Version: 1.1 (August 2026)
Please read these terms carefully. Note: Middlesbrough College also includes TTE.
How we use your image and how we help keep you safe
We are proud to celebrate the achievements, experiences, and successes of our students. With your permission (and, where appropriate, the permission of your parent/carer), photographs or videos may be used in our prospectuses, website, social media channels, digital displays, press releases, and other marketing materials.
Before agreeing to have your image used, it is important that you understand the potential risks associated with images being available online.
Potential Risks
Once an image is published online or on social media:
- It may be copied, shared, downloaded, or reposted by others without our permission.
- It may be viewed by people outside of the College or organisation.
- It may remain online for a long time, even if the original image is later removed.
- In rare cases, images can be misused, altered, or used in ways that were not intended.
- Online information can sometimes be used by others to identify or contact individuals.
For these reasons, we encourage all students and young people to think carefully about their digital footprint and the information they choose to share online.
What We Do to Keep You Safe
We take the safety and wellbeing of our students seriously and will:
- Only use images where appropriate consent has been obtained.
- Consider safeguarding risks before using photographs or videos.
- Avoid including unnecessary personal information alongside images.
- Respect the wishes of students who do not want their image used.
- Review and remove content where appropriate and reasonably possible.
- Take concerns about the misuse of images seriously and respond in line with our safeguarding and child protection procedures.
If You Have Concerns
If you become aware that an image of you has been:
- shared inappropriately,
- used without permission,
- altered or manipulated,
- used to bully, harass, threaten, exploit, or target you,
Please tell a member of staff, your tutor, safeguarding team, or Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) as soon as possible. All can be contacted by calling 01642 333333.
We will:
- listen to your concerns and take them seriously;
- remove images where appropriate
- assess any safeguarding risks;
- take reasonable steps to have inappropriate content removed where possible;
- work with social media platforms, websites, parents/carers, and, where necessary, external agencies;
- provide support to you if the situation is affecting your wellbeing or safety;
- make referrals to safeguarding partners, children’s services, the police, or other relevant agencies where there is a risk of harm.
Our priority will always be to support and protect the child or young person involved.
If at any point you would like us to stop using your image in future publications or promotional materials, please contact the Marketing Team or Safeguarding Team, who will explain what actions can be taken and any limitations where content has already been shared publicly.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Image Misuse
If you become aware of your image being used without your permission by a third party, including through AI-generated, manipulated or synthetic media, we encourage you to seek advice and report the matter.
Support may be available through:
Middlesbrough College
Middlesbrough College can provide guidance regarding:
- Whether the image originated from College-owned content.
- Requests for removal of College-controlled content.
- Advice on reporting concerns to the relevant online platform.
Online Platforms
Most major platforms provide reporting tools for manipulated imagery, impersonation and unauthorised use of images, including:
- TikTok
- X (formerly Twitter)
- YouTube
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
If you have concerns about how your personal data, including imagery, has been processed, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Website: https://ico.org.uk
Action Fraud
If an image has been used as part of fraud, impersonation, extortion or another criminal offence, you should consider reporting the matter to Action Fraud.
Website: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk
Police
If you believe the use of your image places you at immediate risk or forms part of criminal activity, contact the police using:
- 999 in an emergency
- 101 for non-emergency situations
Photography and Videography Consent Terms
1. Purpose of the Photography and Videography
By signing this form, you consent to photographs, video recordings and/or audio recordings (“imagery”) of you being captured and used by Middlesbrough College for marketing, promotional and communication purposes.
2. Where Your Imagery May Be Used
Your imagery may be used in a range of printed and digital materials, including but not limited to:
- College websites and microsites
- Social media channels
- Search engine advertising
- Digital advertising
- Print and digital prospectuses
- Posters, banners and leaflets
- Digital displays and screens
- Billboards and outdoor advertising
- Magazine and newspaper advertisements
- Press releases and media publications
- Email marketing campaigns
- Internal and external publications
- Other promotional materials produced by or on behalf of Middlesbrough College
Your imagery may be viewed by audiences locally, nationally and internationally.
3. How Your Imagery Will Be Used
Your imagery will be used to promote and celebrate Middlesbrough College, its courses, facilities, activities, students and wider community.
Where possible, Middlesbrough College will use imagery responsibly and in a manner that reflects the context in which it was originally captured.
4. Editing and Alterations
Middlesbrough College may edit imagery for marketing and design purposes. This may include:
- Cropping, resizing or reformatting images
- Adjusting colours, lighting or backgrounds
- Adding text, graphics or branding
- Combining imagery with other content
These edits will not intentionally portray you in a misleading, defamatory or inappropriate way.
5. Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Middlesbrough College will not use AI to create content that could reasonably be considered misleading, harmful, offensive or damaging to your reputation.
6. Duration of Consent
Your consent will remain valid until you withdraw it, except where materials have already been produced, published or distributed.
Middlesbrough College may continue to use existing printed materials, advertising campaigns, publications or archived content that were created before consent was withdrawn.
7. Withdrawing Consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting:
Middlesbrough College Marketing Team: marketing@mbro.ac.uk
Once a request has been received and processed, Middlesbrough College will make reasonable efforts to stop using your imagery in future publications and campaigns.
However, it may not be possible to remove imagery from:
- Printed materials already produced or distributed
- Archived publications
- Historical social media posts
- Third-party publications, websites or media already in circulation
8. Data Protection
Middlesbrough College will process your imagery in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Your imagery will be stored securely and accessed only by authorised staff, approved contractors or partner organisations working on behalf of Middlesbrough College.
9. No Payment
You understand that you will not receive any payment, royalty or other compensation for the use of your imagery.
10. Your Agreement
By giving consent, you confirm that:
- You are aged 16 or over.
- You have read and understood these terms and conditions.
- You freely give your consent for your imagery to be captured and used as described above.
- You understand that your imagery may appear in both current and future marketing materials.
- You understand that your imagery may be edited.
- You understand that you may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to the limitations set out above.
11. Further Support
Concerns About the Use of Your Imagery
Middlesbrough College takes the responsible use of photography, videography and image editing seriously.
If you believe your image has been used in a way that is inaccurate, misleading, unauthorised, harmful, or inconsistent with these terms and conditions, please contact us as soon as possible.
Marketing Team: marketing@mbro.ac.uk
Data Protection Officer: dpo@mbro.ac.uk
Safeguarding Team: swo@mbro.ac.uk
Middlesbrough College will investigate concerns and, where appropriate, take reasonable steps to amend, remove or discontinue the use of imagery.