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St Bede’s Catholic High School operates the website https://sbchs.co.uk This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the website.

We use your Information only for providing and improving the website. By using the website you agree to the following:

Information Collection and Use

While using our website we will not ask you to provide your personal information. Other links within the website which require a login to a third-party website will be governed by the privacy notice on their site and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2018.

Log Data

Like many site operators we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Like many websites we use “cookies” to collect information as detailed above (log data). You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies you may not be able to use some portions of our website. These cookies are for your convenience and improved use of our website.

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

We use the following cookies:

Necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of online booking forms.
Google Analytics – a web analytics service provided by Google. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works and is structured. Google Analytics allows us to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website through Google Analytics.
Functionality cookies – These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
Third-party cookies – (for example, Twitter and Youtube). Some third-party software utilises its own cookies over which we have little or no control. You can find out about their use of cookies by visiting the third party’s website.

Enabling some of these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us and as such the School operates in full compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2018.

Changes To This Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice is effective immediately and will remain so with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Notice at any time and you should check this periodically. Your continued use of the website after we post any modifications to the Privacy Notice on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Notice.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice please contact Admin@sbchs.co.uk