Privacy & Cookie Statement

ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT

Here at Orbital South Colleges, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy statement explains the types of personal information gathered when you interact with us online, and how this information will be used.

We are the data controller of personal information about you. We are EAST SURREY COLLEGE CORPORATION T/A ORBITAL SOUTH COLLEGES (OSC). Our address is: Gatton Point, London Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 2JX.

Our Data Protection Officer is Kevin Squire.  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 DPO@esc.ac.uk.

This privacy notice has been prepared in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

VISITORS TO THIS WEBSITE (www.johnruskin.ac.uk)

Personal information is neither captured nor stored through this website without the prior consent of users. Where personal information is captured (e.g. through web forms for enquiries, applications, etc.), the user will be informed as to what information is being captured and why. Any personal information that you provide to us will be used only for the purpose stated at the time we request it. We will not sell, license or trade your personal information to others. We do not provide your personal information to direct marketing companies or other such organisations.

In addition, some parts of the website require authentication with a username and/or password. These pages use cookies for security purposes. These cookies are not used to capture or store personal information for any purpose other than to authenticate the user and are deleted as soon as a session is terminated. Information about the pages visited by logged in users is stored for statistical analysis purposes, but individual usage patterns are not monitored.

Finally, we maintain logs of the websites server activity. These log files include the IP address of every computer used to access the College website. The log files are used to analyse the usage of the John Ruskin College website.  

USE OF COOKIES BY OSC

You can read more about how we use cookies on our Cookies page.

PEOPLE WHO CONTACT US VIA SOCIAL MEDIA

In order for us to respond to any private or direct message we will need to share your data internally to be able to respond to your initial contact, however this will be in accordance with our College Group Privacy Policy.

PEOPLE WHO EMAIL US

We monitor any emails sent to us, including file attachments, for viruses or malicious software. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Please note that although our website provides links to other websites, this policy only applies to Orbital South Colleges' own web pages. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites that you visit.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may amend this privacy policy at any time. Any changes we may make will be posted on this page, so please check back frequently.

This privacy notice was updated on 05 Jan 2022.