Privacy Policy
The Schools' Aerospace Careers Programme (SACP)
Registered charity in England and Wales, charity number 1190721
9 Vyne Road, Basingstoke, RG21 5NU
Last reviewed: 1 September 2026
The short version
This page explains what happens to any information you give us through this website. In brief:
- - The only personal details we collect are the ones you choose to give us, through the contact form, the Register Interest form and our event feedback forms.
- - We use them to deal with your enquiry and to improve what we do in schools. Nothing else.
- - We do not sell information about anyone, and we do not use it for marketing or to build profiles of visitors.
- - We use Google Analytics to see how the site is used, but only if you accept analytics cookies when you first visit.
- - Some pages include YouTube videos and a Google map. Google may set its own cookies when these load.
- - We do not ask students for contact details, and we do not contact students unless they get in touch with us first.
- - You can ask to see, correct or delete anything we hold about you at any time by emailing info@aerospacecareersprogramme.co.uk.
The rest of this page gives the detail.
Who we are
This website is run by The Schools' Aerospace Careers Programme (SACP), a registered charity in England and Wales (charity number 1190721). Our registered address is 9 Vyne Road, Basingstoke, RG21 5NU, and our website address is aerospacecareersprogramme.co.uk.
The SACP is the data controller for personal information collected through this site. In plain terms, we decide what is collected and what it is used for, and we are responsible for looking after it. If you have a question about this policy or about your information, email info@aerospacecareersprogramme.co.uk.
What this policy covers
This policy covers information collected through aerospacecareersprogramme.co.uk, together with any email you send us as a result of using the site. It does not cover:
- - information held by your school or college;
- - information collected by the organisations we link to, each of which has its own privacy policy.
What we collect and why
Contact form
The form on our Contact Us page asks for your name, your email address, your school or organisation (if relevant), a subject line and your message. We use these details to read your enquiry and reply to you, and for nothing else. Messages reach us by email, and a copy is also stored on the website.
If you email us directly instead, we treat your message in the same way.
Register Interest form
Schools and colleges that would like to host or attend a Roadshow can tell us through the form on our Register Interest page. It asks for your name, your job title or role, your school email address and, if you choose to give it, a telephone number; your school's name and postcode; whether your school has hosted or attended an SACP Roadshow before; and what you have in mind: year groups, approximate number of students, when you would like to host, whether you could host students from neighbouring schools, and anything else you want to tell us. You also confirm that you have the authority to register your school's interest and that we may contact you about the Roadshow programme.
We use these details to follow up your registration and arrange a visit if one goes ahead, and to keep in touch with you about the Roadshow programme. As with the contact form, your message reaches us by email and a copy is stored on the website.
Feedback after our presentations
After a Roadshow or school visit we invite students, teachers and Supporting Companies to tell us what worked and what did not, using an online feedback form. The forms run on Google Forms and are displayed through a service called Formfacade.
The forms ask for the name of your school or organisation. Giving your own name is optional. Where a name is given, we may attach it to a comment in our records or, occasionally, in published material. The forms do not ask for email addresses or any other contact details.
Ask Your School
The Ask Your School tool helps students write a letter asking a teacher or careers lead to invite the SACP to their school. Everything you type stays on your own device. The tool builds the letter for you to download or copy, and none of the details are sent to us or stored on the website. We keep statistics about how the tool is used, limited to the school name, which contain nothing that could identify you personally.
Cookies and analytics
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. We use them in two ways.
A small number of cookies are needed for the site to work, including the one that remembers your cookie choices. These are set automatically when you visit.
We also use Google Analytics so that we can improve the site. It counts visits and page views and tells us, in broad terms, where visitors are and what devices they use. Analytics cookies are only set if you accept them in the cookie banner on your first visit. If you decline, Google Analytics does not run. The reports show us patterns of use, not individuals, and we do not use them to identify anyone.
Videos from YouTube
Some pages include videos hosted on YouTube. When you view a page containing a video, YouTube and its parent company Google may set cookies and collect information about you in the same way as if you had visited youtube.com directly. We do not control this. YouTube's own privacy notice explains what it collects.
Interactive schools map
The map of schools we have visited is provided by Google Maps. When the map loads, Google may set cookies and collect information about your device in the same way as if you had visited Google Maps directly. Google's privacy notice explains what it collects.
Our legal basis for using your information
Data protection law requires us to have a lawful basis for each use of personal information. Ours are:
- - Replying to messages and registrations of interest sent through our forms or by email, arranging any presentations that follow and keeping in touch with schools that register interest: our legitimate interest in responding to people who contact us about our work.
- - Reviewing and improving our presentations using feedback: your consent, which you give by choosing to complete the form.
- - Understanding how the website is used through Google Analytics: your consent, which you give through the cookie banner.
We do not use personal information for marketing, and we do not use it for profiling or for automated decision-making.
Who we share your information with
We do not sell personal information, and we do not pass it to other organisations for their own purposes. The following organisations process information on our behalf, under our instructions and in line with UK data protection law:
- - Google LLC, which runs Google Forms, Google Analytics, YouTube and Google Maps.
- - MailRecipe LLC, which operates Formfacade, the service that displays our feedback forms and passes the responses to Google Forms.
- - DevelopMyWeb Ltd, which built this website and hosts it.
We would only disclose information beyond this if the law required us to.
Where your information is stored
Some of these organisations are based in the United States or hold information on servers outside the UK. Where personal information leaves the UK, we rely on safeguards recognised under UK data protection law, including the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the UK-US Data Bridge) and the International Data Transfer Agreement, so that it remains protected to UK standards.
How long we keep it
- - Messages sent through the contact form or the Register Interest form, including the copies stored on the website, and any email correspondence: up to two years after our last contact with you, unless we need to keep them longer to deal with an ongoing matter or to meet a legal obligation.
- - Feedback responses: up to three years. After that we remove any names and keep the anonymised feedback for our records and for improving the programme.
- - Google Analytics data: fourteen months, the retention period set in our Google Analytics account, after which user-level and event-level data is deleted automatically.
Students and young people
Our programme is for students aged 14 to 18, so some of the people who use this site and complete our feedback forms will be under 18. We keep what we collect from students to a minimum. The feedback form asks for the name of your school and, if you choose to give it, your own name, and nothing else. We do not ask students for contact details, and we do not contact students unless they contact us first. If you are under 18 and you use the contact form, we will use your details only to reply to you.
If you are a parent, carer or teacher and you have a concern about anything a student has sent us, please contact us using the details at the end of this page.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to:
- - ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
- - ask us to correct anything that is wrong or incomplete;
- - ask us to delete your information;
- - ask us to limit how we use it;
- - object to our using it where we rely on legitimate interests;
- - withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent. This does not affect anything done with your information before you withdrew it.
To use any of these rights, email info@aerospacecareersprogramme.co.uk or write to us at the address below. We may need to confirm your identity before we act. We will respond within one month. If a request is complex we may need up to two months more, and we will tell you if that is the case.
How to make a complaint
If you think we have handled your information wrongly, please tell us. Email info@aerospacecareersprogramme.co.uk with "Data protection complaint" as the subject, or write to us at the address below. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and look into it without undue delay. We will then tell you the outcome and what we have done as a result.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent regulator for data protection:
- - Website: ico.org.uk
- - Helpline: 0303 123 1113
The ICO will normally expect you to have raised your complaint with us first, and we would welcome the chance to put things right.
Security
We take reasonable steps to keep your information secure. Connections to the site are encrypted (HTTPS), and the site is hosted and maintained by DevelopMyWeb Ltd. Access to messages and feedback is limited to the people at the SACP who need it. No online system is completely secure, but we work with the organisations that process information for us to keep the risks as low as we reasonably can.
Links to other websites
This site links to our Supporting Companies and to many other organisations, such as universities and apprenticeship providers. Their websites have their own privacy policies, which we do not control, so please read them before you give any of those sites your information.
Changes to this policy
We review this policy regularly and update it when the way we use information changes, for example when we add a new feature to the site. The date at the top shows when it was last reviewed.
Contact
The Schools' Aerospace Careers Programme
9 Vyne Road
Basingstoke
RG21 5NU