Website Privacy Policy
Introduction
Hazeldown Primary School (“we / us / our”) control and operate this website (“Site”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of each user (“you / your”) of our Site. The following Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Use and Cookie Policy, set out the bases upon which any data or information that you provide to us or which we collect from you on our Site may be processed and used by us.
By using our Site, you confirm that you accept our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy, you must not use our Site.
Information Collected about You
Every time you visit our Site, information may automatically be collected about you. This may include technical information in respect of the Internet protocol (IP) address which you have used to connect your computer to the Internet, the browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform used by you to use our Site. This may also include information about your visit, including information about the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, and methods used to browse away from a webpage.
Such information may then be used by us:
to administer our Site and for internal operations, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and statistical purposes;
to improve our Site and ensure that the content on it is presented in the most effective manner;
as part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure; and
for internal record keeping and internal audit purposes.
We may share such information collected about you with selected third parties who deal with the operation, optimisation and improvement of our Site. This may include:
a contractor / sub-contractor / business appointed by us to deal with the design, running, operation and maintenance of our Site; and
an analytics and search engine provider, such as Google, who provide support to improve and optimise our Site.
Cookies
Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookie Policy.
Disclosure of Information
Except where stated otherwise, we will not sell, distribute, lease or otherwise make your information available to third parties in any way whatsoever unless we:
have your permission to do so;
are required by law to do so; or
are doing so to enforce our Terms of Use.
Security
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We will, however, take reasonable and appropriate technical measures to prevent unauthorised access to or disclosure of your information.
Your transmission of any information on or through our Site is, however, completely at your own risk. As such, we shall have no liability for disclosure of any of your information which arises due to an error in transmission or the fraudulent or negligent or other illegal acts of a third party, for example hacking.
For the avoidance of doubt, we will not transfer your information to a country outside the European Economic Area without your prior consent and without our having assessed whether your information will be adequately protected in such country.
Links
Where our Site contains links to other websites and / or resources provided by third parties, please note that we do not have any control over the contents of such websites or resources. These websites and resources will not be covered by this Privacy Policy and different terms will apply. We are not responsible or liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage which you or any other party may suffer should you provide any information whilst visiting these websites or resources.
Access to Information
You can request details of the information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee (currently £10) will be payable to us to meet our costs in providing you with such details. Please contact us using the contact details noted below to request such details.
Remove Information
Should you wish us to remove any information held by us about you then please contact us using the contact details noted below.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. Any such changes will be posted on this webpage. Please check this webpage frequently to ensure that you are happy with any such changes. You will be bound by terms contained in the Privacy Policy which is in force at the time when you visit our Site.