Who we are
Our website address is: https://greenpagemontessori.com.
GREENPAGE Montessori School collects and uses personal information about staff, students, parents, children and other individuals who come into contact with the Organisation. The information is gathered in order to enable it to provide training, education and other associated functions. In addition, there is a legal requirement to collect and use information to ensure that the school complies with its statutory obligations.
GREENPAGE Montessori School has a duty to issue a Privacy Notice to all staff, students and parents, this summarises the information held on individuals, why it is held and the other parties to whom it can be passed on. This policy applies to our website, our use of emails and text messages for marketing purposes, and any other methods that we use for collecting information. It covers what we collect and why, what we do with the information and what we won’t do with the information, and what rights you have
What this Privacy Notice is For
This policy is intended to provide information about how the SCHOOL will use (or “process”) personal data about individuals including: its staff; its current, past and prospective children; and their parents, carers or guardians (referred to in this policy as “parents”) and its current, past and prospective students. This information is provided because Data Protection Law gives individuals rights to understand how their data is used. Staff, parents, children and students are all encouraged to read this Privacy Notice and understand the school’s obligations to its entire community.
This Privacy Notice applies alongside any other information the SCHOOL may provide about a particular use of personal data, for example when collecting data via an online or paper form. This Privacy Notice also applies in addition to the SCHOOL’s other relevant terms and conditions and policies, including: (a) any contract between the SCHOOL and its staff or the parents of children or students, (b) the SCHOOL’s policy on taking, storing and using images of children, (c) the SCHOOL’s CCTV policy, (d) the SCHOOL’s retention of records policy.
The SCHOOL’s safeguarding, pastoral, or health and safety policies, including as to how concerns or incidents are recorded; and • the Institute’s IT policies, including its Acceptable Use policy, eSafety policy,
How infromation will be used
- This information will be used for school and course administration and for other normal purposes of an independent school and further education institution.
- Personal data processed by the SCHOOL includes contact details, assessment results, attendance information, special educational needs, and images of children and students engaging in SCHOOL activities (and in relation to parents and/or guardians and students, may include financial information).
- The SCHOOL may also process sensitive personal data such as ethnic group, religious beliefs and relevant medical information.
- We will collect information about you and your child (if applying for a school place) at the time you apply for a place at the school or for a place on the Training courses or on events run by the Training arm of the SCHOOL in order to facilitate the application process. Following an offer and acceptance of a place we may collect further information.
- To ensure that the data we hold about you and about children at our school we will from time to time request that you confirm and where necessary update the information that we hold. On occasion, we may request additional information if it is deemed necessary for administration or for the health, safety and welfare of our students and children.
- Your personal data will usually be collected directly from you, but some may be passed to the Institute by third parties, for example references and medical reports required for Training course applications.
- Why we need to process personal data: In order to carry out its ordinary duties to staff, students, children and parents, the Institute needs to process a wide range of personal data about individuals (including current, past and prospective staff, students, children or parents) as part of its daily operation.
- Some of this activity the Institute will need to carry out in order to fulfil its legal rights, duties or obligations – including those under a contract with its staff, students or parents of its children. Other uses of personal data will be made in accordance with the SCHOOL’s legitimate interests, or the legitimate interests of another, provided that these are not outweighed by the impact on individuals and provided it does not involve special or sensitive types of data
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Commitment to Privacy
GREENPAGE Montessori School is committed to keeping the personal information that you share with us (on paper, over the telephone or via the internet) accurate, up to date and confidential.
- Responsibility for Data Protection: The SCHOOL has appointed the Bursar as Privacy and Compliance Officer who will deal with all your requests and enquiries concerning the SCHOOL’s uses of your personal data (see section on Your Rights below) and endeavour to ensure that all personal data is processed in compliance with this policy and Data Protection Law.
- What Information do we collect? We will only ever collect the information that we need, including data that will be useful to help us to improve our services. We collect two kinds of information: • Non – personal information such as IP addresses (the location of the computer on the internet), pages accessed and files downloaded. This helps us to determine how many people use our website and how popular the pages are. It doesn’t tell us anything about who you are or where you live. It simply allows us to monitor and improve our website.
- We also use cookies on our website. The SCHOOL expects that the following uses will fall within that category of its (or its community’s) “legitimate interests”:
- To confirm the identity of prospective students, parents and children and retain a record if appropriate for the purposes of future applications.
- To provide education services, including where such services are provided remotely (either temporarily or permanently) and to support its students’ and children’s teaching and learning.
- To provide appropriate pastoral care.
- To assess how well the SCHOOL as a whole is doing.
- To communicate with former children and students, including direct marketing or fundraising activity;
- To enable relevant authorities to monitor the Institute’s performance and to intervene or assist with incidents as appropriate.
- To give and receive information and references about past, current and prospective children, including relating to outstanding fees or payment history, to/from any educational institution that the child attended or where it is proposed they attend;
- To give and receive information and references about past, current and prospective students.
- To monitor (as appropriate) use of the SCHOOL’s IT and communications systems in accordance with the SCHOOL’s IT: acceptable use policy.
- To make use of photographic images of children in school publications, on the Institute’s website and (where appropriate) on the SCHOOL’s social media channels in accordance with the Institute’s policy on taking, storing and using images of children.
- For security purposes, including CCTV in accordance with the SCHOOL’s CCTV policy.
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