Privacy Notice
Privacy Notice – Data Protection Act 1998
We Buckland St Mary C of E Primary School are a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect personal Information from you and may receive Information about you from your previous school and the Learning Records Service. We hold this personal date to:
- Support your learning;
- Monitor and report on your progress;
- Provide appropriate pastoral care, and
- Assess how well we are doing.
Information about you that we hold includes your contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information1 and personal characteristics such as your ethnic group, any special educational needs you may have and relevant medical information. If you are enrolling for post 14 qualifications the Learning Records Service will give us your unique learner number (ULN) and may also give us details about your learning or qualifications.
We will not give information about you to anyone without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to.
We are required by law to pass some Information about you to the Department for Education (DfE) and, in turn, this will be available for the use of the LA.
If you want to receive a copy of the Information about you that we hold or share, please contact Mrs Webb at Buckland St Mary School Office.
If you need more Information about how the LA and DfE store and use your Information, then please go to the following websites:
https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data
If you cannot access these websites, please contact the LA or DfE as follows:
- Somerset County Council Taunton
- Public Communications Unit
Department for Education
Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education
Email: https://www.education.gov.uk/help/contactus
Telephone: 0370 000 2288
1 Attendance Information is NOT collected as part of the Censuses for the Department for Education for the following pupils/children – a) in Nursery schools; b) aged under 4 years in Maintained schools; c) in Alternative Provision; and d) in Early Years Settings.
