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Data we collect if we help you improve your computer skills
- Your name and address
- Date of birth
- Family details
- Email and telephone number
- National Insurance number
- Employment history
- Income, expenditure and benefit details
- Your own business details/plans
- Your bank details
- Qualifications and skills
- Ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or belief
- Type of tenancy
- Details of any other support agencies you may be working with
- Details of any positive outcomes you achieve as a result of your contact with the Torus Foundation team.
- To help you improve your computer skills
- To help you find training and skills
- To help you find work
- To help improve confidence and well being
- To make sure we are helping a wide range of people
- To ensure your income is maximised, for example with claiming benefits.
- So you can pay a financial contribution to the cost of training
- The Local Authority to assist with benefit issues and safeguarding concerns
- Department of Work and Pensions to enable us support you with claiming benefits.
- Providers of funding, grants or trust funds such as the Lottery, Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VOLA), and the Department of Work and Pensions so that we can claim money to provide services to you.
- Employers so that we can help you find work
- Training agencies or providers so we can help you improve your wellbeing, confidence, skills and qualifications
- To develop services to meet current and future needs of our customers
- To contact you to offer additional help and support
The personal information we collect from you will depend upon the services you access within the Torus Foundation Team.
So that we can support you, we may collect the following personal information:
Why do we collect this data?
We may use this information to:
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant support.
Who might you share this data with and why?
We may share your information with third or other parties. This may include:
How might we also use this data?
As well as supporting you with computer skills, training, employment, confidence and wellbeing, we may also use your personal information to:
The personal information we collect from you will depend upon the services you access within the Torus Foundation Team.
So that we can support you, we may collect the following personal information:
- Your name and address
- Date of birth
- Family details
- Email and telephone number
- National Insurance number
- Employment history
- Income, expenditure and benefit details
- Your own business details/plans
- Your bank details
- Qualifications and skills
- Ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or belief
- Type of tenancy
- Details of any other support agencies you may be working with
- Details of any positive outcomes you achieve as a result of your contact with the Torus Foundation team.
Why do we collect this data?
We may use this information to:
- To help you improve your computer skills
- To help you find training and skills
- To help you find work
- To help improve confidence and well being
- To make sure we are helping a wide range of people
- To ensure your income is maximised, for example with claiming benefits.
- So you can pay a financial contribution to the cost of training
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant support.
Who might you share this data with and why?
We may share your information with third or other parties. This may include:
- The Local Authority to assist with benefit issues and safeguarding concerns
- Department of Work and Pensions to enable us support you with claiming benefits.
- Providers of funding, grants or trust funds such as the Lottery, Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VOLA), and the Department of Work and Pensions so that we can claim money to provide services to you.
- Employers so that we can help you find work
- Training agencies or providers so we can help you improve your wellbeing, confidence, skills and qualifications
How might we also use this data?
As well as supporting you with computer skills, training, employment, confidence and wellbeing, we may also use your personal information to:
- To develop services to meet current and future needs of our customers
- To contact you to offer additional help and support