Dumfries and Galloway College (the College) makes every effort to ensure that this web site is accurate and up-to-date. Relevant information is integral to our service provision and the information published on this web site is reviewed annually.

Data Protection

Any information on students and staff held by Dumfries and Galloway College is governed by Data Protection legislation. When you submit personal information to Dumfries and Galloway College for example on application forms, we will treat that information in confidence according to the requirements of the current legislation. More information and copies of our specific privacy notices can be found on the Data Protection pages. The privacy notice for this website can be found on our main website.

External Links

As part of some web pages links are provided to other sites on the Internet. While we make every endeavour to ensure that the information on these sites is accurate, ultimate responsibility for their content, lies with the authors of the sites concerned, and not with the College. Dumfries and Galloway College cannot be held responsible for material on any linked site.

If for any reason a link does not work, please send an e-mail to: info@dumgal.ac.uk 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What personal data is collected by this website

You can find out more about the data we collect via our Data Protection pages and our privacy notice here. Personal data is generally collected during application and enrolment processes but you may be asked to provide it in order to use some of our services on this website.

Contact forms

The Photography Studio Booking form collects the following information:

• Name
• Student ID
• Email address
• Telephone Number

This information is collected in order to get in contact with you in regards to your booking.

Login Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Site Security

The IP address of visitors are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 60 days.

This site is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by the iThemes Site Scanner. We do not send personal information to the scanner.

This site is part of a network of sites that protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the site is shared with a service provided by ithemes.com.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Site Analytics

We use Google Analytics to gather anonymous information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited and how users navigate the site. This helps us improve our services and website experience. To protect your privacy, we use Google’s Consent Mode, which ensures that no personal data is collected or shared with Google unless you have given explicit consent to the use of analytics cookies. This means that tracking is disabled by default and only activated if you choose to allow it via our cookie consent banner. IP addresses are also anonymised.