Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Partridge Software Solutions Ltd uses and protects any
information that you give Partridge Software Solutions Ltd when you use this website.
Partridge Software Solutions Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should
we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when
using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in
accordance with this privacy statement.
Partridge Software Solutions Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page.
You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with
any changes. This policy is effective from 1st September 2008.
We may collect the following information:
- Your name;
- Your gender;
- Your school and relevant class details.
We require this information to link any data that you enter on the website, for
example a rich task document, to you. This is necessary so that the author
of the documents can be identified and that appropriate collation of information
for authorised persons. Authorised persons include:
- Teachers within your school;
- Persons authorised by your school carried out administrative purposes;
- Partridge Software Solutions Ltd and its employees to provide support of the
website and databases.
Your information will not be used for the following purposes:
- Contact you for the purposes of marketing to promote product and services
we provide;
- Use your information to contact you for market research purposes.
We are committed to ensuring that your
information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we
have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to
safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
A
cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's
hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web
traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web
applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor
its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering
information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which
pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and
improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this
information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from
the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by
enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A
cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you,
other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or
decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can
usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may
prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest
easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should
note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we
cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which
you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this
privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement
applicable to the website in question.
You
may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the
following ways:
- whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look
for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information
to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
- if you have previously
agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you
may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at [email address]
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties
unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your
personal information to send you promotional information about third parties
which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to
happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you
under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would
like a copy of the information held on you please write to [address]. If you
believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete,
please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will
promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.