Sarnia Primary School strives to ensure that our use of Personal Information of data subjects is lawful, reasonable, and relevant to our business activities, with the ultimate goal of improving our offerings and your experience.
This notice applies to Sarnia Primary School, its subsidiaries and business units. Reference to “Sarnia Primary School”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this notice means Sarnia Primary School and any of its subsidiaries.
Sarnia Primary School respects privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to this site. We seek to employ best practice when it comes to the collection and processing of personal information in accordance with data protection or privacy legislation.
Where we provide links to websites of other organisations, this Privacy Notice does not cover how that organisation processes personal information. If you follow a link to any website, please read the privacy notice of the website you visit before you submit any personal information to such website. Sarnia Primary School is not responsible for information captured and processed on any website linked to our website.
This Online Privacy Notice sets out what we will do with any Personal Information we collect from or about you, or that you provide to us, when you use our services, including our websites and student portals (collectively referred to as the “Website”), or when you enrol at our school. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully.
It is important that you read this Privacy Notice together with our website terms and conditions and any other applicable agreements. This Privacy Notice supplements those documents and does not override them.
If you are a consumer as defined in the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, certain clauses contain important terms:
Sarnia Primary School may collect, record, store, update, use and share your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Notice (“Processing”).
Personal Information refers to information about an identifiable person (natural or juristic). It excludes anonymised data.
We may process the following categories:
Special personal information (e.g. health, religion) is processed with consent unless another lawful basis applies. Children’s information is processed only with consent from a parent or legal guardian where required.
Our services are not intended for unsupervised use by individuals under 18.
We may also use anonymised aggregated data for analysis.
We collect information in three ways:
Direct collection
When you:
Passive collection
Through devices used to access our Website (e.g. IP address, usage data).
Third parties
We may receive information from external sources and treat it with care.
We use your personal information to:
We only process information for its intended purpose unless compatible with the original purpose.
We do not disclose your information except:
We may disclose information to authorities where required by law.
Your information may be transferred outside South Africa. Where this occurs, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place.
We retain personal information only as long as necessary for legal or operational purposes.
Data may be stored:
You may unsubscribe from communications at any time.
Retention is based on:
We take reasonable steps to ensure your information is accurate and secure.
You must keep your information up to date by contacting:
Email: [email protected]
You may request:
Proof of identity is required.
Security cannot be guaranteed 100%.
We use cookies to:
You have rights under the Promotion of Access to Information Act.
Further details are available on our website:
https://sarnia.co.za/
Where legally permitted, you agree that we may not be required to notify you of certain matters.
You may:
Requests must be submitted via email:
[email protected]
You may opt in or out of marketing at any time.
To opt out, contact:
[email protected]
Nothing in this policy overrides your legal rights under:
This Privacy Notice is governed by South African law.
For any privacy-related queries:
