Ensuring The Privacy & Safety Of Pupils

Website Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy states how your personal information is treated.

(1) What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

Information about your visits to and use of this website.

Information about any transactions carried out between you and the school on or concerning this website.

Information that you provide to us to register with us, and leaving guestbook comments, or subscribe to our website services or email notifications.

(2) Information about website views

In general, we do not collate any information from your visit that you have not supplied voluntarily. We may collect information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, duration of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability, and for marketing purposes.

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the webserver to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie that may be stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you revisit our website and to personalise our site for you.

Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector.) This may, however, have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

(3) Using your personal data

Personal data submitted freely to this website may be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website. In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

• Improve your browsing experience by personalising the website.

• Provide other organisations with statistical information about our users - but this information will not be used to identify any individual user.

We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for direct marketing.

(4) Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

To the extent that we are required to do so by law;

• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

• To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

(5) Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Our website is encrypted with SSL certification. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

(6) Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

(7) Third-party websites

The website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third-party websites.

(8) Our contact details

Please see our contact us page for contact details.

Website Disclaimer

(1) Introduction

This disclaimer governs your use of our website; by using our website, you accept this disclaimer in full. If you disagree with any part of this disclaimer, do not use our website.

(2) Intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all our intellectual property rights are reserved.

(3) Licence to use website

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website, provided that:

You must not republish material from this website (including republication on another website), or reproduce or store material from this website in any public or private electronic retrieval system.

You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, visit, or otherwise exploit our website or material on our website for a commercial purpose, without our express written consent.

(4) Limitations of liability

The information on this website is provided free-of-charge, and you acknowledge that it would be unreasonable to hold us liable in respect of this website and the information on this website.

While we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we not commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on this website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill).

Our liability is limited and excluded to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. We will not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage arising under this disclaimer or in connection with our website, whether arising in tort, contract, or otherwise - including, without limitation, any loss of profit, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, income, revenue or anticipated savings.

However, nothing in this disclaimer shall exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

(5) Variation

We may revise this disclaimer from time-to-time. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(6) Entire agreement

This disclaimer constitutes the entire agreement between you and us concerning your use of our website and supersedes all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

(7) Law and jurisdiction

This notice will be governed by and construed in accordance with EU law, and any disputes relating to this notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of applicable law courts.

(8) Our contact details

Please see our contact us page for details.

Cookies

Cookies allow our website to recognise devices and track how our visitors use our site. We use only essential cookies that help you to navigate or provide you with essential website features. Data collected from some cookies helps us enhance the performance of the website and offer you better user experience.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent from our web server to your browser when you visit our website. Cookies are stored on your hard drive. Internet browsers commonly accept cookies by default, but it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies.

Further information on cookies can be found here at www.allaboutcookies.org.

OUR COOKIES

Several types of cookies are used to keep track of information needed by a site user as they travel from page to page within a website.

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Our Analytics package Google Analytics uses this cookie.

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These are required for browsing the site.

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This cookie remembers your acceptance of the use of cookies on our website.

First-Party Cookies

Cookies can be used to track internet activity after the user has left a website. These are typically facilitated by organisations external to the site being visited and are generally known as ‘third-party’ cookies. They usually have a long life with several months being quite common. They are ‘harvested’ and ‘refreshed’ whenever the user visits a page where the same or a similar cookie is being used.

Analytics

We may use Google Analytics to measure and analyse visitor information related to our website. For that purpose, your IP address, internet traffic data and data on your browser type and computer or device are collected using several cookies (_utma, _utmc, utmb, utmz):

Third-Party Cookies & Microsites

The domain specified in the cookie relates to the cookie’s owner (the “party”), who has set the cookie britishschool.pt cookies will have the School domain specified in a cookie. These are first-party cookies.

We use some cookies. These are used to analyse your browsing for future improvements and to provide specific useful functions such as storing your preferences or consents.

A third-party cookie is set when you visit a site but the domain name in the cookie sent to your computer is not the same as the website. For example, if you visit britishschool.pt, you may also visit a different website. Even though you have visited britishschool.pt, the cookie will be from the other site.

External Media

We sometimes embed media content from external websites. Pages with embedded media content, for example, our prospectus from issuu.com or videos from YouTube, may provide cookies from these websites.

Rejecting Cookies

Internet browsers commonly accept cookies by default, but it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies. If this is done, it is important not to exclude the simple and useful cookies. Choose an option that refuses all third party and long-lived cookies.

If you do not want cookies stored on your computer, you can remove them using the following methods.

For Google Chrome

Google Chrome version 14 or above:

Click the wrench button in the upper-right corner of the Chrome window. Select Options.

In the Navigation pane, click Under the Hood.

In Privacy, click Content Settings.

In Cookies, click All cookies and site data.

Click the Remove All button to delete all cookies stored in Chrome.

If you’re using an earlier version of Google Chrome, navigate to the Cookies section of your Chrome browser. Click Remove All to delete all cookies.

For Firefox

In the latest version of the Firefox browser:

Select the Firefox menu.

Select Options

Select Options again.

Click the Privacy tab.

Select the History section

Click the Remove Individual Cookies link.

At the bottom of the Cookies window, click Remove All Cookies to delete all cookies created from your Firefox browser.

For Safari

In version 5 or later of Apple’s Safari browser:

Click the Gears menu in the upper-right corner of the Safari window.

Select Reset Safari.

Check Remove all website data. You can uncheck everything else if you only want to delete cookies.

Click Reset to delete all cookies created from your Safari browser.

Internet Explorer

In the latest version of Internet Explorer:

Select Tools from the Internet Explorer window

Click Delete Browsing History.

Check the box next to Cookies. You can uncheck everything else if you only want to delete cookies.

Click Delete to remove all cookies stored in Internet Explorer.