WHAT THIS WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY COVERS

This website privacy policy covers how we treat the personal and/or anonymous information that Portland School And Specialist College collects and receives, including information relating to your past use of our website. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address or phone number, which you submit through our website or via email. Anonymous information such as website usage tracking, explained below, is not identifiable to you.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated organisations except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission.

We will use reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities, unless required by law or other regulations.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on our web site.

PRIVACY SUPPORT AND CONTACT INFORMATION

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INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

General

Portland School And Specialist College collects personal information whenever a user chooses to contact us via the web form or email.

When contacting us using this method we may ask for information such as your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number. We automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the page you have used to submit your request.

We use information for the following general purposes:

• To customise the content that you see
• Fulfil your requests
• For technical web site administration

Cookies In Use on This Site

Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

Our cookies may help us to:

• Make our website work as you'd expect
• Save you having to login every time you visit the site
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster
• Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies, Our own cookies

We may use cookies to make our website work including:

• Determining if you are logged in or not
• Remembering your search settings
• Showing you which pages you have recently visited
• Allowing you to add comments to our site
• Tailoring content to your needs

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded location map. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called "analytics" programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

Further information and consent:

1. If you have any questions concerning this Data Protection and Privacy Policy please contact us at Portland School And Specialist College, Uttoxeter Road, Blythe Bridge, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, ST11 9JG Tel: 01782 882020
2. By accepting this policy statement you consent to the use (including processing and storage), transfer and disclosure of your information and data referred to in this policy statement for the purposes set out in this policy statement.