Website information updated 4 November 2026. For how the National Education Union handles membership and representation information, read the NEU privacy notice.
Who we are
This is the Rotherham NEU website, managed by the local committee. For questions about information held through this website, email RotherhamBranch@neu.org.uk.
Comments
Public comments are disabled on this website. Disabling comments does not itself erase any older records. Contact RotherhamBranch@neu.org.uk if you have a question about a comment previously submitted.
Surveys, meeting RSVPs and conference interest
The priorities and directed-time surveys ask for your selected answer, without requesting your name, email address or workplace. Jetpack may also process technical information, such as an IP address, so these surveys should not be treated as fully anonymous.
Meeting RSVP forms collect your name and email address. The conference-interest form also asks whether you want to attend or find out more, and offers an optional workplace field. An optional checkbox lets you request private contact about access arrangements. Please do not enter medical details or confidential casework into these forms.
Responses are stored in the website’s Jetpack Forms system and notifications are sent to Nicholas.Dale@neu.org.uk for administration and follow-up. They are not displayed publicly or used by these forms to subscribe you to a mailing list. Survey findings may be published as summaries, without identifying individual respondents.
Retention of event responses
Our policy is to delete routine meeting RSVP and conference-interest responses, including emailed copies, within three months after the relevant event. Where a matter needs ongoing follow-up, the necessary information should be handled separately through the union’s appropriate procedures. The site administrator is responsible for reviewing and deleting these records; deletion is not automatic.
This event-response period does not set a retention period for the separate priorities and directed-time surveys. For questions about a survey response or to request deletion, contact the branch using the details below. Service-provider logs and backups are handled under the provider’s own policies.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
For authorised users with an account on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have submitted a form, have an account on this site or previously left a comment, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Form submissions may be checked by spam-protection services. See the service-provider privacy information below.
Website services and cookie choices
This website is hosted on WordPress.com and uses Jetpack, Akismet and Gravatar services from Automattic. See Automattic’s privacy policy for information about these services.
Read our Cookie Policy for the published cookie information. You can reopen the cookie choices using “Manage consent” on the website.
Contacting the union
For an individual workplace matter, use our contact guidance. Please use the contact route agreed with your rep for confidential case information. To ask about your website data or request access or erasure, contact RotherhamBranch@neu.org.uk.