Cambridge Professional Academy's Privacy Policy

Created January 5th, 2004.

Cambridge Professional Academy is committed to protecting your privacy regarding the information that is collected about you and how this is used. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Cambridge Professional Academy's website (www.profacademy.com or www.profacademy.co.uk), you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Collection and use of personal information about website visitors

The information that you provide us helps us personalise member specific areas of Cambridge Professional Academy's website. We also use the information to deal with your enquiries, correspondence, reserving workshops, identifying career progression courses and to update and maintain your records with Cambridge Professional Academy. Cambridge Professional Academy may provide links to third-party websites as a service to our users. Please be aware that we cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection practices of such third party or Affiliate Member's websites. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies on these websites before providing any information to them.

How the information is collected

When you visit Cambridge Professional Academy's website, the pages that you view, along with a 'cookie', are downloaded on to your computer. This is a common practice where a webpage offers personalised information specific to you only. By using a cookie this allows us to do user-specific features, including determining whether you are a returning visitor and then displaying details relevant to yourself or your past visits to the website.

Disabling cookies

The cookie that is downloaded on to your computer at the time of your visit is able to be blocked by your browser. Please view the help files provided by your browser if you wish to learn how to prevent your browser from downloading cookies. Members of CPA (Students, Sponsors, Tutors and Affiliates) may still visit our website anonymously as well as access certain personalised and protected areas using your username and password when requested. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalised experience at Cambridge Professional Academy if we cannot recognise you or if you fail to log in using your username and password.

Why do we request specific information regarding our students?

Cambridge Professional Academy operates a non-discrimination policy and as such does not discriminate based on gender, religion or ethnicity. We request this information from Members in order to prove to the Professional Institutions that we are accredited by, that we conform to such anti-descrimination policies.

Does Cambridge Professional Academy share the information it receives?

Cambridge Professional Academy does not share the information that we recieve about you with any third-party organisations. We will not sell your personal information to any third-party organisations. Upon request, Cambridge Professional Academy might offer select third-party organisations aggregate information regarding Members, however this will never contain personal information such as names, email addresses, telephone numbers, postal addresses etc.