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Last updated: 14/10/2026
Lancashire & Cumbria Institute of Technology (L&CIoT) is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal information. This privacy notice explains how information is handled when you visit the L&CIoT website.
The L&CIoT website does not currently ask visitors to provide personal information directly through the website.
For example, the website does not currently provide user accounts, application forms, enquiry forms, newsletter registrations or online payment facilities.
You can therefore browse the website without directly submitting personal information to L&CIoT.
The L&CIoT website provides information about courses and opportunities delivered by its partner education providers and may provide links to external websites operated by those organisations.
If you follow an external link and subsequently provide personal information, the information will be provided to the organisation operating that website rather than through the L&CIoT website.
The relevant organisation’s privacy notice will explain how it collects, uses, stores and protects your personal information. We recommend reviewing the privacy notice of any external website before providing personal information.
Although you are not required to submit personal information directly to L&CIoT, certain information may be collected or processed automatically when you visit the website.
Depending on your cookie choices and the technologies being used, this can include:
your IP address
Some of this information may constitute personal data under UK data protection legislation.
The L&CIoT website uses cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files that can be stored on your device when you visit a website. They can be used to provide essential website functionality, remember preferences, measure website usage and support third-party website functionality.
We use Cookiebot, provided by Usercentrics, to provide information about the cookies used on the website and allow visitors to manage their preferences for non-essential cookies.
The cookies identified on the website fall into the following categories:
Necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the operation and security of the website and its essential functionality. Necessary cookies may also be used to remember your cookie consent preferences.
Preference cookies
Preference cookies allow the website to remember information that can affect how the website behaves or is displayed.
Statistics cookies
Statistics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website. The website uses Google Analytics technology for this purpose. Analytics information can help us understand how the website is being used and identify opportunities to improve its content and user experience.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be associated with third-party content or services embedded within the website. For example, the L&CIoT website uses embedded YouTube content. YouTube may use cookies or similar technologies in connection with embedded video content, subject to your cookie preferences.
For detailed information about individual cookies, their providers, purposes and expiry periods, please use the website’s cookie settings. You can change your non-essential cookie preferences through the same settings.
Where personal information is processed through essential website technologies for purposes such as security and operation of the website, we rely on an appropriate lawful basis under applicable data protection legislation.
Where consent is required for non-essential cookies and similar technologies, we ask for your consent before those technologies are used. You can change or withdraw your consent through the website cookie settings. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
The website uses or incorporates services provided by third parties. These currently include technologies associated with:
These providers may process information relating to your use of their technologies. Where non-essential technologies require consent, their use is subject to the choices made through the website cookie consent mechanism.
Some third-party technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where personal information is transferred outside the UK, appropriate safeguards will be used as required by UK data protection legislation. Further information about how individual third-party providers process information and international transfers can be found in their respective privacy information.
L&CIoT does not currently collect personal information directly from visitors through website forms or user accounts.
Information processed through cookies and similar technologies may be retained for different periods depending on the particular technology. Details of cookie expiry periods are provided through the website cookie information and consent management tool.
Technical information generated through the operation and security of the website will only be kept for as long as necessary for the relevant purpose and in accordance with applicable retention requireme
The L&CIoT website contains links to websites operated by partner organisations and other third parties.
When you follow one of these links, you leave the L&CIoT website. L&CIoT does not control how those external websites collect or process your personal information. You should therefore review the privacy and cookie information provided by the relevant organisation.
UK data protection law provides you with a number of rights regarding your personal information. Depending on the circumstances, these can include the right to:
Not all of these rights apply in every circumstance.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you are concerned about how your personal information has been handled. Further information is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office website at ico.org.uk.
If you have a question regarding privacy or the use of your personal information in connection with this website, please contact:
Organisation: Blackpool and The Fylde College
Email: communications@blackpool.ac.uk
Address: Ashfield Road, Bispham, Blackpool, FY2 0HB
We may update this privacy notice if the website, the technologies we use or the way we process information changes. We recommend checking this page periodically for updates.