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Learning Against the Odds
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Skills Pledge Employer of the Year
Success in Leadership and Management
Third Sector Employer of the Year
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Employer of the Year
Ceremony
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Privacy and Copyright

The Skills Funding Agency South West Skills Awards website does not capture or store personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address (the Internet address of your computer) to give us an idea of which part of our website you visit and how long you spend there.

Like most websites this site may use a standard technology called a cookie to collect information about how you use the site; this is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Some parts of the Skills Funding Agency website (http://skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk) uses cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use/navigate through many parts of our website, except access to certain parts of the Skills Funding Agency web pages may require a login and password.

If you register to receive updates your information will be held on a secure server and the data will not be shared with any organisations outside government. It will be used only to provide you with email updates on the topics you have requested or postal information if you request that service. If you respond online to a consultation exercise your data will only be used to facilitate the analysis of responses and will be deleted subsequently.

This privacy statement only covers this (the above mentioned) website. Other websites linked to or from the Skills Funding Agency website are not covered by this privacy statement.

Data protection

The Skills Funding Agency is registered with the Information Commissioner responsible for the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts. Our notification can be viewed on the Information Commissioners website at www.dpr.gov.uk

What information is gathered and how it is used by the Skills Funding Agency

The Skills Funding Agency gathers certain types of information about visitors to this website. It is important, therefore, that visitors know what is gathered and how it is used. The Skills Funding Agency may use information for the following purposes:

to fulfil your requests for certain services
to personalise your experience on the Skills Funding Agency website
to keep you up to date on the latest service announcements or other information the Skills Funding Agency thinks you'd like to hear about either from us or from our partners
to understand your needs and provide you with better services
to track usage.

Information sharing and disclosure

Because the Skills Funding Agency is a national non-departmental public body, your personal information may be shared between local offices and the National Skills Funding Agency offices. By providing personal information you are deemed to consent to your personal information being shared outside the Skills Funding Agency in the following circumstances:

where the Skills Funding Agency needs to share your information to provide the service you have requested
where the Skills Funding Agency needs to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Skills Funding Agency to provide a service to you (we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose)
where the Skills Funding Agency wants to keep you up to date on the latest service announcements, software updates or other information the Skills Funding Agency thinks you would like to hear about either from us or from our business partners
the Skills Funding Agency will also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our website.
Skills Funding Agency data is stored in controlled servers with limited access. Your information may be stored and processed in the United Kingdom where Skills Funding Agency or its business partners are located.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Skills Funding Agency may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will make that information available by posting a notice on this site.

Children and privacy

This website does not target and is not intended to attract children under the age of 14. The Skills Funding Agency does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 14 or send them requests for personal information.

Copyright

© Copyright The Skills Funding Agency (the Skills Funding Agency) - you should assume that material presented on this site is owned by the Skills Funding Agency, unless otherwise stated. Visitors are permitted to reproduce this material free of charge in any format or media without specific permission, provided that the material is reproduced accurately and is not used in a derogatory manner or a misleading context.

Where Skills Funding Agency copyright material is published or issued to others, the source and copyright status must be acknowledged. The permission granted by the Skills Funding Agency to reproduce copyright protected material does not extend to any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of a third party and authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.