Privacy and Cookies
Data Storage and Retention Policy
VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITES
When someone visits our website, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things like the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is collected in such a way that your identity remains anonymous throughout. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting any of our websites. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through any of our websites, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
If you complete any forms on any of our websites, including the contact form, we will process the information on behalf of the school applying our data policy and privacy notice. The information submitted will be transmitted to a contact within the school by email and stored in a secure database.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
SECURITY
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
USE OF COOKIES
A cookie is a small file saved to a user’s device when the user accesses certain websites. These cookies can then be read when a user moves around the site and each subsequent time the user visits the site, depending on the type of cookie used. Cookies are useful as they can allow a website to store information about a user, such as whether they are logged into a website or for analytical purposes to track visits to a website.
The following Cookies may be set when you visit one of our websites:
Google Analytics
Cookies: _ga, _gat, _gid
These cookies are part of Google Analytics and allow us to measure information about how visitors use our site. This includes identifying each unique user to our site and details of each page visited. _gat is used to limit the collection of analytics data on high traffic sites. These cookies will automatically expire after 2 years, 10 minutes, 1 day respectively.
For further information, please read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Twitter
If we display latest tweets on a page then we will use the official Twitter widget, this widget will add several cookies to your device. For more information view Twitter’s Privacy Policy online.
Facebook
If we display a Facebook like button or use the Facebook widget for displaying latest posts then Facebook will add some cookies to your device as per their Privacy Policy.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
(b) in Firefox (version 44) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
(c) in Chrome (version 48), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11);
(b) in Firefox (version 44), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
(c) in Chrome (version 48), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This notice does not cover 3rd party websites that we may link to within this site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.