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Data Protection and Privacy

 Great and Little Shelford CE (A) Primary School

Privacy Notice - June 2022

Pupils

Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data that we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to individuals where we are processing their personal data. This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about pupils.

We, Great and Little Shelford C of E (A) Primary School, are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data protection law.  Our data protection officer is Donna Flynn (ICT Service). (see ‘Contact us’ below).

The personal data we hold

Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (when appropriate) about pupils includes, but is not restricted to:

·      Contact details, contact preferences, date of birth, identification documents

·      Results of internal assessments and externally set tests

·      Pupil and curricular records

·      Characteristics, such as ethnic background, eligibility for free school meals, or special educational needs

·      Exclusion information

·      Details of any medical conditions, including physical and mental health

·      Attendance information

·      Safeguarding information

·      Details of any support received, including care packages, plans and support providers

·      Photographs

·      CCTV images captured on the school site by the school's CCTV system

We may also hold data about pupils that we have received from other organisations, including other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education.

Why we use this data

We use this data to:

·      Support pupil learning

·      Communicate with parents and carers

·      Monitor and report on pupil progress

·      Provide appropriate pastoral care

·      Protect pupil welfare

·      Assess the quality of our services

·      Administer admissions waiting lists

·      Carry out research

·      Comply with the law regarding data sharing

 

Our legal basis for using this data

We only collect and use pupils’ personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we process it where:

·      We need to comply with a legal obligation

·      We need it to perform an official task in the public interest

 

Less commonly, we may also process pupils’ personal data in situations where:

·      We have obtained consent to use it in a certain way

·      We need to protect the individual’s vital interests (or someone else’s interests)

 

Where we have obtained consent to use pupils’ personal data, this consent can be withdrawn at any time. We will make this clear when we ask for consent, and explain how consent can be withdrawn.

Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using pupils’ personal data overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify our use of this data.

Collecting this information

While the majority of information we collect about pupils is mandatory, there is some information that can be provided voluntarily.

Whenever we seek to collect information from you or your child, we make it clear whether providing it is mandatory or optional. If it is mandatory, we will explain the possible consequences of not complying.

How we store this data

We keep personal information about pupils while they are attending our school. We may also keep it beyond their attendance at our school if this is necessary in order to comply with our legal obligations. Our record retention schedule sets out how long we keep information about pupils. A copy of the record retention schedule is available from the school office on request.

Data sharing

We do not share information about pupils with any third party without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.

Where it is legally required or necessary (and it complies with data protection law) we may share personal information about pupils with:

·      Our local authority – to meet our legal obligations to share certain information with it, such as safeguarding concerns and exclusions

·      The Department for Education

·      The pupil’s family and representatives

·      Educators and examining bodies

·      Our regulator

·      Suppliers and service providers – to enable them to provide the service we have contracted them for

·      Financial organisations

·      Central and local government

·      Our auditors

·      Survey and research organisations

·      Health authorities

·      Security organisations

·      Health and social welfare organisations

·      Professional advisers and consultants

·      Charities and voluntary organisations

·      Police forces, courts, tribunals

·      Professional bodies

National Pupil Database

We are required to provide information about pupils to the Department for Education as part of statutory data collections such as the school census.

Some of this information is then stored in the National Pupil Database (NPD), which is owned and managed by the Department and provides evidence on school performance to inform research.

The database is held electronically so it can easily be turned into statistics. The information is securely collected from a range of sources including schools, local authorities and exam boards.

The Department for Education may share information from the NPD with other organisations which promote children’s education or wellbeing in England. Such organisations must agree to strict terms and conditions about how they will use the data.

For more information, see the Department’s webpage on how it collects and shares research data.

You can also contact the Department for Education with any further questions about the NPD.

Transferring data internationally

Where we transfer personal data to a country or territory outside United Kingdom, we will do so in accordance with data protection law.

Parents and pupils’ rights regarding personal data

Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal information that the school holds about them.

Parents/carers can make a request with respect to their child’s data where the child is not considered mature enough to understand their rights over their own data (usually under the age of 12), or where the child has provided consent.

Parents also have the right to make a subject access request with respect to any personal data the school holds about them.

If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you or your child, we will:

·      Give you a description of it

·      Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for

·      Explain where we got it from, if not from you or your child

·      Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with

·      Let you know whether any automated decision-making is being applied to the data, and any consequences of this

·      Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form

 

Individuals also have the right for their personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances.

If you would like to make a request please contact our data protection officer.

·      Donna Flynn dpo@theictservice.org.uk

 Parents/carers also have a legal right to access to their child’s educational record. To request access, please contact Mr. Christopher Grey (Headteacher).

Other rights

Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe, including the right to:

·      Object to the use of personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress

·      Prevent it being used to send direct marketing

·      Object to decisions being taken by automated means (by a computer or machine, rather than by a person)

·      In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing

·      Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations

 

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer.

Complaints

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact our data protection officer.

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

·      Report a concern online at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

·      Call 0303 123 1113

·      Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 

Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer:

·       Donna Flynn dpo@theictservice.org.uk

·       This notice is based on the Department for Education’s model privacy notice for pupils, amended for parents and to reflect the way we use data in this school.  

 

Great and Little Shelford CE (A) Primary School

Privacy Notice for Applicants to Advertised Roles

October 2023

 Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data that we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to individuals where we are processing their personal data.

This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about individuals we employ, or otherwise engage, to work at our school.

We, Great and Little Shelford CofE (A) Primary School, are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data protection law.

Our data protection officer is Donna Flynn (see ‘Contact us’ below).

 

The personal data we hold about applicants

We process data relating to applicants for advertised vacancies. Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (when appropriate) about you includes, but is not restricted to the information contained in application documentation, submitted by candidates. This includes, but is not restricted to:

  • Contact details
  • Previous / current salary
  • National Insurance number
  • Copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a cover letter or as part of the application process
  • Qualifications and employment records, including work history, job titles, working hours, training records and professional memberships
  • Outcomes of any disciplinary and/or grievance procedures
  • Absence data
  • CCTV footage
  • Data about your use of the school’s information and communications system
  • Employment history
  • Any disclosures – as required by employment law
  • Other information willingly shared by the candidate on the application form and covering letter

Equality and Diversity Monitoring information, which is contained in a section of the application (not viewed prior to shortlisting):

  • Ethnicity
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Gender
  • Personal relationship
  • Religion or belief
  • Disability

 

Why we use this data

The purpose of processing this data is to help us run the school, including to:

  • Facilitate safe recruitment, as part of our safeguarding obligations towards pupils
  • Inform our recruitment and retention policies
  • Allow better financial modelling and planning
  • Enable equality and diversity monitoring
  • Improve the management of workforce data across the sector 

 

Our lawful basis for using this data

We only collect and use personal information about you when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use it where we need to:

  •      Comply with a legal obligation
  •      Carry out a task in the public interest

Less commonly, we may also use personal information about you where:

  •      You have given us consent to use it in a certain way
  •      We need to protect your vital interests (or someone else’s interests)

Where you have provided us with consent to use your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time. We will make this clear when requesting your consent, and explain how you go about withdrawing consent if you wish to do so.

Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using personal information about you overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify the school’s use of your data.

 

Collecting this information

While the majority of information we collect from you is mandatory, there is some information that you can choose whether or not to provide to us.

Whenever we seek to collect information from you, we make it clear whether you must provide this information (and if so, what the possible consequences are of not complying), or whether you have a choice.

 

How we store this data

We create and maintain an recruitment file for each candidate who is then appointed. This would then be held under the Privacy Notice for Staff. For candidates not appointed, this information is held for 6 months, before safe disposal.

 

Data sharing

We do not share information about you with any third party without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.

Where it is legally required, or necessary (and it complies with data protection law) we may share personal information about you with:

  • Our local authority – to meet our legal obligations to share certain information with it, such as safeguarding concerns and information about Headteacher performance
  • The Department for Education
  • Your family or representatives
  • Our regulator – Ofsted and SIAMs
  • Central and local government
  • Health authorities
  • Security organisations
  • Health and social welfare organisations
  • Professional advisers and consultants
  • Police forces, courts, tribunals
  • Professional bodies
  • Employment and recruitment agencies

 

Transferring data internationally

Where we transfer personal data to a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, we will do so in accordance with data protection law.

 

Your rights

How to access personal information we hold about you

Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal information that the school holds about them.

If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you, we will:

  •      Give you a description of it
  •      Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for
  •      Explain where we got it from, if not from you
  •      Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with
  •      Let you know whether any automated decision-making is being applied to the data, and any consequences of this
  •      Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form

You may also have the right for your personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances.

If you would like to make a request, please contact our data protection officer.

Your other rights regarding your data

Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe. You have the right to:

  •      Object to the use of your personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress
  •      Prevent your data being used to send direct marketing
  •      Object to the use of your personal data for decisions being taken by automated means (by a computer or machine, rather than by a person)
  •      In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing
  •      Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer.

 

 

Complaints

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact our data protection officer.

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

  •      Report a concern online at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
  •      Call 0303 123 1113
  •      Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 

Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer:

 

Great and Little Shelford CE (A) Primary School

Privacy Notice - June 2022

Parents, Carers and Emergency Contacts

Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data that we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to individuals where we are processing their personal data. This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about parents, carers or named emergency contacts.

We, Great and Little Shelford C of E (A) Primary School, are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data protection law.  Our data protection officer is Donna Flynn (ICT Service). (see ‘Contact us’ below).

The personal data we hold

Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (when appropriate) about parents, carers and emergency contacts includes, but is not restricted to:

  •       Contact details, contact preferences, identification documents
  •       Details of any support received, including care packages, plans and support providers
  •       CCTV images captured on the school site by the school's CCTV system

We may also hold data about parents that we have received from other organisations, including other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education.

Why we use this data

We use this data to:

  •       Communicate with parents and carers
  •       Provide appropriate pastoral care
  •       Protect pupil welfare
  •       Assess the quality of our services
  •       Administer admissions waiting lists
  •       Carry out research
  •       Comply with the law regarding data sharing

 

Our legal basis for using this data

We only collect and use parent, carer and emergency contacts’ personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we process it where:

  •       We need to comply with a legal obligation
  •       We need it to perform an official task in the public interest

 

Less commonly, we may also process this personal data in situations where:

  •       We have obtained consent to use it in a certain way
  •       We need to protect the individual’s vital interests (or someone else’s interests)

Where we have obtained consent to use personal data, this consent can be withdrawn at any time. We will make this clear when we ask for consent, and explain how consent can be withdrawn.

Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using personal data overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify our use of this data.

Collecting this information

While the majority of information we collect about parents, carers and emergency contacts is mandatory, there is some information that can be provided voluntarily.

Whenever we seek to collect information from you, we make it clear whether providing it is mandatory or optional. If it is mandatory, we will explain the possible consequences of not complying.

How we store this data

We keep personal information about parents, carers and emergency contacts while the pupils they are associated with are attending our school. We may also keep it beyond attendance at our school, if this is necessary in order to comply with our legal obligations. Our record retention schedule sets out how long we keep information about pupils. A copy of the record retention schedule is available from the school office on request.

Data sharing

We do not share information about parents, carers or emergency contacts with any third party without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.

Where it is legally required or necessary (and it complies with data protection law) we may share personal information with:

  •       Our local authority – to meet our legal obligations to share certain information with it, such as safeguarding concerns and exclusions
  •       The Department for Education
  •       The pupil’s family and representatives
  •       Educators and examining bodies
  •       Our regulator
  •       Suppliers and service providers – to enable them to provide the service we have contracted them for
  •       Financial organisations
  •       Central and local government
  •       Our auditors
  •       Survey and research organisations
  •       Health authorities
  •       Security organisations
  •       Health and social welfare organisations
  •       Professional advisers and consultants
  •       Charities and voluntary organisations
  •       Police forces, courts, tribunals
  •       Professional bodies

Transferring data internationally

Where we transfer personal data to a country or territory outside United Kingdom, we will do so in accordance with data protection law.

Parents and pupils’ rights regarding personal data

Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal information that the school holds about them.

Parents, carers or emergency contacts can make a request with respect to their data.

If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you, we will:

  •       Give you a description of it
  •       Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for
  •       Explain where we got it from, if not from you or your child
  •       Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with
  •       Let you know whether any automated decision-making is being applied to the data, and any consequences of this
  •       Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form

 

Individuals also have the right for their personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances.

If you would like to make a request please contact our data protection officer.

  •       Donna Flynn dpo@theictservice.org.uk

Other rights

Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe, including the right to:

  •       Object to the use of personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress
  •       Prevent it being used to send direct marketing
  •       Object to decisions being taken by automated means (by a computer or machine, rather than by a person)
  •       In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing
  •       Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer.

Complaints

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact our data protection officer.

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

  •       Report a concern online at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
  •       Call 0303 123 1113
  •       Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 

Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer:

This notice is based on the Department for Education’s model privacy notice.  

 

Great and Little Shelford CE (A) Primary School

Privacy Notice for Staff and Governors

June 2022

 

Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data that we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to individuals where we are processing their personal data.

This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about individuals we employ, or otherwise engage, to work at our school.

We, Great and Little Shelford CofE (A) Primary School, are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data protection law.

Our data protection officer is Donna Flynn (see ‘Contact us’ below).

 

The personal data we hold

We process data relating to those we employ, or otherwise engage, to work at our school. Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (when appropriate) about you includes, but is not restricted to:

  •      Contact details
  •      Date of birth, marital status and gender
  •      Next of kin and emergency contact numbers
  •      Salary, annual leave, pension and benefits information
  •      Bank account details, payroll records, National Insurance number and tax status information
  •      Recruitment information, including copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process
  •      Qualifications and employment records, including work history, job titles, working hours, training records and professional memberships
  •      Performance information
  •      Outcomes of any disciplinary and/or grievance procedures
  •      Absence data
  •      Copy of driving licence
  •      Photographs
  •      CCTV footage
  •      Data about your use of the school’s information and communications system

 

We may also collect, store and use information about you that falls into "special categories" of more sensitive personal data. This includes information about (where applicable):

  •      Race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions
  •      Trade union membership
  •      Health, including any medical conditions, and sickness records

 

Why we use this data

The purpose of processing this data is to help us run the school, including to:

  •      Enable you to be paid
  •      Facilitate safe recruitment, as part of our safeguarding obligations towards pupils
  •      Support effective performance management
  •      Inform our recruitment and retention policies
  •      Allow better financial modelling and planning
  •      Enable ethnicity and disability monitoring
  •      Improve the management of workforce data across the sector
  •      Support the work of the School Teachers’ Review Body

 

Our lawful basis for using this data

We only collect and use personal information about you when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use it where we need to:

  •      Fulfil a contract we have entered into with you
  •      Comply with a legal obligation
  •      Carry out a task in the public interest

Less commonly, we may also use personal information about you where:

  •      You have given us consent to use it in a certain way
  •      We need to protect your vital interests (or someone else’s interests)

Where you have provided us with consent to use your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time. We will make this clear when requesting your consent, and explain how you go about withdrawing consent if you wish to do so.

Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using personal information about you overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify the school’s use of your data.

 

Collecting this information

While the majority of information we collect from you is mandatory, there is some information that you can choose whether or not to provide to us.

Whenever we seek to collect information from you, we make it clear whether you must provide this information (and if so, what the possible consequences are of not complying), or whether you have a choice.

 

How we store this data

We create and maintain an employment file for each staff member. The information contained in this file is kept secure and is only used for purposes directly relevant to your employment.

Once your employment with us has ended, we will retain this file and delete the information in it in accordance with our record retention schedule. You can request a copy of the retention schedule from the school office.

 

Data sharing

We do not share information about you with any third party without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.

Where it is legally required, or necessary (and it complies with data protection law) we may share personal information about you with:

  •      Our local authority – to meet our legal obligations to share certain information with it, such as safeguarding concerns and [maintained schools only] information about Headteacher performance and staff dismissals
  •      The Department for Education
  •      Your family or representatives
  •      Educators and examining bodies
  •      Our regulator [specify as appropriate e.g. Ofsted, Independent Schools Inspectorate]
  •      Suppliers and service providers – to enable them to provide the service we have contracted them for, such as payroll
  •      Financial organisations
  •      Central and local government
  •      Our auditors
  •      Survey and research organisations
  •      Trade unions and associations
  •      Health authorities
  •      Security organisations
  •      Health and social welfare organisations
  •      Professional advisers and consultants
  •      Charities and voluntary organisations
  •      Police forces, courts, tribunals
  •      Professional bodies
  •      Employment and recruitment agencies

 

Transferring data internationally

Where we transfer personal data to a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, we will do so in accordance with data protection law.

 

Your rights

How to access personal information we hold about you

Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal information that the school holds about them.

If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you, we will:

  •      Give you a description of it
  •      Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for
  •      Explain where we got it from, if not from you
  •      Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with
  •      Let you know whether any automated decision-making is being applied to the data, and any consequences of this
  •      Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form

You may also have the right for your personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances.

If you would like to make a request, please contact our data protection officer.

Your other rights regarding your data

Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe. You have the right to:

  •      Object to the use of your personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress
  •      Prevent your data being used to send direct marketing
  •      Object to the use of your personal data for decisions being taken by automated means (by a computer or machine, rather than by a person)
  •      In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing
  •      Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer.

 

Complaints

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact our data protection officer.

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

  •      Report a concern online at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
  •      Call 0303 123 1113
  •      Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 

Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer:

 

Great and Little Shelford CE (A) Primary School

Privacy Notice - June 2022

Visitors and Contractors

Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data that we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to individuals where we are processing their personal data. This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about parents, carers or named emergency contacts.

We, Great and Little Shelford C of E (A) Primary School, are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data protection law.  Our data protection officer is Donna Flynn (ICT Service). (see ‘Contact us’ below).

The personal data we hold

Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (when appropriate) Visitors and Contractors includes, but is not restricted to:

  •       Contact details, identification documents, qualifications
  •       Signing in documentation (e.g. dates and times; reasons for visits)
  •       CCTV images captured on the school site by the school's CCTV system

We may also hold data about Visitors and Contractors that we have received from other organisations, including other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education.

Why we use this data

We use this data to:

  •       Protect pupil welfare
  •       Assess the quality of our services
  •       Carry out research
  •       Comply with the law regarding data sharing

 

Our legal basis for using this data

We only collect and use visitor and contractors’ personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we process it where:

  •       We need to comply with a legal obligation
  •       We need it to perform an official task in the public interest

 

Less commonly, we may also process this personal data in situations where:

  •       We have obtained consent to use it in a certain way
  •       We need to protect the individual’s vital interests (or someone else’s interests)

Where we have obtained consent to use personal data, this consent can be withdrawn at any time. We will make this clear when we ask for consent, and explain how consent can be withdrawn.

Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using personal data overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify our use of this data.

Collecting this information

While the majority of information we collect about visitors and contractors is mandatory, there is some information that can be provided voluntarily.

Whenever we seek to collect information from you, we make it clear whether providing it is mandatory or optional. If it is mandatory, we will explain the possible consequences of not complying.

How we store this data

We keep personal information about parents, visitors and contractors whilst they attending our school. We may also keep it beyond attendance at our school, if this is necessary in order to comply with our legal obligations. We write to regular contractors and visitors at least annually to confirm if a regular contractor may continue to visit the school – for example, in-line with our regular review of the school’s Single Central Record. Our record retention schedule sets out how long we keep information about pupils. A copy of the record retention schedule is available from the school office on request.

Data sharing

We do not share information about visitors and contractors with any third party without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.

Where it is legally required or necessary (and it complies with data protection law) we may share personal information with:

  •       Our local authority – to meet our legal obligations to share certain information with it, such as safeguarding concerns and exclusions
  •       The Department for Education
  •       Our regulator
  •       Suppliers and service providers – to enable them to provide the service we have contracted them for
  •       Financial organisations
  •       Central and local government
  •       Our auditors
  •       Survey and research organisations
  •       Health authorities
  •       Security organisations
  •       Health and social welfare organisations
  •       Professional advisers and consultants
  •       Charities and voluntary organisations
  •       Police forces, courts, tribunals
  •       Professional bodies

Transferring data internationally

Where we transfer personal data to a country or territory outside United Kingdom, we will do so in accordance with data protection law.

Individuals’ rights regarding personal data

Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal information that the school holds about them.

Visitors and contractors can make a request with respect to their data.

If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you, we will:

  •       Give you a description of it
  •       Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for
  •       Explain where we got it from, if not from you or your child
  •       Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with
  •       Let you know whether any automated decision-making is being applied to the data, and any consequences of this
  •       Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form

Individuals also have the right for their personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances.

If you would like to make a request please contact our data protection officer.

  •       Donna Flynn dpo@theictservice.org.uk

Other rights

Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe, including the right to:

  •       Object to the use of personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress
  •       Prevent it being used to send direct marketing
  •       Object to decisions being taken by automated means (by a computer or machine, rather than by a person)
  •       In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing
  •       Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer.

Complaints

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact our data protection officer.

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

  •       Report a concern online at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
  •       Call 0303 123 1113
  •       Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 

Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer:

This notice is based on the Department for Education’s model privacy notice.