Learning & Participation - Privacy notice - Northern School of Contemporary Dance
 

Privacy notice - Learning & Participation

Information you need to know

Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) needs to obtain and process a range of information about its participants in order to exercise its responsibilities and fulfil its education, training and support obligations to you and to carry out other essential School activities.

NSCD is the Data Controller.

Our Data Manager can be contacted at dataprotection@nscd.ac.uk

NSCD takes your privacy very seriously.  This privacy notice explains how we use your personal information and your rights regarding that information. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use your data and to meeting our data protection obligations.

What information are we collecting?

We collect a range of information about you – for enrolment and administration purposes to support your journey within our Learning and Participation programmes.

When you engage with NSCD’s Learning and Participation team, we will collect information so that we can comply with our health & safety and management duties as well as for research, statistical and archival purposes.

In all cases, we will hold your name, contact details, date of birth, and emergency contact details.

At enrolment, you will also be asked for your contact preferences for emails related to a range of other offers and opportunities that NSCD may wish to send to you. Such emails will only be sent to you with your consent.

Why are we collecting your data and what is the legal basis for this?

We need to collect personal data from you for several reasons. For example, we need to keep formal and accurate records, provide support and guidance, to provide appropriate learning and teaching support.

We hold financial, sponsorship and fees data so that we can record payments.

We collect information about your health, disability and learner support needs so that we can properly support you.

We also need to collect data so that we can run the business and activities of NSCD and in order to fulfil our legal obligations.

At all times we will do so in compliance with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and for one of the legal basis set out in Article 6 of the Regulation.

In some cases, we will use your personal data because it is necessary to fulfil our contract with you or where we have a legal obligation to so do.

Sometimes we will use your data on the basis of our legitimate interests. Where we do this we will only do so because we believe our interests are not overridden by any harm to your data protection rights.

In other cases we may feel it is appropriate to only use your personal data with your full consent. Where we do this you will be given full details of what you are consenting to and how you can withdraw that consent.

Who has access to this data?

Your personal data will only be processed by relevant NSCD staff where the data is necessary for them to undertake their designated role.

Examples of relevant staff may include:

  • The leadership team for reporting and monitoring purposes
  • Learning and Participation team including Centre for Advanced Training staff
  • Other teams such as NSCD marketing that you engage with
  • IT Services

We may also be required to share your information with some external parties.

Examples of external parties include:

  • Local Authorities (e.g. council tax and other benefit purposes, including fraudulent claims)
  • Relevant government departments and other public bodies to which the School has a statutory obligation to release information including The Office for Students (OfS), the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), Department for Education (DfE) and or other equivalent bodies from other countries
  • Police and other law enforcement agencies when they make a request for the purposes of detecting or preventing crime or the apprehension and prosecution of offenders
  • Providers of software we use or organisers of events for a strict purpose
  • Providers of our managed print services

How does the School protect your data?

The School takes data protection very seriously. The information we collect is stored safely and securely and processed in accordance with GDPR.

Your personal data will be handled in line with the School’s Data Protection and Information Security Policies.

For how long does the School keep your data?

Your personal data will only be kept as long as necessary.

Our Records Retention Schedule contains details of each types of record held across the organisation, who has responsibility for them and how long they should be held for.

Your rights

As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:

  • Access and obtain a copy of your data on request
  • Ask the School to correct inaccurate or incomplete data
  • Ask the School to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary or legally required for the purposes of processing
  • To object to processing where we are relying on a legitimate interest
  • To request transfer of your data to another party
  • If your personal data has been provided by consent, you have a right to withdraw that consent at any time.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact the Data Manager dataprotection@nscd.ac.uk

What if you do not provide data?

We do require certain information from you to enable us to provide you with a service. You will engage with some of our teams on an optional basis, such as Admissions team if looking at further training. These teams will only be able to assist you or keep you informed if you choose to provide your information to them.

Automated decision making

We will not make any decisions about you automatically using a computer, based on your personal data. All decisions affecting you will be taken by a human being.