We are the data controller of personal information about you. We are Bury College. Our address is: Woodbury Centre Market Street, Bury BL9 0BG
If you have any questions about this policy or the ways in which we use your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@burycollege.ac.uk
This privacy notice has been prepared in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018
This notice sets out how we use your personal information when you apply to become or are a Governor of the College, in particular:
We will collect personal information from you when you apply for the role of governor with us. This will include your: [name; address; phone number; email; date of birth; NI number; current employment details including job title, all past employment details (via a C.V.); education details; interests; whether you are related to any personnel of the College or Governing Body; references; special arrangement details for interview (if any); Disclosure Barring Service check (including identification documents), Check of Barred (as a trustee or Company director) Lists (with the Charity Commission and Companies House).
We will collect personal information from you when you are a Governor of the College. This will be your: [name; marital status; address; date of birth; occupation / type of employment; phone number; email addresses; NI number; start date; bank details (for payment of expenses); qualifications / experience, Register of Interests, accidents and injuries at College; recruitment information; photo; gender; exit interview.The uses made of your personal information
We will use your personal information set out above as follows:
We treat your personal information confidentially and we do not use it for any other purpose.
We collect and use your personal information on the basis that it is necessary for your being a Governor at the College, or it is necessary to take steps before becoming a governor at the College. We also collect and use your personal information on the basis that we need to do so in order to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. The legal bases upon which we process your personal information are either public task, contractual or legal responsibility.
Where we collect your special category personal information, we do this on the basis that it is necessary for the purposes of carrying out our obligations in the field of Equality and Diversity legislation. Special categories of personal data are personal data that reveal a person’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religions or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data (i.e. information about their inherited or acquired genetic characteristics, information about their physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics (such as facial images and fingerprints), physical or mental health, sexual life or sexual orientation and criminal records).
We will not keep your personal information for longer than we need it for the purposes we have explained above.
When you apply for a role as a Governor with us, but your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your personal information for 6 months.
When you are a Governor, we will keep your personal information for as long as you hold that position and then after you leave, we will keep your personal information permanently for historical purposes (in line with the policy adopted for the retention of Corporation Papers which is currently 6 years).
We may share the personal information that you give us with the following organisations (or types of organisation) for the following purposes.
Organisation / type of organisation:
Government (and quasi government) bodies including: Department for Education; Ofsted; Office for Students, Education & Skills Funding Agency, Charity Commission, Companies House, Disclosure and Barring Service
Purpose:
Regulation of the College’s activities, meeting legal and / or regulatory obligations
We do not store or transfer your personal data outside of Europe.
You have a number of rights over your personal information, which are:
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any substantial changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be notified to you by email.
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