PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

Privacy Policy

As an organisation we appreciate that the privacy and security of your information is extremely important.

Please see below to see how we collect your personal information. This also explains your rights over any personal information we hold about you.

Q. What information does the organisation collect?
A. The organisation collects a range of information about you. This includes your name and contact details, including email address and telephone number.

Q. How do we use your information?
A. We use this information to register you with our nursery and to contact you.

Q. How do we store it and who do we share it with?
A. Data will be stored in a range of different places, including on our nursery software system and a customer database. We will not pass your information onto a third party unless otherwise agreed with yourself.

Q. Who has access to data?
A. Your information is accessed by the relevant nursery management team of which you are enquiring for. The organisation will not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

Q. How does the organisation protect data?
A. The organisation takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties.

Q. For how long does the organisation keep data?
A. We will keep your personal data for as long as is relevant for business purposes only.

Your rights; as a data subject, you have a number of rights.

You can: Access and obtain a copy of your data on request. Require the organisation to change incorrect or incomplete data. Require the organisation to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing. Object to the processing of your data where the organisation is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing; and ask the organisation to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override the organisation’s legitimate grounds for processing data.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer at info@castaliamontessori.com.

You can make a subject access request by completing the organisation’s subject access Enquiry form. If you believe that the organisation has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.

Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.  

  • Analytical or performance cookies. These 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, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at info@castaliamontessori.com.