Privacy Policy
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and your personal data
Data protection affects every single customer of the College, including staff and students and the following articles explain what you can expect from the College.
What is Data Protection
Data protection legislation sets out the requirements for how Blackburn College, as a data controller, processes personal data. Personal Data is defined as any data that identifies or is likely to identify a living individual, including facts and opinions.
College collects and processes a range of data from its students – details of previous qualifications, attendance marks and the grades achieved whilst studying with us.
Any sensitive personal information will never be supplied to anyone outside the College without first obtaining your consent, unless required or permitted by law. We comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including removing your personal information from our systems when it is no longer required and ensuring that all personal information supplied is held securely.
Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this statement, current legislation and our Data Protection Registration (Registration Number: Z6753776. We also aim to meet current best practice.
Individuals whose personal information the College holds have certain rights under the law. More information can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website.
Under the Act, it is the College’s duty to provide relevant information about their students to the LA of each student’s residence, when requested to do so, and notify local LAs when a young person leaves learning at the College. All educational institutions are required to share information with LAs as part of their duty under the Act.
Section 72 of the Act provides the legal basis for sharing information between LAs and educational institutions. The link to the relevant section is referenced here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/14
When you give us your information we will use your details to inform the LA where you live, about the learning you are participating in so that they are able to report monthly to the Department for Education and deliver their duties listed above.
Please note that some of the services for young people provided by the LA to fulfil their duties are provided by commissioned external contractors and organisations and they are required to use the same security standards as the LA.
If you wish to opt out of the sharing of your basic details for this purpose, or wish to see information held by the College about you for this purpose, please refer to our Data Protection Policy (PDF).
Website and Cookies
This section applies to anyone accessing the Blackburn College website.
A cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded to your device (e.g. your PC) when you access the College website. Cookies allow the website to recognise your device and so distinguish between the different users that access the site.
Session cookies will remember your selections as you browse the site. These cookies are for the browsing session and not stored long term. No personal information is collected by these cookies.
Google Analytics cookies help us to make the website better for you by providing us with user statistics, for example: which pages are the most visited; how a user navigates the site. No personal information is collected by these cookies.
You may delete or control the use of cookies through your browser settings.
To find out more about cookies and what cookies might be stored on your device, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. If you have any queries or concerns about our use of cookies on this website, please contact [email protected].
Responsibilities
The College as a corporate body is the data controller under the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Board of Governors is therefore ultimately responsible for implementation. The designated Data Controller who is appointed to ensure compliance with the Act is the Vice Principal: Finance and Corporate Services (Data Protection Officer).
Further Information
If you have any questions about the ways in which we use your personal information, please contact the Data Protection Officer:
Jennifer Eastham, Vice Principal: Finance and Corporate Services
Blackburn College
Feilden Street
Blackburn
BB2 1LH
Tel: 01254 292331
Email: [email protected]
If you have a data protection concern that cannot or has not been resolved by the College, you have the right to raise it with the Information Commissioner’s Office.