Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy

This website is operated by East Ayton Primary School whose registered address is 3 Moor Lane, East Ayton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO13 9EW. (“We”) are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.

This policy sets out how we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us through our website. We confirm that we will keep your information secure and that we will comply fully with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation and regulations. Please read the following carefully to understand what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you when you visit this site. By visiting https://eastayton.n-yorks.sch.uk/ (our website) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

Types of information we may collect from you

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information about individuals who visit and use our website:


Information you supply to us

You may supply us with information about you by filling in forms on our website. This includes information you provide when you submit a contact/enquiry form. The information you give us may include your name, address, email address and phone number.


Information our website automatically collects about you

With regard to each of your visits to our website, we may automatically collect information including the following:

Technical information, including a truncated and anonymised version of your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system and platform;

Information about your visit, including what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got to the site (including date and time); page response times, length of visit, what you click on, documents downloaded and download errors.

Cookie Policy

By accessing the website, you agree that this Cookie Policy will apply whenever you access the website on any device.

We may change this Cookie Policy from time to time. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with the up to date version.


What are cookies?

Like most other websites, we use cookies to help provide you with the best possible browsing experience.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on to your computer or mobile device when you first visit a website or page. They are used for a number of reasons, such as remembering whether you have visited the site before, so that you can remain logged in. They contain information about the use of your computing device but do not include any personal information about you.


What cookies does this website collect?

This website collects two necessary cookies:

'cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary' which is used to store whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box;

'cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary' which is also used to store whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box.

Both cookies are necessary for the lawful provision of the website. Both cookies expire in one day and the cookie data is stored in the UK.

We do not use any cookies to:

collect any personal information about you;

collect any sensitive information;

pass data to any advertising networks;

pass personal data to third parties.


Giving us permission to use cookies

Most internet browsers are set up to automatically accept cookies. We will take this, and your continued use of the website as acceptance of our Cookie Policy.

If you do not wish to accept the use of cookies on this website, or to delete any that have already been set, you can change the settings of your browser. Please bear in mind that some features on the website might not work correctly with cookies disabled.


Managing the use of cookies

You can usually find the tools to manage cookies in the ‘preferences’ or ‘tools’ menu of your browser. Below are links to instructions for the five main web browsers, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge

Cookie settings in Microsoft Internet Explorer

Cookie settings in Google Chrome

Cookie settings in Mozilla Firefox

Cookie settings in Apple Safari


Useful links

If you would like to find out more about cookies generally, you may find the following links useful:

Google’s Privacy Policy

Twitter’s Privacy Policy

Linkedin's Privacy Policy

For more information about cookies and the law, please visit The Information Commissioner’s Office.

Types of information we may collect from you

We use the information in the following ways:


Information you supply to us

We will use this information to provide you with information and/or services that you request from us;


Information we automatically collect about you

We will use this information:

to administer our site including troubleshooting and statistical purposes;

to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

security and debugging as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.

This information is collected anonymously and is not linked to information that identifies you as an individual. We may use Google Analytics to track this information. Find out how Google uses your data.

Disclosure of your information

Any information you provide to us will either be emailed directly to us or may be stored on a secure server. We use a trusted third party website and hosting provider to facilitate the running and management of this website. The website and hosting provider meets high data protection and security standards and are bound by contract to keep any information they process on our behalf confidential. Any data that may be collected through this website is kept secure and only processed in accordance with relevant laws. The website and hosting provider cannot access, provide, rectify or delete any data that they store on our behalf without permission.

We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies.

We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities, unless required by law or other regulations.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Third party links

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these third party websites.

Your rights – access to your personal data

You have the right to ensure that your personal data is being processed lawfully (“Subject Access Right”). Your subject access right can be exercised in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. Any subject access request, or any other lawful data processing request must be made in writing to the Headteacher, East Ayton Primary School, 3 Moor Lane, East Ayton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO13 9EW.

We will provide your personal data to you or undertake any other lawfully requested personal data action within the statutory time frames. To enable us to trace any of your personal data that we may be holding, we may need to request further information from you.

If you have a complaint about how we have processed your information, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be directed to the school's Headteacher. Contact details for the school are listed on our 'Contact Us' page.