FE Colchester Institute Privacy Statement 2024/2025

FE Colchester Institute Privacy Statement 2024/2025

We provide information to examination boards, our funding bodies and their partners, and Local Authorities, where appropriate. We are obliged to help police and other government organisations (e.g. Department for Work and Pensions) with their enquiries. We will disclose information about your education, health, safety and well being upon receipt of a formal written request by a relevant authority (e.g. Social Care, Police) where there are justifiable reasons to make such a disclosure, we may also provide personal data such as address, phone number or confirmation of your whereabouts at a particular time. Other organisations include Essex County Council and Local Authorities, Schools, Higher Education Statistics Agency, Office for Students (OfS), Student Loan Company and educational institutions.
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.

Colchester Institute will retain your personal data in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018 for as long as is considered necessary for the legitimate business purpose under which it was collected. Data will be retained under an Information Asset Register schedule of approved retention periods. For further information, please refer to our Privacy Notice: https://www.colchester.ac.uk/policies/