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Information regarding cookies, our Privacy Policy and GDPR for Morthyng Group Limited
Notice about how we use your personal information.
We are Morthyng Group Limited the data controller of personal information about you. Our address is North Grove House, South Grove, Rotherham, S60 2AF. Morthyng’s registration number with the ICO is Z6769224.
Our Data Protection Officer is Chris Ellis. If you have any questions about this policy or the ways in which we use your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at North Grove House, South Grove, Rotherham, S60 2AF or by email DPO@morthyng.co.uk.
You can request access to any data we may hold about you by downloading and returning the Standard Request Form.
This privacy notice has been prepared in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
When users of our site send us personal information, such as their email address, Morthyng undertakes:
- Never to sell your details to anyone
- Not to give your details to any third party without your express agreement
- Only to use your details in relation to:
- Your specific enquiry or request
- The project, course, or initiative for which you have submitted details to us
- Shaping and improving the services we offer
We monitor and record, extensively, connections to and from Morthyng’s servers. We do this for security, statistical, and performance-measurement purposes, and in order to detect and prevent abuse. The monitoring data we collect includes browser type, domain names, traffic volumes, temporal data, IP information, and data posted from web-forms on our site.
We use “cookies” on most of our sites to improve the quality of the service we offer, especially to enable users with visual impairment to alter the appearance of our site to suit their needs.
Who are you?
- A member of staff at Morthyng Group Limited
- A student at Morthyng Vocational College, CKW Academy
- A visitor to Morthyng
- One of our suppliers
In each case, you have certain rights, including how to get a copy of your data, how to get it corrected or deleted, and how to complain. These rights are set out in more detail below. Please note that on occasions we may process “special categories” of information about you. This is information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
A member of staff at the college
Please see the Privacy Notice for Staff at Morthyng. This will have been shared with you as part of your induction and by email when the new General Data Protection Regulations came into effect.
A student at the college
Please see the Privacy Notice for Learners at Morthyng. This will have been shared with you as part of your induction and is available on the Portal. It has also been emailed to all students when the new General Data Protection Regulations came into effect.
A visitor to the college
The information we collect about you and why we collect it.
As part of your visit to Morthyng we store and use your personal details and information about your visit for the purposes of managing and operating.
Note: The above information is for example only, this can be amended by Morthyng depending on the types of information collected about visitors.
The legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information
Except in the circumstances highlighted below, we process this information on the basis of our legitimate interests:
- we have a legitimate interest in wishing to interact with you to manage and operate effectively and to ensure that Morthyng is safe and secure for all persons visiting
- to be able to do so, we need to understand details of who is in the building and to be able to communicate with them.
Where we are required by law to hold certain records, then we collect and hold those records to comply with that legal obligation.
How long we keep your personal information
The signing in book is only kept until the book is completed and then destroyed securely.
How we transfer your personal information outside Europe
We do not store or transfer your personal data outside Europe.
Automated decisions we take about you
We do not make automated decisions using this information.
One of our suppliers to Morthyng
We store and use your information for the purposes of managing our suppliers in respect of the supply of goods and services that our College/Organisation may need.
The information we collect about you and why we collect it
In order to engage and manage our suppliers, where you are a supplier (or where if it is a company, you are its representative) we collect and store your contact information and, where appropriate, your bank account details.
You may also be asked to provide details of your occupation and your CV.
In addition, where you visit a building we will collect and process the information set out in the “visitor to Morthyng” section above.
The legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information
Except in the circumstances highlighted below, we process this information on the basis of our legitimate interests:
- we have a legitimate interest in engaging and managing our suppliers; and
- to be able to do so, we need to hold details of who those suppliers are.
Where we are required by law to hold certain records for health and safety purposes, then we hold those records to comply with that statutory obligation.
Where we hold your bank account details, we do so on the basis that it is necessary for us to perform our contract with you.
How long we keep your personal information
Invoices that may contain company personnel names are kept for 6 years. The majority of contracts information does not contain personal data other than names, positions and telephone numbers.
How we share your personal information
We may share the personal information that you give us with the following organisations (or types of organisation) for the following purposes.
Organisation / type of organisation: Morthyng’s internal and external auditors (Hart Shaw LLP)
Purpose: Ensuring that the college meets in financial and legal requirements, a sample of suppliers and invoices may be selected by the auditors
How we transfer your personal information outside Europe
We do not store or transfer your personal data outside Europe.
Automated decisions we take about you
We do not make automated decisions using this personal data.
Your rights
You have a number of rights over your personal information, which are:
- the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy about the way your personal data is being used – please refer to the ICO’s website for further information about this
- the right to ask us what personal information about you we are holding and to have access to a copy of your personal information
- the right to ask us to correct any errors in your personal information
- the right, in certain circumstances such as where our use of your personal information is based on your consent and we have no other legal basis to use your personal information, to ask us to delete your personal information
- the right, in certain circumstances such as where we no longer need your personal information, to request that we restrict the use that we are making of your personal information
- the right, in certain circumstances, to ask us to review and explain our legitimate interests to you
- the right, where our use of your personal information is carried out for the purposes of an agreement with us and is carried out by automated means, to ask us to provide you with a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly-used, machine-readable format
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and will update it from time to time to make sure it remains up-to-date and accurate.
How to control and delete cookies
Morthyng Group Limited will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Morthyng Group Limited use a number of suppliers who also set cookies on the morthyng.co.uk domain websites on our behalf in order to deliver the services that they are providing.
List of the main cookies
This is a list of the main cookies set by Morthyng Group Limited websites, and what each is used for.
Cookie Name Purpose
Google Analytics – users Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of our web sites and compile reports for us on activity on our sites. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the News App, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
How to reject or delete this cookie http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
Cookies set by third party sites
To support our web sites and services, we sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube and Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Flickr, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Morthyng Group Limited does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.