Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice (formerly Fair Processing Notice) Data Processing Rutherford House School processes personal data about its pupils and is a “data controller” in respect of this for the purposes of the Data Protection Action 1988. It processes this data to: • support its pupils teaching and learning; • monitor and report on their progress; • provide appropriate pastoral care, and • assess how well the school as a whole is doing. This data includes contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information, characteristics such as ethnic group, special educational needs and any relevant medical information. This data may only be used or passed on for specific purposes allowed by law. From time to time the school is required to pass on some of this data to local authorities, the Department for Education (DfE) and to agencies that are prescribed by law, such as Ofsted, the Department of Health (DH), and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) .All these are data controllers in respect of the data they receive, and are subject to the same legal constraints in how they deal with the data. Pupils, as data subjects, have certain rights under the Data Protection Act, including a general right to be given access to personal data held about them by any data controller. The presumption is that by the age of 12 a child has sufficient maturity to understand their rights and to make an access request themselves if they wish. A parent would normally be expected to make a request on a child’s behalf if the child is younger. Text Messaging to Parents The School has a duty of care to all of their pupils, and this care comes into being everyday at the start of the school day and whilst the pupil is on school premises. In order to assist with this duty this school may use text messaging to communicate more easily on a number of subjects involving their children, such as First Day Absence, Emergency Closure, Reminders of Holidays and Events. To inform parents or designated carers of important issues we will send a standard text message to the designated mobile phone number. Apart from the contact telephone number and the pupil’s first name, no other personal data will be retained by us or any Texting Company acting on our behalf. Further Information If you require any further information please contact the Headteacher at the School.

Do we use cookies?

 Yes we do. A cookie is a piece of text that is stored on your computer by your web browser. We use cookies to monitor how people use our site. This helps us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our websites so we can develop and improve their design, layout and more relevant content.

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

The list below describes the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that by using our website you agree we can place these types of cookies on your device. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “In Private” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

 

 

 

 

First Party Cookies

 

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

 

• Login:A login cookie is used to preserve your personal login preferences as set on the login screen.
• Google Analytics:We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

 

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service here.

 

• Banner advertising:These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen an advert and how long it is since you’ve seen it.
• PPC:These cookies use Flashtalking and Google Analytics to track our PPC campaigns by dropping cookies onto users’ browsers.

 

More info on Flashtalking and Google Analytics can be found here:

 

http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/cookie-usage

http://www.flashtalking.com/privacy/policy.pdf

 

 

 

 

Third Party Cookies

 

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks.

 

Cookies are currently set by:

 

• AddThis
• Facebook
• YouTube

 

In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

 

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

 

 

 

 

 

Emails

 

Some emails we send we track, at an individual level, whether the user has opened and clicked on the email. We do not use this information at a personal level, rather we use it to understand open and click rates on our emails to try and improve them. If you want to be sure that none of your email activity is tracked then you should opt out of our emails which you can do via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email we send.

 

 

 

 

 

Blocking & deleting cookies

 

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:

 

• Internet Explorer – to  refuse all cookies click “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and select “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector

 

• Firefox – to block all cookies click “Tools”, “Options”, and un-check “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box or select “Clear private data” if you want to delete all cookies.

 

• Chrome – click on the Chrome menu in the toolbar, click on “settings”, click on “advanced settings”, choose “Privacy” section, then click on ” Content settings” button and choose either block or delete as appropriate.

 

Blocking or deleting  all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.