Why do I need to provide my date of birth for registration – who can access this information?

Your date of birth is used to ensure that there is no duplication of records – the combination of your name and date of birth is checked at registration to ensure that you don’t already have a record.  We also use this information to define your personal password to access the system – we have found that individuals find these more memorable that random characters.  Finally, we also use this information to check identities of those who make contact with us – if you forget your login details, we will ask you for some information from your original enrolment to check that we are talking to the correct person and safeguard your data.

Only an individual can access their profile page which holds the date of birth.  It is not included on the Dashboards that an employer can view or within the reports that they can generate.

More information of how your data is held and processed can be found in our Data Protection policy statement.