Privacy Policy

About Teachers’ Club

STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club is a free online resource for primary school teachers in the UK to access curriculum-linked educational re sources, classroom competitions, and sample products. It also serves to provide highly-relevant content to inform and entertain its community of teachers.

The website is operated on behalf of the global stationery brand, STAEDTLER, with the intent of increasing brand awareness within the education sector, to ultimately promote and drive sales of its products.

STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and that your data is handled lawfully and ethically. Any information we have asked you to provide in accordance with signing up as a STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club member will only be used in line with this privacy statement.

When signing up to become a member of STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club, you are agreeing to share the following information with us:

• Full name
• Email address
• Job title
• School name and address
• Key stages taught

Your information will be stored on our database until further notice OR until you delete your membership account.

To delete your account, login to the Members’ Area and click ‘Account’, before clicking ‘Delete Account’. Once your account has been deleted, your information will be permanently deleted from our database and records.

If you decide that you’d like to re-register as a member of STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club at any other time, you will need to go through the original registration process.

Purpose of processing

STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club members will use their email address and password to sign-in and access free member benefits, e.g. educational resources, competition materials, etc. This information is included in the database to verify your membership and allow the membership system to run efficiently.

As a member, your data will also be processed to send you occasional e-newsletters, to communicate news, competitions, or information about STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club changes that are likely to be of interest to you. E-newsletters are sent relatively infrequently to ensure that our members only receive highly-relevant content.

Other contact information may also be used to respond to enquiries, co-ordinate competition prizes, and to identify competition entrants against membership details.

We do not sell or share your personal data for commercial purposes. However, we may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who support the operation of the STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club platform (e.g., email distribution platforms, website hosting, and customer service tools).

SURVEYS, RESEARCH AND COMPETITIONS 

From time to time, we may invite members to participate in surveys, research activities, feedback exercises, classroom case studies, competitions or other engagement initiatives.  

Participation in these activities will always be voluntary, and information collected through the activities may be used to:  

• produce reports, articles, educational resources, marketing materials, presentations or publications.

• support research into educational practice, classroom experiences and teacher perspectives,  

• improve STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club content, services and member experiences. 

• select competition / prize draw winners and administer prizes. 

• provide insight to STAEDTLER UK in response to Teachers’ Club activities or classroom supplies e.g., stationery. 

Any responses in line with the above may be published or quoted by STAEDTLER UK and/or STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club, and unless otherwise stated and agreed with participants, responses will be anonymised before publication. Any quotations used may be edited for spelling, grammar, formatting, or clarity, while preserving the original meaning. 

We will not publish your name, school, or any other information that directly identifies you without obtaining your separate explicit consent. 

Survey and competition responses may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purpose for which they were collected, including publication, reporting, auditing, legal, or administrative requirements, after which they will be securely deleted or anonymised. 

Should there be any updates/changes to the above when working in collaboration with another party e.g., supplier, partner or provider, a separate Privacy Policy will be issued where applicable.  

Cookies and tracking

We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. These may include functional cookies, performance analytics (e.g., Google Analytics), and cookies related to your account login. You can manage your cookie preferences via your browser settings.

Updating details

If you would like to edit or update details on your account, you can do this by logging into the Members’ Area and clicking ‘Edit profile.

For any other questions relating to membership, please contact us at info@teachersclub.staedtler.co.uk.

Your rights as a STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club member

We will ensure any personal information is handled in accordance with the law. You have the right to:

• Right to access — you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure — you can delete your account and request that your data be permanently removed.
• Right to restrict processing — you may ask us to suspend the use of your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to object — you may object to our use of your data for direct marketing.
• Right to data portability — you can request your data in a structured, commonly used format.
• Right to complain — you have the right to lodge a complaint with the ICO: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at: info@teachersclub.staedtler.co.uk

Contact information

All queries relating to this Policy are to be addressed to the STAEDTLER Teachers’ Club team at info@teachersclub.staedtler.co.uk.

Data controller / Data protection officer: Helen Wild, Equinox, Tramshed Tech, Unit D Pendyris St, Cardiff CF11 6BH. t: 02920 764100 e: staedtler@equinox.wales