• Student Privacy Notice

  • Throughout your educational journey with Bridgend College, we will collect, process, store and manage data relating to your personal information, medical/health status, additional learning needs, educational and employment history. We will also invest an interest in data related to your progress, attendance, success, wellbeing and safeguarding for the course(s) you are enrolling on.

    By enrolling in Bridgend College you are giving explicit consent for this data to be collected about you and stored in the college system. The data held will be used for funding, statistical, administrative and equality monitoring purposes relating to your studies. Bridgend College will only keep your information for as long as is needed, and destroy it accordingly inline with the retention schedule.

    Under the General Data Protection Regulation 2018, you have the right to a copy of the information held about you, and the right to request deletion of this information at any point when studies have ceased at Bridgend College.

    By consenting to this privacy notice you are giving Bridgend College permission to collect, process and store your personal data on the Bridgend College student system.
  • The personal and educational information collected about you is used for a variety of internal purposes and also by the following organisations:

    Welsh Government
    Careers Wales / Careers Development
    Organisations
    Student Finance Wales
    Awarding Bodies (for the qualifications you are studying)
    Skills Funding Agency
    Bridgend County Borough Council
    Wavehill (for PLA learners only)
    Your school (if your studies are through a school partnership course)
    Employers (If your studies are sponsored by your Employer)
    Training Providers (If your studies are in conjunction with a work-based learning training provider)
    University of Wales/Cardiff Metropolitan University (if your studies are in conjunction with a University partnership)
    Your home local authority for the purposes safeguarding, social services and/or additional learning support (ALN)
    Purlos

    Bridgend College will not pass on your information to another third party without first obtaining your consent, unless this is a best interest decision based on a safeguarding concern or criminal proceeding.

    By consenting to this privacy notice you are giving Bridgend College permission to:
    Share your personal data with the third parties identified above.
    Use your contact information for marketing purposes for current/future college interests Contact your parent/guardian regarding your studies and attendance (for students below the age of 18).

  • Photographic / Video Consent - The college may take and use photographs and video content (individual or group) for the sole purpose of marketing via the college's website, social media channels, internal or external printed publications and displays. Please inform us if you do NOT give permission for us to use photography or video content as outlined
  • You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting our Information Services Manager, Cerianne Morgan (camorgan@bridgend.ac.uk)
  • As a Bridgend College student you have the right to make a formal complaint relating to any possible data breaches or any objections you may have with the content of this privacy notice.
    If you wish to make a complaint, please send it in writing to:
    Organisation - Bridgend College, Cowbridge Road, Bridgend, CF31 3DF
    Data Protection Officer - Cerianne Morgan camorgan@bridgend.ac.uk


  • To submit, please confirm that you have read all necessary sections and provided your name, EBS Person Code and signature.
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