POLICIES AND LEGAL INFORMATION

Privacy Policy

Vegetation Management Training Ltd takes your privacy seriously. This policy explains how we may collect, store and use your personal information when you interact with our website or use our training and consultancy services.

1. Information We Collect

We only collect information that is necessary to provide our services and operate our business effectively. This may include:

  • Identity and contact data such as your name, email address and phone number
  • Professional information including your job role, company and prior qualifications
  • Financial and transaction data relating to your course bookings
  • Technical data including your IP address and browsing behaviour when you use our website

2. How We Use Your Data

We may use your personal data to respond to enquiries, administer course registrations, communicate service updates, maintain business records, manage health and safety requirements and comply with legal obligations. Where you have given consent, we may also send you relevant updates about courses or services.

3. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. Where necessary, we may share relevant data with awarding or accreditation organisations, professional advisers, public authorities or service providers working on our behalf. We require organisations processing data for us to handle it securely and in accordance with applicable law.

4. Data Security and Retention

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your data to those employees and contractors who have a legitimate business need to know. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for including satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

5. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection law, you may have rights regarding your personal information. These can include requesting access to your data, correcting inaccurate data, asking for erasure in certain circumstances, restricting processing, objecting to processing and requesting data portability. You may also raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office. To exercise your rights, email info@vmtltd.net.

6. Third Party Links

Our website may include links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

7. Updates to This Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any changes we make will be posted on this page and where appropriate notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes.

If you have a question about these policies, please contact our team.