A story published in The Independent today, Wednesday 5 August, contains some misleading information. We wanted to share with you some key points from our Chief Executive, Mary Curnock Cook, which clarify UCAS’ policy on personal data. These have been published on our website and shared on social media.
- We never sell personal data.
- We do share anonymised data and information with organisations and researchers and publish extensive anonymised data sets openly on our website.
- We have welcomed the Social Mobility & Child Poverty Commission report and are working to provide our data through the secure Administrative Data Secure Networks, as recommended in the report.
- We are totally committed to supporting widening participation and fair access using our rich data sets and our Trustees are 100% supportive of our approach.
- We take our responsibilities to our customers very seriously. They tell us that they don’t want us to share their personal data without explicit consent. Where we have explicit consent, we share. If we don’t have explicit consent, we only share data which protects individuals from being identified.
If you have any questions about this, please email communications@ucas.ac.uk.