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Privacy Notice 

What is the purpose of this document?


This is the Privacy Notice applicable to the ‘Choose Audit’ Campaign Website run by us, RMP Enterprise Ltd (trading as ‘Higherin’). Higherin is the "data controller" of your information. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. You are being provided with this privacy notice because you are completing a registration on this website. It explains what personal information we collect, why we use your personal data, how long it will usually be retained for and the rights available to you under applicable UK data protection laws.


Section 1: Information we collect from you, and what we use it for


We collect the information you input on our registration form (all fields are mandatory), being your;


  • First name

  • Last name

  • Email address

  • Gender

  • Ethnicity

    • Gender and Ethnicity questions are asked for diversity monitoring and reporting purposes. This information will not be used to inform decisions about individual entrants/applicants.

  • Whether you are a School/College or University student

    • If School/College - what year of study

    • If University - your University, your graduation year and degree subject

  • Whether you require a visa or sponsorship to work in the UK (after completing your education)


We use the information necessary to administer your registration for the competition and your participation in it. We will use your email address to confirm receipt of your competition entry. Our lawful basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in providing information about the competition that you have registered for, and facilitating your participation.


If you are a prize winner, we will use your email address to notify you. The legal basis for doing so is that it is necessary in order to provide you with the service of awarding the prize.


If you are a winner, we may publish your first name and your geographical region. The legal basis for doing this is that we may be required to do so as a regulatory obligation applicable to prize promotions (CAP Code rule 8.28.5, administered by the Advertising Standards Authority).


Section 2: Data sharing


Why might you share my personal information with third parties?


If you give us your consent to do so, we will provide your personal data (as outlined in Section 1) to employers who are sponsoring the Choose Audit competition, namely; Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC. The legal basis on which we pass your personal data on to employers is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time, by emailing us (via hello@higherinacademy.com). Once shared, each employer will act as a Controller of the personal information it received and will process that information in accordance with its own privacy policy. It is important that you read the relevant employer’s privacy policy, which are available on their websites here; Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC.


If you give us your consent to do so, we will provide your personal data (as outlined in Section 1) to organisations who are sponsoring the Guide to Becoming Chartered competition, namely; ICAEW and ICAS. The legal basis on which we pass your personal data on to these organisations is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time, by emailing us (via hello@higherinacademy.com). Once shared, each organisation will act as a Controller of the personal information it received and will process that information in accordance with its own privacy policy. It is important that you read the relevant employer’s privacy policy, which are available on their websites here; ICAEW and ICAS.


If you are a winner, we may need to share the personal information to the prize provider to enable you to receive it. The provider may also be a data controller and will notify you of its own Privacy Notice if so.


We use third-party service providers to help us run the competition:


Typeform (https://www.typeform.com/) is our web form provider; so that we can capture your data and register your entry into the competition.


Instiller (https://instiller.co.uk/) is our email communications provider; so that we can send and track our emails to you in relation to the competition.


All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.


Section 3: Data security


We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. Those acting on our behalf are required to only process your personal information on our instructions, and are subject to appropriate confidentiality obligations.


We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.


Section 4: Data retention


How long will you use my information for?


We will retain your personal data for a period of 3 months, from the website closing date (1st September 2027). After this period, we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy.


Section 5: Rights of access, correction, erasure, and restriction


Your rights in connection with personal information


Under certain circumstances you have the right to:


  • Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

  • Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

  • Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

  • Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

  • Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

  • Request the transfer of certain personal information to another party. Where the right to data portability applies, you can ask us to provide certain personal information to you or another organisation in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

  • Withdraw your consent. Where we rely on your consent to process your information, you can withdraw that consent at any time by emailing us at hello@higherinacademy.com. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdrew it.


Section 6: How to contact us


If you want to request information about our privacy policy in relation to the ‘Choose Audit’ Campaign Website you can email hello@higherinacademy.com or write to:


Higherin
Piano House
9 Brighton Terrace
Brixton
London
SW9 8DJ


Feel free to contact us if you have any concerns or questions about how we handle your data and personal information.


Section 7: How to complain


We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.


The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.