Introduction

www.weirtraining.co.uk is owned and operated by WEIR TRAINING, registered in England.

We do not record or process any personal information about individuals who visit this website, except when you choose to send us information by e-mail, conventional mail, telephone, fax or other means.

Weir Training considers Internet user privacy and data protection to be of high importance. Weir Training complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to all processing of data supplied to us by users and other personal data in our possession for any reason.

Personal Information

Please note that all the information you provide to Weir Training will be stored and processed in the United Kingdom.

We do not sell, trade, lease, loan or rent any personal information to outside organisations or individuals, except when we need to advise domain name registrars of details for their records in administering your domain name, (The information sent to the official registrars is then made public by them and is available for others to see via a “who is” search on the Internet) or when we have requested and received your consent to share information, or when we have to share information for a product or service you have requested, or we are required by law to disclose details in the form of court orders or legal processes

Links to Other Sites

Weir Training may contain various links to other sites. These sites have their own policies and practices with respect to online privacy, and Weir Training cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites.

Information Automatically Logged

Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information, and for other purposes such as monitoring visitor frequency to our website, this data is not shared.

Cyber Essentials

As a Training Provider we are certified to confirm that we meet the relevant requirements on an annual basis. The scope of the certification must be relevant to the Training funded under this Agreement. Weir Training are Cyber Essential certified.

Finally

The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly.

Contact: info@weirtraining.co.uk

The personal information that we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security and the law.

Weir Training collects relevant personal information from individuals in order to meet the requirements of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and any qualification awarding organisations that we partner with to support Apprentices in the completion of their Apprenticeship. This information includes:

• Full Name
• Previous work experience
• Date of Birth
• National Insurance Number
• Age
• Health information that may affect delivery of Apprenticeship
• Address
• Previous academic achievements
• Contact Details
• Additional support information
• Gender
• Household information
• Ethnic Origin
• Previous work experience

This is collected by Weir Training directly from the individual concerned via company bespoke documents. These documents are:

• Interest Forms
• Apprentice ‘About me form’
• Apprentice Individual Learning Record

All data collected is used by Weir Training to facilitate their function of the Apprenticeship delivery process.

Any additional information collected via these documents are for the purposes of Health & Safety and  safeguarding responsibilities. This particular information will not be shared with third parties.  The information may be shared with third parties for education, training, employment, well-being and auditing related purposes. These parties include:

• The individual’s employer
• ESFA
• OFSTED
• Awarding Organisations
• OneFile
• End Point Assessment (EPA) Organisations
• Industry required accreditation organisations
• Local Council Authorities

This information is shared for legitimate reasons, in order that:

• Correct funding can be allocated to individuals
• Assessment and evaluation on quality of assessment, teaching and learning offered by Weir Training can take place
• Correct registration and certification can be completed with Awarding and End Point Assessment organisations.
• Collation of evidence to support qualification achievement

For legal reasons, we may share data with local authorities to comply with legislation.

Third parties may contact individuals in order for them to carry out research and evaluation of the effectiveness of Weir Training’s delivery.

The sharing of personal information with the ESFA supports the identification of a unique learning number (ULN) and updates any personal learning records (PLR) of the individual.

With consent, we are able to collect certain data from other sources. This includes previous academic achievements; as a registered training provider we have access to Government records which enable us to see recorded previous academic achievements of an individual.

All information is stored correctly and all measures are taken to ensure that information held by Weir Training is not compromised.

Information is securely deleted when it is no longer required for the purposes collected.

Individuals can agree to be contacted for other purposes such as:

• Courses/learning opportunities available
• Survey/Feedback completion

Via:

• By post
• By phone
• By e-messages

Individuals can select these preferences on the Apprentice ‘About Me Form’ or the Apprentice Interest form if this is completed first. If at any time an individual wishes to change these preferences this can be done via sending an email request to GDPR@weirtraining.co.uk