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Privacy Notice for Parents/Carers and Pupils

 

Yardley Primary School is committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about pupils, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), section 537A of the Education Act 1996 and section 83 of the Children Act 1989.

  

Who Collects This Information


 Yardley Primary School is a “data controller.” This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about pupils.

  

The Categories Of Pupil Information That We Collect, Process, Hold And Share


 We may collect, store and use the following categories of personal information about you:

  • Personal information such as name, pupil number, date of birth, gender and contact information;
  • Emergency contact and family lifestyle information such as names, relationship, phone numbers and email addresses;
  • Characteristics (such as ethnicity, language, nationality, country of birth and free school meal eligibility);
  • Attendance details (such as sessions attended, number of absences and reasons for absence);
  • Performance and assessment information;
  • Behavioural information (including exclusions);
  • Special educational needs information;
  • Relevant medical information;
  • Special categories of personal data (including ethnicity, relevant medical information, special educational needs information);
  • Images of pupils engaging in school activities, and images captured by the School’s CCTV system;
  • Information about the use of our IT, communications and other systems, and other monitoring information;
  • Safeguarding information;
  • Consent information.

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

  

Collecting This Information


Whilst the majority of information you provide to us is mandatory, some of it is provided to us on a voluntary basis. In order to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, we will inform you whether you are required to provide certain pupil information to us or if you have a choice in this.
 It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us.

  

How We Use Your Personal Information


 We hold pupil data and use it for:

  • Pupil selection (and to confirm the identity of prospective pupils and their parents);
  • Providing education services and extra-curricular activities to pupils, and monitoring pupils' progress and educational needs;
  • Informing decisions such as the funding of schools;
  • Assessing performance and to set targets for schools;
  • Safeguarding pupils' welfare and providing appropriate pastoral (and where necessary medical) care;
  • Support teaching and learning;
  • Giving and receive information and references about past, current and prospective pupils, and to provide references to potential employers of past pupils;
  • Managing internal policy and procedure;
  • Enabling pupils to take part in assessments, to publish the results of examinations and to record pupil achievements;
  • To carry out statistical analysis for diversity purposes;
  • Legal and regulatory purposes (for example child protection, diversity monitoring and health and safety) and to comply with legal obligations and duties of care;
  • Enabling relevant authorities to monitor the school's performance and to intervene or assist with incidents as appropriate;
  • Monitoring use of the school's IT and communications systems in accordance with the school's IT security policy;
  • Making use of photographic images of pupils in school publications, on the school website and on social media channels;
  • Security purposes, including CCTV; and
  • Where otherwise reasonably necessary for the school's purposes, including to obtain appropriate professional advice and insurance for the school.

 

The Lawful Basis On Which We Use This Information


 We will only use your information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your information in the following circumstances:

  • Consent: the individual has given clear consent to process their personal data for a specific purpose;
  • Contract: the processing is necessary for a contract with the individual;
  • Legal obligation: the processing is necessary to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations);
  • Vital interests: the processing is necessary to protect someone’s life.
  • Public task: the processing is necessary to perform a task in the public interest or for official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law; and
  • The Education Act 1996: for Departmental Censuses 3 times a year. More information can be found at:  https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools .

We need all the categories of information in the list above primarily to allow us to comply with legal obligations. Please note that we may process information without knowledge or consent, where this is require or permitted by law.

 

 

Sharing Data


 We may need to share your data with third parties where it is necessary. There are strict controls on who can see your information. We will not share your data if you have advised us that you do not want it shared unless it’s the only way we can make sure you stay safe and healthy or we are legally required to do so.


 We share pupil information with:

  • the Department for Education (DfE) - on a statutory basis under section 3 of The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013;
  • Ofsted;
  • Other Schools that pupils have attended/will attend;
  • NHS;
  • Welfare services (such as social services);
  • Law enforcement officials such as police, HMRC;
  • Local Authority Designated Officer;
  • Professional advisors such as lawyers and consultants;
  • Support services (including insurance, IT support, information security); and
  • The Local Authority;
  • Suppliers and service providers – to enable them to provide the service we have contracted them for.

Information will be provided to those agencies securely or anonymised where possible.


 The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations, we require them to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law.


 We may transfer your personal information outside the EU. If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.

 

 

Why We Share This Information


 We do not share information about our pupils with anyone without consent unless otherwise required by law.


 For example, we share students’ data with the DfE on a statutory basis which underpins school funding and educational attainment. To find out more about the data collection requirements placed on us by the DfE please go to  https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools.

 

 

Storing Pupil Data


 The School keep information about pupils on computer systems and sometimes on paper.


 Except as required by law, the School only retains information about pupils for as long as necessary in accordance with timeframes imposed by law and our internal policy.


 If you require further information about our retention periods, please view our retention policy on our website or contact the school office who can provide you with a copy of our policy.

  

Automated Decision Making


 Automated decision making takes place when an electronic system uses personal information to make a decision without human intervention. We are allowed to use automated decision making in limited circumstances.


 Pupils will not be subject to automated decision-making, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so and we have notified you.

  

Security


 We have put in place measures to protect the security of your information (i.e. against it being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way).

  

The National Pupil Database


 The NPD is owned and managed by the Department for Education and contains information about pupils in schools in England. It provides invaluable evidence on educational performance to inform independent research, as well as studies commissioned by the Department. It is held in electronic format for statistical purposes. This information is securely collected from a range of sources including schools, local authorities and awarding bodies.


 We are required by law, to provide information about our pupils to the DfE as part of statutory data collections such as the school census and early years’ census. Some of this information is then stored in the NPD. The law that allows this is the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.


 To find out more about the NPD, go to  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-user-guide-and-supporting-information.


 The department may share information about our pupils from the NPD with third parties who promote the education or well-being of children in England by:

  • conducting research or analysis
  • producing statistics
  • providing information, advice or guidance

The Department has robust processes in place to ensure the confidentiality of our data is maintained and there are stringent controls in place regarding access and use of the data. Decisions on whether DfE releases data to third parties are subject to a strict approval process and based on a detailed assessment of:

  • who is requesting the data
  • the purpose for which it is required
  • the level and sensitivity of data requested: and
  • the arrangements in place to store and handle the data

To be granted access to pupil information, organisations must comply with strict terms and conditions covering the confidentiality and handling of the data, security arrangements and retention and use of the data.


 For more information about the department’s data sharing process, please visit:  https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data


 For information about which organisations the department has provided pupil information, (and for which project), please visit the following website:  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-requests-received

 

To contact DfE:  https://www.gov.uk/contact-dfe

 

Requesting Access To Your Personal Data


 Under data protection legislation, parents and pupils have the right to request access to information about them that we hold. To make a request for your personal information, or be given access to your child’s education record, contact the school office.


 You also have the right to:

  • Object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress;
  • Prevent processing for the purposes of direct marketing;
  • Object to decisions being taken by automated means;
  • In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
  • Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations.

If you want to exercise any of the above rights, please contact the Headteacher in writing.


 We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

 

 Right To Withdraw Consent


 In circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact the school office. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

  

Contact


 If you would like to discuss anything within this privacy notice or have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, we request that you raise your concern with the school office in the first instance.


 We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) to oversee compliance with data protection and this privacy notice. If you have any questions about how we handle your personal information which cannot be resolve by school, then you can contact the DPO on the details below:


Data Protection Officer: Judicium Consulting Limited
Address: 72 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6AE
 Email:  dataservices@judicium.com
 Web:  www.judiciumeducation.co.uk
 Lead Contact: Craig Stilwell

 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues at  https://ico.org.uk/concerns.

 

 

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This Privacy Policy contains an explanation of what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit this site, in addition to that recorded as a result of your application.

This Policy will be reviewed regularly and may be updated from time to time.

Information Collection

In running and operating this website we may collect and process certain data and information relating to you and your use of this site. The data and information includes:

  • Details of visits to our website and the pages and resources that are accessed, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data that may assist us in understanding how visitors use this website.
  • Information provided to us when our visitors communicate with us electronically for any reason.

Use of Cookies

The Cloud for Education website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how visitors use the site. This analytical tool uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors' use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for SDA.

SDA will not allow (by itself or any third party) the use of the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither SDA nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. No personally identifiable information is recorded.

All computers have the ability to decline cookies. You can easily decline or remove cookies from your computer using the settings within the Internet Options section in your browser control panel.

Storing Your Personal Data

In certain circumstances you will have willingly provided personal data to us. Where this has occurred, we will always take all reasonable precautions to make sure that your data remains secure and is handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers. Currently, all data is stored within the United Kingdom, in London. Details relating to any transactions entered into on our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety. The transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure and, therefore, we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access restricted areas of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

Disclosing Your Information

Where appropriate, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our organisation. This may include, where applicable, any individuals or enterprises we have contracted to undertake work or provide services for us.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • Where we sell any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
  • Where we are legally required to disclose your information.
  • To assist fraud reduction and minimise credit risks.

Access to Information

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives all individuals the right to access personal information that is held about them. You can request a copy of any information that we hold about you. Please note that any request for this information may be subject to administrative costs. Please contact us if you wish to make such a request. Please also note that any data collected as part of your application is the responsibility of the school, early years' provider or local authority who act as the data controller for such data. Any request for such data should be made directly to them and not SDA.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or queries relating to this Privacy Policy then please contact us.