Terms & Conditions

You will find all you need to know about Grimsby Institute’s Terms, Conditions, Cookie information, Copyright and how we store your data.

Purpose of this statement

This statement tells you how the TEC Partnership will collect and process your personal data when you access this website.

The TEC Partnership is committed to protecting and respecting personal data and being transparent about how and why it collects and uses data. To learn more about how we manage your data please go to: https://grimsby.ac.uk/privacy-policy/

Copyright

Notice: Except where otherwise stated, copyright of all material resides with The TEC Partnership (“the Institute”). No material may be altered to any degree and no one is permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, any content of the TEC Partnership website without the TEC Partnership’s prior written consent.

By applying to enrol on a course of study with us, you consent to the Institute processing personal or sensitive data relating to you, in accordance with the TEC Partnership registration.

At times the TEC Partnership may take photographs to be used for internal and external purposes.
If you wish for your image not be used you must make the photographer aware of this at the time.

Automated collection of personal information

As with most other web servers, when you access these web pages certain information you provide will automatically be recorded by the Institute. This will include your IP address, browser type, and information relating to the page you last visited. This information is needed to estimate how much usage of the server is made by different categories of users and in the event of a breach of security may be used to aid detection.

Your data is only used to administer your enquiry or applications and your data will be passed on to the appropriate department for this purpose, after this time our system will automatically hard delete your stored information within six months that you have submitted via our website (https://grimsby.ac.uk).

If you wish to contact us before the six months automated deletion, please contact us here to request a deletion of your data that’s currently held on our website at (https://grimsby.ac.uk).

Non-automated collection

Where you are required under this website to provide personal data this data will be used for the following purposes:

Maintaining up-to-date lists of current alumni – all information is for reference and internal marketing purposes and is not shared with third parties.

Maintaining up-to-date lists of current news – all information is for reference and internal marketing purposes and is not shared with third parties.

Maintaining up-to-date lists of current applications for vacancies advertised on the website and holding information on applicants for future vacancies – all information is for reference and may be used as documentary evidence to substantiate the details given on this application form.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. For example, a website may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you, your preferences, or the pages you last visited.

Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, or to ask you if you would like to accept or decline a cookie from a particular site before it is set. Most browsers offer instructions in the Help section of the tool bar on how to set the browser to reject cookies. You should know, however, that if you reject a cookie, certain functions and conveniences of a site may not work properly.

We use cookies on our website for the following purposes: cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Click here for an overview of privacy at google
To provide website visitors with more choice on how their data is collected by google Analytic, google have developed the google Analytic Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the google Analytic Java Script (gauges) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to google Analytics.

If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The google Analytic Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Internet Explorer, google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
Learn more about the google Analytic Opt-out Browser Add-on here

Credit card details for enrolment and online shopping

If credit card details are requested as part of a transaction between you and us, these details will be encrypted and handled by a secure web server using SSL technology. We do not currently accept payment online.

Advertising Banners and Links to other websites

Banner ads on TEC Partnership websites may be advertising third-party services and you may be directed to servers belonging to the third party. Users are encouraged to review the privacy statement of each linked site before sharing personal information. Inclusion of the other sites by links does not imply any endorsement of the material or information on the other sites.

Security of communications

We recognise that many people are concerned about the privacy and protection of information as it is transmitted over the Internet. You should keep in mind that the possibility exists for unauthorised individuals to intercept any e-mail message you send over the Internet. In some cases, information can be encrypted (scrambled or encoded) to make it very difficult to read if it is intercepted during communication.

Certain technology and practices allow websites to provide an increased level of security for your personal information when appropriate. We are not responsible for the privacy of e-mail messages except those stored in our system.

We use the following practices on our website to enhance the level of security for communication and the transmission of personal information:

We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide.

We use e-mail forms to allow our customers to ask questions about our services and programmes. The possibility exists that unauthorised individuals may intercept email messages.

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Offensive or inappropriate content on the TEC Partnership websites

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to *.grimsby.ac.uk, the TEC Partnership may use your personal information to stop such behavior. Where the TEC Partnership reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), the TEC Partnership may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behavior

Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained on our website is correct at the time of publication and when information becomes incorrect is amended within a reasonable period. The TEC Partnership makes no representation about the information contained in the documents and related graphics published on this site. All such documents and related graphics are provided “as is,” without guarantee or warranty of any kind and all implied guarantees or warranties are excluded to the maximum extent permitted by applicable UK law. You must check any information on the site before taking any decisions based on that information.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable UK law, the Institute shall not be liable, in any event, for any claims for damages or any other remedy in whatever jurisdiction whatsoever, whether in an action in contract, tort (including negligence and strict liability) or any other theory of liability, whether in law or equity including, without limitation, claims for damages or any other remedy in whatever jurisdiction arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents or other information available from this server or the documents or pages that reside upon it.

The TEC Partnership will use reasonable endeavours to deliver programmes and other services in accordance with the descriptions provided. The Institute, however, reserves the right to make variations to course contents, fees, entry requirements and methods of delivery, to discontinue or merge or combine courses, and to make variations to regulations, both before and after a student’s admission to the Institute, if such action is reasonably considered necessary by the TEC Partnership. Should industrial action or other circumstances beyond the control of the Institute occur, and this interferes with the TEC Partnership’s ability to deliver programmes or other services in accordance with the descriptions provided, the Institute will use all reasonable endeavours to minimise disruption as far as it is practical to do so.

Registered trading address

Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education, Nuns Corner, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN34 5BQ – VAT number: 298390940