Privacy Policy
This website is owned and operated by Kirkwall Grammar School. We aim to provide secure and safe interaction for users of the website and are committed to protecting the privacy of any personal information you may submit.
Kirkwall Grammar School is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office for Data Protection purposes, adheres to the guidance provided by the Information Commissioner (http://www.ico.gov.uk), and complies with the Data Protection Act (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents).
This policy explains how any personal data collected by this website will be used by Kirkwall Grammar School.
What information will our website gather
IP Addresses
Kirkwall Grammar School uses your IP address to gather broad demographic information about visitors and to monitor the frequency with which visitors return to the website.
Forms
All forms used on this website may collect personal data for use by Kirkwall Grammar School in providing or improving services to you.
Email links
All email links on this website are direct email addresses for submissions of details of requests to relevant individuals and departments of Kirkwall Grammar School and relevant third parties.
Social Media
Kirkwall Grammar School utilises various social media services on the Kirkwall Grammar School website. These services are for the purpose of provision of information only and do not act as a source of feedback to the Council. The privacy policies of each of these services are not controlled by Kirkwall Grammar School and should be reviewed by the user before use of these services.
http://twitter.com/privacy
http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer. They come from the websites that you visit and are collected by your web browser. Almost every website uses cookies and many sites would not work properly without them. The majority are harmless and do one of four simple tasks:
· Storing your preferences on a website
· helping you through through an e-commerce payment process
· tracking advertising campaigns
· providing the website owner with site usage data
This web site does store cookies on your computer, but these do not contain personal data or anything that could identify you to others.
The technical platform of this website, does use cookies solely to aid the proper technical functioning of the website. The cookies used in this website does not collect or disclose any personal information about you as a visitor.
In compliance with EU legislation, the following table lists the use of cookies on this web site:
Cookie Name
Purpose
More information
useTextOnly
This is used to store whether you are in textOnly mode or not.
Persistent for three months.
N/A
setString
This is used to store user preferences for viewing sites in textOnly mode e.g. font-size and colour.
Persistent for one month.
N/A
SKSession
This cookie has two functions.
Firstly it serves as a session cookie for extranet users. Without this cookie, an extranet user will have to login to each individual page in the extranet.
It also enables us to track the pages that a user visits while they navigate around the site.
N/A
AcceptCookies
This is used to store whether you have agreed to receive cookies.
Persistent for one year.
N/A
Google Analytics
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visitwww.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visithttp://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Allow or reject cookies
We recommend you allow the cookies to be set by this website as they help us provide a better service and make our website easier to use.
If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.
Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.
Find out more about how to manage cookies .
If you set your browser to refuse all cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites that does not work.
What we do with your data
We use information we collect from the website to help us provide and improve our services to you. We comply with the Data Protection Act in that:
· We ensure that it is fairly and lawfully processed;
· We ensure that it is only processed for the purposes for which it was collected
· We ensure that any information collected is relevant and not excessive
· We ensure that any information you submit to us is recorded accurately
· We don’t keep you information for longer than is necessary
· We ensure that your information is processed in accordance with your rights
· We ensure that your information is held securely
Disclosure of personal information
Kirkwall Grammar School does not disclose your personal information to third parties unless:
· Kirkwall Grammar School may disclose such information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or regulatory authority or if it believes in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Kirkwall Grammar School; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
· You explicitly authorise us to do so and then only to the parties you specify.
Kirkwall Grammar School is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office for Data Protection purposes, adheres to the guidance provided by the Information Commissioner (http://www.ico.gov.uk), and complies with the Data Protection Act (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents).
This policy explains how any personal data collected by this website will be used by Kirkwall Grammar School.
What information will our website gather
IP Addresses
Kirkwall Grammar School uses your IP address to gather broad demographic information about visitors and to monitor the frequency with which visitors return to the website.
Forms
All forms used on this website may collect personal data for use by Kirkwall Grammar School in providing or improving services to you.
Email links
All email links on this website are direct email addresses for submissions of details of requests to relevant individuals and departments of Kirkwall Grammar School and relevant third parties.
Social Media
Kirkwall Grammar School utilises various social media services on the Kirkwall Grammar School website. These services are for the purpose of provision of information only and do not act as a source of feedback to the Council. The privacy policies of each of these services are not controlled by Kirkwall Grammar School and should be reviewed by the user before use of these services.
http://twitter.com/privacy
http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer. They come from the websites that you visit and are collected by your web browser. Almost every website uses cookies and many sites would not work properly without them. The majority are harmless and do one of four simple tasks:
· Storing your preferences on a website
· helping you through through an e-commerce payment process
· tracking advertising campaigns
· providing the website owner with site usage data
This web site does store cookies on your computer, but these do not contain personal data or anything that could identify you to others.
The technical platform of this website, does use cookies solely to aid the proper technical functioning of the website. The cookies used in this website does not collect or disclose any personal information about you as a visitor.
In compliance with EU legislation, the following table lists the use of cookies on this web site:
Cookie Name
Purpose
More information
useTextOnly
This is used to store whether you are in textOnly mode or not.
Persistent for three months.
N/A
setString
This is used to store user preferences for viewing sites in textOnly mode e.g. font-size and colour.
Persistent for one month.
N/A
SKSession
This cookie has two functions.
Firstly it serves as a session cookie for extranet users. Without this cookie, an extranet user will have to login to each individual page in the extranet.
It also enables us to track the pages that a user visits while they navigate around the site.
N/A
AcceptCookies
This is used to store whether you have agreed to receive cookies.
Persistent for one year.
N/A
Google Analytics
_utma
_utmb
_utmc
_utmz
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visitwww.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visithttp://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Allow or reject cookies
We recommend you allow the cookies to be set by this website as they help us provide a better service and make our website easier to use.
If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.
Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.
Find out more about how to manage cookies .
If you set your browser to refuse all cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites that does not work.
What we do with your data
We use information we collect from the website to help us provide and improve our services to you. We comply with the Data Protection Act in that:
· We ensure that it is fairly and lawfully processed;
· We ensure that it is only processed for the purposes for which it was collected
· We ensure that any information collected is relevant and not excessive
· We ensure that any information you submit to us is recorded accurately
· We don’t keep you information for longer than is necessary
· We ensure that your information is processed in accordance with your rights
· We ensure that your information is held securely
Disclosure of personal information
Kirkwall Grammar School does not disclose your personal information to third parties unless:
· Kirkwall Grammar School may disclose such information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or regulatory authority or if it believes in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Kirkwall Grammar School; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
· You explicitly authorise us to do so and then only to the parties you specify.