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Your personal data is in safe hands with Forestry England. This privacy policy explains how and why we use your personal data.
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This privacy policy explains what data we collect as well as how and why we use your personal data.
The policy applies to you everyone who visits this site.
What personal data do we collect?
We will only collect and use the personal data we need. The personal data may include your name, email address and Internet Protocol (IP) address.
How we use your personal data
We’ll only use your personal data on relevant lawful grounds as permitted by the Data Protection Act 2018, UK General Data Protection Regulations and Privacy of Electronic Communication Regulations. We will only use this information to provide the service you expect from us.
How we secure your data
Data is stored within servers located with the UK; we use strong encryption to minimise the risk of unauthorised access or disclosure. You can check this when you enter information on our website by right clicking on the padlock icon in the address bar.
Keeping your information
We will only use and store your information for as long as it is required for the purposes it was collected for. How long it will be stored for depends on the information in question, what it is being used for and, sometimes, statutory legal requirements.
Links to other websites
Our platform may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, they will have their own privacy policies for which we do not accept any responsibility or liability.
Your data protection rights
Individuals have certain rights over their personal data and data controllers are responsible for fulfilling these rights. Where we decide how and why personal data is processed, we are a data controller and have provided further information about the rights that individuals have and how to exercise them below.
Access to personal data
You have a right of access to personal data held by us as a data controller. This right may be exercised by emailing us at informationrights@forestryengland.uk, or write to us at: Forestry England. 620 Bristol Business Park, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1EJ.
Changes to the privacy policy statement
We’ll always protect your personal data and as part of this, we periodically review and update our privacy notice so that you can see how we use your data and what your options are.
Cookies
We only use cookies when absolutely required. As such, the number of cookies is minimal. To track users between requests a session cookie is used.
We want to make our services simple, useful and reliable. Where we provide services online this sometimes involves placing small pieces of information on your device (computer or mobile phone) in the form of a 'cookie' stored in your web browser.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you, for example by:
If you'd like to learn more about cookies or find out how to manage or remove cookies set on your device, visit the About cookies website. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact some non-critical functionality of our website.
This site is updated frequently and we take all reasonable measures to check the accuracy of the information it contains. However, we cannot ensure that all information will always be accurate and you are advised to contact us via the contact details given on specific pages or in our contact pages if you wish to check either the general validity of any information or its applicability to your circumstances.
When using this site you may access an online service or transaction that is delivered by another government department or agency, or a commercial supplier. Each of these services will have its own terms and conditions or end user licences that apply only to that service. Users of any service should make sure they have read the relevant terms and conditions before completing that transaction.
We provide links to other relevant websites and sometimes include their content on our pages. We cannot take responsibility for information contained on these websites. The inclusion of links to organisations in any section is not an endorsement of companies or products.
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos or images) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
When you use this information under this licence, you must include the following attribution: Crown Copyright, courtesy Forestry Commission (date of publication), licensed under the Open Government Licence.
This permission does not extend to any material on this site identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.
We encourage people to link to this site.
Enquiries about the use and re-use of this information resource should be sent to info@forestryengland.uk.
Click here to view our Counter Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy Statement.
This learning platform is run by Forestry England. We want as many people as possible to be able to use it. For example, this means that if needed, you should be able to:
We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
Most of our packages are built using Articulate software. This software broadly supports Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 AA criteria.
For further details of how Articulate applications align with the WCAG standards, conformance reports are available below:
We welcome feedback on all aspects of the website.
If you have any thoughts, comments or suggestions to help us improve please get in touch.
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact us at england.training@forestryengland.uk.
Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential within the training packages. The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.
We aim that any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards, and to update our existing ones where applicable, to make them more accessible.