Ark’s Sixth Form and Destinations team exists to help students succeed in their sixth form studies and make informed and ambitious choices about what they want to do when they leave school. This includes work to introduce students to universities, apprenticeships, different career paths and help them achieve the best academic results that they can.
Supporting students to make decisions about their best fit destination when leaving school starts early, so the Sixth Form and Destinations team works across Ark’s primary and secondary schools, as well as Ark’s sixth forms.
The Sixth Form and Destinations team also delivers Professional Pathways in collaboration with Ark sixth forms across London and Birmingham. Professional Pathways is Ark’s unique approach to delivering vocational qualifications (such as BTECs and T Levels). This includes both an academic curriculum and a wrap-around programme to help students develop the habits, skills and mindsets to thrive while at school and afterwards.
How do we get the personal information and why do we have it?
As part of our work, we may invite students to online or in-person events. At these events, images and video footage may be taken.
Personal information such as images and footage are used to promote the work of Ark and the successes of our schools to a variety of stakeholders, including school leadership, students, funders and industry/employer partners to ensure they continue to support our students.
For these purposes, the images and footage may be used in presentations to stakeholders, recruitment resources for schools and students and on Ark’s webpages.
We will not share the information provided to us with any other organisation or individual outside of:
- the Sixth Form and Destinations team
- existing and prospective partners and organisations that support our work.
Personal data will only be processed to promote programme events, activities and achievements.
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is legitimate interest, For more information on our use of personal data please contact SFD@arkonline.org
How do we store your personal information?
Your personal data is securely stored and backed up by Ark’s Microsoft 365 cloud-based storage drive.
The Sixth Form and Destinations team will keep the images and footage for five years and after this time, the data will be permanently deleted from Ark’s Microsoft 365 cloud-based storage drive and cannot be retrieved.
If you or your child no longer attend an Ark school, images and footage taken whilst you/they did attend an Ark school will still be used, retained, and deleted in the same way as explained above.
Your Data Protection Rights
You have rights under data protection law, including:
| Right of Access | You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. |
| Right to Rectification | You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. |
| Right to Erasure | You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances |
| Right to Restriction of Processing | You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances |
| Right to Object to Processing | You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances |
| Right to Data Portability | You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances. |
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
If you wish to exercise any of your above rights, please contact us using any of the methods below.
- Address: Sixth Form and Destinations, Ark, 1EdCity, EdCity Walk, London W12 7TF
- Telephone: 020 3116 0800
- Email: SFD@arkonline.org
How to make a complaint
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, in the first instance you can contact the Sixth Form and Destinations team using the contact details above.
You can also make a complaint to Ark’s Data Protection Officer by email or writing to dataprotection@arkonline.org or Ark, 1EdCity, EdCity Walk, London W12 7TF
If you are unhappy with how we have used your data or our response to your complaint, you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: www.ico.org.uk