Our privacy promise
We’ll always clearly explain how we use your personal data in an age-appropriate manner, and we commit to process your data carefully, securely, and in compliance with the legislation. Your personal data belongs to you, and you have certain rights in respect of the personal data about you that we process. We commit to carrying out any request that you make as is required under the legislation. In the rare event we have made an error, we’ll do all we can to correct things as quickly as possible.
Who we are
This website is provided in association with National Schools Partnership.
We Are Futures Limited is the Data Controller and operates National Schools Partnership websites.
How we use your data
We collect personal data from you in a variety of ways, depending on who you are and which part of our organisation you interact with. We also use cookies and collect data from you when you visit our websites to understand how you use them and to tailor content. When you submit data to us, we will process your data according to this privacy policy and our cookie policy. You must not use our website or submit your data if you are under 18 years old.
This is how we use the data that we process as a Data Controller:
NATIONAL SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP – For teachers, home educators and parents
As a user of our National Schools Partnership websites, when you sign up to our email newsletter, create an account to access free education content, or participate in our promotions, competitions or events, we will request the data that we need to fulfil your request, manage your account, communicate with you to promote new education initiatives, programmes or competitions, and tailor website content that we believe will be of interest, in the following ways:
When we collect it | What we collect or use | How we use it | How long we hold it for |
You subscribe to National Schools Partnership email communications. | Your email address. | To send you email marketing communications to keep you informed of our free education initiatives. You subscribe by providing us your email address, and at the time we provide a method for you to opt-out of email marketing. This is called soft opt-in. You can subsequently opt-out at any time. | For as long as you are subscribed and for twelve months after you unsubscribe. |
You join one of our education initiatives and / or you create an account with National Schools Partnership. | Your name, email address, postal address of your education establishment, teaching job title, subjects taught and your answers to tailored questions that help us personalise the most relevant content for you. | To administer your account with National Schools Partnership and to personalise your experience on our website. To contact you about the initiative you are participating in, or where we believe an initiative or event may be of interest to you. To personalise email marketing about our free education initiatives that may be of interest to you, including reminders of initiatives you participated in previously, or new initiatives that may be of interest to you, based on the information you registered with us or previously participated in. At the time you join, we provide a method for you to opt-out of email marketing. This is called soft opt-in. You can subsequently opt-out at any time. To present you with relevant adverts when you are using social media or on other websites. For the purposes of market research, to invite you to participate in surveys or interviews based on our profiling and sampling of your data. To provide statistics for auditing purposes. | The duration you have your personal account with National Schools Partnership, and for up to two years after your last interaction or after your account is closed. |
You participate in a promotion or enter a competition or prize draw. | Your name, school name, education address. In specific circumstances where necessary, pupil name, year group, age, parent or legal guardian name, email and phone number, only where we have the consent of the parent or legal guardian. We will provide additional privacy information in an age-appropriate format where we intend to process children’s data. | For the fulfilment of the promotion or to contact the winners/runners up of a competition or prize draw to distribute prizes. | For twelve months after the competition has been processed. |
You attend an event or focus group. | Your name, school name, education address, email and phone number. Where necessary and only where we have the consent of the parent or legal guardian, pupil name, year group, age, parent or legal guardian name. We will provide additional privacy information in an age-appropriate format where we intend to process children’s data. Photography, audio, video and transcription, only where we provide notice, and additionally for children, where we have consent of the parent or legal guardian. | To contact you and administer your participation in the event. To record or transcript the event for internal use and for market research purposes. When you register for an event, we’ll provide a separate privacy notice that explains which information we collect at the event for any additional purposes, such as marketing or publicity, or when sharing with any other parties. | For twelve months after the event has taken place, unless notified to you at the time via an additional privacy notice. |
You fill in a contact us form on our site or contact us by phone, e-mail or other method. | Your name, contact details and anything else relevant to your enquiry. | To deal with your enquiry and to administer your accounts with us and provide you with an effective service. | The duration you have your personal account with National Schools Partnership, and for up to two years after your last engagement or after your account is closed. |
You visit a National Schools Partnership website. | In accordance with our cookie policy, we use cookies and digital identifiers to track sessions on our website, recognise you as a returning user, track pages you visit, content you download, links clicked and to record your interaction with the website. | To manage log-in and visitor sessions on our website and enable us to monitor and improve the functionality and performance of the website. To help us understand which content is most relevant to you and to understand which types of content are most viewed or downloaded. | Cookies used to manage your secure log-in are retained for the duration your user account is active and according to your cookie consent settings. |
WE ARE FUTURES – For agency clients, prospective clients and recruitment candidates
In addition to the above, as a representative of a business that is a client or prospective client of We Are Futures, or as an individual that we’re interested in recruiting to join us, we use your details for the purposes of business development, direct marketing or recruitment in the following ways:
When we collect it | What we collect or use | How we use it | How long we hold it for |
When you fill in a form on our website or contact us, for example, by email or telephone. | Your name, job title, employing organisation, contact details (and anything else relevant to your enquiry). | To fulfil your request. To deal with your enquiry and to provide you with an effective service. | We will hold this information for twelve months, unless we select your information for the purposes of business development or direct marketing, see below. |
When you make an enquiry directly with us, or via an intermediary, or are referred to us, or you have interacted with us at any other time. Where you make your business details available in the public domain. When we license or purchase your data from reputable third party business development list / prospecting service providers. If you are or have been a client or prospective client of ours, we retain your details for future business development. | Your name, job title, employing organisation, and contact details. | For business development: Business development is a legitimate interest, and we may contact you by telephone, email or social media to make you aware of our business propositions and services, where we believe this is relevant to you. For business-to-business direct marketing: We rely on legitimate interest to send business marketing emails to promote our brands and services, where we believe this is relevant to you in your organisation, unless you have opted out of this. We will include a link in each email that you can use to opt-out of email marketing at any time. For staff training purposes. | For three years after your last interaction with us. Note that if you opt-out of direct marketing by email, we will retain your email address to comply with your request. |
When you apply for a job directly with us, or via an intermediary, or are recommended to us, or otherwise where you share with us or make your details available to us, for example, via LinkedIn. | Your name, job title, contact details, Curriculum Vitae and third-party references. | For recruitment: To assess suitability of your skills, experience and job requirements for our job vacancies. To contact you about recruitment and to administer the recruitment process. For staff training purposes. | For unsuccessful candidates, one year after your last interaction with us, or six years after you leave your role with us. |
You visit the We Are Futures website. | In accordance with our cookie policy, we use cookies and digital identifiers to track sessions on our website, recognise you as a returning user, track pages you visit, content you download, links clicked and to record your interaction with the website. | To manage visitor sessions on our website and enable us to monitor and improve the functionality and performance of the website. To help us understand which content is most relevant to you and to understand which types of content are most viewed or downloaded. | According to your cookie consent settings and our cookie policy. |
Lawful basis for processing
We rely on the following lawful bases for our processing:
Consent | · to send electronic marketing to individual subscribers, where we do not rely on ‘soft opt-in’. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before sending electronic marketing. · for photography, video or audio recording of identifiable individuals. · for publicity involving identifiable individuals. · by parent or legal guardian if processing personal data of a child. |
Legitimate Interest | · to send electronic marketing to corporate subscribers (unless you have opted out). · to carry out business development activity. · for profiling, segmenting and sampling our audiences. · for market research and staff training. · for recruitment. |
Contract | · to administer accounts and education initiatives. · to fulfil competitions and prize draws. · to manage recruitment applications. |
Legal obligation | · to comply with applicable laws and regulatory requirements. |
How we share your data
We do not sell your personal data. This means we do not transfer your personal data to third parties in exchange for payment for their own independent marketing or commercial use. We may share your personal data with sponsoring organisations where this is necessary to deliver a specific education initiative, competition or event in which you are participating. In these cases:
· the sharing will be explained to you at the point of collection,
· we will identify any sponsoring organisation,
· where required, we will obtain your consent before sharing personal data.
We do not permit sponsoring organisations to use personal data for their own marketing purposes, unless you have separately opted in to receive communications from them.
We share your personal data with selected third parties that we work with to process data. Under data protection legislation, these are known as Data Processors. We only share data with these third parties to process data for specific limited purposes and in compliance with a ‘Data Processing Contract’. Data processors we commonly work with are:
· our suppliers and contractors that enable us to provide website, app, data management, fulfilment or other technical services that we use to run National Schools Partnership, marketing activity, and our business services.
· analytics providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website, communications and content.
We may disclose your personal data to other third parties, in the following circumstances. Under data protection legislation, these are known as Data Controllers:
· where the purposes for processing are compatible, and only when we notify you with an additional privacy notice and ask for your consent to do so.
· if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case it is our legitimate interest to disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
· if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with a legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our terms of use.
We will keep your data within the UK or European Economic Area wherever possible. Where your data is processed outside of the UK, we will make sure that there is a lawful basis for the processing and mechanism for transfer using an ‘International Data Transfer Agreement’ or ‘Standard Contractual Clauses’; the processing is carried out under our instructions in compliance with a ‘Data Processing Contract’; and we require that all reasonable measures are used to keep your data securely protected.
How we keep your data secure
Your data is collected and stored using secure network connections and servers. We take all reasonable measures to keep your data secure using appropriate physical, electronic and organisational controls and procedures. Our staff are trained and have limited access to your data. However, the transmission of any information via the internet is never completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site. You are responsible for keeping your username and password secure to ensure the data remains confidential.
We only keep data for as long as is necessary to ensure that we have appropriate auditable records of our business activities, or as and where required by law. Data is then securely erased.
Your rights
You have rights under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, including the right to request:
· Access to your own personal data.
· Any inaccurate data we hold about you is corrected.
· Data about you is deleted in certain situations depending on the lawful basis for processing.
· We stop using your personal data for certain purposes, including for direct marketing.
· Your profile is provided to you in a portable format.
· Any decisions about you are not made by wholly automated means.
Contacting us
If you wish to make a request in respect of your rights or have any questions or complaints about how we process your data, you should contact our Data Protection Officer.
Email: comms@wearefutures.com
Tel: 020 7198 8374
By post: Data Protection Officer, We Are Futures, 1 Paris Garden, London SE1 8ND
If you make a request to us, we will respond as quickly as we can, and within one month. There is no charge for this but under the legislation, we can refuse unreasonable requests.
Our role under data protection law and our company registration details
The Data Controller is We Are Futures Limited.
We Are Futures Limited is a company registered in the United Kingdom, company number 05082340 whose registered address is 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND.
We are registered with the regulator in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), registration number Z1403706.
In the event you are unsatisfied with the way we have dealt with your request you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Details of how to complain to the ICO can be found at https://ico.org.uk/concerns
About this Privacy Notice
This privacy notice is in addition to our terms & conditions which govern your use of our website.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. Please check back regularly to see any updates or changes.
This privacy notice was last updated July 2026