The Shire School is committed to respecting your right to privacy and protecting your personal information. 

This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) explains our practices respecting the collection, use and disclosure of personal information that can be used to identify you, which we learn about you from your visit to our website, at www.theshireschool.ca. By using this website, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Notice.

Collection of personal information

While using our website, you may be asked to provide us with personal information about yourself, for example, your name and email address. 

Like most organizations, we may collect information that your web browser sends whenever you visit our site. This can include your IP address, browser details, which of the pages of our website you visit, the time, date and duration of those visits and other statistics. 

We may use a browser feature called a “cookie” to optimize your visit to our website. You may set your browser to turn off cookies, however, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website. We do not link your IP address or cookies to other personally identifiable information.

Use and disclosure of personal information

We will use your personal information to contact you with admissions information, our newsletters, marketing or promotional materials or other information provided you have not opted out, to better understand and meet your needs and preferences and to assist us in developing new and enhanced existing service and product offerings. 

We will provide your personal information to third parties where it is required for legal and regulatory purposes that may arise.

We may use and disclose aggregated information, which may include some of your personal information, provided that such aggregated information does not or cannot be used to identify you or any other specific individual.

We may use the information collected from website usage to help diagnose problems with our server, for systems administration purposes, to track usage patterns and deliver customized content to users. Your IP address may be used in an aggregate manner to gather broad demographic information so that we may improve the site to better suit users’ needs.

Security and retention of your personal information

We retain your personal information only as long as it is required for the reasons it was collected. We use all reasonable commercial efforts to protect your personal information from loss, unauthorized use, access, alteration or disclosure of the personal information under our control. 

Withdrawal of consent

You have the right to access all personal information that we have collected from you that we retain on file. You may choose to update, modify or delete this information at any time by contacting us at info@theshireschool.ca. There is no fee for you to access your personal information.

Except as required or permitted by law, we will not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose for which you refuse or later withdraw your consent. If you withdraw consent, you agree that notwithstanding such withdrawal, we may continue to use any personal information previously provided to us to the extent required to enforce any contractual obligations that you may still have to The Shire School.

Changes to this privacy policy

The School may update this Notice from time to time. We encourage you to periodically review it so that you are properly informed as to how we are protecting and dealing with your personal information.

Updated: August 2023