Clifton: A Community Arts School

Website Policy

Purpose of Website

Clifton values the contribution that a website can make to the life and role of the school in a modern society. This website has 5 important roles:

• To promote the school;
• To provide information to prospective parents and teachers, the wider community and the world;
• To act as a communication channel between teachers, parents, pupils and school management;
• To improve pupil learning;
• To raise standards in teaching and learning.

Safety

The safety of children and others who appear or are referred to on this website is of paramount importance. To ensure maximum safety standards:

• pictures of children will not be included on the website where parents or children have so requested;
• pictures of individuals will not be used;
• if crowd pictures are used every effort will be made to ensure that individuals are not identifiable;
• the names of those featured in pictures will not be published;
• only pictures of children in suitable clothing will be used.

Copyright

The copyright on all original images used within the website is held by Clifton: A Community Arts School. Images must not be used without the specific written permission of the school.

Privacy

Personal privacy will be respected. The website will not include any personal identifiable information (e.g. personal addresses or telephone numbers of children, staff or governors).

Adults have the right to refuse permission to publish their image on the site.

Parents have the right to refuse permission for their child's work and/or image to be published.

Those wishing to exercise this right should express their wishes in writing to the Headteacher, clearly stating whether they object to work, images, or both being published.

Legal

Where links are included within the website they will be provided solely for information and not to endorse or promote other sites.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites you visit.  Sometimes these cookies are used to track your behaviour on sites and therefore the may cause privacy concerns.  Clifton's website will create the cookies described below:

(random 32 character long hexadecimal string) - used by our content management system Joomla! to store information about your session on our website such as which pages you have accessed and the number of times you've clicked on a link.  This information is anonymised and aggregated into values so we can't easily see individual progress, although it is not impossible to re-constitute this data from the standard logs kept by the webserver.  We collect this information to see which pages are popular and what information you may have searched for.  If you logon to the site for any reason, a second 32 character cookie will be set. These cookies will be deleted when you close your browser, and a new one re-created if you then re-access our website.  If you prevent this cookie from being set in your browser, it shouldn't diminish your use of the site unless you need to logon.

cookiesDisclosureCount and cookiesDirective - These two cookies are used to record how many times the user has seen the cookies notification and to record if a user has accepted the use of cookies on our website.  If you prevent these cookies from being set in your browser, it shouldn't diminish your use of the site, but you will be presented the cookie notification dialogue message each time you visit.  These cookies will be valid for a year from the point you last accessed the site.  If you visit again during that year, you will not see the disclosure again.

jce_advcode_(name) - these series of cookies are used by our website when you are editing it.  End users should not normally see them, they are only legitimately used by our website authors.

Other cookies may be placed on your computer by modules we use to present audio or video files for example.  These are developed by third parties, and while we have tried to make sure these don't infringe your rights, we can't guarantee they have your privacy in mind.