The Data Protection Act covers how all personal information is held and used by the Pre-school.

This Policy is to make sure you are fully aware of how we may use your personal information should you send your child to our pre-school.

The policy covers:

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• How we collect information about you and any children who attend our pre-school,

• How we use personal information,

• How long we keep personal information,

• Who we share personal information with,

• Where we process personal information,

• Our commitment to you,

• What rights you have over personal information,

• Use of cookies by our pre-school

 

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We receive information about you and any children who attend our pre-school in a number of different ways.

You may give us the information. This may happen when you:

• apply for, or we offer you, a place;

• when you let us know about a change in your personal circumstances (for example, if you change your name when you get married or move house).

• We may receive it from another organisation, for example, should we be required to work with social services.

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HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use information that we have about you and your children for business purposes. These purposes generally fall into the following areas.

1. Administration – This applies to past, current and potential future children and their parents/guardians/carers.

We use this information for the provision of childcare.

The types of personal information we collect and use include:

• The personal details of your child;

• The payment of fees due;

• Details of the child’s Family (so we can contact you in case of an emergency)

• Medical information (so we can cater for any special needs)

• Ethnic background of your child (this is collected by the London Borough of Sutton as part of the process to obtain Nursery Education Funding for your child). This is also used if we are able to apply for grants and funding from Government bodies.

2. Provision of Education – This applies to past, current and potential future children and their parents/guardians/carers.

We use this information to ensure that your child’s development needs are catered for.

• The types of information we collect and use include: information on any special needs and

• details of any other professionals working with your child.

 

3. Keeping you informed – This applies to current, past and potential future children and their parents/guardians/carers.

We use this information to keep you updated about events at the pre-school(e.g. to let you know about events and changes to schedules).

The types of information we collect and use include:

• Email address. So we can email you updates.

(Note: This is optional, and you can opt out of receiving email updates at any time).

Details of all events and notices will always be posted on the Parents’ Noticeboard.

 

HOW LONG WE KEEP PERSONAL INFORMATION

We are required to keep certain personal information including registers, medication record books and accident record books pertaining to the children for at least 3 years after the child has left pre-school (sometimes much longer). This is in order to comply with ‘Early Years Foundation Stage Welfare Requirements’ (given legal force by Childcare Act 2006) and other legislation (e.g. Limitation Act 1980/The Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act 1991).

 

WHO WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH

Generally we only use your information within the pre-school.  There are some occasions when we need to share personal information about you and / or your child with third parties. These are:

• If you chose to pay for the pre-school using vouchers (e.g. Childcare vouchers) we will share the minimum amount of your personal information necessary with the voucher scheme operator so they can identify you and make the appropriate payments to the pre-school on your behalf.

• If your child is entitled to Nursery Education Funding, we are required to share your personal details with the London Borough of Sutton in order to identify your child and prove entitlement to funding.

• Every now and again, we receive requests for information from schools, government departments, the police and other enforcement agencies. If there is a proper legal basis for sharing your personal information, we will provide it to the organisation that is asking for it.

• We may on occasion use your personal information for the purposes of recovery of overdue fees.

• In case of an emergency, we may need to share with the emergency services details of your child including details of any medical conditions as provided to us by you.

• To contact you when we want to inform you about events at the pre-school.

 

WHERE WE PROCESS PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only store and use your personal information in the United Kingdom

 

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

We will process your personal information in line with the Data Protection Act. This means that we will:

• only collect and hold information about you which we need for some reason;

• keep your personal information up to date and accurate (to help us do this, please let us know if any of your details change);

• take appropriate steps to protect your personal information from being used without permission, or illegally, and to safeguard your rights; and

• destroy your personal information in a secure way once we no longer need it.

 

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have certain rights over your personal information. Most importantly, you have a right to ask for a copy of all the personal information we hold about you but there are some legal exceptions to this, such as information, which is confidential to the pre-school. If you would like a copy of your personal information, you should contact our Administration Manager. You may need to pay £10 to cover our administration costs.

 

USE OF COOKIES BY SUTTON OPPORTUNITY PRESCHOOL

When someone visits www.suttops.org.uk we 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. We collect this information in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

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Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

 

The only cookie we use is to allow us to find out more about people use our website so that we can improve it and make it more user friendly. You may delete and block all cookies from this site.