The details on this page relate solely to the use of this website by the public or by members of our team with user accounts. Full details of our wider approach to privacy and data protection can be found on our policies page.

Who we are

This site is provided by St Boniface’s Catholic College, a comprehensive school in Plymouth, UK.

Cookies

Functional Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

If you have an account on the site and you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish a page or post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Analytics Cookies

We do not currently set any analytics cookies when you visit this site.

Marketing Cookies

We do not directly set any marketing cookies and we try, wherever possible, to prevent third party cookies from being set. However, pages and posts on this site may include embedded content (such as a Google maps, YouTube or Vimeo videos and social media feeds). Such 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 (such as a Google or Facebook account) and are currently logged in to that account in your web browser.

To prevent any site that you visit from setting Third Party cookies, they can be disabled in the privacy section of your web browser’s settings – for instructions on how to do this in the most popular browsers, visit the providers’ support sites: Google ChromeApple SafariMozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge.

Security and Spam Protection

This site employs software to protect against unauthorised login, spam and other malicious activity. Where malicious activity is detected, the IP address from which it originated will be stored.

Contact Forms

This site does not currently use any contact forms. If you contact us using the email address or other contact methods offered in the footer of the site, such communication takes place outside the site and is subject to our normal data protection policies, available on our policies page.

How we protect your data

This site uses the https protocol and, as such, any data you exchange with the site is transmitted over a secure, encrypted connection – details of the security certificate can be viewed by clicking on the symbol to the left of our website address in your browser address bar. The site is hosted on a secure server, within the UK, which is password-protected and subject to additional layers of security.

Who we share your data with

We do not share any data that this site collects with any other organisations.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile indefinitely. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have a user account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.