Automated individual decision-making is making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement.
Data controller means a company or person who determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which personal data is processed. In this context this relates to Achieve Training as an organisation.
Data subject means an individual who is the subject of personal data.
Data processor, in relation to personal data, means any person (other than an employee of the data controller) who processes the data on behalf of the data controller.
Data Protection Officer is the person responsible for overseeing Data Protection within the organisation.
Information Commissioners Office (ICO), The Information Commissioner’s Office in the United Kingdom, is a non-departmental public body which reports directly to Parliament. They are responsible for implementing data protection law and carrying out enforcement actions.
Lawful Grounds for processing data – Conditions that must apply for organisations to lawfully process personal data.
Personal data means means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person.
Processing means obtaining, recording or holding information or data or carrying out any operation or set of operations on that data.
Profiling is automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual.
Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and services providing education and skills for learners of all ages.
Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is the agency accountable for funding education and skills for children, young people and adults.
European Social Fund (ESF) – The ESF is the European Union’s main financial instrument for supporting employment in the member states of the European Union as well as promoting economic and social cohesion.
Sensitive personal data (also referred to as “special categories of personal data” under GDPR) means personal data relating to the data subject which includes information such as: race, ethnic origin, politics, religion, trade union membership, genetics, biometrics (where used for ID purposes), health, sex life, or sexual orientation.