Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how MyKindaCrowd Limited, trading as Connectr Early Engagement (CEE), uses and shares personal data in its role as a data controller. This is typically where you’ve attended our events (for example work experience) or volunteered on any of our activities.

In some cases, CEE may be acting as data processor for its clients, in which case this Privacy Policy does not apply. This Privacy Policy applies where you’ve been directed to it, for example via an event application form.

If the relevant information cannot be found elsewhere, e.g. from an employer’s Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will apply, for example when you attend an event and leave your contact details for us to get in touch, when a teacher recommends us to get in touch with you, or where we process volunteer data.

CEE uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard personal data in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorised use, disclosure or modification. 

CEE services are targeted at young persons, some of whom may be in their early teens or approaching adulthood. We therefore aim to design our services in a way that takes into account the children’s higher protection matters. If you believe we have failed to do so, please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer Aphaia Ltd at dpo@aphaia.co.uk

From time to time, CEE may modify this Privacy Policy to reflect the changes in our services, our practices, industry initiatives or changes in the law. It is therefore important that you review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.

What data we collect about you?‍

CEE processes personal data of the following data subjects:

Young persons participating in early engagement programmes run by CEE (either on behalf of CEE or an employer partner) or expressing interest in participating in such programmes, for the purposes of your registration and participation in such programmes.

We typically gather the following data categories:

• This will vary from project to project, but typical fields could include: contact details for you and your guardian, year group, school, social mobility indicators, gender, ethnicity and grade requirements.
• For those attending an event - dietary requirements, allergies, reasonable and access adjustments, if they require access to a prayer room.
• Your image for the purposes of marketing materials, for example Impact Reports.
• Research survey responses and other research data.

We gather this data to deliver the service to you and to pursue the legitimate interest of providing and enhancing our programmes.

Such data may be gathered online or in person, including via specialised programme websites, when you sign up to attend an event, express interest in our programmes, at events, in follow up to events, through trusted third parties such as teachers or mentors. For under 18s photo consent will specifically be collected for any event photography.

Where we ask you about your ethnicity, disabilities, sexual orientation, health, or other sensitive data categories, we will only do this with your consent and allow you the option not to share with us. We will only use such data to ensure diversity and equal opportunities, including as part of our commitment to our clients with whom we work. We will also ask for your consent when we process your image and if you decide to participate in research.

We may email you to ask you to take part in our research if you have attended one of our programmes. Your participation is voluntary and you can tell us that you no longer wish to be contacted for such purposes.

Our business contacts, including those pertaining to ourclients, prospects, suppliers, and partners.

We collect the following data pertaining to our business contacts:

• name,
• email address,  
• phone number,  
• company name, 
• job title, 
• correspondence / record of communications with us, 
• screen shots from public LinkedIn posts relating to our programmes or relevant insights and events,
• information you provided through surveys.

Visitors to our websites, regardless of your role 

We may collect:

• your browser information, 
• pages/content visited and other interactions,
• your IP address.

This data is gathered for analytics and cyber security purposes.

For additional information gathered using cookies and similar technologies, please check out https://early-engagement.connectr.com/legal/cookie-policy

Connectr Early Engagement (CEE) may obtain some of the above data from a third party, such as a lead enhancer or a web analytics service.

How do we use and share your data?

Once you choose to participate - or express interestin participating in our programme - that is organised in collaboration with one or more of our corporate partners, the data may be shared with such partners as our joint controllers. We will jointly use the data you share with us before or during the programme to best help you achieve your goals and to enhance the programme for you and other participants. Data may be anonymised or pseudonymised to help us develop and enhance our future programmes.

We will use your contact details, including your email, for us and our partners to get in touch with you during the programme and to follow up after the programme. CEE will also ask for consent to keep intouch with you for a longer period after the programmes, in order to join alumni networks. You may also choose to continue to keep in touch with our partners for future employment opportunities with them.

If CEE obtains personal data from a third party, such as a teacher, our use of that information is also governed by this Privacy Policy. Where we obtain your information from a teacher to whom you have expressed your interest in CEE programmes, we will only keep this information for a limited time based on our legitimate interest in order to get in touch with you. 

Personal data about you may be used to customise opportunities and services from CEE and our partners to those we believe are aligned with your interests. Where such customisation is automated and you believe you are adversely affected by it, you may request human intervention to correct its conclusions.

We may email you, typically once a year, to conduct research. You can agree to participate and still refuse to answer the questions that might constitute any special categories of data.

Data captured from research surveys and other research activities will be stored and maintained by CEE or shared with our partners for research purposes only. Your name and image will not be used for any other purpose.

Further information about processing

Your data may be shared with cloud services we use for storage, analytics, CRM, accountancy, product development, and communications. We aim touse the services hosted in the UK or in a country subject to a data protection adequacy decision. If that is not the case, we will use a lawful transfer mechanism such as standard contractual clauses or the UK extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

We may also share your data with public authorities where we consider this necessary to protect you or another person.

Where you participate on a call, we may use third-party tools such as call or AI-based transcription providers. You should request the latter to be turned off if you intend to share any particularly sensitive information.

CEE general standard is to store personal data for specific events for 12 months after the close of the CEE programme. If you have signed up to be part of an alumni network this becomes unlimited with the rolling option to opt out of the network when you no longer require the updates.

Research surveys and other research data will be stored by CEE in non-anonymised form for no longer than 5 years.

Your rights

You can exercise the below rights by sending an email to the following address team@connectr.com. Where we process certain data about you as part of a programme jointly with our partner, you may exercise the below rights by contacting us or our partner, as instructed by their own privacy policy.

• the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning them are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data 
• the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning the user, including the right to have incomplete personal data completed; 
• the right of restriction of processing, where the data is wrongfully processed but should not be erased for a reason listed in Article 18 (1) GDPR; 
• the right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) will be exercised by contacting team@connectr.com
• the right to object to the processing based on our legitimate interest and for direct marketing purposes, subject to Article 21 GDPR; 
• the right to port your data. 

You have the right to object to direct emailing that can be deemed direct marketing immediately when you first communicate your email to us, byclicking an ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email, or by emailing us at any time at team@connectr.com

If you have any questions or concerns about our Data Protection Policies, please do contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@aphaia.co.uk. You can use the same email address to complain about the way we process your personal data. When you complain, please let us know who you are and what might have gone wrong when interacting with us. We will investigate your complaint and get back to you within a month. You may also complain with the help of a trusted adult, such as your parent or guardian.

If you are not happy with the way we process your data, you may complain to the Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

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