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Privacy

Under data protection law we are legally required to provide information about how we use your information in a way that is:

  • concise
  • transparent
  • easy to understand
  • easily accessible
  • written in clear, plain language, particularly if addressed to a child
  • free of charge

Data protection law says the personal information we hold about you must be:

  1. used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
  2. collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
  3. relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
  4. accurate and kept up to date
  5. kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
  6. kept securely

Last reviewed: 20 October 2021

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