Privacy & Cookie Policy

Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Introduction

This notice is to help parents understand how and why we collect your child's personal information

and what we do with that information. It also explains the decisions that you can make about your

child's information.

We are giving you this notice because you are able to exercise your child's data protection rights on

their behalf. When your child is older (usually when they reach the age of 12) they will be

considered mature enough to exercise their own data protection rights.

If you have any questions about this notice please contact the school or discuss with your child’s Head of Year.

(2) What is personal information?

Personal information is information that the School collects about your child. This includes

information such as their date of birth and address as well as things like exam results, medical details

and behaviour records. The School may also record your child's religion or ethnic group. Photos and video recordings of your child are also personal information.

(3) What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a)   information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation);
(b)   information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services;
(c)   information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us;
(d)   information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters;
(e)   any other information that you choose to send to us.

(4) How and why does the school collect personal information?

The admissions forms which you complete give us lots of personal information. We use this information when we assess your child and then if your child joins the school.

Your child's old school also gives us information about them. We get information from your child, his/her teachers and other pupils.

Sometimes we get information from your child's doctor and other professionals where we need this to look after your child.

We collect this information to help the School run properly, safely and to let others know what we do here. Here are some examples:

We need to tell all appropriate members of staff if your child is allergic to something or might need extra help with some tasks.
We may film lessons, speech and language sessions or other school activities which we may use for training purposes, monitoring progress or for professional events.
We may need to report some of your child's information to the government. For example, we may need to tell the local authority that your child attends the School or let them know if we have any concerns about your child's welfare
If your child is from another country we have to make sure that they have the right to study in the UK. We might have to provide their information to UK Visas and Immigration.
Depending on where your child will go when they leave us we may need to provide their information to other schools, colleges and universities or potential employers. For example, we may share information about your child's exam results and provide references.
If your child takes public examinations we will need to share information about them with examination boards.
We may need to share information with the police or our legal advisers if something goes wrong or to help with an inquiry. For example, if one of your child's classmates is injured at School or if there is a burglary.
We may share some information with our insurance company to make sure that we have the insurance cover that we need.
We may share your child's academic and (where fair) their behaviour records with you, or their education guardian, so you can support their schooling.
We will only share your child's information with other people and organisations when we have a good reason to do so.
We will, where appropriate, monitor your child's use of email, the internet and mobile electronic devices e.g. iPads. If you would like more information about this you can read the Acceptable Use Policy or speak to your child's form tutor.
We may use photographs or videos of your child for the School's website and social media sites or prospectus to show prospective pupils what we do here as well as for teaching purposes. We may use photos for advertising and promotional purposes.
We publish our public exam results, sports fixtures and other news on the website and put articles and photographs in the local news to tell people about what we have been doing.
We may keep information about your child for a very long time or even indefinitely. This information is held by the Foundation and Alumni Office as a record of their time in school and as a means to communicate with them for as long as they wish. Information your child can expect to receive from the Foundation and Alumni Office will include fundraising communication, a copy of the Soundwave and Haremail, invitations to events and opportunities to meet up socially and professionally after they have left school. Email marketing will be limited to those who have expressed an interest in receiving such communication.

(5) Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.

We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website; keep track of items in your shopping basket; prevent fraud and increase website security. We will use the persistent cookies to: enable our website to recognise you when you visit; keep track of your preferences in relation to the use of our website.

We use StatCounter.com to analyse the use of this website. StatCounter.com generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. StatCounter.com will store this information. StatCounter.com's privacy policy is available at: http://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.

(6) Using your personal information

Personal information submitted to us via this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:
(a)   administer the website;
(b)   improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
(c)   enable your use of the services available on the website;
(d)   send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website;
(e)   send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
(f)   send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
(g)   send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
(h)   send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business [or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties] which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
(i)   provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
(j)   deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
(k)   keep the website secure and prevent fraud.

Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

(5) Disclosures

We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:
(a)   to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b)   in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
(c)   in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d)   to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
(e)   to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

(6) International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information which you provide may be transferred to countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.

(7) Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to the website).

(8) Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.

(9) Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to:
(a) the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00); and
(b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes, by sending an email to us. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

(10) Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

(11) Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

(12) Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to [email protected] or by post: Mary Hare School, Arlington Manor, Snelsmore Common, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 3BQ.

(13) Data controller

The data controller responsible in respect of the information collected on this website is Mary Hare.

Our data protection registration number is Z5713511.

Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

(1) Credit

This document was created using an SEQ Legal template.

(2) About cookies

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

(3) Cookies on this website

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

We may send to you the following cookies:
(1)   StatCounter.com
(2)   Google Analytics
(3)   Cookie Consent
(4)    Drupal

(4) How we use cookies

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:
(1)   to recognise your computer when you visit our website;
(2)   to track you as you navigate our website, and to enable the use of the on our website;
(3)   to improve the website’s usability;
(4)   to analyse the use of our website;
(5)   in the administration of this website;
(6)   to prevent fraud and improve the security of the website;
(7)   to personalise our website for you.

(5) Third party cookies

When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies.

Our service providers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:
(1)   to track your browser across multiple websites;
(2)   to build a profile of your web surfing;
(3)   to target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

In addition, we use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

(7) Blocking cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
(1) in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector;
(2) in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

(8) Deleting cookies

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:
(1) in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
(2) in Firefox, you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you “clear private data” (this setting can be changed by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Settings” in the “Private Data” box) and then clicking “Clear private data” in the “Tools” menu.

Doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

(9) Contact us

This website is owned and operated by Mary Hare.

If you have any questions about our cookies or this cookies policy, please contact us by email to [email protected], by telephone to 01635 244200 or by post to Mary Hare School, Arlington Manor, Snelsmore Common, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 3BQ.

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