Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website, bcdis.co.uk, is the public website of the British College of Dental Implant Surgery (BCDIS), a UK postgraduate dental education provider.

The data controller for information collected through this website is AD Implant.com Limited, trading as the British College of Dental Implant Surgery (company number 06431009), registered office: 107 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31 3ER.

For anything relating to your personal data, contact [email protected].

What this policy covers

This policy covers this public website only. Our e-learning platform for enrolled students, and any future member or applicant portal, are separate systems with their own privacy notices — this site only links to them and shares nothing with them.

What we collect

This website holds no student, patient or clinical data and has no user accounts. The only personal information we collect is what you choose to send us through a form:

• Contact enquiry — your name, email address and message.
• Newsletter sign-up — your email address.
• Application enquiry — your name, email address, country of practice, the course you are interested in, and an optional message.
• Diploma course interest — your name, email address and the details requested on the form.
• Open day registration — your name, email address, practice role and, optionally, your GDC number.
• Scholarship interest — your name, email address and a short supporting statement.

Every form asks only for what is needed and includes a consent checkbox and a link to this policy. We do not ask for — and you should not send — health information or any other special-category data through this website. Forms include an invisible anti-spam field; no CAPTCHA service is used.

What we never collect on this site

No payment or card details (no payment is taken on this website), no patient or clinical records, no student assessment data, and no data from the e-learning platform.

Lawful basis

We process form submissions on the basis of your consent (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(a)), given through the checkbox on each form. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing [email protected] or, for the newsletter, using the unsubscribe link in any email.

Diploma course interest

On our fees & application page you can register your interest in the diploma. Submitting the form is not an application and is not binding — no payment is taken and no obligation arises. We review every submission and will be in touch. If your interest is approved, we will invite you to apply formally; at that stage a £500 application fee applies, with a £1,000 deposit on enrolment — both handled outside this website.

Where your data goes

Form submissions are delivered to our customer-relationship system, Brevo — hosted in Brevo’s EU data centres — via a small relay service we run on DigitalOcean (Amsterdam, EU). The relay passes your submission on and stores nothing. Brevo and DigitalOcean act as our data processors. Our admissions team is notified of application-related submissions by email.

We do not sell personal data, share it with advertisers, or use it for automated decision-making or profiling. Your data stays in the UK/EU; if we ever needed to transfer it elsewhere, we would only do so with appropriate safeguards under UK GDPR.

How long we keep it

• Contact and application enquiries: 12 months after our last exchange with you.
• Newsletter: until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you.
• Diploma course interest: 12 months after our last exchange with you.
• Open day registrations: 3 months after the event.
• Scholarship interest: 12 months, or the end of the relevant award cycle if sooner.

When a period expires we delete the record from Brevo.

Analytics and cookies

This website sets no cookies. If we measure visits we use Plausible, a cookieless, privacy-focused analytics tool hosted in the EU: it collects aggregate counts only and cannot identify you. See our Cookie Policy.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to: access your data; have it corrected; have it erased; restrict or object to its processing; data portability; and to withdraw consent at any time (without affecting processing before the withdrawal). To exercise any of these, email [email protected] — we respond within one month.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk · 0303 123 1113 · Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Children

This website is aimed at dental professionals and prospective postgraduate students. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page when anything changes and revise the “Last updated” date. Significant changes will be flagged on the page.