Introduction Merit Skills Ltd is committed to providing an excellent service for its customers. We are committed to doing that correctly and preventing and misuse of personal data. This policy sets out how Merit Skills will treat personal data.
Please read this policy, it explains what data we hold, why we hold it and how we use it.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) Merit Skills Limited is the 'Data Controller' of personal data.
Personal Data Collection We collect data from companies in order to process training bookings and send correspondence to regarding their learners training programmes. We also collect name, gender, date of birth, nationality, contact details and national insurance numbers in order to process certification and funding from individual learners. This personal detail in provided by employers, awarding bodies and individuals.
Wesbite This website does not require you to reveal any personal information about yourself. There may be occasions, however, where you choose to provide us with personal information, such as by sending us an email. We will process the information you provide to us in line with the standard terms of doing business with MeritSkills Ltd.
A cookie is a short text file that may be stored on your device when you visit a website. The only cookies we use on our site are "Google Analytics" cookies.
Google Analytics sets four cookies (_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz) that help us to analyze the traffic across our website, such as the number of visitors to the site, pages visited, and the devices used to access the website. This enables use to improve the way our website works and how it provides information to you.
These cookies do not collect or track personal information about you as an individual. They merely enable us to collect summarized information about how our website is being used.
In addition to the above listed cookies, our server logs will also track the IP address you accessed our site from and when. This information is gathered to track usage information and to help prevent malicious attacks upon our site.