Privacy Policy

The Royal Alexandra and Albert School Foundation
www.gattonfoundation.org.uk

The Royal Alexandra and Albert School Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with current regulations. Before providing your personal details, please read this privacy notice which concerns the protection of your personal data. The following notice details how the Royal Alexandra and Albert School uses and protects the information provided by you through the use of the www.gattonfoundation.org.uk website and your communications with members of the Foundation team.

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR DATA AND HOW WE USE IT

The data controller for The Royal Alexandra and Albert School Foundation is the Royal Alexandra and Albert School. It will hold and process any personal information which you provide via www.gattonfoundation.org.uk and/or by submitting emails and/or online forms for internal business purposes, ensuring effective communication and a personalised service. Your data will be used to and for:

• Internal record keeping.
• Reply and/or follow up with your query.
• Ensure you receive requested information, including but not limited to brochures and event details.
• Administer, support, improve and develop the service provided at the Royal Alexandra and Albert School.
• From time to time, the Royal Alexandra and Albert School may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. You may be contacted by email or have a survey sent to you. The information you provide will help to ensure that the Royal Alexandra and Albert School continues to meet customer expectations.  

Your data will be shared internally within the Royal Alexandra and Albert School. for information and data processing matters. Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us with third parties without your consent.

WHAT DATA WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

The information held by the Royal Alexandra and Albert School is collected via telephone, email correspondence, and “cookies”.

When you visit www.gattonfoundation.org.uk and make an enquiry, you are asked to provide certain information about yourself so that members of the Royal Alexandra and Albert School team can respond to your query. This information includes:

• Your name
• Your email
• Your phone number
• Details of your interest in the School’s Foundation

As with most websites, please be aware that www.gattonfoundation.org.uk uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of text which attaches to your hard drive (but does not access your hard drive) and from which it can store and sometimes track information. Cookies allow monitoring of website traffic and personalisation of website content. Cookies are used by the Royal Alexandra and Albert School to analyse the usefulness of pages, design and layout of its website. None of this information is linked back to you as an individual. Most browsers will automatically accept a cookie but it is possible to set your browser to notify you prior to it being sent. You may set up your computer to reject cookies.

YOUR PERSONAL DATA

You may request details of your personal information which is held by the Royal Alexandra and Albert School. Upon written request, the Royal Alexandra and Albert School will provide you with your personal information (this may be at a small charge). Proof of identity may be required before data is disclosed – this is to ensure the safeguarding and security of the data held by the Royal Alexandra and Albert School.

You have the right to change and/or revoke your consents. You may also request for the Royal Alexandra and Albert School to cease use of your personal data for the purposes described in ‘What Date We Collect and How We Collect It’, and you may request that your data is erased.  
If you have a data related request or query, please write to: development@gatton-park.org.uk

SECURITY OF YOUR DATA

The Royal Alexandra and Albert School takes all reasonable measures to protect your information from data breaches, access by unauthorised persons, unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage of your data. All data breaches that may risk your rights or freedoms will be reported within 72 hours to the Information Commissioner’s Office by the Royal Alexandra and Albert School Data Protection Officer.

The Data Protection Officer for the Royal Alexandra and Albert School is Mr G Bendall.

We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires or permits. The Royal Alexandra and Albert School keeps your data to assist with identify trends, forecasting demand and ensuring that our services remain relevant to customers. 

CHANGES TO NOTICE
                                                    
Please note that the Royal Alexandra and Albert School may at any point change its privacy notice. Any changes to the privacy notice in the future will be posted on this website.

December 2017