Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Northcote Primary School collects and processes your personal data, including any data you may provide to us in your dealings with us whether through this website or via the school directly.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children, save as stated below.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions (including our Terms & Conditions) when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Controller

Northcote Primary School is a school registered in England. Northcote Primary School is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Northcote Primary School”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Data Controller in writing using the details set out below.

Contact details

Roy Morgan
Northcote Primary School
Cavendish Drive
Liverpool
L9 1HW
0151 233 4610

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes

This privacy notice sets out most of your data protection rights under new laws introduced in 2018. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Northcote Primary School recognises the importance of protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. We provide this Privacy Statement to help you understand what we may do with any personal information that we may obtain from you.

You may wish us to amend or delete data we hold, or to stop using it for one or more of the purposes set out. In this event, or if you have any other enquiry relating to your data, please send an e-mail to r.morgan@northcote.liverpool.sch.uk with the subject “Data Protection Request” stating your full name and your request. Alternatively you can telephone our Data Protection Officer (0151 233 4610) or write to him at the school.

If you have supplied us with information via a contact form on our web site, you can view, edit, or remove it using the contact details provided above.

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on 25 May 2018. As a result we have updated our privacy policy as follows.

By providing us with your personal information, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement and agree that we may collect, use, and disclose your personal information as follows:

Information we may collect:

To communicate effectively with visitors to our website, we may ask you for personally identifiable information about you or your child that can include name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, or date of birth. It is your choice to provide us with this personal information; we only collect personal information that you provide. Northcote Primary School will never sell or trade personally identifiable information you provide to us through this website to other organisations unless we have your consent to share the information or are sharing such information for the following reasons:

  • If we are required to do so by law
  • In connection to any legal proceedings
  • To defend our own legal rights
  • For the prevention of fraud

The information we collect may include your IP address, location, visit time. Number of pages you have viewed and the type of browser that you use. This information will be used to try to improve our website and to gather statistics regarding our site and how it is used.

Data Security

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure the security of your data though due to the nature of the internet we cannot guarantee the safety of your information.

Links to third party websites

We can not be held responsible for any content or privacy policies of websites we may link to from our site.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer for record-keeping purposes. Session cookies expire and are removed from your hard drive when you close your Web browser. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive for extended periods of time. We use both session and persistent cookies on this site. The use of cookies helps us facilitate your use of the site and evaluate your usage patterns so that we can improve website content and organisation. We do not link the information stored in persistent cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while using our website.

You can delete persistent cookies by following the directions provided by your Web browser. You may also set your Web browser to reject cookies from our site. If you choose to do this, you can still use our site but you may not be able to access the full functionality of some sections of it. You can obtain more information about how to manage cookies from www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics

Some sections of our website use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how people use our websites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website includes your Internet network address. This information will be transmitted to and stored by Google on its servers. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for our website administrators, and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your network address with any other data held by Google. To disable Google Analytics’ tracking of your usage of our site, you may disable cookies in your browser; however, please note that by doing so you may not be able to benefit from this website’s full functionality. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. To learn more, visit the Google Analytics Privacy Overview and Google’s privacy policy.

Security

We follow generally accepted industry practices to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this privacy statement, we will update the revision number and date at the top of this Web page and describe the changes below.

Contact us

Our general contact details are as follows:

Northcote Primary School
Cavendish Dr, Liverpool L9 1HW
T: (0151) 233 4610
E: r.morgan@northcote.liverpool.sch.uk