Privacy Policy

We take privacy seriously at NICAS. Our privacy policy and notices can be found below. Please note that we are currently reviewing and updating our policies to reflect recent technology updates to our services (March 2024).

NB: If you provide our schemes as an accredited centre, you may wish to add the following wording into your own privacy notices for NICAS Climbing and NICAS Bouldering candidates.

Here at [name of centre] we take your privacy seriously. To register you on a NICAS scheme, we will use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services you have requested from us. This means we will share some of your information with the NICAS organisation who administer the NICAS schemes, through their secure online candidate database.

If you agree to your information being shared in this way, please tick the box.* If you need any further information please write to us at [address of centre]. You can read more about the NICAS privacy policy at www.nicas.co.uk/privacy

NICAS will not use your information for marketing purposes (e.g. to send you updates and newsletters) unless you explicitly consent to this via their website www.nicas.co.uk. They may use your data (e.g. age or gender) to create anonymised aggregated statistics to share with third parties such as Sport England solely for the purposes of monitoring participation in the NICAS schemes.

* Climbing centre to ensure box is ticked and that they have obtained the data through an appropriate legal basis for processing.

For accredited centres please refer also to our Data Sharing Agreement:

Data Protection Policy

If you have a query relating to data protection, please download our full policy:

This policy is subject to review and updates as part of our commitment to GDPR compliance. If you would like to know more about our internal procedures for handling a subject access request, please contact us.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on the website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will accept your consent to receive these cookies. However, if you wish to, you can change your browser settings to block or remove cookies at any time.

For more info on what cookies are, how to manage and delete cookies, FAQs and EU law regarding cookies, go to www.aboutcookies.org

In summary, cookies – small information files placed on your device – are used to improve services for you by, for example:

  • enabling the service to recognise your device so you do not need to give the same information repeatedly
  • recognising when you have already given a username and password so that you do not need to do so for every subsequent web page you visit
  • Improving services we provide by providing you with a personalised journey, where applicable
  • measuring how many people are using the services we provide, so we can make them easier and faster to use
  • analysing data, anonymously, to help us understand how people interact with our services

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, mobile phone or whatever device you are using to access the internet. This information is held in cookies. You can learn more about cookies from the GOV.UK guidance on cookies.

Any queries

For queries about data privacy or protection, please dataprotection@nicas.co.uk