Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
We will only collect personal information from you that you have voluntarily provided by completing an enquiry or registration form on the website and/or that you have sent to us via email. If you provide us with your contact details, we may contact you to request further information.
If you are applying for a course with third-party funding or involvement your data may be shared with the organisation(s) concerned. This programme is delivered by Mission Accomplished Ltd and Shine Television in collaboration with Banijay UK, with the support of the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding, and The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
By submitting an application or providing information, you give your consent to for us send your information to those companies and you acknowledge that we are not responsible for other companies’ use of that information. We urge you to check third parties' data and privacy policies before submitting any information.
If you do not want your personal data collected or used, please do not submit your data to us.
You agree that we may obtain, hold and use the personal information you provide for the purposes of providing you with our services and ancillary services (the "Purposes"). The Purposes include, without limitation:
- Storing and processing information to better understand your needs and personalising and improving the website and our products and services;
- To respond to any enquiries you have made;
- Reporting to the bodies or organisations that fund courses for which you apply (whether or not that application is successful);
- Sending your information to potential employers or industry bodies;
- To conduct surveys or promotions;
- Contacting you if we change our products and services or terms or if we need to give you notice of those terms;
- For the purpose of marketing our other products and services to you (by post, telephone, fax, email or other available method) unless you indicate or subsequently notify us that you do not wish to receive such material;
- For the prevention of fraud;
- For any purpose required by law or regulatory authorities;
- For our billing or accounting purposes.
You consent to the transfer of your personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area (which countries may not provide the same protection for your personal information as the UK), in the unlikely event that the processing of your personal information involves such a transfer.
Content You Provide to Us
If you submit content to us (for example an image to accompany a testimonial), you confirm that any content submitted does not and will not infringe or misappropriate any third-party right, including copyright and other intellectual property rights, privacy rights, rights of publicity, or moral rights, or slander, defame, or libel anyone. In other words, content you supply must be your original work and/or you must have the permission of any third parties that have rights in the content before you upload or post any content.
Sharing Your Information
We do not share, sell or distribute personal data to or with third parties unless:
- The transfer of your data to third parties is strictly necessary for the performance of the Purposes;
- You have consented to this; or
- It is required to enforce or apply our terms and conditions or other agreements, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Mission Accomplished Limited, our clients or others (this includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction).
You can view Mission Accomplished Ltd's full Privacy Policy here.
This programme is part-funded by the British Film Institute and in order for you to qualify for this funding we may need to share data with the BFI. More information about the BFI’s privacy policy is available here.
The principal funder of this course is The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
WMCA Adult Education Budget Privacy Notice for the Purpose of Data Collection
How WMCA uses your personal information
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is responsible for commissioning and funding adult education budget provision for learners within the West Midlands. WMCA may use your personal information in our delivery of this work.
How WMCA collects your personal information
WMCA collects your personal information where the law allows it, or they have a legal obligation to do so. Your personal information is collected to enable us to carry out the functions of the WMCA.
The lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information will depend on the service and will normally be:
- where WMCA needs to for the purposes of WMCA functions
- where WMCA has your consent to do so
- where WMCA has a legal obligation
How WMCA shares your personal information
WMCA may share your personal information with other services run by the WMCA, and other organisations, where the law allows it or we have a legal obligation to do so:
- with a third party who is working for WMCA under contract
- with organisations for the purposes of administration, provision of career and other guidance, statistical and research purposes, relating to education, training, employment or well-being, and prevention or detection of crime.
Other organisations include the Education and Skills Funding Agency and the Department for Education.
How long WMCA will keep your personal information
WMCA will keep your data for a maximum of 7 years from the end of the academic year once you have ended your learning activity, after which it will be securely destroyed.
WMCA may need to keep your personal information indefinitely for research and statistical purposes. WMCA will put in place necessary measures to safeguard this information.
Your data protection rights
You have the right:
- to ask for access to information about you that WMCA holds
- to have your personal data rectified, if it is inaccurate or incomplete
- to request the deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing
- to restrict our processing of your personal data (i.e. permitting its storage but no further processing)
- to object to direct marketing (including profiling) and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics
- not to be subject to decisions based purely on automated processing where it produces a legal or similarly significant effect on you
If WMCA are processing your personal information using your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
If you need access to any of your data protection rights regarding any of the above, please do so by following the process as detailed in ESFA’s Privacy Notice.
Further information on processing your information
Learner information
Personal information is collected by the WMCA in accordance with the terms and conditions of funding imposed on providers of learning, for example, further education colleges and private training organisations. Your personal information is processed by the ESFA, and passed to WMCA when they process your information on behalf of the DfE, to enable the DfE to carry out its functions.
Learner information collected by the ESFA is known as the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). The specification and standards for the ILR are published for each academic year (1 August to 31 July) by the ESFA. This specification provides more information about the use of your information.
Learner contact information collected by the ESFA may be used for the purposes of research and surveys to enable the DfE to carry out its functions or, where learning is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), for the Department for Work and Pensions to carry out its functions. This contact information will only be used for the purposes of other research and surveys with the consent of the learner.
Learner information is also collected and supplied to the Learning Records Service, a part of the ESFA. Your information is used by the ESFA to issue learners with a Unique Learner Number, and to create and maintain your Personal Learning Record. More information about this use of learner information is published by the Learning Record Service.
Sharing data
In order for the DfE to carry out its functions:
- the ESFA and training providers share data to ensure accuracy of information held in relation to the funding of learning - a training provider may need to share your information with another training provider in order to verify accuracy of information in relation to a claim for funding from the ESFA
- your personal information may be shared with another training provider for the purposes of your continued learning
In the event that a further education college or other training provider is unable to continue the delivery of training funded by the ESFA (for example, where a training provider is a limited company that is dissolved) the ESFA will endeavour to make arrangements for the secure transfer of information, including your personal data, from the former training provider to another training provider to support your continued learning. It may also request information from Awarding Organisations to establish at what stage your learning has reached according to their records.
For your reference, please take a moment to review the WMCA Whistleblowing and Complaints Policy, which applies to all learners.
