Data Protection

We are the Data Controller for personal information relating to people who have:

• agreed to receive marketing information from us
• taken part in marketing events organised by us or on our behalf
• accessed our website

We do not trade personal information for commercial purposes. We will only disclose personal information for marketing purposes if:

• required or authorised by law
• necessary to arrange attendance at an event or marketing
• we have your consent, for example if you have agreed to provide us with a reference
• We do not intend to transfer any personal information used or stored for marketing processes outside of the EU

Website visitors
Our website places cookies (text files) on your computer. The cookies contain an ID number which is used to uniquely identify your browser and track each site you visit that has Google Analytics enabled.

We use the information provided by cookies to determine the number of people visiting our site. It also helps us to better understand how people find and use our website. With this information we can continually improve our website and service.

Our cookies [are operated by Google Analytics] store the following data:

• time of visit, pages visited, and time spent on each page of the website
• interactions with site-specific widgets
• referring site details (such as the URL a user came through to arrive at the website)
• type of web browser
• type of operating system (OS)
• flash version, JavaScript support, screen resolution, and screen colour processing ability
• network location and IP address
• document downloads
• clicks on links leading to external websites
• errors when users fill out formsv
• clicks on videos
• ‘scroll depth’ (how far you scroll up or down on a page)

This site may incorporate the use of Cookies. Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a server computer during a browsing session. Cookies are typically stored on your computers hard drive and are used by Websites to simulate a continuous connection to that site. In order to make our site more responsive to your needs we use cookies to track and manage information relative to your specific interests. In this way we can tailor our site to your needs, deliver a better and more personalised service and track the pages on our site that you visit. The use of cookies automatically identifies your browser to our computers whenever you interact with our site. Your browser options allow you to disable cookies. You should note that if you do disable cookies, you may not be able to access all the services on this site.

If you already have Google Analytics cookies, they will be updated with the latest information about your visit to our website. We cannot access these cookies and are not the data controller for information held by Google Analytics.

Your consent is generally required for cookies to be placed on your computer and for the use and storage of personal information relating to you provided by the cookies. You may withdraw your consent at any time by updating your cookie settings. Where consent is not needed for cookies to be placed on your computer (for example, where a cookie is needed for the operation of our website or for the provision of a service to you), the use and storage of any personal information provided by the cookies will be based on legitimate interests. The legitimate interests we are pursuing are the operation of our website and promotion of our business.

Your rights

If we process your personal data, you have a number of rights. You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you (and request that that data be provided in a portable format) and you may object to our processing of it (including by way of direct marketing) or ask us to rectify it, restrict the way in which we process it or erase it from our records.

Where we use or store personal information relating to you, you have the following rights:

• the right to be informed personal information relating to you is being used or stored (which
• is what this privacy notice is for)
• the right to access personal information relating to you which we use or hold
• the right to object to direct marketing
• the right to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests
• the right to erasure of information relating to you that we use or hold (only in some circumstances)
• the right of data portability
• the right to have your data rectified if its inaccurate
• the right to have your data restricted or blocked from processing

Please be aware that these rights are not always absolute and there may be some situations in which you cannot exercise them or they are not relevant.

Complaints
If you have any cause for concern about our handling of personal information, please contact us using the details below.

If we are unable to resolve your concerns about our handling of personal information, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Please be aware that the preference is that you resolve any complaints in the first instance directly with ourselves in the first place.

Contact details
Please read this notice carefully and contact us if you have any queries by emailing us at: office@theblueschool.com

or telephone us on 020 8560 6721