Privacy policy - English by Corgi

Last updated: 16 September 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how English by Corgi collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you visit or make a purchase on https://englishbycorgi.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who We Are

English by Corgi, 15a Main Street POD2, The Old Station House Blackrock, A94T8P8, Dublin, Ireland

Email: hello@englishbycorgi.com Website: https://englishbycorgi.com

English by Corgi is the Data Controller for the personal data collected through this website. Our lead supervisory authority is the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC): www.dataprotection.ie

2. What Data We Collect

We may collect the following personal data:

Name and email address: when you sign up for our newsletter, contact us, or make a purchase.
Payment information: processed securely by PayPal (we do not store your card details).
Usage data: including your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on the site.
Security data: technical information collected automatically by Altcha to verify that you are human and not a bot (no personal profile is created).
Analytics data: anonymized usage statistics collected via Matomo (starting November 2026).

3. Why We Collect Your Data (Legal Basis)

Under GDPR, we process your data on the following legal bases:

Consent: for newsletter subscriptions and non-essential cookies.
Contractual necessity: to process your orders and deliver digital resources.
Legitimate interest: to ensure website security (spam protection) and to analyze traffic for site improvement using privacy-friendly tools.

4. How We Use Your Data

We use your personal data to:

Send you teaching tips, resources, and updates via our email newsletter (Brevo).
Process and fulfill your orders for digital teaching resources (Boom Learning, PayPal).
Analyse website traffic and improve our content using Matomo. This tool is hosted on our private web hosting space (provided by Infomaniak), ensuring that we retain full ownership and control of the data without sharing it with third-party analytics corporations.
Protect the site from spam and automated bot activity using Altcha (a privacy-friendly, cookieless verification system).
Display relevant content via social media integration (Pinterest).

We will never sell your personal data to third parties.

5. Third-Party Services We Use

The following third-party services may process your data as part of delivering our website and services. Each operates under its own privacy policy:

Brevo (Newsletter): For managing email subscriptions.
- Privacy Policy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/
PayPal (Payments): For processing transactions securely.
- Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/privacypolicy
Boom Learning (Payments/Delivery): For processing transactions and delivering digital resources.
- Privacy Policy: https://boomlearning.com/privacy/
Pinterest (Social Media): For content integration.
- Privacy Policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Altcha (Security): For spam and bot protection. Altcha does not use cookies, does not track users across sites, and does not create user profiles.
- Privacy Policy: https://altcha.org/privacy-policy
Infomaniak (Hosting & Analytics): Starting November 2026, we will use Matomo for website analytics, hosted on our Infomaniak cloud server. Infomaniak acts strictly as a data processor (hosting provider) under our instruction. They do not have access to the analytics data for their own purposes. Matomo is configured to respect your privacy: IP addresses are anonymized, and data is stored exclusively on our rented server space in Switzerland.
- Infomaniak Privacy Policy: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/legal/privacy

Note: We do NOT use Google Analytics, Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, Google Fonts, or Google Ads.

6. Cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience on our site.

Essential Cookies: Used for security (Altcha) and basic functionality.
Analytics: Starting November 2026, we will use Matomo. This tool uses first-party cookies (or no cookies, depending on configuration) to collect anonymized statistics. The data is stored on our Infomaniak hosting space and is not shared with external advertising networks.
Marketing/Third-party: We do not use tracking cookies from advertising networks like Google Ads.

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time via the cookie settings icon on our website (powered by Axeptio).

7. How Long We Keep Your Data

Newsletter subscribers: until you unsubscribe.
Purchase records: 7 years (Irish legal requirement for financial records).
Analytics data (Matomo): 26 months (standard retention period, anonymized).
Security logs (Altcha): retained only for the duration necessary to prevent spam attacks (typically short-term).
Cookie consent records: 13 months.

As a visitor based in the EU/EEA, you have the following rights:

Right to access: request a copy of the data we hold about you,
Right to rectification: ask us to correct inaccurate data,
Right to erasure: ask us to delete your data (“right to be forgotten”),
Right to restriction: ask us to limit how we use your data,
Right to data portability: receive your data in a portable format,
Right to object: object to processing based on legitimate interests,
Right to withdraw consent: unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at: hello@englishbycorgi.com

We will respond within 30 days. We may ask you to verify your identity before processing your request.

9. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission:

Data Protection Commission 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland Website: www.dataprotection.ie Phone: +353 (0)761 104 800

10. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately.

11. Links to Other Websites

Our site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Notable upcoming change: In November 2026, we will transition to Matomo analytics, hosted on our Infomaniak server space.