Privacy Statement
Protecting your Privacy
1. Introduction
Your Privacy is important to us. We are committed to safeguarding the personal information you provide to us and to protect your privacy. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to assist you in understanding how we, Richard Huish College, use personal information collected via this website, and the choices you can make about how your personal information is used. By submitting your personal information to this website, you are confirming that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and that we may use your personal information described in it. We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. Any modifications will apply to all information collected by Richard Huish College, including previously collected information.
2. The information we collect
You do not have to provide any personal information in order to browse this website. Any information you provide will be held within and used by Richard Huish College as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
We will collect personal information about you at various stages through the use of paper and electronic registration forms. You are able to update the personal information we collect and hold about you at any time by contacting the College.
In addition to your personal information, when you use our website, we may collect tracking information such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use, the name of your Internet service provider and pages visited on the site.
The site gets this information by using technologies, including cookies to increase the functionality and user-friendliness of our website and to better tailor our website to your needs. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on our website or which pages get the most attention. Information such as this will only be used in aggregate form and does not identify you personally.
3. How your information is used
We collect information on our users for a variety of purposes:
- To help us improve and provide a personalised service to you.
- To reply to your enquiries more efficiently through the services we provide.
- To run competitions.
- So that we can send you information which is relevant to your interests.
We also use information in aggregate form (i.e. your individual details cannot be identified) for the following purposes:
- To build up marketing profiles
- To aid strategic development
- To audit usage of the site.
4. Cookies and other similar technologies
As part of this website we use session and persistent cookies, tags and other similar technologies as a means of collecting non-sensitive information on general website usage so that we may improve your experience on our website.
Cookies are a small piece of information placed on your computer’s hard drive via your web browser to enable the sender to identify, authenticate and maintain specific information about users. Cookies make using the website’s facilities quicker, easier and more convenient as well as allowing registered students and staff to be presented with a personalised version of the site.
If you would like to browse the Richard Huish College website you may do so without accepting cookies, however there will be sections unavailable to you.
If you choose to deactivate cookies, the “help” button on the menu bar of most web browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser tell you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies.
Please read this section in full before deciding whether to disable cookies as doing so may reduce your enjoyment of our website.
Session cookies are used to allow you to carry information across pages of this website and avoid having to re-enter information. Session cookies are not retained on your computer after you leave this site and then close down your browser.
5. Links
This website contains links to other websites which are not controlled by Richard Huish College. This Privacy Policy applies only to www.richuish.ac.uk and sites in the *.richuish.ac.uk domain.
