Privacy policy

This privacy policy sets out how Friends’ School uses and protects any inform­a­tion that you give Friends’ School when you use this website.

Friends’ School is commit­ted to ensur­ing that your privacy is protec­ted. Should we ask you to provide certain inform­a­tion by which you can be iden­ti­fied when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accord­ance with this privacy statement.

Friends’ School may change this policy from time to time by updat­ing this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effect­ive from 10th Decem­ber 2010.

What we collect

We may collect the follow­ing information:

  • name and job title
  • contact inform­a­tion includ­ing email address
  • demo­graphic inform­a­tion such as post­code, pref­er­ences and interests
  • other inform­a­tion relev­ant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the inform­a­tion we gather

We require this inform­a­tion to under­stand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in partic­u­lar for the follow­ing reas­ons:
Internal record keeping.

We may use the inform­a­tion to improve our products and services.

We may peri­od­ic­ally send promo­tional emails about new products, special offers or other inform­a­tion which we think you may find inter­est­ing using the email address which you have provided.

From time to time, we may also use your inform­a­tion to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the inform­a­tion to custom­ise the website accord­ing to your interests.

Secur­ity

We are commit­ted to ensur­ing that your inform­a­tion is secure. In order to prevent unau­thor­ised access or disclos­ure, we have put in place suit­able phys­ical, elec­tronic and mana­gerial proced­ures to safe­guard and secure the inform­a­tion we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permis­sion to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a partic­u­lar site.

Cook­ies allow web applic­a­tions to respond to you as an indi­vidual. The web applic­a­tion can tailor its oper­a­tions to your needs, likes and dislikes by gath­er­ing and remem­ber­ing inform­a­tion about your preferences.

We use traffic log cook­ies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this inform­a­tion for stat­ist­ical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Over­all, cook­ies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any inform­a­tion about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cook­ies. Most web browsers auto­mat­ic­ally accept cook­ies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cook­ies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advant­age of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. There­fore, we cannot be respons­ible for the protec­tion and privacy of any inform­a­tion which you provide whilst visit­ing such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy state­ment. You should exer­cise caution and look at the privacy state­ment applic­able to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collec­tion or use of your personal inform­a­tion in the follow­ing ways:

whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indic­ate that you do not want the inform­a­tion to be used by anybody for direct market­ing purposes
if you have previ­ously agreed to us using your personal inform­a­tion for direct market­ing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writ­ing to or email­ing us at admin@friends.org.uk

We will not sell, distrib­ute or lease your personal inform­a­tion to third parties unless we have your permis­sion or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal inform­a­tion to send you promo­tional inform­a­tion about third parties which we think you may find inter­est­ing if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal inform­a­tion which we hold about you under the Data Protec­tion Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the inform­a­tion held on you please write to Friends’ School, Mount Pleas ant Road, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 3EB.

If you believe that any inform­a­tion we are hold­ing on you is incor­rect or incom­plete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any inform­a­tion found to be incorrect.