Privacy
The Data Protection Act 1998 and
Freedom of Information Act 2000
These acts apply to organisations that hold personal data on individuals, including data which is held electronically or paper-based filing systems.
The College adheres to these policies and when users of our website send us personal information, such as their email address the data the College receives and holds will be:
- Fairly and lawfully processed – anybody providing personal data should not be misled as to the purpose to which the data is put.
- Processed for limited purposes – the data should be obtained only for the specified purpose and we should state why the data is being processed.
- Adequate, relevant and not excessive – this relates to the purposes for which it is intended to be used. We should not be collecting additional information.
- Accurate – data that is stored must be accurate and up to date.
- Data must be processed in accordance with a candidate’s rights. The website user has a right to see any data the College has kept on them. They are also able to enforce the correction of any inaccuracies, including the erasure of data.
- Secure – website users are entitled to believe that their personal data will be held securely so that only those who are supposed to have access, obtain access.
How We Use Your Personal Information
The personal information you provide is passed to the Chief Executive of Skills Funding (“the Agency”) and, when needed, the Young People’s Learning Agency for England (“the YPLA”) to meet legal duties under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, and for the Agency’s Learning Records Service (LRS) to create and maintain a Unique Learner Number (ULN).
The information you provide may be shared with other partner
organisations for purposes relating to education or training.
Further information about use of and access to your personal data, and details of partner organisations are available at:
At no time will your personal information be passed to organisations for marketing or sales purposes. From time to time, students are approached to take part in surveys by mail and phone which are aimed at enabling us to monitor performance, improve quality and plan future provision.
Monitoring use
We monitor and record, extensively, connections to and from college servers. We do this for security, statistical, and performance-measurement purposes, and in order to detect and prevent abuse. The monitoring data we collect includes browser type, domain names, traffic volumes, temporal data, IP information, and data posted from web-forms on our site.