Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
General Privacy Notice
From time-to-time you will be asked to tell us personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address etc) in order to become a student or a client, to use Community Revival systems and services and so on. At the point of collecting the information we aim to clearly explain what it is going to be used for and who we may share it with. Unless required or permitted by law, we will always ask you before we use it for any other reason. We would only use it for marketing with your prior consent.
Any sensitive personal information will never be supplied to anyone outside the Community Revival without first obtaining your consent, unless required or permitted by law. We comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 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: Z9682396). We also aim to meet current best practice.
Individuals whose personal information Community Revival holds have certain rights under the law.
More information can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website https://ico.org.uk/.
Enrolment
This section explains how Community Revival uses the personal information that you give us during the enquiry, application and enrolment process.
How Community Revival uses your information
The information will be used for purposes relating to education, training, employment, general advice services, well-being and research. Community Revival may share non-sensitive personal information about you with other organisations, for example the Local Authority (see below), for these purposes. We do not share your information for purposes that are incompatible, such as product marketing without your consent.
Sensitive personal information you provide (eg. disability or ethnicity) may be used by Community Revival for the purposes of equality of opportunity, support for your studies and to minimise risk. It may also be used anonymously for statistical purposes. Community Revival will ask your permission before sharing sensitive information with other organisations, unless the sharing is permitted by law and necessary.
How government departments and our funders use your information
We pass information to government agencies and our funders to meet funding requirements as required by law.
The information is used for the exercise of functions of these government departments and to meet statutory responsibilities. The information provided may be shared with other organisations for purposes of administration, provision of services and the provision of career and other guidance and statistical and research purposes, relating to education, training, employment and well-being. This will only take place where the sharing is in compliance with the Data Protection Legislation.
You may be contacted after you have completed your programme of learning to establish whether you have entered employment or gone onto further training or education.
You may be contacted by the English European Social Fund (ESF) Managing Authority, or its agents, to carry out research and evaluation to inform the effectiveness of the programme.
Further information about use of and access to your personal data, and details of organisations with whom the data is regularly shared are available at: http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-privacy-notice.
The legal basis for collecting the information
Most of the information on the form is collected because it is necessary for your enrolment as a student, to manage your progress on your course or is required by law. You must provide it in order to enrol at Community Revival.
Parents, carers and guardians
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), young people aged 16 and over can decide for themselves and give consent for the processing of their personal information. Parental consent is not required. There may be exceptions in regards of students with severe learning difficulties, school link students and those who are otherwise unable to decide for themselves.
Community Revival has found that it is very beneficial to the young person’s progress as a student if Community Revival is able to engage with the parents (or guardian/carer). Therefore it is very important that we have the parents’ details recorded on our systems.
When a student is in Further Education, parents/carers/guardians (or any other third party) are not automatically entitled to the student’s information. We can only release information about our students if we have their consent for this recorded on the Community Revival system. Students are asked for their consent for sharing information with parents/others on the enrolment form or when enrolling face-to-face. Students can also inform Community Revival later on of who Community Revival may discuss with about Community Revival matters. Students may withdraw their consent the same way which they gave it.
In general, we can only share information if we have the person’s consent, or there is a particular piece of legislation or agreement allowing us to share it without consent.
Websites and Cookies
This section applies to anyone accessing Community Revival websites.
A cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to your device (e.g. your PC) when you access the Community Revival 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.
To find out more about cookies and what cookies might be stored on your device, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
During the course of your study you may be asked to use third party websites or services or access linked content (eg. Youtube) which may collect personal data about you. That site’s own privacy notice will explain you how they use your data.
Responsibilities
Community Revival as a corporate body is the data controller under the Data Protection Act, and the Directors therefore ultimately responsible for implementation.
The designated data controller who is appointed to ensure compliance with the Act is the Director, Abid Satwilkar.
Further information
If you have any questions about Data Protection at the Community Revival, please contact: abid@communityrevival.co.uk or call (0161) 881 1828.
If you have a data protection concern that cannot or have not been resolved by the Community Revival, you have the right to raise it with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Policy approved: 5th September 2024
Review: August 2025
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