Privacy Policy
Your Privacy is very important to us. We will never sell, share or disclose your personal contact details with any third party, except our partners where this is required for running the service.
Our full privacy policy can be read below.
Privacy Policy
Preservation of your privacy is important to Academix. We are committed to letting you know how we use your personal information.
1. Information about you
(a) We may collect personal information from you when you:
- create or update a Profile;
- post Content to the Website;
- enquire about the Website, our services, the Opportunities and/or about Academix;
- request or share information through the Website;
- register for any of our mailing lists or events through the Website; and/or
- contact us through the Website, or any other channel.
(b) This personal information may include but is not limited to the following information about you:
- your date of birth;
- your name (including your first name(s) and surname);
- your email address;
- your website address;
- your Blackberry pin;
- your phone number;
- other details about you that you or others provide to us;video footage of you; and photos of you.
We may also ask for or collect some non-personal information from you.
2. Our use of this information
(a) Your personal information will only be used by us to:
- process your requests;
- respond to your questions or comments;
- provide or administer activities relating to Academix's services or the services offered on the Website, including the Opportunities;
- display your Profile or Content on the website or any other website owned or operated by Academix (except where you have opted for your Profile to be personal, in which case your Content will not be displayed on any Academix website);
- provide you with information relating to Academix, the Website or our services, or that we feel may be of interest to you;
- maintain our organisational records;
- carry out research including evaluation carried out for us by another organisation or prepare reports; and
- supply your information to third parties as described in paragraph 2 (c) below.
(b) If you do not want to receive information from us Contact Us by email at with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject field.
(c) Any personal information that you provide when you use the Website may be shared with third parties even if you have opted for a private Profile, including but not limited to:
- providers of support services to Academix, but only if the sharing of your personal information is necessary for the purpose of delivering the Programme;
- providers, where you have expressed an interest in or have applied for one of their Opportunities, but only for the purpose of delivering the Programme;
- award judges or validators of Academix awards where you have applied for or enquired about a Academix award. However, your personal information relating to such an enquiry will only be used by award judges or validators for the purpose of assessing or processing your application of, or awarding you with, a Academix award (unless the award judge or validator has received your personal information separately and not from us);
- companies or organisations that are carrying out work on Academix's behalf, in relation to the Programme;
3. Security
(a) We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorised alteration of information you give us.
(b) Communications in connection with the Website and its content may be sent to you by us by e-mail. For ease of use and compatibility, communications will not be sent to you in an encrypted form. E-mail is not a fully secure means of communication. Whilst we try to keep our systems and communications protected against viruses and other harmful effects we cannot guarantee this. Academix takes reasonable steps to protect your personal information but where third parties are concerned accepts no liability for any misuse of your personal information by third parties and you therefore proceed at your own risk.
4. Cookies
(a) A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed on a website user's computer hard drive by a website. There are several types of cookie.
(b) The types of cookie we use are “session cookies”, which keep track of information you have entered or looked at as you travel from page to page within the Website. These cookies have a short lifetime and expire within a short time of you leaving the Website. We do not use other types of cookies that track your internet activity after leaving the Website.
(c) We use cookies to tell whether you have logged in to the Website, to see how you are viewing the Website and how you navigate around the Website, and to assist us in providing the services we offer.
(d) Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. However, it is possible to set an internet browser to reject cookies.
(e) If you do not consent to our use of cookies, you must not use the Website. Please Contact Us at if you do not consent to our use of cookies.
5. Other Information
(a) If you would like us to correct or update any information about you, then please email us at
(b) This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, so please check it regularly.