WhatWorked Education, an educational research company, are conducting this pilot study of WhatWorked Teachers, an online research platform.
The study is a collaboration between WhatWorked Education and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), who are funding this study.
This privacy notice is for the primary school settings and their staff which are participating in the Teacher-Led Micro-RCTs for Educational Evaluation Feasibility Study. It sets out the ways in which WhatWorked Education gathers, uses, stores and shared your data. It also sets out how long we keep your data and what rights you have in relation to your data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
For the purposes of this privacy notice, WhatWorked Education is the Data Controller as defined in GDPR. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, and our registration number is: ZB005201.
What is our legal basis for processing your data?
Personal data will be processed under Article 6 (1) (e) (Processing
necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest)
of the General Data Protection Regulation (2018).
Ethical Approval
The study has received ethical approval from WhatWorked
Education’s Ethics Committee.
If you have any questions or complaints about
this research, please contact the evaluation team (support@whatworkedteachers.com)
in the first instance,
or WhatWorked Education’s Data Protection Officer at wayne.harrison@
whatworked.education.
We process data to evaluate the feasibility, perceived
impact, and to prepare a report about the study.
During the period of the evaluation, no one outside the
evaluation team will have access to research data. As such, WhatWorked
Education will act as data controller and Data Processor for the data named
above throughout the evaluation period and will make decisions about how and
what personal data is used. Anonymous data will be kept indefinitely by
WhatWorked Education and may be used for teaching, presentations and
publication.
WhatWorked Education takes information security extremely
seriously and has implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures
to protect personal data. Access to information is restricted on a need-to-know
basis and security arrangements are regularly reviewed to ensure their
continued suitability. Your personal information will not be transferred
outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
All individually identifiable data held by WhatWorked
Education will be destroyed 2 years after the end of the study (2027). Anonymised
will be retained indefinitely.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have
rights in relation to your data, including a right of access to the data, a
right to rectification, erasure (in certain circumstances), restriction, objection
or portability (in certain circumstances).
You are free to withdraw from the study at any time during
the course of the study prior to October 2025 (information already collected
will be retained). In this event, please contact us directly using the details
below.
If you are unhappy with the way in which WhatWorked Education
has handled your personal data, we ask that you contact us in the first
instance, to enable us to resolve your concerns. If you remain dissatisfied,
you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office
(ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (ww.ico.org.uk).
We may change this privacy notice from time to time. If we
make any significant changes in the way we treat your personal information, we
will make this clear by contacting your setting and ensuring they provide you
with an updated version of this privacy notice.
Post: 28 Toll House Road, Durham, DH1 4HU
Email: support@whatworkedteachers.com
Telephone: 07563635982
