Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement of the Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance regarding the Pathways Enquiry Service
Privacy statement
Please note that by submitting your details to GMSA Pathways, you agree the GMSA to use your personal data for educational research purposes. We only use your personal data in an anonymous form so that nobody can identify you from any of our research reports. You can be assured that your details will not be shared with any outside agencies.
Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy at the bottom of the webpage.
Please contact us
Let us know if you found the Pathways service useful. The GMSA welcomes feedback from anyone who has used this site. We would also like to invite you to join one of our focus groups. Get in touch by contacting us at: pathwaysenquiry@gmsa.ac.uk.
Our full Privacy Policy is continued below.
Information about our Organisation
Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of the Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance (GMSA), a partnership of 39 educational institutions and related organizations. We are based in Manchester, UK.
Our principal activity is: A Lifelong Learning Network which strives to increase the number of vocational learners participating in Higher Education.
This privacy policy covers the GMSA Pathways Enquiry Service:
| Organisation Name: | Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance |
| House Name: | Tresco House |
| Address: | 149 – 153 Oxford Road , M1 7EE |
| City: | Manchester |
| Country: | UK |
| Controller: | GMSA |
| GMSA general website: | http://www.gmsa.ac.uk/ |
| GMSA Pathways Enquiry Service website: | http://pathways.gmsa.ac.uk/ |
Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access
You can access the GMSA Pathways Enquiry Service website and browse without disclosing your personal data.
The services and links of GMSA Pathways website
The GMSA Pathways website does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others.
The GMSA Pathways website includes links to educational institutions in Greater Manchester who may or may not choose to act as web service providers.
Automatic Collection of Information
We use cookies on the GMSA Pathways website.
We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.
Data Collection and Purpose Specification
We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using the GMSA Pathways Enquiry Service.
We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.
Primary Personal Data / Business Information
| X | Volunteered by each visitor |
| - | Collected from public records or bodies |
| - | Collected from private organisations |
| Technical administration of the Web site | Research & development | Customer Administration | Marketing | Trading in personal data | |
| Name | x | x | |||
| Gender | |||||
| Address | x | x | x | ||
| E-mail address | x | x | x | ||
| Phone/Fax number | x | x | |||
| other (describe) |
Other personal details and profiling data
| X | Volunteered by each visitor |
| - | Collected from public records or bodies |
| - | Collected from private organisations |
| Technical administration of the Web site | Research & development | Customer Administration | Marketing | Trading in personal data | |
| Personal details | |||||
| Physical description | |||||
| Family characteristics | |||||
| Education and skills | x | x | x | x | |
| Life style or personal tastes | x | x | x | x | |
| Financial resources | |||||
| other (describe) |
Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
We do not take specific steps to protect the privacy of children who disclose their personal data to us.
We do not provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our home page, or at those sites on our websites where we collect personal data.
Disclosure and Visitor Choice
We disclose the GMSA Pathways Enquiry Service users’ personal data to our member institutions when, and only when, the users send enquiries to specific educational institutions thought the Pathways website. By choosing to send an enquiry, the user opts-in to disclosure of their personal data to educational institutions for customer administration and marketing purposes.
Confidentiality / Security
We do not give visitors to our websites the option of using a secure transmission method to send us their personal data.
We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:
- unauthorised access
- improper use or disclosure
- unauthorised modification
- unlawful destruction or accidental loss
All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.
We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to Government institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.
Access to the personal data we may hold about you
You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you, by sending postal mail with a copy of your drivers license or valid passport this address:
M Harding
Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance
149-153 Oxford Road
Manchester
M1 7EE
Upon your request, we will provide you within two weeks with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you. This information will be provided without any charge.
We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:
- erased
- rectified or amended
- completed
We do not reserve the right to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.
Privacy Compliance
In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy statement, we are:
- voluntarily committed to a Self Assessment procedure
Self Assessment procedure
| Name or designation of the privacy policy person or service | M Harding |
| URL | www.gmsa.ac.uk |
| Address | Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance |
| Country | UK |
Privacy Support
Privacy concerns and general enquires can be directed to our main telephone number: 0161 921 8040, or info@gmsa.ac.uk