The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that you have a safe online experience. This privacy statement sets out our policy for data collection and usage on this website. By using this website, you consent to the practices described below.

Collection of Information

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form may collect personal information using forms on our site from time to time, such as your name, e-mail address postal address or telephone number. Where we do so it will be entered by you on a form and actively submitted. We may also collect anonymous demographic information, such as your post code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites, which is not unique to you.

We will automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. We use this for the operation of the service, to maintain quality, and for statistical analysis of the use of the website.

We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our site so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form website.

Please be aware that if you post any personally identifiable information through comments left on the site, this information could be collected and used by others.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies on this website to collect standard internet log information and details of our visitors’ behaviour patterns. This is so we can obtain statistics of the number of visits and log popular parts of the site. This allows us to improve our web content and develop our website for future visitors.

We don’t use this information for anything other than our own analysis, we do not pass your cookie data to any third party providers.

We use cookies to:

  1. Allow users to log in and use our resources including email, VLE and remote systems
  2. Store a reference to form data that is stored on the web servers
  3. Analyse user statistics.

How we use your information

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form uses services from Google on this website to measure and analyse visitor information. For further information on these, please visit Google Analytics. We may use and analyse the information we collect so that we can manage and improve the services on the website. Demographic and statistical information about user behaviour may be collected and used to analyse the popularity and effectiveness of the website. Any disclosure of this information will be in aggregate form and will not identify individual users.

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form will not (nor will it allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tools to track or to collect personally identifiable information of visitors to this website. J & G Marshall Ltd will not associate any data gathered with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the statistical analytics tools.

Use of your Personal Information

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form does not sell, rent or lease any personal information from these sites to third parties. We may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

We collect and use your personal information to operate the website and deliver requested services. We may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form. We may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form  secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.

When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption.

Changes to this Statement

The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this statement.

Contact Information

If you believe that The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form has not adhered to this statement, please contact us using the details on the contacts page of this site. We will use all reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.