How we use your data

We collect certain data about you when you register for an account on our site.

This page explains in simple language how we use that data. For more detail about the type of data we collect and how we use it, please view our Privacy & Cookies Policy.

If you are a school/college staff user of the careers platform/VLE, click here to read about your responsibilities in uploading student data.

Students

When you sign up for an account on our site, we ask for some personal details about you, such as your name, school, gender and ethnicity. As you build your Careers Profile, you will add more information yourself which we will need to store.

Collecting this information allows us to:

• Provide you with a personalised Careers Profile on our site, which contains details such as your grades, skills, and your favourite content on our site, and send you tailored content based on your responses to polls and competitions.
• Ensure the information we send you about jobs, courses and placement is as relevant as possible, if you have chosen to receive updates by email, so when you come to apply to UCAS or for a job, all the details you need are in one place.
• Share your profile information with your school or college, so that your teachers and careers advisors can use your career preferences, employability skills and work experience to help you with your career progression. Note: We will only do this if your school has bought a licence to use our platform, of if they buy one in the future. You can find out if they have one now by emailing us at data@successatschool.org.

How we use your personal details to send you relevant information

We do not sell your personal details, and we do not show them to other organisations.

Employers and universities sometimes come to us with opportunities which only apply to certain groups of people.

We collect the following kinds of information so we can send you relevant opportunities:

• Your background – e.g. if a job is aimed at students who would be the first in their family to go to university.
• Your location – e.g. if a university wants to encourage applications from students from the North East.
• Subjects you study – e.g. if an opportunity is aimed at students studying maths.
• Your career preferences – e.g. if employers are targeting students with an interest in Engineering.

Having information about you means we will only send you opportunities if you belong to the groups recruiters are trying to reach, and avoid sending them to you if they’re not relevant.

Where do we store your information?

If you choose to receive email updates, we will send you regular alerts about opportunities and careers advice by email. To do this, we use a service called MailChimp. For the purposes of these email campaigns, we store some of your information in the MailChimp database. MailChimp’s privacy policy explains how MailChimp uses this information to send you our email updates, and you can view it here.

Your Careers Profile is hosted on the Success at School website. The information we collect for this purpose is stored on Success at School’s servers.

Success at School is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the government body responsible for making sure organisations respect people’s data privacy. You can view our ICO record here.

You can ask us to delete any or all of your data at any time you like. Please just email team@successatschool.org to request this, and we will do so within 30 days of your request. Please be aware that by removing some of your data, we may not be able to send you email updates or provide you with a Careers Profile.

Teachers & Careers Advisors

When you sign up for an account on our site, we ask for some personal details about you, such as your name, school and job role.

Collecting this information allows us to easily contact you with information that is relevant to your school or college.

How we use your personal details to send you relevant information

We do not sell your personal details, and we do not show it to other organisations. However, employers sometimes come to us with opportunities which are only relevant to schools and colleges from a particular part of the country. Occasionally, we run our own initiatives or promote careers advice resources which only apply to certain schools.

Having information about you means we will only contact you about opportunities and opportunities that may be relevant to you and will avoid getting in touch with irrelevant information.

Where do we store your information?

If you choose to receive email updates, we will send you regular alerts about opportunities and careers advice by email. To do this, we use a service called MailChimp. For the purposes of these email campaigns, we store some of your information in the MailChimp database. MailChimp’s privacy policy explains how MailChimp uses this information to send you our email updates, and you can view it here.

Your Success at School account is hosted on the Success at School website. The information we collect for this purpose is stored on Success at School’s servers.

Success at School is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the government body responsible for making sure organisations respect people’s data privacy. You can view our ICO record here.

You can ask us to delete any or all of your data at any time you like. Please just email team@successatschool.org to request this, and we will do so within 30 days of your request. Please be aware that by removing some of your data, we may not be able to send you email updates or provide you with a Careers Profile.