Introduction

This Privacy Policy refers to the website www.sjr.ac.uk or any subsequent URL used by St John Rigby College from time to time.

References in this policy to ‘the College’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ are references to St John Rigby College, while references to ‘you’ and ‘your’ and the ‘user’ are references to users of the website.

The College is committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the security of any personal information received from you. We take privacy and security of your personal information seriously and will only use such information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain to you what personal information we collect, how and why we collect it, and how we may use and disclose it.

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time and the new Privacy Policy will be published on the website. By using the website you agree to us using your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

What does this Privacy Policy cover?

This Privacy Policy only applies to how we deal with your personal information. It does not apply to any other organisations’ websites, even if you access them through this website. If you disclose your personal information to any other organisations beyond us, your information will be dealt with according to their privacy practices. 

What identifiable information do we collect?

Unless you explicitly agree, this website does not record any identifiable information from you. Only when using our on-line application system do we collect any identifiable information from you. The information captured in our application process is necessary for us to consider your application for joining the College. The details we collect will be clear and visible at the time of request and may be removed from our system at your request.

What non-identifiable information do we collect?

We do not collect any identifiable personal data unnecessarily, at present we collect data regarding your usage of this website regarding what pages/services you’ve visited, for how long and from what devices you are visiting. All data collected for these purposes will be non-identifiable and used purely for statistical analysis and to detect potential problems and plan improvements.

Why do we collect your information?

We collect non-identifiable information in order to enhance your experience of using this website, this includes remembering your choices so that on future return visits you do not need to repeat making a choice. We also collect data of your usage of the website in order to help us identify trends in general usage. With this data we can identify problems, possible improvements and maintain this website to the highest standard.

The identifiable information we collect is used to allow you to apply online for a place at the College. All information we collect is relevant to the provision of those services and without that information we would be unable to provide those services effectively.

Use and/or disclosure of your information

We may pass on data to a third party for the purpose of statistical analysis. Any such data will not include any personally identifiable data and will consist purely of anonymous usage information.

To make a request to St John Rigby College for any personal information we hold about you, to request for your information to be updated/removed, or for more information please email:

Dominic Jones
Data Protection Officer
dpo@sjr.ac.uk

How do we protect your personal information?

We take reasonable measures (physical, organisational and technological) to safeguard against unauthorised access to your personal information and to safely store your personal information. However, you acknowledge that the internet is not a secure medium and the privacy of your communications and personal information can never be guaranteed.

Log Files

When you visit any page on this website, we automatically log your access information which includes but is not limited to your computer’s IP address, browser type and access times.

Cookies

St John Rigby College uses cookies on www.sjr.ac.uk. By using this website, you consent to the use of cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the website or a third party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you.

How St John Rigby College uses cookies

When you use and access the College website, we may place several cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the website, to provide analytics, to store your preferences. We use both session and persistent cookies and we use different types of cookies to run the website. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Third party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website.

Google Analytics

This is a web analytics service provided by Google. These cookies 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 and is structured.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Where can you find more information about cookies 

You can learn more about cookies from the links below:

• All About Cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

• Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/