TCEC — The Children's Education Centre

Privacy & Cookies

How TCEC handles information from the free GCSE Maths Success Assessment, the programme and the partner programme.

Your cookie choice, any time

We only set referral tracking if you accept it. You can change your mind here whenever you like — turning it off deletes what was stored straight away.

You have not made a choice about referral tracking. Nothing beyond what is strictly necessary to run this site has been stored.

1. Who we are

TCEC — The Children's Education Centre, based in the United Kingdom and delivering 100% online, runs the Jump2Grades GCSE Maths Success Programme and its partner programme. We are the data controller for the information described here. You can reach us using the contact details in the footer of every page.

2. Information we collect

  • What you tell us in the free assessment: your first name and email address, your child's school year, current and target working grade, tier, exam board, the areas reported as most difficult, confidence, independent revision habits, and any concern you describe to us.
  • What you give us when you enrol or onboard: student and parent names, contact details, school, availability, learning goals and any notes you add.
  • Your payment: card payments are handled entirely by Stripe. We never see or store your full card details — we receive confirmation that a payment succeeded, the amount, the billing email and the order reference.
  • Referral information, only with your consent: an anonymous identifier and, if you arrived through a partner's link, that partner's code. It never includes your name, email address or anything about your child.
  • Basic technical information needed to run the site and to keep the payment process secure, such as your session with our payment provider during checkout.

Information about a child is provided by the parent or guardian. The free assessment is an indicative parent assessment, and we do not ask for, or collect, anything that identifies a child personally beyond the first name a parent chooses to give us.

3. What we never do

  • We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with advertisers.
  • Partners never receive your name, contact details, your child's details or your assessment answers — they see anonymous counts of visits and purchases only.

4. Why we use it, and our lawful basis

Producing your child's free assessment result and showing it to you

Steps taken at your request. The result is calculated on our servers from your answers.

Contacting you about the assessment, the programme, or an onboarding step you asked for

Our legitimate interest in responding to the enquiry you made, and consent where we need it for marketing.

Verifying payments, and keeping financial and tax records

Performance of our contract with you, and our legal obligations.

Recording which partner introduced a family who enrols, so that partner can be paid

Your consent. We only use the referral cookie if you accept it, and it is never used to build a profile of you.

Understanding, in anonymous and aggregate form, how the free assessment is working

Your consent for anything non-essential; otherwise we use only counts that cannot identify anyone.

5. Cookies and tracking in detail

Nothing beyond what is strictly necessary to run this site is stored, or sent anywhere, until you choose. We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not track you across other websites. The only non-essential thing we would like to do is record which partner introduced you, so that the partner can be credited.

Session and app storage

Strictly necessary

Keeps the site working, and keeps you signed in if you have a member or partner account.

Kept for: Session, or as long as you stay signed in

Payment session (Stripe)

Strictly necessary

Set by our payment provider during checkout so your payment can be processed securely.

Kept for: For the duration of the checkout

Assessment result link (j2g_assessment_token)

Functional

Remembers your own assessment result link on this device, so you can reopen your result without hunting for the email.

Kept for: Until you clear it from your browser

Referral tracking (j2g_partner_referral)

Consent required

Records which partner introduced you, so that partner can be credited if you enrol.

Kept for: 90 days from the click

Anonymous visitor id (j2g_visitor_id)

Consent required

A random identifier that lets us match your visit to your purchase without using any personal detail.

Kept for: 90 days, or until you turn tracking off

If you choose essential only, we cannot tell which partner introduced you, and no partner is credited for your visit. Nothing else changes: you can still take the assessment, see your child's result and enrol exactly as normal. Clearing your browser storage also removes these items.

6. How long we keep it

Assessment answers and result, where you do not enrol24 months, then deleted
Enrolment, onboarding and student-delivery recordsWhile the student is on the programme, and for 6 years afterwards
Payment and commission records6 years, as required for accounting and tax
Referral clicks and anonymous funnel events24 months, in anonymous form
Referral cookie on your device90 days, or immediately when you turn tracking off

7. Who we share it with

  • Stripe, our payment provider, to take payments and process refunds.
  • Base44, the platform that hosts and runs this application.
  • Google Workspace, where enrolment details are logged on our own internal spreadsheet for administration.
  • Our email provider, to send the messages you have asked for.
  • Professional advisers or authorities, where we are legally required to share information.

Where a provider is outside the UK or European Economic Area, we rely on the safeguards that provider puts in place for international transfers.

8. Your rights

  • Ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and your child.
  • Ask us to correct anything that is wrong or incomplete.
  • Ask us to delete information we no longer need to keep.
  • Object to, or ask us to restrict, particular uses of your information.
  • Withdraw consent for referral tracking at any time — the control is on this page.
  • Complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) if you are unhappy with how we have handled your information.

We keep information secure using access controls, and access to student records is limited to the staff and tutors who need it. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in the footer and we will respond within one month.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you want to know exactly what we hold about your family, contact the TCEC team using the details in the footer before you take the assessment or enrol. This notice is being finalised with legal review; the wording above describes how we handle information today.