Disclaimer
While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the original material provided on the Tecknic website, Tecknic does not represent or warrant that the information available on this website is accurate, complete or current.
Tecknic provides the website, its contents and facilities on an "as is" basis and makes no (and expressly disclaims all) representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, with respect to this website or the information, content, or services made available through the website.
Tecknic and employees, do not accept liability for any loss, damage or injury of any kind, howsoever arising, resulting from a defect or an inaccuracy in the information or code contained within the University website.
This material is regularly reviewed and is subject to alteration without notice.
Tecknic is not responsible for the content of external websites that the website may link to or reference from time to time. Providing references to and/or links to external websites should not be viewed as an endorsement by Tecknic of the content and services provided by those websites. Nor is Tecknic responsible for the opinions, content and services contained on external websites that link to or reference the Tecknic website.
How Your Personal Data Is Collected
Information you provide: When providing services, we will ask for information about you, such as your name, contact details, etc. This is known as your “Personal Data”.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data in the following ways:
- Allowing access as appropriate to systems and online services;
- Tecknic communications;
- Confirmation of identity if needed for payment purposes;
Legal Basis For Collecting and Storing Your Personal Data
We will only use your Personal Data if we have valid reasons for doing so. These reasons are known as our “legal basis for processing”. In certain circumstances we may ask for your consent to process your information. At other times we may be required to process your information to enable us to fulfil our part of the contract we have with you. There are circumstances where we have a legitimate interest to process your personal data, for example to provide you with a service which you have requested. We only process data that is necessary for the provision of the service you receive.
Who We Share Your Data With
We don not share your data with any third party (see cookies).
Data Processing Outside Europe
We will not transfer your Personal Data outside of the European Economic Area.
How Long Will Your Information Be Kept
We will keep your Personal Data for up to one year. We will only keep your information if we need it for one of the reasons described above. We place great importance on the security of the Personal Data that we hold, including the use of physical, technological and organisational measures to ensure your information is protected from unauthorised access and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, alteration, disclosure, destruction and damage.
Your Rights
The Data Protection Act 2018 provides you with a number of legal rights in relation to your Personal Data, including the right:
- to request access to your Personal Data;
- to request correction of your Personal Data that is wrong or incomplete;
- to request erasure or the restriction of processing of your Personal Data;
- to request the transfer of your Personal Data in a structured; commonly used machine-readable format;
- not to be subject to automated decision making; and to withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, or require further information about any of the rights, please contact us.
Where we need to collect your Personal Data, whether for the purposes of providing a service you have requested or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that information when requested, we may not be able to provide the service or perform the contract. We may, therefore, have to cancel the contract or the service we provide to you, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
There may also be times where we cannot stop using your Personal Data when you ask us to, but we will tell you about this if you make a request.
Accessibility Statement
Tecknic is committed to making the information and resources provided via its website accessible to all users. We aim to be standards compliant and follow general principles of usability in order to help all visitors to this website.
The Tecknic Website has been designed to meet Level AA (2) of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C-AA) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
We intend to continue improving the accessibility of our site, so if you have any difficulty accessing the site and require further help, or if you have any suggestions to help improve our accessibility, please contact us.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file that is downloaded to your computer when you visit certain websites. Cookies typically store the name of the domain or website you are visiting, the duration or lifetime of the cookie, and a content value - typically a randomly generated unique number.
Tecknic does not use cookies to store personal information about people visiting our website and typically a cookie cannot by itself identify you.
Generally websites use 2 types of cookie - session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are eliminated when you close all your browser windows. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive either indefinitely or for a specified period. (Third party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than the one you are currently visiting and these can be session cookies or persistent cookies.)
You can choose to manually disable cookies on your computer, or delete existing cookies by adjusting your browser settings.
If you normally use more than one browser be sure to adjust each browser’s settings individually.
Please note if you do not choose to accept cookies you may be unable to access certain parts of our websites.
Find out more information about cookies.
Web Analytics
At Tecknic we use Google Analytics. This is used to monitor the traffic to the site, to collect information about how users are using the site and to produce reports for business and marketing purposes. The information gathered is not used to identify individual users.
Google Analytics creates cookies on your machine. The cookies collect information about how the site is used, the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the pages they visit while on our site. In the case of Google Analytics the information collected, may be transmitted to, and stored by, Google where we will use it for analysis and reporting purposes. We have enabled Demographics and Interests tracking with Google Analytics. For more information please see Google’s statement on Cookies and Analytics and Google Privacy Centre.
You have the option to decline all cookies on our website by selecting 'Decline' on the cookie popup, it will appear on your first visit to this website.
The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on can be installed in your browser to tell the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) that information about your website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. Find out about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Cookies Used
Google Analytics;
_ga - Up to 2 years
_gid - 24 hours
_gat - Up to 2 years
External Websites
From time to time we may link from our website to external websites that set cookies on your machine, please note such websites are outside the Tecknic's control and are not covered by this Cookie statements.
Complaints
If you would like to make a complaint about content on this website or there is an issue that you would like us to address in relation to a website please follow this link and contact us.