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We take your privacy extremely seriously and are committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to our website. We will always keep your data safe and secure.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller – the organisation that’s responsible for your privacy – is Great Wyrley Academy.
Our Data Protection Officer is Sally-Anne Chidwick. Sally can be contacted on 0121 6027594 or gdpr@windsoracademytrust.org.uk
The school is part of Windsor Academy Trust and uses the Trust to undertake certain administrative and support functions on its behalf. The function of marketing and managing this website is undertaken by the school in conjunction with Windsor Academy Trust.
You have a legal right to be informed about how the school uses any personal information that we hold about you. To comply with this, we provide a ‘privacy notice’ to you where we are processing your personal data. This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about you.
Under data protection law, individuals have a legal right to be informed about how the school uses any personal information that we hold about them. To comply with this, we provide a ‘privacy notice’ to individuals where we are processing their personal data.
This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about students.
View parent/carer privacy notice
This privacy notice covers personal data for individuals who apply to work for our Trust. It explains how we collect, use and share your personal data and informs you of your rights with regard to the personal data we hold.
We use your information in a number of different ways. The table below outlines what we do and why we do it.
How we use your name and contact details |
Why? |
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To send your updates about your job application by email, text and direct email, such as interview dates |
To process your job application effectively |
To send you information by email about trust events, news and activities |
To keep you up to date. We only send this with your permission |
Showing you Great Wyrley Academy adverts as you browse the web |
To show you professional development courses, events and news that may be of interest to you |
How we use information about your phone or laptop and how you use our website |
Why? |
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To improve our website |
To give you the best possible experience when using our website |
We share your data with the following organisations as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you:
If you’ve opted-in, we’ll send you marketing messages by email and direct mail to keep you up to date and share information that may be relevant to you.
You can stop receiving messages at any time by:
Once you do this, we will update your preferences so that you don’t receive any further messages.
We use online advertising to keep you up to date on activities at our school and to help you find events and news that may be of interest to you.
Like many organisations, we target banners and adverts to you when you are on other websites and apps. We do this using a variety digital marketing networks and ad exchanges, and we use a range of advertising technologies like pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers, as well as specific services offered by some sites and social networks, such as Facebook’s Custom Audience service.
The banners and adverts you see will be based on the information we hold on you, your previous use of services offered by our school (eg pages you visit our website) or on Great Wyrley Academy banner ads you have previously clicked on.
We hold your information for as long as it is needed for us to be able to provide our services to you.
You have lots of rights relating to your personal information:
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