst we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we use all reasonable efforts to prevent it.

    You should bear in mind that submission of information over the internet is never entirely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of information you submit via our website whilst it is in transit over the internet and any such submission is at your own risk.

  9. Data retention

    We strive to keep our processing activities with respect to your personal data as limited as possible. In the absence of specific retention periods set out in this policy, your personal data will be retained only for as long as we need it to fulfil the purpose for which we have collected it and, if applicable, as long as required by statutory retention requirements.

  10. Your rights

    Under the legislation applicable to you, you may be entitled to exercise some or all of the following rights:

    1. require (i) information as to whether your personal data is retained and (ii) access to and/or duplicates of your personal data retained, including the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the data recipients as well as potential retention periods;
    2. request rectification, removal or restriction of your personal data, e.g. because (i) it is incomplete or inaccurate, (ii) it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, or (iii) the consent on which the processing was based has been withdrawn;
    3. refuse to provide and – without impact to data processing activities that have taken place before such withdrawal – withdraw your consent to processing of your personal data at any time;
    4. object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, that your personal data shall be subject to a processing. In this case, please provide us with information about your particular situation. After the assessment of the facts presented by you we will either stop processing your personal data or present you our compelling legitimate grounds for an ongoing processing;
    5. take legal actions in relation to any potential breach of your rights regarding the processing of your personal data, as well as to lodge complaints before the competent data protection regulators;
    6. require (i) to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and (ii) to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from our side; where technically feasible you shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller; and/or
    7. not to be subject to any automated decision making, including profiling (automatic decisions based on data processing by automatic means, for the purpose of assessing several personal aspects) which produce legal effects on you or affects you with similar significance.
    You may (i) exercise the rights referred to above or (ii) pose any questions or (iii) make any complaints regarding our data processing by contacting us using the contact details set out below.

  11. Contacting us

    Please submit any questions, concerns or comments you have about this privacy policy or any requests concerning your personal data by email to our Group Data Protection Officer. You can contact our Group Data Protection Officer via stefan.kaus@springernature.com

    The information you provide when contacting us will be processed to handle your request and will be erased when your request is completed. Alternatively, we will restrict the processing of the respective information in accordance with statutory retention requirements.

  12. Amendments to this policy

    We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time by updating our website respectively. Please visit the website regularly and check our respective current privacy policy. This policy was last updated on 12/06/2018.