Website Privacy and Cookies Policy

Website Privacy and Cookies Policy

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

The Data Protection Officer for Dringhouses Primary School is Claire Neal, who can be contacted on 01904 553940 or via email at admin@dringhouses.co.uk

Please visit our policies page to see the following:

– Freedom of Information Policy

– GDPR Policy

Introduction

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors.

This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

How we use your personal data

In this Section we have set out:

the general categories of personal data that we may process;

the purposes for which we may process personal data; and

the legal bases of the processing.

We may process data about your use of our website (“usage data“). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is Google Analytics. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

We may process your name, email address and any information contained in any enquiry you submit to us (“enquiry data“). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (“notification data“). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“correspondence data“). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests.

Providing your personal data to others

We may disclose your name, email address and the contents of your correspondence to any member of our school (this includes our Governing Body) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.

About 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 is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the ‘Cookies and Privacy Policy’ button.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web 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.

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

Cookies that we use

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally.

Cookies used for this purpose are: wfwaf-authcookie

cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies.

Cookies used for this purpose are: viewed_cookie_policy, wordpress_test_cookie

Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We use YouTube to provide embedded video on our website. Google may collect information about your viewing preferences and behaviour. Information on Google’s use of cookies is available at https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

We use embedded Twitter feeds on our website to connect to provide real-time updates from our Twitter accounts. Twitter may use cookies to collect information for analytics and advertising purposes. Information on Twitter’s use of cookies is available at https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

The relevant cookies are: _ga, _gid, _gat_gtag

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