Lisa Greig - CEO
Barry Currell - Head of College/Safeguarding Lead
Louise Robson - Head of Corporate Services
You have a legal right to be informed about how our school uses any personal information that we hold about you. To comply with this, we provide a ‘privacy notice’ to you where we are processing your personal data.
This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about you.
We, Catcote Futures, Learning and Skills Centre, Warren Road, Hartlepool, TS24 0RG are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data protection law.
Our data protection officer (Veritau Ltd) can be contacted on 01609 532526.
The personal data we hold
We hold some personal information about you to make sure we can help you learn and look after you at school.
For the same reasons, we get information about you from some other places too – like other schools, the local council and the government.
This information includes:
Why we use this data
We use this data to help run the school, including to:
Our legal basis for using this data
We will only collect and use your information when the law allows us to. Most often, we will use your information where:
Sometimes, we may also use your personal information where:
Where we have got permission to use your data, you or your parent/carer may change their mind about this at any time. We will make this clear when we ask for permission, and explain how to go about withdrawing consent.
Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using your information overlap, and there may be several grounds which mean we can use your data.
Collecting this information
While in most cases you, or your parent/carer, must provide the personal information we need to collect, there are some occasions when you can choose whether or not to provide the data.
We will always tell you if you have a choice. If you must provide the data, we will explain what might happen if you don’t.
How we store this data
We will keep personal information about you while you are a student at our college. We may also keep it after you have left the college, where we are required to by law.
We have a data retention and disposalpolicy which sets out how long we must keep information about students.
If you wish to see a copy of this policy please contact the Data Protection Officer on the telephone number provided.
Data sharing
We do not share personal information about you with anyone outside the college without permission from you or your parent/carer, unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.
Where it is legally required, or necessary for another reason allowed under data protection law, we may share personal information about you with:
We are required to provide information about you to the Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency so that they understand who our students are, their attendance and the progress they are making.
These government departments may share information from the database with other organisations which promote students’ education or wellbeing in England. These organisations must agree to strict terms and conditions about how they will use your data.
You can find more information about this on the Department for Education’s webpage on how it collects and shares research data.
You can also contact the Department for Educationif you have any questions about the database.
Transferring data internationally
Where we share data with an organisation that is based outside the European Economic Area, we will protect your data by following data protection law.
Your rights
How to access personal information we hold about you
You can find out if we hold any personal information about you, and how we use it, by making a ‘subject access request’, as long as we feel that you can properly understand your rights and what they mean.
If we do hold information about you, we will:
You may also ask us to send your personal information to another organisation electronically in certain circumstances.
If you want to make a request please contact our data protection officer.
Your other rights over your data
You have other rights over how your personal data is used and kept safe, including the right to:
Complaints
We take any complaints about how we collect and use your personal data very seriously, so please let us know if you think we’ve done something wrong.
You can make a complaint at any time by contacting our data protection officer.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office in one of the following ways:
Contact us
If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer: