One of our core values is transparency. For this reason, we want you to know from the beginning that the privacy of your data is important to us. This privacy statement explains what personal data we collect from our users and how we use it. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully before submitting your personal information to this website.

People over 14 years old may register as users at www.thevfxschool.com, without the prior consent of their parents or guardians.

In the case of minors under 14 years of age, the consent of the parents or guardians is required for processing their personal data.

In no case will data related to the professional, economic, or privacy situation of other family members be collected from a minor without their consent.

If you are under the age of 14 and have accessed this website without notifying your parents, you must not register as a user.

On this website, the personal data of users is respected and protected. As a user, you should know that your rights are guaranteed.

We have strived to create a safe and reliable space for our users. Therefore, we want to share our principles regarding your privacy:

• We never request personal information unless it is really necessary to provide the services you require.
• We never share personal information of our users with any third-parties, except to comply with the law or in case we have your express authorization to share it.
• We will never use your personal data for a purpose other than those expressed in this Privacy Policy.

It should be noted that this Privacy Policy may vary depending on normative or self-regulatory requirements, so users are advised to review it periodically. This Privacy Policy shall be applicable in the event that users decide to fill out a form where personal information is collected.

The VFX School has adapted this website to the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons (GDPR), the Spanish Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, Personal Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD, “Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales y Garantía de los Derechos Digitales”), as well as Spanish Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE or LSSI “Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y Comercio Electrónico”).

 

Responsible party for processing your personal data

• Identity of the responsible party: Daniel José Larrosa Martínez
• Commercial name: The VFX School
• NIF/CIF: 42267125W
• Address: Las Hespérides, 60. 38107 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain)
• Email: info@thevfxschool.com
• Activity: Education

For the purposes of the provisions of the aforementioned General Data Protection Regulation, the personal data that you submit through the web forms will receive the data processing of “Student.”

In processing the data of our students, we implement all the technical and organizational security measures established in the current legislation.

 

Principles that we apply to your personal information

We will apply the following principles in processing your personal data, in compliance with the requirements of the new European General Data Protection Regulation:

• Principle of legality, loyalty, and transparency: We will always require your consent for processing your personal data for one or more specific purposes, of which we will inform you in advance with absolute transparency.
• Principle of data minimization: We will only request the data that is strictly necessary for the purposes for which we require it, and will request the minimum possible amount of data.
• Principle of limitation of the conservation period: The data will be kept for no longer than necessary, and for the purposes of processing it. Depending on the purpose, we will inform you of the corresponding conservation period. In the case of subscriptions, we will periodically review our lists and eliminate records that have been inactive for a considerable time.
• Principle of integrity and confidentiality: Your data will be processed in such a way that guarantees adequate security and confidentiality of your personal data. You should know that we take all the necessary precautions to avoid unauthorized access or improper use of our users’ data by third parties.

 

How did we obtain your data?

The personal data that we process at The VFX School comes from the registration form.

 

What are your rights when you provide us with your data?

Any person has the right to obtain confirmation about whether or not The VFX School is processing their personal data.

Interested persons have the right to:

• Request access to the personal data related to the interested party making the request
• Request the data be rectified or deleted
• Request the limitation of its processing
• Object to the processing of their personal data
• Request the portability of their personal data

Interested parties may access their personal data, and also request the rectification of inaccurate data or, if necessary, to request its deletion when, among other reasons, the data are no longer necessary for the purposes they were collected. In certain circumstances, the interested parties may request the limitation of the processing of their data, in which case, we will only keep them for the exercise or defense of claims.

In certain circumstances and for reasons related to their specific situation, the interested parties may object to the processing of their personal data. The VFX School will stop processing the data, except for compelling legitimate reasons, or the exercise or defense of possible claims. As an interested party, you have the right to receive the personal data that concerns you and which you have provided us, in a structured format, of common use and mechanical reading, and to transmit them to another data controller when:

• The processing of your data is based on consent.
• The personal data has been provided by the interested party.
• The processing of the data is carried out by automated means.

By exercising your right to data portability, you will have the right to have your personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another controller, when technically possible.

Interested parties will also have the right to effective judicial protection and to file a claim with the supervisory authority, in this case, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (“Agencia Española de Protección de Datos”), if they consider that the processing of personal data that concerns them violates the Regulation.

 

For what purpose do we process your personal data?

When a user connects to this website, for example, to comment on a post, send an email to the owner, subscribe, or hire services, they are providing personal information for which The VFX School is responsible. This information may include personal data such as your IP address, name, physical address, email address, among others. By providing this information, the User consents to their information being collected, used, managed, and stored by www.thevfxschool.com, only as described in the Legal Notice and this Privacy Policy.

At The VFX School, there is currently a single system for capturing personal information, the Registration Form, in which the following personal information is requested: first and last name, date of birth, address, and email, to create an account in our system and provide access to purchasing training courses.

There are other purposes for which we process your personal data:

• To guarantee compliance with the Terms of Use and applicable law. This may include the development of tools and algorithms that help this website guarantee the confidentiality of the personal data it collects.
• To support and improve the services offered by this website.
• Other non-identifying data are also collected and obtained through some cookies that are downloaded to the user’s computer browser when they visit this website, which we detail in the Cookie Policy.
• To manage social media. The data processing for people who become followers in the social networks of the official social media accounts of The VFX School shall be governed by this section, as well as by the terms of use, privacy policies and regulations of access of the specific social network for each case, which are accepted previously by the user. Your data will be processed for the purposes of managing your presence properly on the social network, reporting activities, products, or services of The VFX School, as well as for any other purpose that the regulations of social networks allow. Under no circumstance will we use the profiles of social media followers to send individually-tailored advertising.

In accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679, The VFX School, with address at Las Hespérides, 60. 38107 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) shall be responsible for the processing of personal data of the students.

The VFX School does not sell, rent, or transfer personal data that can identify the user to third parties, nor will it do so in the future without prior consent. However, in some cases, collaborations can be made with other professionals, in which consent will be required from users, informing them about the identity of the collaborator and the purpose of the collaboration. This will always be carried out using the strictest security standards.

We may select and publish student testimonials about our services, which may contain personally identifiable information, such as your name and/or the city, state, or country in which you live. We will obtain your consent before publishing any testimonials with your name. If such content is published, it will be available to other users of the services. If you want us to delete or remove your name or testimony from our website, you can contact The VFX School via email (info@thevfxschool.com).

We may post student reviews on our website, which may contain personally identifiable information, such as their name and/or the city, state, or country in which they live. By sending your opinion, you are giving us permission to publish it on our website. If you post such content, it will be available to other users. Your posting may also be made public, and we cannot prevent such information from being used in a way that could violate this policy or the law. If you want us to delete your name or review, you can contact The VFX School via email (info@thevfxschool.com).

 

Legitimation for processing your personal data

The legal basis for the treatment of your data is consent.

Consent to this Privacy Policy is required to contact or make comments on this website.

The prospective or commercial offer of products and services is based on the consent requested.

 

Data category

The data categories being processed on this website are personally-identifiable data. Specially protected categories of data are not being processed.

 

How long will we keep your data?

The personal data provided will be kept until its deletion is requested by the interested party.

 

To which recipients will your data be communicated?

Many tools that we use to process your data are controlled by third parties.

To provide services strictly necessary for the development of its activities, www.thevfxschool.com shares data with the following providers, under their corresponding privacy conditions:

Google Analytics: A web analytics tool provided by Google LLC, whose main office is in California, USA. Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files located on your computer, to help www.thevfxschool.com analyze the use made by users of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of www.thevfxschool.com (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted and stored by Google on servers located in the United States.

Hosting: 1&1 Ionos SE, with address in the EU. More information at www.ionos.es. Ionos processes the data to provide hosting services for The VFX School.

Consulting/Management: Jesús Ramón Brito, Jesús Ramón Brito, with address in the EU. Jesús Ramón Brito processes the data in order to carry out his consulting/management services to The VFX School.

Web platform: WordPress, with address in the USA. More information at www.wordpress.org. WordPress processes the data to provide its web platform services to The VFX School.

Email marketing: The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a, with address in the USA. More information at www.mailchimp.com. The Rocket Science Group processes the data to carry out its email marketing services to The VFX School.

Management: Moodle Pty Ltd, with address in Australia. More information at www.moodle.org. Moodle processes the data to provide its learning management services to The VFX School.

 

Navigation

When browsing www.thevfxschool.com, non-identifying data can be collected, which may include IP addresses, geographical location (approximate), records about how the services and sites are used, among other data that cannot be used to personally identify the user. Among the non-identifying data, there is also data related to your browsing habits through third-party services. This website uses the following third-party analytics services:

• Google Analytics
• Facebook Pixel

We use this information to analyze trends, manage the site, track user movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

 

Data security and secrecy

Thevfxschool.com is committed to the proper use and processing of its users’ personal data, respecting their confidentiality and using them in accordance with their purpose, as well as to complying with their obligation to store them and employ all measures to prevent their alteration, loss, unauthorized access or processing, in accordance with the provisions of current data protection regulations.

This website includes an SSL certificate. SSL is a security protocol that makes your data be transferred completely and safely, meaning that the transmission of data between a server and web user and back is fully encrypted at all times.

Thevfxschool.com cannot guarantee the absolute impregnability of the Internet network and, therefore, cannot provide absolute protection against the violation of data through fraudulent access achieved by third parties.

Regarding the confidentiality of the processing of personal data, Daniel José Larrosa Martínez will ensure that anyone who is authorized by The VFX School to process the student’s data (including their staff, collaborators, and providers), is under the appropriate obligation of confidentiality, by means of a contractual or legal obligation.

When a security incident occurs, The VFX School will notify users without undue delay and will provide timely information related to the security incident, or when reasonably requested by the user.

 

Accuracy and veracity of the data

As a user, you are solely responsible for the veracity and accuracy of the data that you provide to www.thevfxschool.com and exonerate The VFX School from any responsibility in this regard.

As a user of this site, you agree to guarantee and respond, in any case, to the accuracy, validity, and authenticity of the personal data you provide and undertake to keep your data duly updated. The user also agrees to provide complete and correct information in the registration form.

 

Acceptance and consent

The user declares to have been informed of the conditions on the protection of personal data and accepts and consents to the processing of their personal data by The VFX School, in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy.

 

Revocability

The consent given, both for the processing and the transfer of the interested party’s data, is revocable at any time, which is to be communicated to The VFX School under the terms established in this Privacy Policy for the exercise of ARCO rights. This revocation will, in no case, be retroactive.

 

Changes to the Privacy Policy

The VFX School reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy to adapt it to new legislation or jurisprudence, as well as industry practices. In such cases, The VFX School will announce on this page the changes introduced with reasonable notice before its implementation.

 

Commercial emails

According to the LSSICE, www.thevfxschool.com does not carry out SPAM practices and, therefore, does not send commercial emails that have not been previously requested or authorized by the user. In consequence, the user can give their express consent in all forms on this website, regardless of the commercial information requested.

In accordance with the provisions of Law 34/2002 on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE, “Ley de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y Comercio Electrónico”), www.thevfxschool.com undertakes not to send commercial communications without properly identifying them.

 

On behalf of the team that makes up The VFX School, we thank you for the time spent reading this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 27, 2020.