Reaching Wider: North and Mid Wales Partnership Privacy Notice

The work RWNMWP carry out to promote wider engagement and participation in higher education is carried out in the public interest. We need to ensure that the money we receive from government funding agencies is spent appropriately and has a positive impact. In order to measure impact and to conduct our activities, we need to gather student participation data. 

The RWNMWP processes personal data as it is necessary for it to perform a task in the public interest and for its official functions. 

The legal basis for processing special category data is on the basis that it is in the substantial public interest and is necessary for statistical purposes to monitor equality of opportunity in accordance with the Equality Act. 

The legal basis for processing the use of photographs and marketing communications is Consent. 

RWNMWP collects data on individuals for the following reasons: 

1. For the purposes of monitoring which allows RWNMWP to: 

• fulfil compulsory external reporting requirements to regulatory bodies such as the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW). 
• provide a clear picture of the activities we deliver and the people we work with. 
• ensure that we are reaching those that could benefit most from outreach activities. 

2. For the purposes of research and evaluation which helps us to assess the effectiveness of different initiatives on widening participation to Higher Education. This includes the anonymous long-term tracking of participants’ education journeys, to identify how many RWNMWP participants go on to study at university. 

3. Identify participants who belong to groups, which are under-represented in Higher Education and to ensure that people from these groups are given priority access to RWNMWP activities. 

4. Ensure the health and safety and wellbeing of all participants in our programmes and to assist with pastoral and welfare needs e.g. ensuring that we are aware of medical conditions and disabilities. 

5. To send relevant and necessary information regarding forthcoming activities as well as marketing communications. 

We collect the following compulsory pieces of information for all participants who take part in our activities, this helps RWNMWP demonstrate that our activities are engaging young people from backgrounds that are currently under-represented in Higher Education. 

• Name 
• Contact details 
• Date of birth 
• Gender 
• Home postcode 
• Ethnicity 
• Disability 
• Free school meals or Educational Maintenance Allowance eligibility 
• Whether the student is living in care or has in the past 
• Photographs and films- During events we may take photos and films which we use for marketing purposes such as on our website. 

Where possible we also collect the following pieces of information: 

• Whether the student’s parent(s) or siblings went to university 
• The occupation of the student’s parent(s) 
• Whether the student is a carer of a family member or dependent 
• Prior Educational Achievement 

For residential and out-of-school hours activities we also collect details of medical and special requirements for the purpose of providing support and ensuring the health and safety of participants and staff. These include: 

• Dietary Requirements
• Cultural requirements 
• Emergency contact details 
• Allergies 
• Medical arrangements 
• Medication taken 

1. For initiatives, which are organised directly with schools, a participant consent form is sent home to parents via the school. The form collects information about the participant along with consent for the information to be used for the purposes outlined above. The form is returned to the school and the school arrange the secure transfer of the information to RWNMWP. 

2. The participant information is transferred from the paper forms into the secure online database Upshot. 

3. All internal and external reporting which utilises the collected data, does so in an aggregated fashion, meaning that only totals are shown, so individuals’ data is never disclosed within a report. 

Security Data protection legislation requires us to keep your information secure. This means that your confidentiality will be respected, and all appropriate measures will be taken to prevent unauthorised access and disclosure. Only members of staff who need access to relevant parts or all of your information will be authorised to do so. Information about you in electronic form will be subject to password and other security restrictions, and paper files will be stored in secure areas with controlled access. 

Upshot can only be accessed by designated members of the Reaching Wider team and the central team that manages the Upshot service. 

Your data may be shared with third party service providers, but only for the purpose of considering and processing your request, communicating with you about RWNMWP and conducting research on the age range, geographical location and subject(s) of interest of those interested in engaging with RWNMWP. 

RWNMWP will retain participants’ data in line with the Bangor University Retention Schedule. The University retains your information in line with established higher education retention schedules. 

In summary: paper copies of information will be retained for 1 complete academic year after the activity took place. 

Electronic records are held on Upshot database for a period of 10 years after an event, with data reviewed annually on 31st August. 

Data shared / linked with third parties for research purposes will remain within the third party databases for the lifetime of the third parties’ projects, as individuals are no longer identifiable. 

You have a right to access your personal information, to object to the processing of your personal information, to rectify, to erase, to restrict and to port your personal information. If you have provided consent to RWMNWP to process any of your data then you also have a right to withdraw that consent. 

As lead partner for the RWNMWP, Bangor University is the data Controller in relation to your information, as defined in the Data Protection Act 2018 and is committed to protecting your rights. 

Any requests or objections should be made in writing to Bangor University’s Data Protection Officer: 

Head of Governance and Compliance
Governance and Compliance Office
Corporate Services
College Road
Bangor
LL57 2DG
info-compliance@bangor.ac.uk   

If you are unhappy with the way in which your personal information has been processed you may in the first instance contact the University’s Data Protection Officer using the contact details above. 

If you have further questions about how we process individual monitoring data, please feel free to get in touch with RWNMWP at reachingwider@bangor.ac.uk.