Privacy Statement of The North Halifax Grammar School

Information about our Organisation and Web Site

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like The North Halifax Grammar School (hereinafter refered to as 'the school') . We are based in England .

Our principal activities are:

Our privacy policy covers The North Halifax Grammar School and its Web Sites:

Organisation Name: The North Halifax Grammar School
Address: Moorbottom Road
Post Code : HALIFAX , HX2 9SU
State: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Controller: The North Halifax Grammar School
Web Sites(s): http://www.nhgs.co.uk
http://www.nhgsonline.co.uk
Virtual Learning Environment (VLE): https://vle.nhgs.co.uk

Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access

You can access our Web Sites home page and browse our sites without disclosing your personal data. (The only data that is disclosed is your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address).

The services and links of our Web sites

Our Web sites enable you to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data.

Our Web sites do not include links to third party Web service providers.

Automatic Collection of Information

We currently do not use cookies on our Web Sites/VLE.

We automatically log personal data by means such as programming or we link information automatically logged by such means with personal data about specific individuals. We do so for the following purposes:

Data Collection and Purpose Specification

We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services.

To access the table of personal data collected and purposes for which they are used, please click here

We may collect and use personal data for the additional purposes of:

From time to time we may ask visitors to complete online questionnaires or forms. If this occurs we will always state the purpose of the data collected and state how we will protect the security of such data.

If we wish to use your personal data for new purposes, we offer you the means to consent to those new purposes:

Children's Privacy

We knowingly collect personal data from children using the VLE system for the purposes of administration and education of students at the school.

Additionally, to ensure that children's privacy is respected on our Web site and VLE, we:

  • take various steps to ensure that data is not passed on to 3rd parties and is used and stored for the purposes indicated.

Disclosure and Visitor Choice

We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organisations.

Confidentiality / Security

We may give visitors to our Web site the option of using a secure transmission method to send us their personal data via the VLE sytem.

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you

You can ask us if we are keeping personal data about you by:

Upon request, which you can indicate by:

We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within one school term - although we will require proof of your identity. Disclosure of the information may incur a charge.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you.

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal.

We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

Privacy Compliance

The data we hold must comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. From time to time the school is required to pass on some of the data we hold to Local Authorities, the DfES and to agencies, such as the QCA, Ofsted and LSC, that are prescribed by law. Full details of the purposes for which we hold data and how we comply with the Data Protection Act (1998) are available from the school.

Privacy Support

We provide our visitors with a contact point for privacy concerns or enquiries. Please write to:

We do not recommend another means by which visitors' concerns may be addressed.


TABLE of personal data that we may collect and purposes for which they are used

Primary personal data/Business information

x volunteered by visitor
y collected from school records

Primary personal data

Technical administration of the Web site (http://www.nhgs.co.uk) Technical administration of the VLE (Student users with individual usernames and passwords only) Technical administration of the VLE (Staff only) Technical administration of the VLE (Parents and Community users with individual usernames and passwords only) Contact details for the advertisment of items in the Buy and Sell section of the website (http://www.nhgs.co.uk)
Name

-

y

y

y

x
Gender

-

y

y

y

-
Address

-

-

-

-

-
E-mail address

-

x/y

x/y

x/y

 x
Phone/Fax number

-

-

-

-

x
other (describe) IP Address and areas of the site visited

x

x

x

x

x

Business Information

Technical administration of the Web site (http://www.nhgs.co.uk) Technical administration of the VLE (Student users with individual usernames and passwords only) Technical administration of the VLE (Staff only) Technical administration of the VLE (Parents and Community users with individual usernames and passwords only)
Employer/organisation

-

-

y

-

Job title

-

-

y

-

Address

-

-

-

-

E-mail address

-

-

y

x

Phone/Fax number

-

-

-

-

Other personal details and profiling data

From time to time we may ask visitors to complete online questionnaires or forms to aid the school in its administration and education of the students placed in its care. If this occurs we will always state the purpose of the data collected and state how we will protect the security of such data.

The school holds information on pupils in order to support their teaching and learning, to monitor and report on their progress, to provide appropriate pastoral care, and to access how well the school as a whole is doing.