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Privacy policy

This privacy notice is for this website only and sets out important information on how we collect and use your personal data.

Your privacy is critically important to us. Newham College is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold about you, how we use it and who we share it with.

The College has a wide range of functions and services. For information about data protection in general and privacy notices for students, staff, visitors and contractors, please see our data protection page.

Data collection

The Newham College website collects personal data from you in two ways: data you provide yourself and data that is collected automatically.

We do not ask you for personal information unless we truly need it and we do not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our courses and services, or protect our rights.

Data that you provide yourself

The website includes a number of enquiry, booking, feedback and live chat forms that enable us to gather data for the purpose specified on the relevant web page. By clicking on ‘Submit’, we assume your implied consent to process this data in accordance with our data protection policy and to provide you with the information, products and services that you have requested from us.

The information you submit via this website is hosted in the UK by our IT Services, which provides our hosting. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

The transmission of information via the internet is never 100% secure. While we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the website.

Authorised personnel within Newham College will be able to access the information that you provide to us. Your information may also be passed on to trusted partners under contract to assist us in fulfilling any actions you have requested and approved by you. These trusted partners are also bound by UK and EU data protection laws.

We will not share your personal information with anyone else except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

Data collected automatically

Data collected automatically through the use of cookies, allows us to understand how you navigate the website so that we can refine the user experience accordingly, store information that you provide such as your preferences, and store technical information useful for your interactions with this website.

Please consult our cookie policy to understand how we use this information to make the website work better for you.

Your rights

You reserve the right to request a copy of the information held by us under the Freedom of Information Act. To request this data, withdraw consent or ask for it to be deleted, contact web.manager@newham.ac.uk.

Changes to our privacy policy

We review our privacy policy on a regular basis and reserve the right to make changes without prior notice.

Last updated: 1 April 2021