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Privacy Notice - Education Business Partnership


Cornwall Education Business Partnership, part of Together for Families Directorate, Cornwall Council, New County Hall, Truro, TR1 3AY, Data Protection Registration Number: Z1745294 is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Cornwall Education Business Partnership may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes.

Why do you need my information?

You have asked us to provide you with a Cornwall Education Business Partnership service so we need your name, address, telephone number and email in order to set up your provision. Without them we will not be able to provide you with the service. In some instances we also require health information, SEND information, gender, emergency contact details, passport details, national insurance number, insurance information, workplace information and bank details. This is to ensure we have the necessary information to ensure your safety and wellbeing, to support any medical treatment required and to pay bursaries and charge for services where relevant.

Who will control my data?

The Data Controller for all the information you provide on any of these forms is Cornwall Council, County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro TR1 3AY.  Data Protection Registration Number: Z1745294

There’s something I don’t understand

If you need help in understanding this notice, please contact the Cornwall Education Business Partnership admin team on telephone number 01872 324142 or by emailing ebp@cornwall.gov.uk

How we will use the information about you

The information will be used to provide you with the Cornwall Education Business Partnership service requested as appropriate.  Cornwall Education Business Partnership will always comply with the General Data Protection Regulations, and the Data Protection Act.

Who else will we share your information with?

We will only use this information in conjunction with Cornwall Education Business Partnership.  We may share your information with the Credit Management department in the event of unpaid fees for services.

Whenever your consent to share your information is required, we will always ask you and clearly explain why we are asking.

We will share your information with third parties as indicated below with regards to Cornwall Education Business Partnership as to ensure the adequate safeguarding and welfare is in place.

Emergency Details - This information is required to enable us to care for you in the event of a medical emergency or accident and will only be used in this instance. This information may be shared with third parties in order to provide appropriate medical treatment.

External providers – Where we use external providers we will share personal information,  medical and SEND details so as to ensure the adequate safeguarding and welfare of participants during activities.

Your data will be held within Cornwall Council’s secure network and premises and will not be processed outside of the EEA.  Access to your information will only be made to authorised members of staff who are required to process it for the purposes outlined in this privacy notice.

Our sub-contractor(s) detailed in this privacy notice will also maintain the same levels of security that we do which are set out in the contract we have with them.

Full details can be found at: https://procontract.due-north.com/ContractsRegister/Index

Our other providers we share may your information with not listed on the contracts register are as follows:

  • Schools and colleges – South West
  • Work Experience Placement Suitability Visitors
  • Veryan for the management of the Work Experience Scheme
  • Careers South West
  • Ecorys and European Commission Erasmus+

Photography and video

We will always ask your permission or obtain your record of consent before taking and using any photographs or videos which may be used to help promote Cornwall Education Business Partnership.

How long will you keep this information for?

We will only retain your personal information provided for the duration of service provision and in line with Together for Families data retention policy after which time it will be destroyed in a secure manner.  Whenever your information is required, we will always clearly set out how long we need to retain the data.

We will retain your application as evidence of consent for any photography and video utilised for the duration of use. Financial records will be retained for 7 years. Work Experience records will be held in a secure environment until the 21st birthday of the student participant.

What are my data rights?

Your personal information belongs to you and you have the right to:

  • be informed of how we will process it
  • request a copy of what we hold about you and in commonly used electronic format if you wish (if you provided this to us electronically for automated processing, we will return it in the same way)
  • have it amended if it’s incorrect or incomplete
  • have it deleted (where we do not have a legal requirement to retain it)
  • withdraw your consent if you no longer wish us to process
  • restrict how we process it
  • object to us using it for marketing or research purposes
  • object to us using it in relation to a legal task or in the exercise of an official authority
  • request that a person reviews an automated decision where it has had an adverse effect on you

How do I exercise these rights?

If you would like to access any of the information we hold about you or have concerns regarding the way we have processed your information, please contact:

Data Protection Officer
Assurance
Cornwall Council
County Hall
Truro
TR1 3AY

Tel: 01872 326424
Email: dpo@cornwall.gov.uk 

Marketing and e-newsletters

Please see the Council’s Stay in Touch privacy notice.

Business intelligence, profiling and automated-decision making

Please see the relevant section of our Corporate privacy notice.

Protecting your information

Please see the relevant section of our Corporate privacy notice

Your information choice and rights

Please see the relevant section of our Corporate privacy notice.

Further information 

Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) provides help and guidance to make sure we apply the best standards to protecting your personal information. If something goes wrong with your personal information, or you have questions about how we process your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@cornwall.gov.uk.

If we have not been able to deal with your query, you can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office: 

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

0303 123 1113
www.ico.org.uk

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