For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller – the organisation that’s responsible for your privacy – is University Technical College Norfolk.
We use your information in a number of different ways. The table below outlines what we do and why we do it.
Your name and contact details
How we use your name and contact details | Why? |
To send your updates about your application by email, text and direct email, such as interview dates | To process your application effectively |
To send you information by email about Academy events, news and activities | To keep you up to date. We only send this with your permission. |
Showing you University Technical College Norfolk adverts as you browse the web | To show you courses and events that may be of interest to you |
Information about your phone or laptop and how you use our website
How we use information about your phone or laptop and how you use our website | Why? |
To improve our website | To give you the best possible experience when using our website on all devices |
We share your data with following organisations as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you:
If you’ve opted-in, we’ll send you marketing messages by email, text and direct mail to keep you up to date and share information that may be relevant to you.
How to stop receiving marketing messages
You can stop receiving messages at any time by:
Once you do this, we will update your preferences so that you don’t receive any further messages.
We use online advertising to keep you up to date on activities at our school and help you find courses and events that may be of interest to you.
Like many organisations, we target banners and adverts to you when you are on other websites and apps. We do this using a variety digital marketing networks and ad exchanges, and we use a range of advertising technologies like pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers, as well as specific services offered by some sites and social networks, such as Facebook’s Custom Audience service.
The banners and adverts you see will be based on the information we hold on you, your previous use of services offered by our school (e.g. pages you visit our website) or on University Technical College Norfolk banner or ads you have previously clicked on.
We hold your information for as long as you are a student at our Academy, or as long as it is needed for us to be able to provide our services to you.
You have lots of rights relating to your personal information:
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