Waitlist privacy notice

Who is responsible

MarketESL runs this pre-launch preview of an online English-teaching service that does not exist yet. For anything about your data, email waitlist.privacy@eslmarket.org.

What we store

From the learner waitlist: your email address, the country you live in, what you most want English for and, if you answer them, which of four things matters most to you in English classes and your own estimate of your English level.

From the teacher list: your email address, the country you live in, the lowest hourly rate you would accept (as a range), how long you have taught English and how many hours a week you could teach.

For both: the version of this notice you agreed to and the time you joined. We ask for your month and year of birth first but never store them, and we ask for no name.

If the link you arrived by names where it was shared, such as an online community, a partner organisation or an advertisement, we also store that name, taken from a fixed list, to count how many sign-ups each place brings.

Why

To measure how many learners and teachers are interested before we decide whether to build and launch the service. We count sign-ups by kind and country and summarise the answers; the counts we keep contain no personal data. We do not use your address to send you email of any kind, and we do not share or sell it.

Legal basis

Your consent, which you give by ticking the box. You can withdraw it at any time by emailing waitlist.privacy@eslmarket.org, and we then delete your entry.

Where it is held

In one PostgreSQL database on the preview's server, which runs on Amazon Web Services in its US East (N. Virginia) region and is reached through Amazon CloudFront. Amazon Web Services hosts it for us; nobody else receives it, and no backup or export holds it. If you live outside the United States, your details are therefore stored in the United States.

How long we keep it

We close the list and stop taking sign-ups at our final evaluation, before we would build the public service, or when we decide to stop. 30 days after that we delete every entry, and always before the preview server is shut down. You can ask us to delete yours sooner.

Cookies

These pages set one cookie, and only when the answer to the first question means we cannot add you: esl_age_screen. It is strictly necessary, holds no personal information and lasts until you close your browser, so that the same answer applies for the rest of that browser session. We set no other cookie, load no third-party script, and ask search engines not to index these pages.

Your rights

You can ask us to show, correct or delete your entry, or withdraw your consent, by emailing waitlist.privacy@eslmarket.org. If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can also complain to your data protection authority. Joining creates no account.