Starting From Scratch
Privacy Policy
This policy explains how Aff Edtech Ltd ("we", "us"), a company registered in England and Wales (Company No. 11108740), handles your personal data when you use this site and enter the Starting From Scratch series competition. We are the data controller for this processing.
What we collect
- Entry details: your name, email address, and phone number, submitted through the entry form.
- Proof screenshots: the images you upload as evidence of your comment and, if you enter the bonus draw, your social share.
- Technical data: your IP address and browser information, collected when you submit, used for fraud and abuse prevention.
- Analytics cookies: with your consent, we use the Meta pixel to measure how this page performs and to improve how we promote the series. You can decline this and still enter the competition.
What we use it for
- Administering the competition: validating entries, linking your entries across episodes, selecting and contacting winners (legitimate interest and contract performance).
- Fraud prevention: detecting duplicate, automated or fraudulent entries (legitimate interest).
- Updates about the series and related content from Jordan Platten and Affluent Academy, where permitted; you can unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email.
- Advertising measurement via the Meta pixel (consent, via the cookie notice on this site).
Where your data lives
Entry data and screenshots are stored securely with our hosting and database providers (Vercel and Supabase). Screenshots are stored in a private bucket and are only accessible to the competition team via expiring secure links.
How long we keep it
Competition data is kept for the duration of the series and for up to 12 months after the competition concludes (to administer prize delivery and handle any disputes), then deleted. You can request earlier deletion at any time once the competition has concluded.
Sharing
We do not sell your data. It is shared only with the service providers above, and with Meta only in the form of pixel events if you consent to analytics cookies.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data, and to object to processing based on legitimate interests. To exercise any of these, contact us at support@affluent.academy. You also have the right to complain to the ICO (ico.org.uk).