Social Sciences Residential privacy notice

Find out what data we collect, why we collect it and how long we keep it for the Social Sciences Residential.

To organise events and activities:  

We use your name, contact details, school, parent/carer contact details, gender and your emergency/next of kin name and telephone number so that we can organise the activities and support you to take part.  We will keep your name, postcode and date of birth for up to three years so that we can see if you apply to university after the programme.  We will delete the rest of this data at the end of your Year 13.  

We also ask for sensitive data about any disability or health, religious and dietary requirements, known as special category data, so that we can support you to take part. We delete all your disability and health, religious and dietary requirements when you finish the programme. 

To check you are eligible to take part and monitor progress of the programme:  

We will ask for specific data to check your eligibility for the programme.  We will also measure the impact of the programme on different groups using this data, to help us to improve future activities. 

We may share your data with teams who run similar projects, so that they can cross-check who is already taking part and prioritise their places for those who do not have a place on one of our projects already, you will be told if this is the case. 

When you fill in the Social Sciences Residential application form, we may ask for your:  

• School  
• Year Group  
• Postcode  
• Information to find out whether you meet our contextual admissions criteria 
• Information about whether you are eligible for Free School Meals 
• Academic information eg: GCSEs and A-levels studied  
• Gender 

We will keep your name, postcode and date of birth for up to three years. We will delete the rest of this data at the end of the programme.  

Improving the programme:  

We use your name, postcode and date of birth to monitor which of our activities you take part in and whether you apply to one of the courses at the University of Leeds. This helps us to understand the impact the programme has on the choices you make and what we can do to improve it for future participants.    

We will keep this information for up to three years and then delete it.  

Staying in touch with us:  

If you give your consent, we will keep your contact details to stay in touch with you after the programme, to send you information about other things that we think will support your studies and progress to higher education, such as further activities, opportunities or resources.  If this is the case, we’ll keep them for up to three years and you can unsubscribe at any time.  

Unsuccessful applicant data:   

If you do not gain a place or do not accept your place on a programme, we will delete your data within 1 month of the start of the programme.