Privacy

Welcome to the National Society for Education's website. We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your personal data. On this page you'll find more information about our privacy notices, our website's cookie policy, your rights as a data subject, and how you can contact us.

The information on this page may be updated from time to time to reflect privacy or security updates. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information.

Our Entities

The National Society (Church of England and Church in Wales) for Promoting Education is the data controller for most of our processing activities*.

We also operate as:

  • The National Society for Education (NSE)

  • The Foundation for Educational Leadership (FEL)

  • The Growing Faith Foundation (GFF)

  • The Archbishops’ Young Leaders Award (AYLA)

  • Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS)

  • Church of England Educational Services Limited (CEES Ltd)

*Where the NSE is acting as data processor instead of a data controller, this is clearly noted on the relevant privacy notice.

Privacy Notice

The National Society’s charitable purpose is to develop leaders, shape education policy, and grow faith. To achieve this purpose, we need to collect and process certain personal data in our various areas of work.

As part of the Church of England’s National Church Institutions (NCIs), the National Society operates under this privacy notice. We also have specific privacy notices for our various activities:

Website Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our sites. Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.

What are cookies used for?

Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.

What types of cookies does the Church of England Education Office use?

We use the following cookies:

  • Necessary cookies
    These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you, where provided, to log onto the secure area of our websites.

  • Analytical cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of users and to see how the users move around our websites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Marketing cookies. These allows us to serve up relevant content to users who interact with us across different online platforms including our websites, social media platforms and other digital services we provide.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Universal Analytics (Google)
www.google.com
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
Analytical

YouTube
www.youtube.com
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Necessary

LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
These cookies are used to track visitor activity on our website and allow us to track when visitors are accessing the website via our LinkedIn posts.
Read LinkedIn’s overview of its cookies.
Marketing

Facebook Pixel
www.facebook.com
These cookies are used to track visitor activity on our website and allow us to track when visitors are accessing the website via our Facebook posts.
Read Facebook’s overview on their Pixel.
Marketing

Church of England Education Office
www.cefel.org.uk
Agree to cookie – The user has accepted or not accepted use of cookies. Session cookie – improves site user experience.
Necessary

Video Embedded Player
https://vimeo.com
We embed videos from our Vimeo account using Vimeo’s Embedded Player. This player uses first-party cookies that Vimeo considers essential to the video player experience. Vimeo does not use third-party analytics or advertising cookies for video players embedded on third-party websites like CEFEL.
Read Vimeo’s Cookie Policy here.
Necessary

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

First and third party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to The Church of England Education Office, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Service. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for The Church of England Education Office, for example to help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet.

How to control and delete cookies

If you wish to disable your browser from receiving cookies follow these instructions. Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our Service and other parts of our Service may not work properly. You can find out more information cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as www.allaboutcookies.org.

Your rights

Data protection legislation gives you specific rights regarding your personal data:

  • the right to be informed about any data we hold about you.

  • the right to request a copy of your personal data which we hold about you.

  • the right to withdraw your consent at any time (if applicable).

  • the right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date.

  • the right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for us to retain such data.

  • the right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing.

  • the right to object to the processing of your personal data (if applicable).

    For more information about your rights, and how we will uphold them, please visit this website. To exercise these rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the contact details below.

Complaints or concerns

If you have any queries regarding this processing activity, please contact our Data Protection Team, using the contact details in the section below. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner online or by phone on 0303 123 1113 (local rate).

Our contact details

Registered Address
Church House, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3AZ

Data Protection Team
gdpr@churchofengland.org