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Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are the Steventon School Association – the Parent/Teacher association for St. Michael’s Primary School, Steventon.

Our website address is: https://steventon.school.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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 anonymised 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.

Copyright for images remains yours, but by uploading them, you grant the Steventon School Association the right to use and display them online and in any printed material. We will never use uploaded images for commercial gain. It is your responsibility to ensure that any identifiable persons have provided their consent, or the parents of any identifiable children on their behalf.

Forms

Various pages on our site contain forms for you to submit your personal information.

For event forms, we will store and process your data to facilitate the individual event only, and this will be deleted within one week following the relevant event.

Personal data that you may submit when giving us general feedback will be retained for purposes of discussion and action at the next committee meeting, and thereafter be deleted. Anonymised data, e.g. ratings, will be retained for long term trending and analysis.

The information you provide when making online payments through our website is processed by our payments provider, Stripe. Your information will be retained for the purposes of payment reconciliation and fraud prevention, and for donation tracking where you are a regular subscriber.

Cookies

We avoid data storage wherever possible. Where we do store data, we avoid cookies and use local browser storage as far as possible to maximise the protection of your data.

If you leave a comment or enter information on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. This data, whether in local storage or cookies, will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Analytics

Our site collects no analytics or tracking data.

Who we share your data with

We do not, and never will, share your data with any other organization.

If you make online payments through our site, your data will be processed by our payments provider, Stripe.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.

For event forms, we will store and process your data to facilitate the individual event only, and this will be deleted within one week following the relevant event.

Personal data that you may submit when giving us general feedback will be retained for purposes of discussion and action at the next committee meeting, and thereafter be deleted. Anonymised data, e.g. ratings, will be retained for long term trending and analysis.

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.

To request further information about any data held about you, or to request that such data be deleted, please email admin@steventon.school

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

The SSA can be contacted:

  • via email at secretary@steventon.school
  • via the school at https://www.stmichaelssteventon.co.uk/contact-details/