Online Privacy Practices
Your right to privacy is important to us. We try hard to ensure a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring you obtain full value from our site and learn of things you are likely to be interested in. We ensure we comply with all protection the Data Protection Act 1998 gives you. Further information on the Act is here: www.dataprotection.gov.uk You can also view our Policies on our Policies page and Privacy Statement.
Cookies
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.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga _gid _gat AMP_TOKEN _gac_ |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Click here |
| Holly Lodge | privacy_embeds | To determine if the user has hidden the cookies banner. | |
| Google Youtube | Click here | To allow the playing of videos that are hosted on YouTube | Click here |
| reCapture | Click here | To determine if the user is a human when filling online forms. This is reduce spam requests. | Click here |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Registration
When we ask you to provide information it is often (but not only) to enable us to enhance your site visit or send information on things that we believe will interest you or reply to you after your visit. This would include where you subscribe to any online newsletters or provide feedback to us through a contact form or when you complete any online competition form or survey we may offer from time to time. When you register, we ask you the questions set out on that page to obtain your personal information. We may use (and you consent to the use of) your personal data for future e-mail, mailings, phone or other forms of contact, notification of new services, competitions and new versions. We do not disclose or sell your information outside our group.
Security
Making sure you can interact safely online is a priority for us. We have made strenuous efforts to ensure that security is one of our highest priorities, and we have devoted a great deal of effort to ensure that our online security measures help to safeguard your information. We have no desire to infringe your privacy while using our site, and we will never provide your personal information to anyone else except as set out above.
Further Information on Data Protection and Personal Privacy
For further information from us on data protection and privacy please contact us:-
Holly Lodge High School College of Science
Holly Lane
Smethwick
West Midlands
B67 7JG
Tel: 0121 558 0691
Email: info@holly-lodge.org
You can also view our Policies on our Policies page.
Information on the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is also on the Information Commissioner’s website.