Privacy Policy and Cookies
This page explains our website privacy policy and how we will use and protect any information about you that you give when you visit our website.
The Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act, the school has a legal duty to protect any information collected from you. This website uses leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keeps strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.
What Information Does this Website Collect?
The school collects three kinds of information from visitors to this website:
feedback (through visitors emailing us)
comments (through visitors posting online comments)
parent satisfaction surveys (via optional online surveys)
site usage information, using cookies
If you email us from this website we will keep a record of your message for a maximum of three months after the conclusion of correspondence, for reference and audit purposes, after which it will be deleted.
If you post comments on any page of the site, your comments will be sent to one of our moderators to approve. Once approved, your comments will appear publicly on the website for all site visitors to see. They will remain there unless there is a request to delete them.
Parent satisfaction surveys are usually anonymous. If you include your personal details we may retain this information for a maximum of three months after the survey to use for correspondence, reference or audit purposes, after which it will be deleted.
Site usage statistics are anonymous. More information on the cookies we use can be found below.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve your browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features. Our cookies will not identify you personally as they contain anonymous information used for statistical analysis.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the provision of this website. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use our website. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and Performance cookies collect data for statistical purposes on how visitors use our website. This helps us to understand how you use the website; for example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services. These cookies don’t contain personal information. These cookies are optional and may be declined by clicking the ‘Decline’ link on our cookie banner.
Third Party Cookies
We may use third party services like YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram and Mailchimp. These services may use cookies to understand how users interact with their services. For more information about the cookies used by these third-party services, please refer to their own respective cookie and/or privacy policies.
Further Information
If you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact us using our Contact Us page.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, an updated version will be placed on this page.