Photography and video footage and sound recordings featuring identifiable individuals contain personal data. As an organisation that creates and commissions images and recordings of this nature, Edinburgh College is the Data Controller for this personal data. Procedures outlined below are compliant with data protection regulations. 

Photography and Video footage are important for the college to promote our services. All staff, students, and stakeholders involved in photography or video activities related to Edinburgh College will be required to complete an ‘image release form’ to give consent. 

Your image consent is given to Edinburgh College and the Edinburgh College Development Trust who may use your images for the reasons outlined below: 

You can withdraw consent at any time, preventing the use of the image in future marketing and communications activities. Please contact marketingteam@edinburghcollege.ac.uk to withdrawn your image consent. It must be noted that whilst we accept image consent withdrawals, any published material will not be recalled. 

Completed image release forms will be stored securely in relation to data protection guidelines.

 

All photos or recordings which contain personal data will need to be treated in the same way as personal data held in other formats. They need to be kept securely and disposed of securely when no longer required, in accordance with our guidance on Data Security.

Since photographs may reveal details of the subject's race and ethnic origin they are classified as Sensitive Personal Data. Generally, photographs should only be used and retained where strictly necessary.

Procedures outlined above are not applicable to photography or video footage created by members of the Edinburgh College community or visitors for their own private use on personal equipment. Therefore, Edinburgh College is not responsible for the data held on these recordings and is therefore not the data controller.