Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement
At Scoil Mhuire Junior School- Cork, we take your privacy seriously and we are fully committed to keeping your information private. Providing and holding personal information comes with significant rights on your part and significant responsibilities on ours.
This Data Privacy Notice is provided to fulfil our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective from 25 May 2018. GDPR requires greater accountability and transparency from organisations such as ours with regard to the treatment of your personal information and provides data subjects with enhanced rights and greater control over how we process it.
We will not collect personal information / personal data about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information using the “Application” form, consenting to the use of cookies or sign up to our App to allow you to access items such as our school’s weekly update.
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of your information under the terms of this privacy statement which is in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011.
Please read our full privacy statement to understand how we use and protect the information that you choose to provide to us.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WHICH WE COLLECT FROM YOU
When you visit our website you may wish to provide certain information about yourself, such as when you complete our “Application” form or sign up to our App to allow you to access items such as our school’s weekly update. In addition, for the app, email and other details are stored in a database for the proper functioning of the app.
NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION WHICH WE COLLECT
Where you visit our website, certain non-personal data is available to us through our internet service provider. This non-personal data is collected on a statistical, aggregate, non-individual basis. This information may include the IP address from which you access our website, the type of browser used to access our website (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.), the type of operating system used to access our website (Windows, Macintosh, etc.), the “top-level” domain name used (ie, .com, .org, etc.), the date and time of your visit to our website and the number of pages you visited on our website.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Any information which you provide using the “Application” form is not made available to any third parties and is only used by Scoil Mhuire Junior School in line with the purposes for which you provided it (e.g. to contact you and answer any queries which you have raised in the “Application” form or to contact you about a place at the school.
DISCLOSURE TO OTHER PEOPLE
We do not disclose, sell or distribute any personal information which you send to us via the “Application” form to any third parties. We may pass aggregate information on the usage of our site to third parties, but this will not include information that can be used to identify you. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes. Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.
TRANSFERRING YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF EUROPE
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (“EU”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our data processors' servers are located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the EU. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution regarding their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
IP ADDRESSES
With your privacy in mind and since in our case it does not add much value to our site analytics, we have opted NOT to collect visitors IP addresses through our site analytics tools provided by our website’s platform provider.
EXTERNAL WEBSITE LINKS
Although this website strives to only include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites. The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
COOKIES
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. It may allow a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a period of time, or it may contain data related to the function or delivery of the site. Cookies can be set by the owner of the website or in some cases by third party services the website owner allows to present other information, run content or provide other functionality such as analytics.
Further information on cookies can be found at; http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
ESSENTIAL AND NON-ESSENTIAL COOKIES
Cookies can be classified as either 'essential' or 'non-essential'.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either: (a) used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or (b) strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
'Essential' cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website.
Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website ('analytical' cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you ('advertising' cookies). 'Non-essential' cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so.
SESSION AND PERSISTENT COOKIES
Cookies can be classified as either 'session' or 'persistent', depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
SECURITY
Albeit we process very limited personal data on our website we (and any technology providers we use) nonetheless employ state of the art security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and to guard against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage and we will do our best to ensure that all records we hold remain secure in line with our obligations under the GDPR. We take our security responsibilities seriously, employing the most appropriate physical and technical measures, including staff training and awareness. We review our security procedures regularly.
RETENTION
We do not retain your personal data for longer than it is necessary for us to comply with the purpose for which you gave it to us. Any personal data which you provide to us using this website will be used in line with the purposes for which you provided it (e.g. to contact you and answer any queries which you have raised in the “Application” form or to address any other feedback which you send us in the “Application” form) and after this purpose has been completed, we will delete your personal data. Personal data provided for the purpose of our school app(your name and email address) are, once you unsubscribe deleted.
ACCESSING YOUR INFORMATION
You are entitled to see the information we hold about you. On written request, we supply copies of your personal data which you may have supplied to us using our website. If you wish to obtain copies of this personal data, you should write to the principal of Scoil Mhuire Junior School at Cork and ask that they will provide you with an Data Subject Access Request Form. Your request will be dealt with as soon as possible. If you discover that Scoil Mhuire Junior School holds inaccurate information about you, you can request that we correct that information. In certain circumstances, you may also request that data which you have supplied via our website be deleted (although you should note that if you request a deletion, you would generally be expected to identify some contravention of data protection law in the manner in which Scoil Mhuire Junior School processes the data concerned). Upon written request, we will supply you with a Data Rectification/Erasure Form for this purpose.
CONTACTING US
If you are concerned about how your personal data is processed by our website, please do not hesitate to bring these concerns to our attention using the contact details below:
Ms Suzy Webster,
Scoil Mhuire Junior School, 20 Patrick's Place
Wellington Road, Cork
Tel: (021) 455 2440
REVIEW OF THIS POLICY
We keep this Policy under regular review. This policy was last updated in May 2021.