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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2025

1. Who We Are

Free Learning Courses is a trading name of Market Boost Consultants Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under Company No. 15865770. Our registered office is 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ.

We are the data controller for the personal data we collect through this website. If you have questions about this policy, contact us at info@uklearninggateway.com.

2. What Personal Data We Collect

When you submit our eligibility form, we collect:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Postcode
  • Eligibility information (whether you are 19 or older, UK resident status)
  • Highest level of education completed
  • Preferred course subject

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your data to:

  • Assess your eligibility for government-funded courses
  • Match you with relevant training providers and funded courses
  • Contact you about course options and next steps

Sharing with training providers: To match you with funded courses, we may share your contact details and eligibility information with relevant training providers. We only share data with providers who can offer courses suited to your goals. These providers are responsible for their own processing of your data once shared.

4. Legal Basis

We process your data based on:

  • Consent: When you submit our form, you consent to us processing your data for the purposes described above, including sharing it with training providers.
  • Legitimate interest: Where necessary, we may rely on our legitimate interest in matching learners with courses and supporting government-funded education.

5. Data Retention

We retain your data for as long as needed to fulfil the purposes above, typically up to 2 years from your last contact. After that, we anonymise or delete your data unless we have a legal obligation to keep it longer.

6. Your Rights

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), you have the right to:

  • Access – request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Rectification – ask us to correct inaccurate data
  • Erasure – ask us to delete your data in certain circumstances
  • Restrict processing – ask us to limit how we use your data
  • Object – object to processing based on legitimate interest
  • Data portability – receive your data in a machine-readable format

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@uklearninggateway.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

7. Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, loss, or alteration.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page and indicate the date of the last update.

9. Cookies & analytics

We use cookies and similar technologies to run the site and, only with your consent, to understand how it is used.

  • Strictly necessary — Needed for core functionality (for example the consent choice itself and essential site features). These are always on.
  • Analytics — If you opt in, we load Google Analytics (GA4) and Vercel Analytics to measure visits and performance. If you reject optional cookies, these tools are not loaded and no analytics requests are sent from your browser.

You can change or withdraw consent at any time via Cookie settings (also linked in the site footer).