GDPR Data Processing Addendum
This Data Processing Addendum (DPA) is an agreement between Education Perfect and the Customer. When the GDPR applies to the processing of personal data on the Online Learning Platform, this DPA forms part of the Standard Terms and Conditions (Terms), available on the Education Perfect website (educationperfect.com), as updated from time to time.
Unless otherwise defined in this DPA or in the Terms, all capitalised terms used in this DPA shall have the meanings given to them in Section 8 (Definitions) of this DPA. References to teachers, students, and schools include other trainers, learners, and organisations respectively, and vice versa.
1.
Roles of the Parties
Where Education Perfect, its affiliates or a sub-processor (Processor) processes personal data (Processed Personal Data) in the course of providing the Services to, or otherwise performing its obligations under the Terms for, the Customer, the parties acknowledge that, to the extent relevant under the Applicable Privacy Laws, the Customer will act as the controller, and the Processor will act as a processor on behalf of the Customer, in relation to the Processed Personal Data.
2.
Processing instructions
Subject to the other provisions of this DPA, the Customer:
(a) Instructs Education Perfect to take such steps in the processing of Processed Personal Data on its behalf as are reasonably necessary to the provision of the Services or otherwise to the performance of Education Perfection’s obligations under the Terms; and
(b) Irrevocably authorises Education Perfect to provide equivalent instructions to sub-processors on its behalf.
3.
Details of Processing
The description of the processing as required by article 28(3) of the GDPR is as follows:
(a) Subject matter – The subject matter of the data processing under this DPA is the performance of the Services in accordance with the Terms
(b) Duration – The Subscription Period under the Terms, or such other period set out in the Subscription Form
(c) Nature and purpose of the processing – Use of students’, teachers’ and/or parents’ personal data (as set out below) for the purpose of providing the Services, including but not limited to providing the Online Learning Tool
(d) Categories of data subject and types of personal data
Data Subject
Types of Personal Data
Students
Personal identifiers: first and last names, name of school, and school identification number
Contact details: email address
Academic information: classes and subjects, feedback from teachers and school, results and grades on assignments, quizzes and competitions
Technical data: website usage, device and location
Teachers
Personal identifiers: first and last names, job and title, name of school and school identification number
Contact details: email address, school address, contact number
Billing / account details
Parents
Personal identifiers: first and last names, child’s first and last name
Contact details: email address
Payment information
(e) Data Transfers – Data transfers to Education Perfect’s employees and affiliates and sub-processors who may be based outside the EEA, including in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and the United States of America.
4.
Compliance with Applicable Privacy Law
Education Perfect shall comply, and ensure that each of its affiliates and sub-processors complies, with Applicable Privacy Law in relation to its processing of personal data in connection with the Terms.
The Customer shall ensure that, before any Processed Personal Data are disclosed by the Customer to the Processor, the Customer has taken any steps necessary to ensure that, if the Processor complies with Clause 5, the disclosure does not breach any Applicable Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoing, the Customer shall be responsible:
(a) at all time for the integrity, quality and legality of the Processed Personal Data provided by the Customer to Education Perfect. Education Perfect is under no duty to investigate the completeness, accuracy or sufficiency of the Processed Personal Data provided to it by the Customer;
(b) to inform the data subject (and their parents / guardians where required under Applicable Privacy Law) that their Processed Personal Data will be transferred to and processed by Education Perfect, and to direct them to Education Perfect’s Privacy Policy available on the Education Perfect website (educationperfect.com/legal);
(c) to the extent required by Applicable Privacy Law, to obtain the consent of the data subjects for their Processed Personal Data to be transferred to and processed by the Processor, and where the data subject is below the applicable age of consent under Applicable Privacy Law, to obtain the consent of the data subject’s parents and/or guardians; and
(d) to promptly inform the Processor when a data subject ceases to be a student at the Customer’s school or should otherwise no longer continue to have access to the Services.
5.
Customer / processor arrangements
Education Perfect shall ensure that the Processor:
(a) only processes the Processed Personal Data:
(i) on the documented instructions of the Customer, which include the instructions set out in Clause 2 of this DPA; and
(ii) as otherwise required by Applicable Laws in which case the Processor shall, to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws, inform the Customer of such legal requirement prior to the processing;
(b) ensures that all of its employees authorised to have access to (or otherwise to process) the Processed Personal Data have committed themselves to confidentiality on appropriate terms or are under an appropriate statutory obligation of confidentiality;
(c) at all times has in place technical and organisational measures to protect the Processed Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access which are appropriate to the risks of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of individuals that are presented by the processing, taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing (Appropriate), including as and where Appropriate, measures for the pseudonymisation and encryption of Processed Personal Data; the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services; the ability to restore the availability of and access to Processed Personal Data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident; and a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing;
(d) gives the Customer such co-operation, assistance and information as the Customer may reasonably request, and the Processor or Education Perfect may reasonably be able to provide, to enable the Customer to comply with its obligations under Applicable Privacy Laws and co-operate with the competent authorities in relation to the Processed Personal Data, including, where relevant given the nature of the Processor’s processing, assisting the Customer:
(i) by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures, insofar as is possible, to respond to requests from data subjects for access to or rectification, erasure or portability, or restriction of or objection to processing, of Processed Personal Data (but Education Perfect shall not, and shall ensure that the Processor does not, respond to any such request except with the Customer’s prior written consent); and
(ii) in ensuring compliance with the Customer’s security, data breach notification, impact assessment and data protection or data privacy authority consultation obligations under Applicable Privacy Laws, taking into account the information available to Education Perfect and/or Processor.
Education Perfect may charge the Customer on a time and materials basis, at Education Perfect’s standard applicable rates, for time spent in providing assistance under this Clause 5(d).
(e) shall, in relation to Education Perfect only, at all times have in place (and keep the Customer informed in writing of the identity and contact details of) an individual who is responsible for co-operating with the Customer in relation to data protection and data privacy matters in connection with the Terms;
(f) without undue delay gives written notice to the Customer, with reasonable details, if it becomes aware of, or comes to have reasonable grounds to suspect, the occurrence of any personal data breach or other material incident prejudicing, or revealing a material weakness in, the security of the Processed Personal Data while in its possession or under its control (a “Data Security Incident“);
(g) in relation to any Data Security Incident:
(i) takes all reasonable steps to identify and correct the underlying cause of the Data Security Incident so as to eliminate or minimise the risk of its repetition and the occurrence of similar Data Security Incidents;
(ii) takes such steps as the Customer may reasonably request and the Processor or Education Perfect may reasonably be able to take to assist the Customer in addressing the adverse consequences for the Customer and its Affiliates of, and complying with the Customer’s and its Affiliates’ obligations under Applicable Privacy Law in relation to, the Data Security Incident; and
(iii) reports to the Customer, promptly and at regular intervals, on the steps taken under Clauses 5(g)(i) and (ii) and their results;
(h) makes available to the Customer all information reasonably requested by the Customer, and permits and contributes to all reasonable audits, including inspections, conducted by the Customer (or auditors appointed by either of them), as reasonably necessary to demonstrate Education Perfect’s compliance with this Clause 5, provided that the Customer shall:
(i) ensure that such audits take place during Education Perfect’s business hours and on reasonable notice;
(ii) ensure that appropriate confidentiality provisions, or other contractual, professional or statutory obligations of confidentiality, are agreed with any third party involved in audit or inspection; and
(iii) take (and ensure that auditors take) reasonable endeavours to avoid causing any damage, injury or disruption to Education Perfect;
(i) promptly informs the Customer in writing (but without any obligation to give legal advice) if, in its opinion, to follow an instruction given by the Customer as contemplated by Clause 5(a) would give rise to a breach of Applicable Privacy Law; and
(j) at the option of the Customer (to be exercised by written notice from the Customer (in the absence of which the Customer is deemed to have chosen delete)), deletes or returns to the Customer, in a reasonable and appropriate format, all the Processed Personal Data in its possession or under its control as soon as is practicable after the end of the provision of the relevant Services, and (in the case of return) as soon as is practicable deletes all other copies of those Processed Personal Data.
6.
International data transfers
The Customer (as data exporter) and Education Perfect (as data importer) hereby enter into a data transfer agreement in the form set out in Schedule 1 (Standard Contractual Clauses (Processors)) in relation to transfers of Processed Personal Data from the Customer to Education Perfect.
7.
Sub-processing
(a) The Customer agrees that Education Perfect may engage other persons to process the Processed Personal Data on its behalf (sub-processors) if:
(i) the sub-processor is (i) an Affiliate of Education Perfect or (ii) an existing Sub-Processor as at the commencement of the subscription; or
(ii) Education Perfect has (i) given the Customer reasonable written notice of the engagement (which will be done on our website by updating the list of sub-processors available here); and (ii) before going ahead with the engagement, taken reasonable account of any comments or objections raised by the Customer.
(b) Education Perfect remains liable for the performance of its obligations under this DPA irrespective of the engagement of any sub-processor.
(c) Education Perfect shall ensure that each (if any) sub-processor is party to a written contract binding on it with regard to the Customer and imposing on it obligations which are substantially similar to those imposed on Education Perfect by Clause 5.
8.
Definitions
Capitalised terms have the following meanings in this DPA:
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a party, any person which directly or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control with such party;
“Applicable Law” means any laws, statutes, regulations, regulatory constraints, obligations or rules (including binding codes of conduct and binding statements of principle incorporated and contained in such rules) in any jurisdiction applicable to the existence or operation of the Terms and the Parties to the Terms, including any amending, consolidating or successor legislation or case law which takes effect from time to time in the relevant jurisdiction;
“Applicable Privacy Law” means an Applicable Law on data protection or data privacy, including the GDPR;
“Control” shall mean the power to direct the management or policies of a person, whether through the ownership of more than 50% (fifty percent) of the voting power of such person or, through the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board of directors or similar governing body of such person, through contractual arrangements or otherwise;
“GDPR” means General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
“Services” means the services to be provided by Education Perfect (directly or indirectly) for the purpose of providing the Online Learning Platform under the Terms; and the
terms “controller“, “data subject“, “personal data“, “personal data breach“, “processing” and “processor” have the meanings given to them in article 4 of the GDPR (and their cognates are to be interpreted accordingly), except that references to “personal data” include references to data relating to legal as well as natural persons to the extent that the processing of the relevant data is regulated by an Applicable Privacy Law which applies to the processing of such data.
Schedule 1
Standard Contractual Clauses (Processors)
For the purposes of Article 26(2) of Directive 95/46/EC for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries which do not ensure an adequate level of data protection
The entity identified as “Customer” in the DPA (the “data exporter“)
and
Education Perfect Limited (NZCN 6584033) 77 Vogel Street, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand (the “data importer“)
each a “party”; together “the parties”,
HAVE AGREED on the following Contractual Clauses (the Clauses) in order to adduce adequate safeguards with respect to the protection of privacy and fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals for the transfer by the data exporter to the data importer of the personal data specified in Appendix 1.
Clause 1
Definitions
Clause 2
Details of the transfer
The details of the transfer and in particular the special categories of personal data where applicable are specified in Appendix 1 which forms an integral part of the Clauses.
Clause 3
Third-party beneficiary clause
Clause 4
Obligations of the data exporter
The data exporter agrees and warrants:
Clause 5
Obligations of the data importer 1
The data importer agrees and warrants:to process the personal data only on behalf of the data exporter and in compliance with its instructions and the Clauses; if it cannot provide such compliance for whatever reasons, it agrees to inform promptly the data exporter of its inability to comply, in which case the data exporter is entitled to suspend the transfer of data and/or terminate the contract;
that it has no reason to believe that the legislation applicable to it prevents it from fulfilling the instructions received from the data exporter and its obligations under the contract and that in the event of a change in this legislation which is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the warranties and obligations provided by the Clauses, it will promptly notify the change to the data exporter as soon as it is aware, in which case the data exporter is entitled to suspend the transfer of data and/or terminate the contract;
that it has implemented the technical and organisational security measures specified in Appendix 2 before processing the personal data transferred;
that it will promptly notify the data exporter about:
(i) any legally binding request for disclosure of the personal data by a law enforcement authority unless otherwise prohibited, such as a prohibition under criminal law to preserve the confidentiality of a law enforcement investigation,
(ii) any accidental or unauthorised access, and
(iii) any request received directly from the data subjects without responding to that request, unless it has been otherwise authorised to do so;
at the request of the data exporter to submit its data processing facilities for audit of the processing activities covered by the Clauses which shall be carried out by the data exporter or an inspection body composed of independent members and in possession of the required professional qualifications bound by a duty of confidentiality, selected by the data exporter, where applicable, in agreement with the supervisory authority;
that the processing services by the sub-processor will be carried out in accordance with Clause 11;
1. Mandatory requirements of the national legislation applicable to the data importer which do not go beyond what is necessary in a democratic society on the basis of one of the interests listed in Article 13(1) of Directive 95/46/EC, that is, if they constitute a necessary measure to safeguard national security, defence, public security, the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences or of breaches of ethics for the regulated professions, an important economic or financial interest of the State or the protection of the data subject or the rights and freedoms of others, are not in contradiction with the standard contractual clauses. Some examples of such mandatory requirements which do not go beyond what is necessary in a democratic society are, inter alia, internationally recognised sanctions, tax-reporting requirements or anti-money-laundering reporting requirements.
Clause 6
Liability
If a data subject is not able to bring a claim for compensation in accordance with paragraph 1 against the data exporter, arising out of a breach by the data importer or his sub-processor of any of their obligations referred to in Clause 3 or in Clause 11, because the data exporter has factually disappeared or ceased to exist in law or has become insolvent, the data importer agrees that the data subject may issue a claim against the data importer as if it were the data exporter, unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract of by operation of law, in which case the data subject can enforce its rights against such entity.
The data importer may not rely on a breach by a sub-processor of its obligations in order to avoid its own liabilities.
Clause 7
Mediation and jurisdiction
The data importer agrees that if the data subject invokes against it third-party beneficiary rights and/or claims compensation for damages under the Clauses, the data importer will accept the decision of the data subject:
(a) to refer the dispute to mediation, by an independent person or, where applicable, by the supervisory authority;
(b) to refer the dispute to the courts in the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
Clause 8
Cooperation with supervisory authorities
Clause 9
Governing Law
The Clauses shall be governed by the law of the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
Clause 10
Variation of the contract
The parties undertake not to vary or modify the Clauses. This does not preclude the parties from adding clauses on business related issues where required as long as they do not contradict the Clauses.
Clause 11
Sub-processing
Clause 12
Obligation after the termination of personal data processing services
Appendix 1 to the Standard Contractual Clauses
This Appendix forms part of the Clauses and must be completed and signed by the parties. The Member States may complete or specify, according to their national procedures, any additional necessary information to be contained in this Appendix.
Data exporter
The data exporter is the entity identified as “Customer” in the DPA
Data importer
The data importer is Education Perfect Limited (NZCN 6584033)
Data subjects
The personal data transferred concern the categories of data subjects set out in Clause 3(d) of the DPA.
Categories of data
The personal data transferred concern the categories of data set out in Clause 3(d) of the DPA.
Special categories of data (if appropriate)
None applicable.
Processing operations
The processing operations are defined in Clause 3(c) of the DPA.
Appendix 2 to the Standard Contractual Clauses
This Appendix forms part of the Clauses and is deemed to have been signed by the parties on acceptance of the DPA.
Description of the technical and organisational security measures implemented by the data importer in accordance with Clauses 4(d) and 5(c) (or document/legislation attached):
Education Perfect shall implement technical and organisational security measures in accordance with Clause 5(c) of the DPA.
