Compass+ is a free digital product from The Careers & Enterprise Company with features that help you to measure impact and inform continuous improvement of your careers provision.
Compass+ enables you to manage, track, evaluate and report on your institution’s careers provision at individual learner level.
To do this, we use learner data from your institutions’ Management Information System (MIS) pulled through to Compass+ by a digital platform called Xporter.
Xporter is managed by our specialist partner Community Brands, most commonly known as Groupcall. They provide data solutions for schools. We use Groupcall’s Xporter platform to manage the data feed between schools’ Management Information Systems and Compass+.
This data is highly sensitive, we take keeping this data safe very seriously.
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Rigorous information security policies and processes. CEC is ISO 27001 compliant, which means all our information security policies and procedures are externally audited to ensure they meet industry standards and are fully adhered to. These policies and procedures cover things like:
- how we securely store and backup your data
- how we control access to your data
- how long we retain your data
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Using industry standard technology. CEC uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store Compass+ data. This means we benefit from cutting edge security systems, similar to those used by large corporations and banks. Using AWS allows us to constantly monitor our systems and our data and to ensure any threats are rapidly addressed
- Regular security testing. As an extra precaution, we commission an independent IT security company to carry out annual security tests.
GDPR Compliance
We are committed to processing your data in a way that is compliant with all relevant legislation. We are currently updating our documentation in this area and will be adding information about this to the Help Centre soon.
Data quality issues
Synchronising with your MIS through Xporter can be technically very challenging and can sometimes lead to data issues in Compass+. Please see our article 'Possible data synchronisation issues between your MIS and Compass+' for more information.
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