Here at the Sheiling School Thornbury we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy at all times. Sheiling School Thornbury is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and will treat your personal data in accordance with that Act. If you have any queries about this statement, please contact us.
The Sheiling School Thornbury may ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified with when using our site. This information will be used accordingly with this privacy statement.
The Sheiling School Thornbury may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please check this page once in a while to ensure that you are content with any changes.
What information do we collect?
The various forms of information we may collect include the following:
• Names and addresses
• E-mail addresses
• Telephone numbers
• Fax numbers
• Credit / Debit cards
What is the information used for?
We require this information to help us understand your needs and provide quality service overall. Other reasons include the following:
• In-house record keeping
• We may use information to better our products and services
• For compliance with the law
• We may need to share your information with our trading subsidiaries, service providers, associated organisations and agents for the purposes mentioned above.
The Sheiling School Thornbury will not sell or publicise your information in any way unless you have specifically asked us to.
We will also not share your information with other like-minded organisations for marketing purposes unless you have previously indicated that you are happy for us to do so.
Controlling your personal information
The Sheiling School Thornbury is committed to ensuring that your information is protected. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect and secure the information we collect online.
By providing your personal information to us including any “sensitive” personal information you consent to the collection and use of any information you provide in accordance with purposes mentioned above and this privacy statement.
You also consent to the Sheiling School Thornbury to transferring any required information, for any of the purposes mentioned above, to countries and/or jurisdictions which may not provide the same level of protection as the UK. In the event of any such transfer, the Sheiling School Thornbury will, if appropriate, ensure that your information is protected properly.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 for which a small fee may be payable.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed onto your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps examine web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.
Essentially, cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does NOT give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies to your prefernce. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
We use cookies on our website and we assume you are ok with this otherwise please disable cookies in your browser or navigate away and clear cookies set by the website.
Cookies on this website are used for:
1. Analytical/performance purposes – this allows us to recognise and calculate the number of visitors and to see how visitors navigate around the website when they are using it. Therefore helping us improve the way our website functionality for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.
2. Functionality purposes – to help us recognise you when you return to our website. This allows us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences and settings (e.g. your choice of language or region).
3. Sharing purposes – this allows you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
More information about cookies and how to manage them.
Interesting TED talk about tracking on the web
Based on a work at www.prettyklicks.com
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