The Learning Edge (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://isleproject.eu website as part of the EU-funded project “ISLE”.
This website is an informational site: you do not need to create an account or log in to use it. This page explains the limited personal data we nevertheless process when you visit, why we process it, and the choices you have.
Effective date: 20/04/2022
ADDRESSED TO ALL DATA SUBJECTS
- About The Learning Edge
- Our Privacy Commitment
- What Data We Collect and Process
- How We Use Data
- Use of Cookies and Other Digital Technologies
- Accessing Your Personal Information and Your Rights
- About Minors (Children)
- Sharing Personal Information Outside the European Union
- Data Security and Retention
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About The Learning Edge
The Learning Edge is an international consulting group that leverages decades of experience along with strategic partnerships from across the globe, to provide human-centred products and services to empower organisations to thrive. This Privacy Policy governs how we collect and process personal data in the context of the ISLE website, available at https://isleproject.eu.
Data Controller. For the purposes of the GDPR, The Learning Edge, 29 Lykavitou Avenue, 1st Floor, Engomi, 2401 Nicosia, Cyprus, is the Data Controller for the personal data processed under this Policy. For any question about this Policy or about your personal data, and to exercise your rights, you can contact us at privacy@thelearningedge.eu. This website is published as part of the project ISLE, funded by the European Union under Co-funded by EU/Teacher Academy project/ Key Action 2 – Cooperation among Organisations and Institutions, Grant Agreement No. 101196194.
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Our Privacy Commitment
The Learning Edge complies with all applicable privacy laws, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”, Regulation (EU) 2016/679). “Personal Data” means any information relating to an identifiable natural person. We process your personal data only as described in this Policy and on the legal bases set out in Section 4.
We do not collect Sensitive Personal Data (Special Categories) through this website, we do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not sell your data.
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What Data We Collect and Process
You can browse this website without telling us who you are. We do not ask you to register and we do not create user accounts. However, a small amount of personal data is still processed – some of it automatically, some only if you actively choose to contact us:
| Data | Source | Used for |
|---|
| Server log data (IP address, browser type and language, referring page, pages viewed, date and time of access) |
Recorded automatically by our web server when you visit |
Keeping the site secure and available, and diagnosing technical faults |
| Website usage statistics (via Google Analytics – see Section 5) |
Collected only with your consent |
Measuring visits and improving the website |
| Contact form data (your name, email address and the content of your message), where the site offers a contact form |
You choose to provide it |
Replying to your enquiry |
Messages you send through the contact form are not stored on this website. They are delivered by email to the project’s contact mailbox and handled by the The Learning Edge project manager responsible for ISLE. When the project ends, the contact form is closed and the project mailbox is shut down; from that point you can reach us at info@thelearningedge.eu.
Providing contact-form data is entirely voluntary. If you do not provide it, you can still use every informational part of this website – you simply will not receive a reply from us.
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How We Use Data
We use your data for the following purposes, each on a specific legal basis under Article 6(1) GDPR:
| # | Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|
| a |
Delivering the website’s pages to your browser |
Art. 6(1)(f) – legitimate interests (making our project results publicly available) |
| b |
Keeping the website secure, preventing abuse and troubleshooting faults |
Art. 6(1)(f) – legitimate interests (network and information security) |
| c |
Replying to enquiries you send us through the contact form or by email |
Art. 6(1)(f) – legitimate interests (responding to the person who contacted us) |
| d |
Meeting legal, accounting and EU-funding audit obligations |
Art. 6(1)(c) – legal obligation |
| e |
Measuring website visits and usage through Google Analytics |
Art. 6(1)(a) – consent (withdrawable at any time) |
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Use of Cookies and Other Digital Technologies
We use strictly necessary cookies required to keep the site working and secure – these do not require consent.
We also use Google Analytics (Google LLC, United States) to understand how visitors use the website; as our Analytics property runs on GA4, individual IP addresses are not logged or stored by Google Analytics. Analytics cookies are loaded only after you consent via our cookie banner, where you can accept or reject them and change or withdraw your choice at any time via “Cookie settings”. Rejecting analytics cookies does not affect your use of the website. See our Cookie Notice, linked in the footer of every page, for the full list of cookies and their duration.
Some pages may embed content hosted by third parties, such as videos, maps or social media feeds. When such content loads, the provider may set its own cookies and receive your IP address, and its own privacy policy then applies to that processing. We load embedded third-party content only after you consent to non-essential cookies.
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Accessing Your Personal Information and Your Rights
By writing to us at privacy@thelearningedge.eu you may exercise your rights to:
- Information about the personal data we process about you
- Access to your personal data
- Rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data
- Erasure of your personal data
- Restriction of processing
- Data portability for data you have provided
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal
We will respond as soon as possible and in any event within one month of your request.
If you believe your data is not handled lawfully, you may lodge a complaint with the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection (Cyprus) (www.dataprotection.gov.cy), or with the supervisory authority in your own EU country of residence.
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About Minors (Children)
This website is intended for a general adult audience. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors under the age of 18. If you believe a child has sent us personal data through the contact form, please write to privacy@thelearningedge.eu and we will delete it.
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Sharing Personal Information Outside the European Union
Your data is accessed only by authorized The Learning Edge and project staff and by processors acting on our documented instructions: LeaseWeb USA, Inc. (hosting the website, United States) and Google LLC (Google Analytics). These providers act solely as data processors, process personal data only on our documented instructions, and do not access, monitor, or use it for their own purposes.
Recipients of your personal data. Your personal data is disclosed only to: (i) authorized The Learning Edge and project staff; (ii) our processors acting on our documented instructions; (iii) where your enquiry concerns the work of another organisation in the project consortium, that partner organisation, so that it can help us answer you – in that case we forward only the content of your message and never your email address, and our project manager sends you the reply; and (iv) where required to meet our legal and EU-funding audit obligations, the competent European Union institutions and bodies and their authorized auditors (for example, the European Commission and the European Court of Auditors). We do not otherwise disclose your personal data, and we do not sell it.
We forward the content of an enquiry to a consortium partner only where that is necessary to answer it, and never to anyone outside the project consortium. Please keep in mind that if you include personal details in the text of your message itself, those details form part of the content we forward. If you would prefer us not to consult a partner at all, say so in your message and we will reply to you directly instead.
These transfers to the United States take place under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), in which LeaseWeb USA, Inc. and Google LLC are self-certified and which the European Commission recognized as ensuring an adequate level of protection (adequacy decision of 10 July 2023). Where a provider is not DPF-certified, we rely on EU Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses. Our Google Analytics account operates under the Google Ads Data Processing Terms, accepted at account level (accepted 26 March 2019), under which Google acts as a data processor for Analytics data.
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Data Security and Retention
We apply appropriate technical and organizational measures, including HTTPS, access controls limiting data to authorized staff, and regular platform updates.
We keep each category of data only as long as it is needed:
- Server logs: 6 months, after which they are automatically deleted.
- Contact form messages: not stored on this website. The email sent to the project mailbox is deleted 12 months after your enquiry is resolved, or when the project mailbox is closed at the end of the project, whichever comes first.
- Google Analytics data: 14 months (user-level data) and 2 months (event-level data), in line with our standard Analytics configuration.
- Records required for EU-funding audit purposes: until 31 March 2030, being 2 years after the project ends on 31 March 2028.
After these periods the data is securely deleted or irreversibly anonymized. You may ask us to delete your data earlier at any time (see Section 6), and we will do so unless we are required to keep it for the legal or audit obligations described above.
Last updated: 05/10/2026