Privacy Policy

St Margarets College Privacy Policy

Introduction
All references in this Privacy Policy are to St Margaret’s College.

Rationale
This Policy is provided to maintain requirements of the Privacy Act (the “Act”) and to describe the potential collection, use, disclosure and the protection of personal information of individuals.

This Policy does not limit or exclude any of the individual rights under the Act. If additional information on this Act is desired, see: https://www.privacy.org.nz/the-privacy-act-and-codes.

An individual may be asked to provide SMC with ‘personal information’. SMC has developed this Privacy Policy to describe when personal information is collected, for what purposes and to whom this personal information may be disclosed to, and to ensure that SMC complies with its obligations under any of the Privacy Act Bills. By using the SMC website and providing personal information to the school, an individual is deemed to have consented to its use in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the SMC Website Privacy Policy. Any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy should be referred to SMC.

Who does this Privacy Policy apply to?
This Privacy Policy applies to SMC staff, students, parents/guardians and the wider SMC community plus any other persons who provide personal information when visiting the SMC website or otherwise providing personal information to the school.

Privacy Officer
SMC has appointed a Privacy Officer who will be able to provide further information related to this Policy.

What is personal information?
‘Personal Information’ is defined in the Privacy Act as information about an identifiable individual, i.e. information about a natural person (as opposed to information about a company or other legal entity), in a form which enables that person to be identified.

Read the full policy here.