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How we use cookies
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We use traffic log cookies (Google Analytics) 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. When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

To provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.  Here are our main cookies:

Google Map
Persistent cookie set by Google maps. On some pages, we embed interactive maps using Google Maps.

Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site.

YouTube

Persistent cookie set by YouTube – if viewing an embedded video on our web site.

Comments
When visitors 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 anonymized 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.

Embedded content from other websites
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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. 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.

Controlling your personal information
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. More information on this framework can be provided on request.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation 2018.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to our email address (admin@parkinsonlane. calderdale.sch.uk) as soon as possible. If you’d like us to remove your information from our database please send an email to admin@parkinsonlane.calderdale.sch.uk and we will happily remove it. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the legal requirements you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).