Privacy Policy
Management of Personal Data
The college provides written descriptions of how student, staff and third party personal data is handled. These are called “Privacy Notices”. Links to the college’s privacy notices are below:
Student and Apprentice Privacy Notice
Parents and Carers Privacy Notice
In addition, when you visit our website, we use cookies to gain a better understanding of how you use our website so we can tailor your online experience to your needs and improve overall usability. A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Analytical/performance cookies
These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising arising out of it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please check the ‘Help’ menu of your browser to learn about your cookie preferences, and how to remove cookies from your system. The website www.allaboutcookies.org will provide you with further information about cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that by disallowing cookies some functionality on the site may be restricted.
Further Information and Guidance
The College’s Data Protection Officer is responsible for managing the College’s data protection compliance, including any data subject requests from individuals. The Data Protection Officer may be contacted for advice and information at GDPR@kirkleescollege.ac.uk.
Further guidance on data protection is also available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.