Privacy Policy
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and replaces the previous Data Protection Directives that were in place. It was approved by the EU Parliament in 2016 and came into effect on 25th May 2018.
GDPR states that personal data should be 'processed fairly & lawfully' and 'collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes' and that individuals' data is not processed without their knowledge and is only processed with their 'explicit' consent. GDPR covers personal data relating to individuals. River House Nursery is committed to protecting the rights and freedoms of individuals with respect to the processing of children's, parents, visitors, and staff personal data.
The Data Protection Act gives individuals the right to know what information is held about them. It provides a framework to ensure that personal information is handled properly.
GDPR includes 7 rights for individuals:
1) The right to be informed
River House Nursery is a registered Childcare provider with Ofsted and as such, is required to collect and manage certain data. We need to know parents' names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, date of birth, and National Insurance numbers. We need to know children's full names, addresses, date of birth, and Birth Certificate number.
We are required to collect certain details of visitors to our setting. We need to know visitors' names, telephone numbers, addresses, and, where appropriate, company name. This is in respect of our Health and Safety and Safeguarding Policies.
As an employer, River House Nursery is required to hold data on its employees: names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, date of birth, National Insurance numbers, photographic ID such as a passport and driver's license, and bank details. This information is also required for Disclosure and Barring Service checks (DBS) and proof of eligibility to work in the UK. This information is sent via a secure file transfer on UCheck for the processing of DBS checks.
2) The right of access
At any point, an individual can make a request relating to their data, and River House Nursery will need to provide a response (within 1 month). River House Nursery can refuse a request if we have a lawful obligation to retain data, i.e., from Ofsted in relation to the EYFS, but we will inform the individual of the reasons for the rejection. The individual will have the right to complain to the ICO if they are not happy with the decision.
3) The right to erasure
You have the right to request the deletion of your data where there is no compelling reason for its continued use. However, River House Nursery has a legal duty to keep children's and parents' details for a reasonable time, we retain these records for 3 years after leaving pre-school, children's accident and injury records for 19 years (or until the child reaches 21 years), and 22 years (or until the child reaches 24 years) for Child Protection records. Staff records must be kept for 6 years after the member of staff leaves employment, before they can be erased. This data is archived securely offsite and shredded after the legal retention period.
4) The right to restrict processing
Parents, visitors, and staff can object to River House Nursery processing their data. This means that records can be stored but must not be used in any way, for example, reports or for communications.
5) The right to data portability
River House Nursery requires data to be transferred from one IT system to another; such as from River House Nursery to the Local Authority, to shared settings, and to Famly Online Learning Journal. These recipients use secure file transfer systems and have their own policies and procedures in place in relation to GDPR.
6) The right to object
Parents, visitors, and staff can object to their data being used for certain activities like marketing or research.
7) The right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.
Automated decisions and profiling are used for marketing-based organisations. River House Nursery does not use personal data for such purposes.
Storage and use of personal information:
All paper copies of children's and staff records are kept in a locked filing cabinet in the office. Members of staff can have access to these files, but information taken from the files about individual children is confidential and, apart from archiving, these records remain on-site at all times. These records are shredded after the retention period.
Information about individual children is used in certain documents, such as a weekly register, medication forms, referrals to external agencies, and disclosure forms. These documents include data such as children's names, date of birth, and sometimes address. These records are shredded after the relevant retention period.
River House Nursery collects a large amount of personal data every year, including names and addresses of those on the waiting list. These records are shredded if the child does not attend or added to the child's file and stored appropriately.
Information regarding families' involvement with other agencies is stored both electronically on an external hard drive and in paper format, this information is kept in a locked filing cabinet in the office.
Upon a child leaving River House Nursery and moving on to school or moving settings, data held on the child may be shared with the receiving school.
No names are stored with images in photo albums, displays, on the website or on River House Nursery's social media pages.
Access to all Office computers and Family Learning Journal is password protected. When a member of staff leaves the company, these passwords are changed in line with this policy and our Safeguarding policy. Any portable data storage used to store personal data, e.g., USB memory stick, are password protected and/or stored in a locked filing cabinet.
GDPR means that River House Nursery must:
* Manage and process personal data properly
* Protect the individual's rights to privacy
* Provide an individual with access to all personal information held on them