Privacy notice

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

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Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

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• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.

• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.

• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.

• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.

• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.

• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.

• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.

 

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

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Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods, including delivery and third party referrals are:

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• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

• Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

  • All identifying data is collected with consent of the Headteacher or their designated delegate. By registering to be on the list of smartphone free schools, schools are choosing to advertise the quality of their smartphone policy to parents. The purpose is to benefit schools as it will improve learning environments, to benefit parents by helping them to make informed choices for their children, and benefit children by enabling schools to create environments where children can thrive. We will not publish any personal data. The data that we publish is open data, such as school names, school policies, and school locations.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to receive donations or funding and organise fundraising activities are:

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• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

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• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for research or archiving purposes are:

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• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

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• we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.