Privacy & Cookie Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors.

This Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy sets out how we treat your non-personal and personal information.


Privacy Policy


1: Personal information and privacy

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and users. This policy sets out how we will treat your information in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.

1.2 We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website. By using our website and agreeing to this policy you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2: Collecting personal information

2.1 We do not store credit card details nor do we share financial details with any 3rd parties.

2.2 We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information...

  • information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
  • information that you provide to us when registering with our website including your email address;
  • information that you provide when completing your registration on our website including your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, profile pictures, gender, date of birth
  • information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters including your name and email address;
  • information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use;
  • information relating to any purchases you make of our goods and/or services or any other transactions that you enter into through our website including your name, address, telephone number and email address;
  • information that you post to our website for publication on the internet including your user name, your profile pictures and the content of your posts;
  • information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication;
  • any other personal information that you choose to send to us and provide details of other personal information collected;

2.3 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

3: Using your personal information

3.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

3.2 We may use your personal information to...

  • administer our website and business;
  • personalise our website for you;
  • enable your use of the services available on our website;
  • send you goods purchased through our website;
  • supply to you services purchased through our website;
  • send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
  • send you non-marketing commercial communications;
  • send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
  • send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter;
  • send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications;
  • provide third parties with statistical information about our users but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information;
  • deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
  • keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
  • verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service; and
  • any other uses.

3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

3.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

3.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.

3.6 All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, PayPal. You can review the provider's privacy policy at https://paypal.co.uk. We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.

4: Disclosing personal information

4.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.2 We may disclose your personal details as necessary in order to register you with examination awarding bodies 'City & Guilds and /or EAL' and our associate training centres for the purpose of further training and exam booking.

4.3 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.4 We may disclose your personal information...

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  • in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk;
  • to the purchaser or prospective purchaser of any business or asset that we are or are contemplating selling; and
  • to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

4.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

5: International data transfers

5.1 Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

5.2 Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the United Kingdom or European Economic Area: the United States of America.

5.3 Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

5.4 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

6: Retaining personal information

6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

6.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

6.3 Without prejudice to Section 6.2, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below...

  • personal registration data will be deleted upon cancellation of training
  • personal registration data will be deleted 180 days after training option expiry date

6.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents including electronic documents containing personal data...

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
  • in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk.

7: Security of your personal information

7.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

7.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure password- and firewall-protected servers.

7.3 All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

7.4 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet

7.5 You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password except when you log in to our website.

8: Amendments

8.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

8.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

8.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

9: Your rights

9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to...

  • the payment of a fee currently fixed at GBP £10.00 and
  • the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

9.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

9.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

9.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

10: Third party websites

10.1 Our website includes links to, and details of, third party websites.

10.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

11: Updating information

11.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.


Cookie Policy


1: About cookies

1.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier a string of letters and numbers that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

1.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

1.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

1.4 Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.

2: How we use cookies

4.1 If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

4.2 We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

4.3 This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

4.4 When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

4.5 In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

5: Third party cookies

5.1 In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site

5.2 This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

5.3 In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.

5.4 We also use social media buttons and/or plug-ins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and Vimeo may set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

6: Contact

6.1 This website is owned and operated by Waybrite Ltd

6.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 6581266, and our registered office is at - Unit 3 Waterway House, Canal St, Wigan, Lancashire, WN6 7NQ.

6.3 Our principal place of business is at - Unit 3 Waterway House, Canal St, Wigan, Lancashire, WN6 7NQ.

6.4 You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by email to contact@waybrite.co.uk or by telephone on 01942 386840.