Terms and Conditions

Privacy notice

The British Council will use the information that you are providing in connection with processing your registration and informing you of our products, events and services, to send you the monthly email study guide and to carry out market research. The legal basis for processing your information is agreement with our Terms of Use.

For these purposes the British Council will share your personal information with the following organisations:

  • Hubspot, a third-party Marketing and CRM tool
  • Salesforce, acting as a Data Processor.
  • British Council corporate accounts for Microsoft MS365 Products used for communication and reporting activities. Microsoft is acting as a Data Processor.

Other than for the purposes mentioned herein, your personal information will not be shared outside the British Council without your explicit permission.

I understand that:

  • by submitting my information through the registration form, I am consenting to the British Council collecting and using my information to inform me of its products, events and services, to send me the monthly email study guide and to carry out market research, according to the preferences I select
  • I have the right to withdraw my consent at any time by contacting learnenglish@britishcouncil.org. If I exercise this right, my personal information will be permanently deleted from the system as soon as possible.
  • if I do not provide my consent, the British Council cannot collect my information.

Data protection

The British Council complies with data protection law in the UK and laws in other countries that meet internationally accepted standards.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold on you, and the right to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in that information. If you have concerns about how we have used your personal information, you also have the right to complain to a privacy regulator.

For detailed information, please refer to the privacy section of our website or contact your local British Council office.

We will take steps to delete your personal information when it is no longer needed.