Terms & conditions

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.

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://alumni.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://alumni.grimsby.ac.uk).

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.

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

The search engine on our website is designed to be as powerful and easy to use as the popular search engine google. The search is made possible by a piece of hardware (a search ‘appliance’) supplied by google that is plugged into our server and continuously indexes the content on our site. All search requests are handled by the appliance and the information is not passed on to any third party, including google.

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.

Banner ads on the 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.

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.