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Last updated: January 2022

 

Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions set out the terms for use of this Tapestry CPD website https://cpd.tapestry.info/. They apply to all users of and visitors to the site. Please read them carefully and confirm you agree before you begin to use the site.

If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, please leave this site.

These Terms and Conditions may be amended at any time but we will alert you on your next visit to the site if they have changed. Revised Terms and Conditions take effect immediately from the time they are published and continued use of the site will be deemed acceptance of updated or amended terms.

 

Who we are

We are The Foundation Stage Forum Ltd, a company registered in England with company number 05757213 and a registered address of WaterCourt, 65 High Street, Lewes, England, BN7 1XG, UK.

 

Who you are and your CPD course access

You are anyone who is interested in the continuing professional development courses we provide here. They have been designed for both experienced educators and individuals new to the teaching profession.

You can access the courses as a ‘guest’ or, if you are a ‘full staff member’ or a ‘manager’ registered with an email address on an active Tapestry account, you can create a user account on this CPD site linked to your Tapestry account.

If you cannot log in to Tapestry as a ‘full staff member’ or a ‘manager’ you will have to access this CPD site as a ‘guest’.

If you do log in with your Tapestry details, the user profile created will be tied to your Tapestry account and so will only be accessible as long as your Tapestry account is.

If you do not want a user profile linked to your Tapestry login then please make sure to only access this CPD site as a ‘guest’.

‘Guests’ will be able to view the content of our ‘free to access’ courses but will not be able to participate in some of the interactive elements or the forum areas. Their progress through the courses will not be remembered and they will not receive a certificate at the end of the course.

 

Privacy and a note on data protection

We are controllers of the personal data added to Tapestry CPD and take our responsibilities under GDPR and The Data Protection Act very seriously.

In short:

·       Your data is held and processed in the Republic of Ireland and the UK.

·       We do not sell your personal data or use it for advertising.

·       We share some data with our subcontractors (e.g. Amazon Web Services), but only for the purposes of providing the service.

·       Some other companies may collect statistical data on you when you access our courses – Google when you watch YouTube videos, Siren Films when you watch their videos, and Canva.

·       Our data protection officer, Lauren Foley, can be reached at dpo@eyfs.info.

Please read our full Privacy Policy for details of exactly what we store, why, and when it is deleted.

 

Links to third party websites

We may link to third party websites or materials not written by us within the courses for the purposes of further reading on the topic. We cannot vouch for their continued accuracy, that the links will still be valid when you access them, or for their privacy or security. They are completely independent of us and we cannot accept any liability in your dealings with them. If you feel any content linked to is inappropriate in any way please contact us by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info and we will investigate and remove the link if necessary.

 

Intellectual property

The courses visible on this website are the sole property of The Foundation Stage Forum Ltd. They are purely for the use of individuals engaging in professional development around a variety of topics (typically child development, best practice in education, or how to get the most out of Tapestry).

You may not copy, store, share, adapt or otherwise commercially exploit anything you find on Tapestry CPD without express permission from the course creators and the directors of The Foundation Stage Forum Ltd. This includes anything you see within the forum areas of the site. This also includes any materials created and owned by someone other than the Foundation Stage Forum e.g. the Siren Films videos.

You can request permission by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info. If the materials are not owned by us we will direct you to the correct person.

 

Availability, errors, and inaccuracies

We do not make any guarantees regarding availability of Tapestry CPD.

Although we try to ensure that all information is accurate and up to date within our courses, we cannot guarantee that it will be. If you suspect something is wrong, please contact us by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info

You are not entitled to any compensation due to lack of availability, errors, or inaccuracies on this site except those required by law.

 

What you agree to do and to not do

·       You agree to not use anything you find on Tapestry CPD for commercial purposes.

·       You agree that you will not post anything in the forum areas that you know to be false, that might be considered defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or in any way transgresses any law.

·       You agree not to post any copyrighted material on Tapestry CPD unless the copyright is owned by you or by the Foundation Stage Forum.

·       You agree to not advertise or promote your own products or services on Tapestry CPD.

 

Changes and disputes

If you have any questions or complaints please get in touch with us by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info.

We are not liable for any damages other than those required by law.

Our contract with you is under English law and any dispute will be settled by an English court.

We may change what is written in these terms and conditions at any point, but we will alert you on your next visit to the site if they have changed. Revised Terms and Conditions take effect immediately from the time they are published and continued use of the site will be deemed acceptance of updated or amended terms.

Full policy

Last updated: January 2022

 

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is really important to us. With this in mind, we have written this privacy policy to explain what personal data we collect and how we use and store it.

This policy only refers to this Tapestry CPD website. Data stored on Tapestry (https://tapestryjournal.com) is covered by a completely different policy. You can access that from https://tapestry.info/security.html or from within your Tapestry account.

We are The Foundation Stage Forum Limited. We are registered at WaterCourt, 65 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XG.  If you have any questions about anything in this policy please contact us by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info. Our data protection officer is called Lauren Foley and can be contacted directly by emailing dpo@eyfs.info.

What data we collect and how

If you sign in using your Tapestry details (Single Sign On):

·       We collect your email address and your first and last names as used on your staff/manager Tapestry account. You consent to these being shared with us when you sign in.

·       We collect your first and last names if you update them within your user account preferences. You give these to us.

·       We record which courses you have enrolled on, your progress in the courses, and your attainment for each. This information is collected by us through our database driven website.

·       We collect anything you submit in the form of:

o   Coursework (answers to questions set by our course tutors)

o    File uploads (video, audio, documents such as Word or Excel files)

o   Comments in forums or other comment-enabled areas of the site

You give this to us.

·       We record, in our server logs, the time and nature of every interaction you perform on our site, such as logging in, viewing a course, and submitting an answer to a question within a course.

·       Raw access logs: in common with the majority of websites, our servers record a log of every access request a visitor’s browser or device makes of our site.  This record will include the request details (for example the type of page you are visiting), date and time, the IP address associated with the request (which may be your computer’s current public IP address), and the name, type, and version of the browser you are using (this latter information is supplied by your browser).

·       Canva, Google, and Siren Films may collect some statistical data from certain course pages you visit and videos you watch. For example, your IP address and information about the device you are using. They may use a variety of industry standard technologies to do this.

If you access a course as a guest:

·       We record statistical information about the courses you look at. This is collected by us through our database driven website.

·       Raw access logs: in common with the majority of websites, our servers record a log of every access request a visitor’s browser or device makes of our site. This record will include the request details (for example the type of page you are visiting), date and time, the IP address associated with the request (which may be your computer’s current public IP address), and the name, type, and version of the browser you are using (this latter information is supplied by your browser).

·       Canva, Google, and Siren Films may collect some statistical data from certain course pages you visit and videos you watch. For example, your IP address and information about the device you are using. They may use a variety of industry standard technologies to do this.

We and our third parties also use cookies. Please see our separate Cookies Policy for details on those.

 

Why we collect it

We need your email address to authenticate you, send you the notifications you request e.g. reminders and updates for the courses you are signed up to, and to tie the work you’ve done to you. This is so:

·       You can leave the site then continue where you left off on your return.

·       You can be notified about the things you’d like to be notified of (you can change your notification preferences within your account).

We need your first name and last name to:

·       Personalise the site for you

·       Address you in any email communication we may send

·       Add your name to any certificates you may earn on completing certain courses

·       Identify you and your achievements to course tutors and administrators

 

We collect which courses you have enrolled on and your attainment for each so we can:

·       Show you what you’ve already completed and let you pick up where you left off on your last visit.

·       Issue certificates when you successfully complete certain courses.

·       See which courses are most popular. That helps us understand what content visitors want to see and therefore gives us an idea of what we should make more of.

·       Analyse the content of the courses and whether the interactive elements are being used.

 

We collect anything you submit in the form of file uploads or comments in forum areas so we can:

·       Analyse the response to our courses.

·       Store and show you the work you have completed as part of your learning. 

 

We use cookies to remember your username and whether you are logged in so we can:

·       Make it quicker for you to log in on subsequent occasions.

·       Keep you logged in when you navigate through the CPD site.

 

We record statistical information about the courses you look at so we can:

·       See which courses are most popular. That helps us understand what content visitors want to see and therefore gives us an idea of what we should make more of.

·       Continually improve all aspects of our service.

 

We record server access logs so we can perform analysis to manage the operational integrity of our services, ensuring that our server resources are adequate to provide the service, to guard against malicious access which may impact on security of the site and its data, and to plan for future enhancements to the service and our infrastructure.

Our lawful basis for collecting data you give us is consent.

Our lawful basis for collecting data regarding your interactions with the site is legitimate interest.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing us to ask us to delete your account and the data associated with it.

Canva, Google, and Siren Films collect some statistical data around the course pages you visit and videos or presentations you have watched in order to:

·       Maintain and improve their services.

·       Siren films also track how many views videos have for the purposes of billing us for their services.

Their lawful basis for this is legitimate interest.

 

How the above third parties connected to the CPD service

·       Canva provides presentation creation software, and in some courses we may embed our course materials directly from Canva’s servers.

·       Google: Some videos within our courses may be provided by YouTube, which is a video streaming and advertising platform owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube.

·       Siren Films: Some of our courses feature educational videos provided under license by Siren Films.  These videos are embedded directly from the Siren Films website.  Siren Films may use a number of video streaming services to provide their videos, including YouTube and Vimeo.

 

Where we store your data

Your data is stored and processed within the Republic of Ireland and the UK, predominantly on servers provided by Amazon Web Services but sometimes also on the devices of our staff here in the UK.

Who we share your data with

We use Amazon Web Services as a subcontractor to host https://cpd.tapestry.info/ and the data added to it. They are ISO 27001 compliant. Their address is 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle WA 98109-5210.

We use Canva to create our course material, YouTube (Google) to store and display some videos, and Siren Films for other videos. We do not pass on any of your personally identifying information to these companies but they will collect statistical data for establishing patterns via cookies.

You can find their privacy policies here:

https://www.canva.com/policies/privacy-policy/

https://policies.google.com/privacy

https://www.sirenfilms.co.uk/privacy-policy/

We do not share your data with any other company. This includes Moodle – you may recognise that Tapestry CPD is built on the Moodle Learning Management System, but no data added to Tapestry CPD is made available to the creators/owners of Moodle.

When we delete it

We delete your account and the data on it when you request it or automatically after a 3 year period of inactivity. We will email you to warn you 30 days before we do that.

The count on those 3 years begins when you have unenrolled from all courses. You will automatically be unenrolled from a course after 120 days of inactivity on it. Therefore the maximum amount of time we will hold onto your data for after your last login is 3 years and 120 days.

Preventing more data from being collected and deleting the existing data we have for you

You can ask us to delete your account at any point, just email customer.service@eyfs.info.

 

Your rights

If you are based in the European Union or the UK, you have a number of rights under the data protection law (GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 which is the UK’s implementation of the GDPR). They include the right to be informed of how and why we collect your data, the right to access the data we collect for you, the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete data we hold on you, and the right to have us delete any data we hold on you. You can see a full list of your rights and more detail about what they mean here:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

If you would like to enforce any of your rights, you can do so by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info or dpo@eyfs.info with your request.

You can submit a Subject Access Request from within your account.

You also you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you think we have misused your data. For the UK that is the ICO: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

Changes to this privacy policy

If we change anything about what data we collect or how we handle it, we will update this policy to reflect that. If you sign in we will notify you when you next sign in. If you are a guest user, you will be able to see when we last updated this policy from the date at the very start of this policy. Please review it regularly.

 

Full policy

Last updated: June 2025

This policy only refers to this CPD site. It does not apply to the Tapestry product.

Your privacy is really important to us. With this in mind, we have written this cookie policy to explain what cookies are, how we collect them and what we use them for.

We are The Foundation Stage Forum Limited. We are registered at WaterCourt, 65 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XG.  If you have any questions about anything in this policy please contact us by emailing customer.service@eyfs.info. Our data protection officer is called Lauren Foley and can be contacted directly by emailing dpo@eyfs.info.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly and provide useful information to website owners to improve your browsing experience.

 

How we use cookies

We use cookies to:

• Ensure our website functions as expected.
• Analyse website traffic and visitor behaviour to improve our services.
• Deliver relevant advertisements tailored to your interests.

Types of cookies we use

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function properly, such as enabling you to navigate the site or access secure areas. These cookies cannot be turned off.

 

Preference Cookies

These cookies improve the performance of the website but aren’t absolutely necessary.

 

Statistics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are most popular. The data collected is anonymised and used for improving the website’s performance.

Marketing Cookies

These cookies track your interactions with our site to deliver advertisements relevant to you. They include tools such as Meta Pixel and Google Ads, which help us connect with users who may benefit from our services.

Third-party tools and cookies

We work with trusted third-party tools to enhance our website’s functionality and marketing efforts. These include but are not limited to:

Google Analytics

This tool collects anonymised data about website traffic and visitor behaviour, such as the pages visited and the time spent on our site. Data may be transferred outside the UK/EU under EU-approved standard contractual clauses.

 

Canva

We use this tool to create the slides and content of many of our courses. The cookies from them are sometimes necessary for visual content and sometimes statistical to help us understand where users are spending time.

 

Managing your cookie preferences 

You can manage cookies in several ways:

• Cookie Banner: When you first visit our site, you can choose which cookies to allow or decline. We use Cookiebot for this purpose. You can change your preference or read more about each cookie by clicking on the black circle in the bottom left corner of your screen and selecting  ‘Change your consent’.
• Browser Settings: Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. Check your browser’s help section for instructions.
• Third-Party Tools: You can manage tracking preferences directly with third-party providers, such as using the Google Opt-Out Add-on.

Please note that disabling some cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website.

How long we store cookies

Cookies remain on your device for varying periods:

• Session Cookies: These are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
• Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.
• Others: Some cookies remain on your device for days or weeks.

Take a look at the details in our site’s cookie settings. You can open that using the small black circle in the bottom left hand corner of your screen.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology or legal requirements. Please check this page regularly for updates.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about how we use cookies, you can contact us:

• General Enquiries: customer.service@eyfs.info
• Lauren Foley, Data Protection Officer: dpo@eyfs.info