DATA PROTECTION
How We Use Your Personal Information
This privacy notice is issued by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Department of Education (DfE). I is to inform learners how their personal information will be used by the DfE, the ESFA (an ececutive agency of the DfE) and any successor bodies to these organisations.
For the purpose of relevant data protection legislation, the DfE is the data controller for personal data processed by the ESFA. Your personal information is used by the DfE to exercise its functions and to meet its statutory reponssibilities, including under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 and to create and maintain a unique learner number (ULN) and a personal learning record (PLR). Your information will be securely destroyed after it is no longer required for these purpoeses.
Your information may be used by PDT and it's partner organisations as well as DFE for education, training, employemnt and well-being related purposes,including for research. Futher information about use of and access to your personal data, details of organidsations with whom we reguslarly share data, information about how long we retain your data, and how to change your consent to being contacted, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esfa-privacy-notice