Privacy Policy: Ascension Alternative Provision Ltd.     

About Ascension

Ascension Alternative Provision Ltd. (AAP) provides an alternative environment for young people aged 11-19, who struggle with mainstream education.

AAP offers a dynamic, engaging, and effective pathway for young people who are NEET, helping them develop skills, gain confidence, and transition into further education or employment.

AAP provides a flexible, needs-led, and inclusive approach, ensuring that those with EHCPs and additional needs receive tailored support. For those whose needs are beyond our scope, we are committed to working with other services and alternative provisions to find the best solution for each young person.

Through hands-on learning in Music Production, DJing, Digital Media, Cookery, Fitness and Wellbeing we build confidence, resilience and employability skills. 

Our bespoke approach offering mentoring, work experience, and tailored pathways back into employment or education. By empowering young people to tap into their creativity, self-expression, and transferable skills we help young people unlock their potential and take control of their futures.

Privacy policy

At Ascension Alternative Provision Ltd., we care about the importance of your personal data and privacy. This Privacy Policy will explain how we collect and process your personal data. Your data will be processed in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and  

Who we are:

Company name: Ascension Alternative Provision Ltd.

Email address: info@ascension-ap.co.uk

Telephone number: 01279 964157

Our Data Controller

Name:  Techwyse

Email: info@techwyse.support

Data protection officer

Name: Tim Sewell

Email: info@ascension-ap.co.uk

Information we collect and use

Our company collects the following information:

  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type, and usage data.

  • Other Information: any additional personal data necessary for providing our services or fulfilling legal obligations.

The legal basis for processing (how we use your personal information). Here at Ascension Alternative Provision Ltd., we collect and process your data so that we can:

  • Provide our services: enabling access to our products and services, account management, and customer support.

  • For research purposes

  • For legal compliance: fulfilling tax, accounting, and other legal obligations.

How long will we keep your data?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity. If you request that we stop sending you marketing materials, we will keep a record of your contact details and appropriate information to enable us to comply with your request not to be contacted by us. We won’t keep any information that we don’t need.

 

Sharing personal information to third parties

In order to meet the purposes, we have described above, we may on some occasion need to share your personal information with other third parties. Those third parties will be:

  • Service Providers: [e.g. data storage providers]

 

Data subject rights

Ascension Alternative Provision Ltd. would like to make sure that you’re aware of your data rights and how to control your personal information. You have the following data subject rights:

  1. The right to be informed Clear information on data processing (free of charge).

  2. The right of access

  3. The right of rectification

  4. The right to be forgotten

  5. The right of portability

  6. The right to restrict processing

  7. The right to object

  8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive, either temporarily or permanently. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. The purpose of cookies is to make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier.  Our website uses cookies to record aggregated usage statistics through Google analytics. These cookies enable us: 

  • To estimate our audience size and usage pattern 

  • To speed up your searches 

  • To recognise you when you return to our sites. 

You may refuse to accept cookies by changing your internet browser settings. However, by doing so you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you when you visit our website. 

Links to other sites

Our website may contain links to third-party sites. This Privacy Policy applies only to our website, so we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any linked sites

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Business transfers

If ASCENSION ALTERNATIVE PROVISION LTD undergoes a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, we may transfer your data to the new owner. You will be notified of any such change and your rights regarding your data.

Right to complain

If you wish to file a complaint, please contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or visit their website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

Changes to this privacy policy

We regularly review and update this Privacy Policy in order to reflect the best practices and current laws and will update our policy on this webpage. This privacy policy was published on 11/07/2025 and last updated on 11/07/2025.