Policies and Procedures

Amesbury School Privacy Policy

The Board of Trustees is required to comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act in all aspects. Amesbury School will respect the privacy of all individuals.

References:

Privacy Act, 1993; Education Act, 1990; Education Amendment Act, 1993; Archives Act, Privacy in Schools 2009, published by the The Privacy Commissioner, Official Information Act.

Purposes:

  1. To promote and protect individual privacy with regards to the collection, use and disclosure of information relating to individuals.
  2. To guide access by each individual to information relating to that information held by the school.

Definition

The 12 Privacy Principles

  • only collect information that you need
  • get the information from the individual concerned
  • tell the individual you are doing it
  • use lawful, fair and reasonable methods to do it
  • store and transmit information securely
  • give people access to their information
  • dealing with incorrect personal information
  • checking for accuracy before use
  • retaining information only for as long as necessary
  • use personal information for its purposes
  • limits on disclosure of personal information
  • use of personal identification numbers

Relevant guidelines with regard to Website and related online forms

  1. Privacy procedures will be developed and will comply with the principles listed above. The following tells you how we will use and safeguard the personal information you provide us on our website. By visiting our website you agree to this privacy notice.
  2. The Board acknowledges the right of individuals to change any information held about them if it is shown that the stored information is incorrect.
  3. Each individual may request access to any information about them which is stored by the school. It will be provided in a timely manner.
  4. All forms used for the collection of personal information such as enrolment forms, will be noted with a clause that advises individuals about the collection, storage, use and access to information. E.g. This information is gathered for the purposes of furthering the education of your child. It will be used within the school and as statistical information when required by the Ministry of Education. In completing such official requests individual students are not identified. You have the right to alter, amend and view any of these details at any time while your child attends Amesbury School.
  5. Permission is sought on our school enrolment from parents or caregivers for  use of photographs, name and examples of their learning used in both electronic and printed form (school website, newsletters, newspaper). Where permission is not sought, photographs, names and work of the student concerned will not be used without permission from parents or caregivers.
  6. We will not share email addresses with others. This means that all group emails such as that used to send out the fortnightly Amesbury Digests will be blind copied so that no one is able to identify who the recipients are or access their email address.
  7. Where an individual believes their privacy to have been breached, or where the school takes any action that may possibly be considered a breach of privacy, the school will advise the individual of their right to make a complaint to the Privacy commissioner.
  8. Information regarding the number of views the site has each month, where the views are coming from and any key word searches being used to find our Site will be collected.
  9. The only other information we collect on our website is information provided by you if you: 
    1. Ask to receive a copy of our Amesbury Digest
    2. Send us an enquiry
    3. Enrol or pre-enrol online
    4. Fill out an online form
  10. We will collect, use and retain information about you only if we believe it is justified, required and useful in order to conduct our transactions with you effectively and to provide you with the service you have requested.
  11. Cookies are enabled. However, they will not pass any personal information on to the school or any other organisation. They are only used to identify your browser.
  12. We may disclose personal data in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
  13. We are not collecting information about website traffic patterns and site usage.
  14. We will not use any information provided by you to contact you for any other purpose than the service you have requested.
  15. We will not share your information with any other parties except as it pertains to the service you have requested.

 

Revision of Privacy Policy

Amesbury School reserves the right to change, modify or revise this policy in order to comply with any applicable laws or for any other reason at any time. Therefore, users are required to check the Privacy Policy regularly to read about any changes or revisions. You will be deemed to have consented to the changes by your ongoing use of the site following any changes.

 

Conclusion

Protecting your privacy is important to us. Therefore the school will abide by the 12 privacy principles, ensuring that each individual’s right to privacy is protected.

 

Amesbury School ALF Privacy Policy

 

NATIONAL GUIDELINE NO: 6

SECTION: OPERATIONAL POLICY

POLICY NO: 6.2.5

 

TITLE: ALF Privacy Policy

 

ALF (Amesbury Learning Framework) is a Student progress tracking application used internally to Amesbury School. ALF uses Google OAuth to authenticate the students which already have a G Suite account. ALF is there after authorizing the students access based on their email address. Only users who are currently students at Amesbury school are granted access to ALF. Any personal information about users are already stored within ALF, no information is retrieved nor synchronized with Google at anytime.

 

ALF uses Google Drive to allow users to upload resources which show the students is meeting Amesbury Schools interpretation of the New Zealand primary school curriculum. The Google Drive API is also used to allow the user to select said uploaded resource and include a link into ALF for the teacher to review if learning standards were achieved. The token used for accessing google drive is not stored in between user session and is never sent to the backend web application.

 

What information do we collect, how do we use it and what do we share?

As ALF is an internal system, all data stays within our own management system.

We do not collect any user to sell, trade or rent to third parties.

 

Amesbury School A4T Privacy Policy

 

NATIONAL GUIDELINE NO: 6

SECTION: OPERATIONAL POLICY

POLICY NO: 6.2.6

 

TITLE: A4T Privacy Policy

 

A4T (ALF 4 Teachers) is a teacher progress tracking application used internally to Amesbury School. A4T uses Google OAuth to authenticate the teachers which already have a G Suite account. A4T is there after authorizing the teachers access based on their email address. Only users who are currently teachers at Amesbury school are granted access to A4T. Any personal information about users are already stored within A4T, no information is retrieved nor synchronized with Google at anytime.

 

A4T uses Google Drive to allow users to upload resources which show the teacher is meeting Amesbury Schools interpretation of the New Zealand primary school curriculum. The Google Drive API is also used to allow the user to select said uploaded resource and include a link into A4T for the management to review if standards were achieved. The token used for accessing google drive is not stored in between user session and is never sent to the backend web application.

 

What information do we collect, how do we use it and what do we share?

As A4T is an internal system, all data stays within our own management system.

We do not collect any user to sell, trade or rent to third parties.