Privacy Policy

1. What Information Do We Collect About You?

When we collect information, we do so to ensure that you get to experience our service seamlessly. For that, we collect the following information through our online inquiry and contact forms:

• Name
• Email address
• Educational information that is not publicly available
• Parent Contact Number
• Applicant's Child required Grade
• Applicant's Child Required admission year
• Applicant's Child Current Grade
• Applicant's Child Current School

2. How Do We Collect Such Information?

We may use the following ways to get information about you:

• The information that you give us: When you actively fill out an application or contact form on our website.
• The information that we automatically collect from you: When you access our service from a device, we may automatically collect information from your device, such as through the use of cookies.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small packets of information that are placed on your device, so that we can retrieve the information about you, such as your choices on our websites and other information.

Please view our dedicated, real-time Interactive Cookie Audit Table for a detailed and comprehensive breakdown of all active background tracking scripts running on this domain.

4. Do Not Track Requests

Our website recognizes and respects 'Do Not Track' (DNT) browser settings and Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. When your browser transmits a DNT or GPC signal while visiting our site, our integrated privacy management system automatically restricts the deployment of non-essential, tracking, advertising, or analytics cookies. No action is required on your part to enforce this preference.

5. Why Do We Collect Information About You?

We collect information about you for a variety of reasons. It helps us, among other things, to serve you better. The following are the ways in which we use the information that we collect about you:

• To process your child's enrollment or admission inquiry.
• To contact the user regarding notifications and submissions.

7. Legal Disclosures

We may need to share your information when we believe it is required by law, legal process or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us, or others. We attempt to notify members about legal demands for their data when appropriate in our judgment unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, at our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague, or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.

8. Your Rights and Obligations

Data Retention:

We keep most of your personal information while we still have a purpose, we need to provide you with services or where we are legally obligated to do so.

We will also keep your information where you have agreed for us to do so, or have given your consent that we are allowed to do so.

We keep some of your information even after our business relationship has terminated, if it is reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our other user agreements, or fulfil your request to object to our processing of your information.

You have rights in connection with your personal information. You have many choices about how your information is collected, used, and shared. In certain circumstances, by law, you have the right to:

• Request access to your information: You will be able to ask us what information we have about you as well as ask for a copy of this information. This should be done on request to deirdre@shelantiprivateschool.co.za. There are some exemptions, which means you may not always receive all the information we process. When we can give you a copy it might be done at a certain fee, which will also be communicated to you at the time of your query.
• Change or correct information: You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Delete information: You can ask us to delete or remove personal information under certain circumstances.
• Object to processing: You can do this where we are relying on your legitimate interest, public interest, or our legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your data for direct marketing purposes or where you have given your consent for the specific processing and you want to retract your consent. Retracting your consent does not invalidate the information we lawfully processed while we had your consent to do so.
• Request the restriction of processing: You can ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

9. Changes to Our Privacy Notice

Changes to the privacy notice apply to your use of our services. We may modify this privacy notice from time to time, as required by changes in legislation. When material changes are made, we will provide notice through our services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective.

You acknowledge that your continued use of our services after we publish our changes to this privacy notice means that the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information is subject to the updated privacy notice.

10. Other Important Information

Security:

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information on a business need-to-know basis, and subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Transborder information transfers:

We do not share any of our clients, suppliers, service providers and other third parties’ information across borders.

Links to other websites or apps:

On our website, we may provide links to external websites, apps, or services. These are not operated by us and therefore are not governed by our Privacy Policy or practices. We strongly recommend that you review the privacy policies of such websites or services before engaging with them to ensure that you do not provide personal information that you do not wish to share.

11. The Information Regulator

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the South African Information Regulator if you believe your data processing options have been mismanaged. See the Information Regulator contact details below: