Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual and relates to you. This includes your contact details, next of kin and financial information. We may also hold information such as your religion or ethnic group. CCTV, photos and video recordings of you are also personal information. This privacy notice also covers other members of a child’s families who we may process data about from time to time, including, for example, siblings, aunts and uncles and grandparents.
We collect and use parent / carer information under the following lawful bases:
a. where we have the consent of the parent/carer,
b. where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
c. where processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another person
d. where it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority. Where the personal data we collect about parents / carers is sensitive personal data, we will only process it where:
a. we have explicit consent;
b. processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent; and / or
c. processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, on the basis of Union or Member State law which shall be proportionate to the aim pursued, where we respect the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject.
Whilst the majority of information about parents / carers provided to us is mandatory, some of it is provided to us on a voluntary basis. In order to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, we will inform you whether you are required to provide certain parent / carer information to us or if you have a choice in this. Where appropriate, we will ask parents / carers for consent to process personal data where there is no other lawful basis for processing it, for example where we wish to ask your permission to use your information for marketing purposes. Parents / carers may withdraw consent given in these circumstances at any time.
At Unique Child Nursery CCTV cameras are used around the site for security purposes and for the protection of staff and children. CCTV footage may be referred to during the course of investigations. CCTV footage involving parents / carers will only be processed to the extent that it is lawful to do so.
A majority of personal data is stored electronically, for example, on our cloud application Famly.
Some information may also be stored in hard copy format. Data stored electronically may be saved on a cloud-based system. Appropriate steps will be taken to keep the data secure and checks are made around the compliancy of the company that we send it to. We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, insurance or reporting requirements. Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal information are available in our Data Retention.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. Once you are no longer a parent / carer of a child at the Nursery we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy OR applicable laws and regulations. In exceptional circumstances, we may keep your information for a longer time than usual but we would only do so if we had a good reason and only if we are allowed to do so under data protection law.
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.
This section contains information about the legal basis that we are relying on when handling your information. Legitimate interests:
This means that the processing is necessary for legitimate interests except where the processing is unfair to you. The Nursery relies on legitimate interests for most of the ways in which it uses your information. Specifically, the Nursery has a legitimate interest in:
We will need to use your information in order to perform our obligations under our contract with you. For example, we need your name and contact details so that we can update you on your child’s progress and so that we can contact you if there is a concern.
Legal obligation: Where the Nursery needs to use your information in order to comply with a legal obligation, for example to report a concern to Children’s Services. We may also have to disclose your information to third parties such as the courts, the local authority or the police where legally obliged to do so.
Vital interests: For example, to prevent someone from being seriously harmed or killed to protect the vital interests of any person where that person cannot give consent, for example, if they are seriously hurt and are unconscious.
Public interest: When the Nursery consider that it is acting in the public interest. When providing care, the Nursery must comply with an additional condition where it processes special categories of personal information. These special categories are as follows: personal information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information, health information, and information about sex life or orientation.
Substantial public interest: The processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.
Legal claims: The processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. This allows us to share information with our legal advisors and insurers.
Medical purposes: This includes medical treatment and the management of healthcare services.
In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact the Designated Protection Officer. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
The DPO for Unique Child is the person responsible for managing how we look after personal information, deciding how it is shared and overseeing compliance with this privacy notice.
Like all other organization’s we need to keep your information safe, up to date, only use it for what we said we would, destroy it when we no longer need it and most importantly – treat the information we get fairly.
This notice is to explain how we use your personal information
We will stop using your information for marketing purposes if you tell us not to; or you would like us to update the information we hold about you; or you would prefer that certain information is kept confidential. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact the director of the nursery.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.
