Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.odysseyeducationgroup.co.uk.
GDPR
Privacy policies
Privacy Notice For Pupils And Parents
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When visitors fill in contact forms or leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
We may set and access Cookies on Your “Computer” meaning any computer, laptop, tablet, a mobile or other device that the Website can be viewed on.
A “Cookie” is a small file of letters and numbers which asks permission from your browser to be placed on your Computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual and allow us to distinguish you from other users on our Website. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences and allows us to improve our Website.
Our Cookies use:
a) Google Analytics Cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic (the number of visitors and how visitors move around our Website when they are using it) and improve our Website in order to tailor it to your needs.
b) Third-party Cookies within our email campaigns, predominantly sent using third-party email marketing tools, as well as Google Analytics. Cookies are used to monitor open rates and improve your experience and also for the tracking of website activity initiated from hyperlinks within email marketing campaigns.
c) Session Cookies on our Website. These are temporary Cookies, which only exist in the period you access the Website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after accessing the Website). Session Cookies help the Website remember what you chose on the previous page, therefore avoiding having to re-enter information.
d) Cookies used for customer email, customer name, customer id*, token*, customer profile link*, customer flags* (*= these are generated by our own system) and social media share.
The length of time a Cookie will remain on your Computer will depend on the type of Cookie. On our Website, these Cookies do not contain personal information, and cannot be used to identify you.
To find out more about how to manage cookies through your chosen browser go to: www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
You may delete/disable your Cookies or manage your Cookies preferences (Please see the link on how to disable Cookies http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage- cookies#ie=ie-11). If you do decide to disable or delete the Cookies altogether our Website will not work as well as it could as it relies on Cookies to provide you with the service you have requested.
You can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your web browser. By default, your browser will accept Cookies; however, this can be altered. For further details please consult the help menu in your browser on your Computer and search for “cookies”.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
