The General Teaching Council for England (GTC) is a data controller under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.

The GTC processes personal data in order to fulfil its remit and legal obligations. Personal data is also processed for the purpose of keeping you informed of the progress of any GTC networks to which you may belong or any online forums in which you may participate. The data will not be passed to any third parties except those fulfilling a service on behalf of and under the expressed instructions of the GTC.

Further to the above statement, members of the Teacher Learning Academy (TLA) should note that their data may also be processed by an independent project evaluation team and shared with the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) as a result of the TLA/NCSL partnership. NCSL may pass details of your TLA enrolment onto partners within their ”Leading from the Middle” programme, within the scope of the Data Protection Act 1998.

A full list of the GTC’s data processing purposes is available on the Public Register of Data Controllers.

The GTC website, with the exception of the registration systems, data submissions, email alerts, newsletters and the forum discussion facility, does not store or capture the personal information of anyone using the site.

Information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. However, you should also take care to keep any username or password you use on this site private.

You may remove yourself from any e-mail subscriptions and forum subscriptions at any time by logging in and visiting the My profile and My forums profile pages.

The GTC may process your personal data for the purpose of research or statistical analysis in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. However, the results of any such research would not be made available in a form that allowed data subjects to be identified.

In common with almost all other websites, the GTC website logs the IP address of anyone accessing information on the site. (An IP address is something that all computers attached to the Internet have while they are online.) This information is stored in log files that help us analyse how the site is used so that we can improve how the site works in the future.

The log files do not contain information about individuals. They give us feedback on broad trends from the cumulative data of many thousands of anonymous users (as well as high-level information such as the total number of users who have visited the site in the last week).

The GTC website does not employ the use of permanent cookies on the website. The GTC website does use session cookies which temporarily store your login status while you navigate around the main sites. These cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser. These cookies are used only to enhance the user experience and to allow certain features to work properly.

Cookies are not used to collect user information from users for any other purpose. The GTC website can still be accessed if you decide to reject cookies, but some advanced features (such as the forums) may not be fully functional if you do.

This privacy policy only covers the GTC’s website at www.gtce.org.uk. Other websites linked to from the GTC’s domain are not covered by this privacy statement.