Last updated: 31/08/2024

This Privacy Policy describes how Rotherfield Village Pre-school www.rotherfieldvillagepre-school.co.uk (the “website” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit.

Collecting Personal Information: When you visit our website, we collect certain information about your device, and your interaction with the website. We may also collect additional information if you contact us via our contact pages. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Information we might collect and why we collect it:

• Examples of personal information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the website.
• Purpose of collection: to load the website accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimise our website.
• Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our website using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
• Examples of personal Information collected when you make contact via our contact page or email: name, email address, billing address, postal address, email address, phone number and details about why you are contacting us.
• Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor and emailing service Go Daddy.

Sharing Personal Information: We only share your personal information with our service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

• We use Go Daddy to power our information website. You can read more about how Go Daddy uses your personal information here:  https://www.godaddy.com/en-ph/legal/agreements/privacy-policy

Lawful basis: Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

• Your consent
• The performance of the contract between you and the Site
• Compliance with our legal obligations
• To protect your vital interests
• To perform a task carried out in the public interest
• For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms

Retention: When you make contact via our website or via email, we will retain your personal information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information.

Automatic decision-making: If you are a resident of the EEA (European Economic Area), you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you. We do engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data. Our processor Go Daddy uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.

GDPR: If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.

Cookies: A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or our practices, please contact us via email (office@rotherfieldpre-school.co.uk)  or phone (01892 853207).