Cookies In Use on This Site
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic High School takes the privacy of its website users very seriously.
What this website privacy notice covers
This website privacy notice covers how St. Joseph’s R.C. High School treats personal information that St. Joseph’s R.C. High School 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, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
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 services you’ve requested, when we have your permission. The only time when personal information is gathered is when users submit an enquiry through our contact form.
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 notice
We may update this notice at any time. 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
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us on office@st-josephs.bolton.sch.uk
Information Collection and Use
General
St. Joseph’s R.C. High School collects personal information whenever a user chooses to contact us via the contact form within the following sections:
- – Contact Form;
- – Facility Hire;
- – Commenting on news items and calendar dates.
When contacting us using these methods, we 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 request.
We use information for the following general purposes:
- – To customise the content that you see;
- – Fulfill your requests;
- – For technical web site administration.
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 help us:
- – Make our website work as you’d expect;
- – Remember your settings during and between visits;
- – Improve the speed/security of the site;
- – Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook and Twitter;
- – Continuously improve our website for you;
- – Make our marketing more efficient.
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 the current arrangements. 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 use cookies to make our website work including:
- – Remembering your search settings;
- – Allowing you to add comments to our site.
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily like or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, we have included sharing buttons on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
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 analytic 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.
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.
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software by clicking here.
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