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Privacy Policy

Disclaimer

North West Training Council (the "Council") hereby grants visitors to this Web site access to these pages conditional upon your agreement to accept the application of the laws of England to govern matters between us in relation to this web site and you agree to indemnify us and not hold us liable for the result foreseeable of any actions you may take based on the information contained herein.

Privacy Statement

The Council's website, with the exception of the registration systems, does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address (Internet Protocol: standard allowing data to be transmitted between two devices) which is automatically recognized by the web server.

No information is stored on your computer and no personal data is obtained from this software, unless you choose to complete our online application form or our booking form. This is information is passed to the relevant department to be processed.

If you respond online to a consultation exercise your data will only be used to facilitate the analysis of responses. This privacy statement only covers this Council's website at www.nwtc.co.uk and subsequent variations and of that domain. Other websites linked to from the Council's web site are not covered by this privacy statement.

The Council is bound by and adheres to The Data Protection Act, the principals of which are below.

The data protection principles

The Data Protection Act 1998 governs the use of personal information through the eight data protection principles.

These principles require that personal information is:

• processed fairly and lawfully
• processed for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and not further processed in any way that is incompatible with the original purpose
• adequate, relevant and not excessive
• accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date
• kept for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it is being used
• processed in line with the rights of individuals
• kept secure with appropriate technical and organisational measures taken to protect the information
• not transferred outside the European Economic Area (the European Union member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) unless there is adequate protection for the personal information being transferred