Home Our School Calendar & News Our Classes Curriculum Parents Clubs & Extended Services 0-3 Childcare Contact Us Useful Links Awards Equality Objectives Key Partners Privacy & Cookies Policy Acknowledgements Data Protection Freedom of Information HomeUseful LinksPrivacy & Cookies Policy Privacy & Cookies Policy Privacy and Cookies Policy Part 1: Personal information and privacy 1. Introduction We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information on the domain or a sub-domain of bridgewater.newcastle.sch.uk By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy. 2. Collecting personal information We may collect, store and use the following kinds of information: information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including, your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths) information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including, the communication content and meta data associated with the communication) any other personal information that you choose to send to us Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy. Using your personal information Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website We may use your personal information to: administer our website enable your use of the services available on our website provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website keep our website secure and prevent fraud If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us. Disclosing personal information We may disclose your personal information to, any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. We may disclose your personal information: to the extent that we are required to do so by law; in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties. International data transfers Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others. Retaining personal information This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data: to the extent that we are required to do so by law; if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk). Security of your personal information We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. Amendments We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy. Your rights You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes. Third party websites Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties. Part 2: Cookies 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. 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 can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website. Our cookies We use both session and persistent cookies on our website. These cookies do not collect information that individually identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website functions and performs. Analytics cookies We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy. Third party cookies Our Site may contain links to other websites, share buttons (e.g. Twitter) or Facebook “Like” buttons. These other websites, services and applications may set their own cookies on users’ computers, collect data or solicit personal information. You should refer to any privacy policies found on such websites, services and applications to understand how your information may be collected and used. Blocking cookies Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example: in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”; in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. Deleting cookies You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example: in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835); in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. 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