Privacy Policy – General Information

Introduction

Data protection law requires us to provide you with information about how we will use your personal data. This notice is layered, to help you find out more about the activity that is relevant to you.

Youth Futures Foundation Limited is the “data controller”. This means that Youth Futures determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which, your information is processed.

How we collect your information

(combined with ‘data that is given to us by you’)

Youth Futures will collect your information in a number of ways, for example:

  1. when you contact us through the Youth Futures website, by telephone, post, e-mail or through any other means;
  2. when you register with us and set up an account to receive our products/services;
  3. when you complete surveys that we use for research purposes (although you are not obliged to respond to them);
  4. when you elect to receive marketing communications from us;
  5. when you use our services;
  6. when users submit enquires or messages;
  7. when users comment on or respond to social media posts;
  8. from legitimate publicly available resources.

in each case, in accordance with this privacy policy.

Who we share information with

We may share your Data with the following groups of people for the following reasons:

  1. any of our group companies or affiliates – to ensure the proper administration of our website and business, to respond to your enquiry;
  2. our employees, agents and/or professional advisors – to respond to your enquiry, to understand the general segmentation of people engaging with us;
  3. third party service providers who provide services to us which require the processing of personal data – to help third party service providers in receipt of any shared data to perform functions on our behalf to help ensure the website and newsletter systems run smoothly, and to ensure the proper administration of your website and business, to respond to your enquiry;

in each case, in accordance with this privacy policy.

Keeping information secure

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your information, for example:

  1. access to your account is controlled by a password and a user name that is unique to you.
  2. we store your information on secure servers.
  3. payment details are encrypted using SSL technology (typically you will see a lock icon or green address bar (or both) in your browser when we use this technology.

Technical and organisational measures include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuse or loss or unauthorised access to your please let us know immediately by via the contact details provided in this policy.

Youth Futures has been accredited Cyber Essentials certification as part of its measures to help protect against cyber attacks.

Data retention

Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your information on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request that your information be deleted (where applicable).

Your rights

You have the following rights in relation to your information:

  1. Right to access – the right to request (i) copies of the information we hold about you at any time, or (ii) that we modify, update or delete such information. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this, unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive.” Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request, we will tell you the reasons why.
  2. Right to correct – the right to have your information rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
  3. Right to erase – the right to request that we delete or remove your information from our systems.
  4. Right to restrict our use of your information – the right to “block” us from using your information or limit the way in which we can use it.
  5. Right to data portability – the right to request that we move, copy or transfer your information.
  6. Right to object – the right to object to our use of your information including where we use it for our legitimate interests.
Transfers outside the UK or the European Economic Area

Information which we collect from you may be stored and processed in and transferred to countries outside of the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA). For example, this could occur if our servers are located in a country outside the UK or the EEA or one of our service providers is situated in a country outside the UK or EEA.
We will only transfer information outside the UK or EEA where it is compliant with data protection legislation and the means of transfer provides adequate safeguards in relation to your data, such as incorporating the current standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission.

To ensure that your information receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate safeguards and procedures with the third parties we share your information with. This ensures your information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with the Data Protection Laws.

Links to other websites

This website may, from time to time, provide links to other websites. We have no control over such websites and are not responsible for the content of these websites. This privacy policy does not extend to your use of such websites. You are advised to read the privacy policy or statement of other websites prior to using them.

Changes of business ownership and control

Youth Futures may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of Youth Futures. Personal data will, where it is relevant to any part of our business so transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this privacy policy, be permitted to use your information for the purposes for which it was originally supplied to us.
We may also disclose your information to a prospective purchaser of our business or any part of it.
In the above instances, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring your privacy is protected.

Contact details

Our Data Protection Officer is Alan Martin who can be contacted via [email protected].

To make enquiries, exercise any of your rights set out above, or withdraw your consent (where applicable) to the processing of your information please contact our Data Protection Officer.

If you are not satisfied with the way a complaint you make in relation to your information is handled by us, you may wish to refer your complaint to the relevant data protection authority. For the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO’s contact details can be found on their website at https://ico.org.uk/.

It is important that the information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your details change during the period for which we hold it.

Enquiries, services, surveys and marketing

Information used
  • name;
  • job title;
  • profession;
  • contact Information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests;
  • financial information such as credit / debit card numbers;
  • organisation, enquiry details, date of contact;
Purpose and lawful basis for processing

Any or all of the above information may be required by us from time to time in order to provide you with the best possible service and experience. Specifically, information may be used by us for the following reasons:

  • internal record keeping;
  • improvement of our products / services;
  • transmission by email of marketing materials that may be of interest to you;
  • contact for market research purposes which may be done using email, telephone, fax or mail. Such information may be used to customise or update the website;
  • to respond appropriately to your enquiry;

When you register with us and set up an account to receive our services, the legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.

The lawful bases are consent or the legitimate interests described above.

For the delivery of direct marketing to you via e-mail, we’ll need your consent, whether via an opt-in or soft-opt-in:

  • soft opt-in consent is a specific type of consent which applies when you have previously engaged with us (for example, you contact us to ask us for more details about a particular product/service, and we are marketing similar products/services). Under “soft opt-in” consent, we will take your consent as given unless you opt-out.
  • for other types of e-marketing, we are required to obtain your explicit consent; that is, you need to take positive and affirmative action when consenting by, for example, checking a tick box that we’ll provide.
  • if you are not satisfied about our approach to marketing, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time. To find out how to withdraw your consent, see the section headed “Your rights” below.

Grant applications and recipients

Introduction

This privacy notice is a summary of how Youth Futures Foundation use personal information during and after the grant application process and during our grants programmes. We will use this personal information to process an assess grant applications, administer any grant awards, improve the overall process and deal with any queries in relation to it.  

Please read this carefully to understand our practices regarding personal information. Please also be aware that as you may be sharing personal information with us about staff, volunteers, beneficiaries, trustees, officers and referees, as well as about yourself, you must bring this notice to the attention of anybody whose personal information you share with us when completing an application for grant funding, or if your application for funding is successful. You must also inform us if any of your or their information changes after you submit your application, or over the duration of your grant award. 

This privacy notice should be read alongside Youth Futures’ Privacy Policy – General Information which covers information relevant to anyone whose data is used by Youth Futures, including your rights. 

Information used

The personal data used in our grant process includes: 

  • name
  • job title
  • profession
  • contact Information such as email addresses and telephone numbers
  • organisation, enquiry details, date of contact
  • application details

We also collect information about you that is typically not personal data including information about your organisation and any grant it receives. However, information regarding smaller organisations may increase the likelihood of identifying an individual and therefore be considered personal data.  For example, when collecting information about ethnic minoritised leadership in your organisation. 

How your information is used

We may use your information to: 

  • assess your grant application, award/decline and manage any grant including to contact you for such purposes or to reply to any questions, submissions, suggestions, issues or complaints you have contacted us about
  • provide information on the grant programme and programme wide developments that could support you in your application, subsequent project delivery and/or for the development of your organisation 
  • administer any grants awarded following a successful application process. 
  • conduct visits by Youth Futures staff or our evaluators to monitor and evaluate projects
  • process grant payments or any other payments that may be due to you
  • enforce any grant agreement with you (if necessary)
  • keep a record of our relationship with you
  • hold in our database and use for statistical purposes 
  • seek your views on the work of Youth Futures.
  • provide information on the grant programme and programme wide developments that could support you in your application, subsequent project delivery and/or for the development of your organisation 
  • prepare and publish an annual review of grants and other reports, reporting on the work of Youth Futures. 
  • contact you by email, telephone or any other means to inform you about other opportunities we believe may be useful such as funding, networking, training and to share relevant safeguarding information where necessary
  • comply with applicable laws and regulations and requests from statutory authorities and agencies (such as HMRC)

If Youth Futures offer you a grant, information about your organisation may be published relating to the project funded. This information may appear in press releases, in its print and online publications. 

Purpose and lawful basis for processing

We must have a lawful reason for using your personal information. Most commonly, we use your personal information in the following ways: 

  • where the processing is necessary for a contract that we have with you or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.  
  • to enable us to assess and consider grants and make grants, in our legitimate interest as a grant making organisation, and where using it does not unreasonably impact on the rights of freedoms of the individuals concerned. We collect all information you submit as part of the grant application process and if your application is successful through: grant application forms you complete and subsequent grant agreements you enter into with us;  your conversations with us, our assessors and our evaluators; correspondence, including by email that you send to us, or that we send to you; and monitoring and reporting information that you provide to us. 
  • to share information with relevant statutory authorities and agencies and other third parties (including other funders) for monitoring requirements or where safeguarding or fraud issues are suspected.  
  • to comply with our legal obligations (such as statutory accounting and reporting obligations).  
  • to pursue our legitimate interest of ensuring that Youth Futures is run effectively and in an efficient manner and where doing so does not unreasonably impact on the rights or freedoms of the individuals concerned. 
  • to pursue our legitimate interest of meeting our obligations to The Oversight Trust, or any other of our group companies, wherever we deem it appropriate and where doing so does not unreasonably impact on the rights or freedoms of the individuals concerned.

When we process personal information for our legitimate interests, we will consider and balance any potential impact on the relevant individuals and their rights under data protection and any other relevant law. We will not use personal information in pursuit of our legitimate interests for activities where the impact on the relevant individuals overrides our interests (unless, for instance, we are otherwise required or permitted to do so by law). 

Data sharing

To run our grants programmes we sometimes involve other people or organisations. 

We may therefore share your information with: 

  • organisations who help us assess, evaluate, improve, administer and manage our grants and grant application processes. 
  • our assessors and grant committee members for the specific purpose of assessing your grant application. 
  • other funders, where the grant for which you apply is funded, or jointly funded, by another funder (this will be made clear on any information you receive about the grant and when you apply). 
  • The Oversight Trust and other of our group companies where relevant. 
  • Conferences, or at other events and on occasions, where we promote Youth Futures’ grant making activities and programmes. If you agree to participate, we may share case studies, stories, or images as part of this promotional work.  
  • Other funders, organisations, the police, other law enforcement agencies, HMRC, regulators, including the Information Commissioner’s Office and/or fraud protection agencies where we believe this is necessary for safeguarding purposes to detect, investigate or prevent dishonesty, grant misuse, fraud, terrorism, money laundering and other crimes, where you have provided false information or where we have a legitimate interest to share the information or the other party has a legitimate interest to receive it. This could include details of individuals involved in your project such as your staff, volunteers, beneficiaries, trustees, officers and referees.
Collecting and using ‘special category’ information

In the course of administering applications to Youth Futures, we may (depending on the nature of the application) be required to consider personal information which is given additional protection by law. This information (such as health, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or orientation, political opinions and trade union membership information), is known as ‘special category’ information.  

We will only use special category information in limited circumstances where we are permitted to do so and we ask that such information is only shared with us where it is necessary to do so for the purpose of a grant application or grant award. 

One example of this is where Youth Futures collect information about ethnic minoritised leadership in your organisation for the purposes of promoting racial and ethnic diversity, 

Those sharing the special category information with us must ensure that they have obtained any necessary consent for us to receive and use the information provided. 

Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.  Thereafter we will destroy information in a secure and data protection compliant manner. 

Visiting the website

Information used
  • IP address (automatically collected);
  • web browser type and version (automatically collected);
  • operating system (automatically collected);
  • a list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on this website, and the site you exit to (automatically collected);
  • in each case, in accordance with this privacy policy.
Purpose and lawful basis for processing

Any or all of the above information may be required by us from time to time in order to provide you with the best possible service and experience when using our website or websites used to collect data on behalf of Youth Futures, for example, when using a survey tool.

We may use your information to show you Youth Futures adverts and other content on other websites. If you do not want us to use your data to show you Youth Futures adverts and other content on other websites, please turn off the relevant cookies (please refer to the section headed “Cookies” below).

The lawful basis the legitimate interests described above.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer by this website when you visit certain parts of the website and/or when you use certain features of the website.

This website may place and access certain cookies on your computer. Youth Futures uses cookies to improve your experience of using the Youth Futures website. Youth Futures has carefully chosen these cookies and has taken steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and respected at all times.

All cookies used by this website are used in accordance with current UK and EU cookie law.

Before the website places cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies, you are enabling Youth Futures to provide a better experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies; however certain features of the website may not function fully or as intended.

This website may place the following cookies:

Type of Cookie Purpose
Strictly necessary cookies These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find a list of cookies that we use in the Cookie Policy at https://youthfuturesfoundation.org/cookie-policy/. We have tried to ensure this is complete and up to date, but if you think that we have missed a cookie or there is any discrepancy, please let us know.

You can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. By default, most internet browsers accept cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser.
You can choose to delete cookies at any time; however you may lose any information that enables you to access the website more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, personalisation settings.

It is recommended that you ensure that your internet browser is up-to-date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your internet browser if you are unsure about adjusting your privacy settings.
For more information generally on cookies, including how to disable them, please refer to aboutcookies.org. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer.

Prospective employees, contractors and panel members

Introduction

This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) during and after the time when you apply for a position with us.

This notice applies specifically to prospective employees, directors, workers, vacation scheme students, contractors, panel or advisory group members. It does not form part of any contract of employment or other contract to provide services.

We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Information used

To meet the above purpose, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

  • Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses.
  • Recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process or any background check process).
  • Date of birth.
  • Gender.
  • Marital status and dependants.
  • National Insurance number
  • Proposed salary, annual leave, pension and benefits information.
  • Interview dates
  • Information about criminal convictions and offences.

We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information:

  • Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions.
  • Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records.
  • Genetic information and biometric data.
How your personal information is collected

We collect personal information about prospective employees, workers and contactors through the application and recruitment process, either directly from candidates or sometimes from an employment agency or background check provider. We may sometimes collect additional information from third parties including former employers, referees, credit reference agencies or other background check agencies such as Experian or the DBS.

How we will use information about you

We need all the categories of information in the list above primarily to allow us to prepare to perform our contract with you* and to enable us to comply with legal obligations**. In some cases we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties***, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests and in other cases we may use your personal information where we have your consent to do so****. The situations in which we will process your personal information are listed below. We have indicated by asterisks the lawful purpose or purposes for which we are processing or will process your personal information, as well as indicating which categories of data are involved.

  • Making a decision about your recruitment or appointment. This will include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, sharing personal information with third parties, compiling a recruitment log, storing interview notes, storing details of an offer (if applicable) and creating an HR folder ***
  • Checking you are legally entitled to work in the UK, checking references, qualifications and carrying out background checks ****
  • Determining the terms on which you work for us ***
  • Sharing data with GPs, doctors and other practitioners. This may include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, sharing medical notes, and illness/absences with third parties ****
  • Assessing qualifications for a particular job or task, including decisions about promotions. This may include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, storing applications, CVs, covering letters, interview notes, ID and a personnel file ***
  • Education, training and development requirements. This will include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, sharing personal data with training providers ***
  • Dealing with legal disputes involving you, or other employees, workers and contractors, including accidents at work. This will include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, passing your personal data to our insurance company, legal advisers and other parties in order to protect the company’s interest ***
  • Ascertaining your fitness to work. This will include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, storing your personal data in the form of a medical note ***
  • Complying with health and safety obligations. This will include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, passing your details to training providers, storing desk assessment notes and medical notes ***
  • To prevent fraud. This will include, where necessary and depending on the circumstances, storing your National Insurance number, passport, driving licence, or other ID, such as a birth certificate **
  • To conduct data analytics studies to review and better understand employee retention and attrition rates
  • To monitor and implement measures for equal opportunities***.

Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.
Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

How we use sensitive personal information

“Special categories” of sensitive personal information require higher levels of protection. We need to have further justification for collecting, storing and using this type of personal information. We may process special categories of personal information in the following circumstances:

  1. In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent.
  2. Where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our data protection policy and archiving and destruction policy.
  3. Where it is needed in the public interest, such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our occupational pension scheme, and in line with our data protection policy.
  4. Where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.

Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public. We may also process such information about members or former members in the course of legitimate business activities with the appropriate safeguards.

Our obligations as an employer
  • We will use your sensitive personal information in the following ways:
    We will use information about your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to provide appropriate workplace adjustments, to monitor and manage sickness absence and to administer benefits.
  • We will use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
If you fail to provide personal information

If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to enter into the contract we propose with you or complete the recruitment process (such making an offer with regard to salary and other benefits), or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as to ensure the health and safety of our workers).

Consent

We do not need your consent if we use special categories of your personal information in accordance with our written policy to carry out our legal obligations or exercise specific rights in the field of employment law. In limited circumstances, we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain sensitive data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the information that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent. You should be aware that it is not a condition of your contract with us that you agree to any request for consent from us.

In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact our DPO (see Privacy Policy General Information for details). Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

Information about Criminal Convictions

We may only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so. This will usually be where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and provided we do so in line with our data protection policy and our policy on employing people with criminal records.
Less commonly, we may use information relating to criminal convictions where it is necessary in relation to legal claims, where it is necessary to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.

We may also process such information about members or former members in the course of legitimate business activities with the appropriate safeguards.

We will only collect information about criminal convictions if it is appropriate given the nature of the role and where we are legally able to do so. Where appropriate, we will collect information about criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process or we may be notified of such information directly by you in the course of you working for us.

Automated Decision-Making

Automated decision-making takes place when an electronic system uses personal information to make a decision without human intervention. We are allowed to use automated decision-making in the following circumstances:

  1. Where we have notified you of the decision and given you 21 days to request a reconsideration.
  2. Where it is necessary to perform the contract with you and appropriate measures are in place to safeguard your rights.
  3. In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent and where appropriate measures are in place to safeguard your rights.

If we make an automated decision on the basis of any particularly sensitive personal information, we must have either your explicit written consent or it must be justified in the public interest, and we must also put in place appropriate measures to safeguard your rights.

We do not envisage that any decisions will be taken about you using automated means, however we will notify you in writing if this position changes.

Data Sharing

We may have to share your data with third parties including third-party service providers. We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

We will share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.

“Third parties” includes third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents) and our parent company “The Oversight Trust”. The following activities are carried out by third-party service providers: payroll, pension administration, benefits provision and administration, finance administration, recruitment administration, background checks, some IT services, HR advice, training and development.

All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible restructuring of the business. We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law.

We may transfer your personal information outside the UK and EEA. If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.

Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal information are available in our Records of Processing Activities which is available on the Youth Futures shared drive. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you. Once you are no longer an employee, worker or contractor of Youth Futures we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy.

Data repository and archive

Introduction 

Youth Futures Foundation approach involves the creation and curation of evidence. We create evidence by funding programmes and putting high-quality evaluations in place to understand whether or not those interventions are effective. We curate evidence by gathering information from studies into interventions that help young people into work.  

Youth Futures are intending to hold project data in a data repository (also referred to as a depository) and a data archive.  The repository will contain smaller datasets, such as what would be collected from a pilot project, whereas the archive will be collecting data from larger-scale interventions, primarily where there is an opportunity to link to other datasets.  

Both these options are under development and we will continue to update this notice as and when further information becomes available.  Due to the sensitive nature of the information that is collected, these storage facilities will require an extremely high level of security.  They will only store data that is necessary to fulfil Youth Futures’ mission to help young people into employment. 

This privacy notice should be read alongside Youth Futures’ Privacy Policy – General Information which covers information relevant to anyone whose data is used by Youth Futures, including your rights. 

Purpose 

Youth Futures has the following purposes for collecting data long-term:  

  • Research: to understand the critical drivers of EET (education, employment and training) outcomes and which types of support/intervening outcomes drive outcomes for different groups    
  • Performance management and equity: to keep a record of support reach to different demographic groups and monitor differential outcomes between different groups supported by Youth Futures grants.   
Source and type of the personal data 

In most Youth Futures-funded evaluations, the independent evaluator collects data directly from data subjects or from the organisation implementing the intervention. 

Evaluation data is processed: 

  1. a) during the evaluation project, by independent evaluation teams and intervention delivery teams and,
  2. b) after the evaluation project has been completed, by Youth Futures as part of running a data repository and  

The Youth Futures typically does not process any personal data for evaluation purposes during projects. 

The types of data collected on our evaluations vary from project from project.  Details about the project aims and types of data collected will be detailed in the recruitment documents and privacy notices for each specific project.   

We recommend the following text is adapted by grantees as needed and included in all recruitment documents and information sheets for participants, alongside other relevant information:  

Your data will be securely shared with the project funders, Youth Futures Foundation, to be held in a data repository/archive for the purposes of evaluation and research to help young people.  To fulfil these purposes, the data may also be shared with other organisations who manage the archive, evaluate outcomes, conduct further research or link to data that is associated with Youth Futures’ vision and values.  Youth Futures will process your data in accordance with data protection law which includes keeping it secure and only using it where there is a fair and lawful basis to do so.  For more information, please see Youth Futures’ privacy policy. 

Lawful basis 

Youth Futures evaluation data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests, according to the GDPR, Article 6, Paragraph 1(f), taking responsibility for protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subjects, and ensuring their interests are protected at all times. 

The Youth Futures data repository and archive, will also process special categories of personal data from evaluations according to the GDPR, Article 9, Paragraph 2(j), which specifies that processing is necessary for ​‘archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes’. This processing will be carried out with appropriate safeguards for protecting the rights and freedoms of the data subjects, according to the GDPR, Article 89. 

Legitimate interests for the processing 

Our legitimate interests include gathering data about what interventions work best, under what conditions, for what participants, as well as measuring the long-term impact of those interventions, continuously improving our methodological approaches and publishing independent findings free of charge for the benefit of the research community and wider society. These legitimate interests have been carefully balanced with the interests of the data subjects and the data repository/archive only processes personal data in line with the purposes communicated to the participants, giving them the option to withdraw from data processing at any time during the project with no consequence. 

Organisations who receive the archive data 

It is intended that the archive will be accessible to the wider research community for secondary analyses that provide public benefit and are in line with the mission of Youth Futures. 

Retention 

The evaluation data is retained indefinitely to enable researchers to track the impact of our projects on attainment at subsequent educational stages, with a view to better understanding the effectiveness of different teaching and learning approaches on increasing attainment and reducing educational disadvantage. 

The data protection principle of storage limitation allows data to be stored for longer periods for the purpose of research, so long as measures are in place to protect the privacy of individuals. 

 

Introduction 

Youth Futures Foundation is committed to ensuring that all personal data handled by us will be processed according to legally compliant standards of data protection and data security. 

We confirm for the purposes of the data protection laws, that Youth Futures is a data controller of the personal data in connection with your employment. This means that we determine the purposes for which, and the manner in which, your personal data is processed. 

What personal data do we process about Staff? 

The types of personal data that we may collect, store and use about you include records relating to your: 

  • home address, contact details and contact details for your next of kin; 
  • recruitment (including your application form or curriculum vitae, references received and details of your qualifications); 
  • pay records, national insurance number and details of taxes and any employment benefits such as pension and health insurance (including details of any claims made); 
  • computer, telephone, email, internet, fax or instant messenger use; 
  • performance and any disciplinary matters, grievances, complaints or concerns in which you are involved. 
  • details of your bank account and national insurance number. 
  • information about your nationality and entitlement to work in the UK. 
  • information about your criminal record. 
  • details of your schedule (days of work and working hours) and attendance at work. 
  • your images (whether captured on CCTV, by photograph, and video). 
  • information about medical or health conditions, including whether or not you have a disability for which we need to make reasonable adjustments.
Sensitive personal data 

We may from time to time need to process sensitive personal information (under GDPR referred to as ‘special categories of personal data’). 

We will only process sensitive personal information if: 

  • we have a lawful basis for doing so, e.g. it is necessary for the performance of the employment contract; and 

one of the following special conditions for processing personal information applies: 

  • the data subject has given explicit consent;
  • the processing is necessary for the purposes of exercising the employment law rights or obligations of the Company or the data subject; 
  • the processing is necessary to protect the data subject’s vital interests, and the data subject is physically incapable of giving consent;
  • processing relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the data subject;
  • the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence or legal claims; or 
  • the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest. 
How your personal information is collected 

We collect personal information about prospective employees, workers and contractors through the application and recruitment process, either directly from candidates or sometimes from an employment agency or background check provider. We may sometimes collect additional information from third parties including former employers, referees, credit reference agencies or other background check agencies such as Experian or the DBS. 

How we use your personal data 

In general, we will use information to carry out the legitimate interests of our business, to administer your employment or engagement and to deal with any problems or concerns you may have, including, but not limited to: 

  • Staff Address Lists: to compile and circulate lists of home address and contact details, to contact you outside working hours. 
  • Sickness records: to maintain a record of your sickness absence and copies of any doctor’s notes or other documents supplied to us in connection with your health, to inform your colleagues and others that you are absent through sickness, as reasonably necessary to manage your absence, to deal with unacceptably high or suspicious sickness absence, to inform reviewers for appraisal purposes of your sickness absence level, to publish internally aggregated, anonymous details of sickness absence levels
  • Occupational health: to obtain occupational health advice, to ensure that we comply with duties in relation to individuals with disabilities, meet our obligations under health and safety law, and ensure that employees are receiving the pay or other benefits to which they are entitled. 
  • Leave: to operate and keep a record of other types of leave (including maternity, paternity, adoption, parental and shared parental leave), to allow effective workforce management, to ensure that we comply with duties in relation to leave entitlement, and to ensure that employees are receiving the pay or other benefits to which they are entitled; 
  • References: to provide references on request for current or former employees; and 
  • Legal: to respond to and defend against legal claims.
  • Monitoring IT systems: to monitor your use of e-mails, internet, telephone and fax, computer or other communications or IT resources. 
  • Disciplinary, grievance or legal matters: in connection with any disciplinary, grievance, legal, regulatory or compliance matters or proceedings that may involve you. 
  • Performance Reviews: to carry out performance reviews. 
  • Equal Opportunities Monitoring: to conduct monitoring for equal opportunities purposes and to publish anonymised, aggregated information about the breakdown of Youth Futures’ workforce. 
Lawful basis for processing 

The lawful basis we rely on for processing your personal data is article 6(1)(b) of the UK GDPR, which relates to processing necessary to perform a contract. 

If you provide us with any information about reasonable adjustments you require under the Equality Act 2010 the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is article 6(1)(c) to comply with our legal obligations under the Act. 

The lawful basis we rely on to process any information you provide as part of your application which is special category data, such as health, religious or ethnicity information is article 9(2)(b) of the UK GDPR, which relates to our obligations in employment and the safeguarding of your fundamental rights. And Schedule 1 part 1(1) of the DPA2018 which again relates to processing for employment purposes. 

Storage and retention 

Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your information on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request that your information be deleted (where applicable). 

Who we share information with 

We may have to share your data with third parties including third-party service providers. We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law. 

We will share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so. 

“Third parties” includes third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents) and our parent company “The Oversight Trust”. The following activities are carried out by third-party service providers: payroll, pension administration, benefits provision and administration, finance administration, recruitment administration, background checks, some IT services, HR advice, training and development. 

All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. 

We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible restructuring of the business. We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law. 

We may transfer your personal information outside the UK and EEA. If we do, we will ensure the appropriate safeguards are in place so that you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.

 

Youth Participation

Introduction  

Youth voice is woven throughout every element of our work. Young people from marginalised backgrounds with lived experience of facing barriers to employment help shape our strategy and lead our mission. 

We ask young people to share their experiences and their perspectives on youth employment, setting the agenda and advocating for change. 

This privacy notice should be read alongside Youth Futures’ Privacy Policy – General Information which covers information relevant to anyone whose data is used by Youth Futures, including your rights.  

Purposes

Youth Futures has many activities to enable us to interact with young people in relation to our mission, including: 

  • Running the Future Voices Group and other youth participation groups
  • Developing the Youth Employment System, the Youth Employment Toolkit and other resources
  • Running events
  • Conducting surveys, and research
  • Ensuring good safeguarding practices
  • Obtaining consent where required to use personal data
    Source and type of the personal data

    For the above purposes, we primarily collect personal data directly from individuals.  Data we collect about young people includes: 

    • Name and contact details
    • Application details for advisory and support roles
    • Opinions
    • Experiences – Experiences can include a wide range of personal data, this can include special category personal data such as health, religion and ethnicity.  It can also include information about crime
    • Event sign up details
    • Information to monitor and promote equality and diversity
      Lawful basis

      Personal data is processed under the following lawful bases and conditions: 

      • Meeting Youth Futures legitimate interests, as described in the purposes above
      • Delivering a contractual service, such as employing young advisors
      • Meeting a legal obligation
      • Protecting vital interests
      • Meeting substantial public interests, including: 
        • Equality of opportunity or treatment
        • Preventing or detecting unlawful acts
        • Disability support
        • Safeguarding 
      • Conducting research 
      • Obtaining consent, particularly for processing which does not relate to a substantial public interest or research. 
      Who we share information with 

      We share data with third parties who provide services that help us to administrate and manage the above activities.   

      We use Microsoft Office as a third party to process your data in all our work. Please refer to its privacy notice, available here, for further details. 

      We use Eventbrite. Eventbrite stores data in the US and they rely on Standard Contractual Clauses to justify transferring the data overseas. Further information can be found in Eventbrite’s privacy notice. 

      Other third parties include: Be Applied, Snap Survey, Take Note, Zoom and Consent Kit. 

      Attending an event 

      Purpose 

      Our purpose for collecting this information is so we can facilitate the event and provide you with an acceptable service. 

      This privacy notice should be read alongside Youth Futures’ Privacy Policy – General Information which covers information relevant to anyone whose data is used by Youth Futures, including your rights. 

      For information about collecting feedback and further contact after the event, see our privacy notice section on enquiries, services, surveys and marketing. 

      Information used

      If you wish to attend one of our events, you will be asked to provide your contact information including your organisation’s name and, if offered a place, information about any dietary requirements or access provisions you may need. We may also ask for payment if there is a charge to attend. 

      Lawful basis 

      Your information is processed to fulfil a contract with you or, for your benefit, with your employer. Without it we would not be able to process your booking or attendance at our events. 

      We also have a legitimate interest in processing other information about you for the purpose of the smooth running of our business, for marketing and for planning purposes. 

      Where information is collected for dietary requirements, we rely on your consent. 

      Where information is collected for access provisions, we are meeting our requirements in relation to equality legislation. 

      Data sharing 

      We may use a third-party supplier of services and software to help with the administration and running of the event, such as Eventbrite.  Eventbrite physically stores personal data in the United States and use Standard Contractual Clauses as the safeguard for this transfer from the UK. 

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