Student Beans Shopify Verification App – Privacy Notice
Privacy Notice
Hi, we’re Student Beans! Thanks for stopping by. We take our commitment to data protection seriously and we even find data protection interesting (yes, really!).
We want to be clear and transparent with you about how we use your data, not only because it’s the law, but more importantly, we believe it’s the right thing to do.
This Privacy Notice applies to your use of the Student Beans Student Verification App through Shopify.
| App | The Student Beans student verification app which can be downloaded by you from the Shopify Marketplace. The app uses Student Beans’ single-sign-on technology to securely validate the student status of student customers and provides a conversion optimisation engine which allows you to manage the student discount. |
| Shopify Marketplace | The Shopify ecommerce platform through which you sell products/services. |
1. Our responsibilities
Student Beans is the trading name of The Beans Group Limited which acts as the “data controller” of your personal data. This means that we determine how and why your data is processed.
2. Your responsibilities
- Read this Privacy Notice.
- Please also check the contract in place between you and Student Beans.
3. Collection of Personal Data
What Personal Data do you collect about me/our organisation and why?
| Data Collected | Purpose | Lawful Basis for Processing |
| We collect certain personal data about you including: – Identity Data: Your name, the name of your company and your company email address. – Contact data: your company address. We will not ask you to provide us with any additional personal data as part of your use of this App. Please note, we do use Cookies. | We process your personal data in order to: – register you as a new customer of the App; – provide you with the App; – contact you to discuss the continued provision of the App and to answer any questions you may have about the App; – tell you about new products or product features that we offer that we think could benefit your company; – enable you to take part in our surveys for feedback or prize draws. | – Performance of a contract with you. – Necessary for our legitimate interests ( to study how clients use our services to develop them and in order to grow our business). |
We will store the above data for as long as you use the App and we will also retain your details in our customer database.
4. Cookies*
We store information about you and your use of the App using cookies. Certain cookies are also used by Shopify. You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when sites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may become inaccessible or not function property.
The following cookies may be used:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | Cookie Purpose |
| _profilin | Session | Shopify cookie. Used to track user activity on domain. |
| sb.discount | Essential (this cookie enables the discount to be added to a customer’s cart at check-out) Session | This cookie contains the Student Beans discount. |
| shopify.granted_storage_access | Session | Shopify cookie. |
*Sorry, this always makes us hungry too.
5. Protection & Processing of Personal Data
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. All personal data is stored and processed with commercially reasonable security measures consistent with industry standards in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and interception of information by third parties. Because the internet is an open system, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will implement all reasonable measures to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us using the internet – any such transmission is at your own risk and you are responsible for ensuring that any personal data that you send to us are sent securely.
Student Beans imposes strict internal controls over employees with access to systems used in the storage and processing of personal data. Such access is granted on a need-to-know basis only.
Please note that we may disclose your personal data to: legal and regulatory authorities; any party as necessary in connection with legal proceedings; any party as necessary for investigating, detecting or preventing criminal offenses; or any purchaser of our business.
If we engage a third-party processor to process your personal data for any legitimate business purpose, the processor will be subject to binding contractual obligations to: only process the personal data in accordance with our prior written instructions; and use measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the personal data; together with any additional requirements under applicable law.
6. International Transfers
We operate as a global business and therefore we may share your personal data with other companies within The Beans Group, including StudentBeans PTY Limited (Australia) and The Beans Group, Inc. (USA). This will involve transferring your data outside of the UK. We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules as set out under this privacy notice when it comes to processing your personal data.
7. Third-Party Links
The Shopify Marketplace contains links to third-party sites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party sites and we are not responsible for their compliance with data protection provisions. When you leave our site, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every site you visit.
8. Our Contact Information
For additional requests or information regarding this privacy notice, please contact us at infosec@studentbeans.com, with all requests and questions directed to our Data Protection Officer.
The Beans Group Limited: Registered in England under company number 05486885. Registered address: 1 Vincent Square, London, SW1P 2PN.
9. Making a Complaint
We hope that you’ll never need to make a complaint but if you do, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the supervisory authority in the UK for data protection matters. If you think your data protection rights have been breached by us in any way, you are able to make a complaint to the ICO.
10. Changes to the Privacy Notice
We keep this Privacy Notice under review. This version of the Privacy Notice was updated on 21 January 2022.