Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how St Andrews East PTFA  uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website, attend our events or become a PTFA member.

Your personal data

Any personal information you provide to us via the forms on our website or in hard copy, such as your name, address, phone number, email address etc. will not be passed on, sold, or rented to anyone outside PTFA East.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. 

If you would like a copy of any information held on you please write to:

PTFA east c/o St Andrews lower school

Bantock Way

SG188UQ

How we use your data

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping and updating out member database.

• We may use the information to contact about events being organised by the PTFA.

• We may periodically send emails about new events, required volunteering or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email to find out opinions on events and services we provide. 

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

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How this website uses "cookies"

A “cookie” is a small text file that is saved by your browser. PTFA uses cookies to track the number of visitors to this website, as well as collect anonymous data such as which country the visitor is from, which browser they’re using, what time of day they access the site, whether they return to the site etc.

We use this data to improve the ease of use of our websites and and the experience for our users.

Cookies do not contain any personal information, and we don’t use cookies to collect personal/identifiable information from you.

You may have heard about recent changes to legislation regarding notifying users about the use of cookies. Our websites are fully compliant with the new rules. If you’d like to find out more on this topic, there’s some useful information here:

http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies

Turning off cookies

If you wish, you can instruct your web browser not to accept cookies. Instructions on how to do this for various types of browser can be found on the following websites:

Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Opera: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Updates to the privacy policy

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from April 2018,