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Privacy Policy |
Our Commitment to You
This document outlines the School’s policy on the
use and management of personal information provided to
or collected by it.
We recognise that your privacy is very important to you.
We handle personal information provided by and about people
every day. By “personal information” we mean
information or an opinion about a person whose identity
is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained.
We are bound by, and committed to supporting, the National
Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 and
the Health Privacy Principles set out in the Health Records
Act.
You can obtain more information on request about the way
we manage the personal information we hold. If you seek
any further information please contact us in one of the
ways set out below.
Collection of your
Personal Information
In the course of providing educational services we collect
and hold personal information about:
our students (before and after enrolment at the School)
and their parents/guardians job applicants, staff members,
volunteers and contractors other people with whom the
School has dealings.
The main purposes for collecting personal information
is to enable us to:
provide schooling to our students keep parents/guardians,
students and past students informed about matters pertaining
to the School, its functions and activities look after
the educational, emotional, social and health well-being
of our students market the School, seek donations, and
undertake fundraising campaigns comply with the School’s
legal obligations and to discharge its duty of care to
its students.
We will only collect personal information from or about
you that is necessary for one or more of our functions
and activities and we will only collect it by lawful and
fair means.
In some cases, if the information we request is not provided,
we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment
of the student or allow the student to participate in
the related activity or to provide or allow services to
be provided.
Once we hold personal information we will take reasonable
steps to keep it accurate, complete and up-to-date.
Use and Disclosure of your Personal Information
We will only use your personal information for the main
purpose of our education business, except where you consent
to us using it for another purpose, or where the other
purpose is related to the main purpose and you would reasonably
expect us to use the personal information for that other
purpose.
The School may disclose personal information held about
an individual to:
- government departments
- other schools
- medical practitioners and other care providers
- other organisations with whom the School has dealings
or relationships and all entities related to and involved
in the conduct of the School
- persons that provide services to the School including
specialist visiting teachers, sports coaches, camp excursion
directors and other guests
- parents and the parent association
- anyone else to whom you may authorise disclosure.
We may also publish information such as academic and sporting
achievements, student activities and other news in the
school newsletter, magazines, the Australian Jewish News
or local newspapers and on our website.
Personal
Information about Students
The School will generally seek information about its students
from their parents/guardians.
Any consent for information given by parents will be treated
as being consent from the students.
The School will usually disclose information about its
students to their parents/guardians. However, there may
be occasions when it is appropriate that access should
be lawfully denied. Also, the School may, at its discretion,
provide a student access to information held about them
or allow a student to give or withhold consent to the
use or disclosure of their personal information. This
would generally apply where the circumstances were appropriate
and the student was of sufficient maturity.
Access
and Correction
If you ask, we will tell you what personal information
we hold about you, and what we do with it. In most cases,
unless an exception applies, we will facilitate access
to you in the most appropriate way following receipt of
your request. Any charge we make for providing access
will be reasonable. If we refuse access we will advise
you of our reasons for doing so.
If you can show us that the personal information is inaccurate,
we will take reasonable steps to correct it.
Security of your Information
The School’s staff are required to respect the privacy
and confidentiality of the personal information we hold.
We have steps in place to protect personal information
from misuse and loss, and we will destroy or permanently
de-identify any personal information we no longer need.
How you can contact Us
If you seek any further information from the School about
our privacy policy generally, please contact our Privacy
Officer, Cathy Kaiserman, at The King David School, PO
Box 286, Malvern 3144, or by telephone on 9529 5277, or
by email c.kaiserman@kds.vic.edu.au.
Collection Statement
The King David School is bound by the National Privacy
Principles contained in the Commonwealth Privacy Act.
In summary, the School collects personal information,
including sensitive information about pupils and parents
or guardians before and during the course of a student’s
enrolment at The King David School. The primary purpose
of collecting this information is to provide educational
services that meet the needs of your son/daughter.
Some of the information we collect is to satisfy the School’s
legal obligations, particularly to enable the School to
discharge its duty of care. Certain laws governing or
relating to the operation of schools require that certain
information be collected. These include the Public Health
(and Child Protections) laws.
Health information about students is sensitive information
within the terms of the National Privacy Principles under
the Privacy Act. We ask you to provide medical reports
about students from time to time.
The School from time to time discloses personal and sensitive
information to others for administrative and educational
purposes. This includes (a) other schools, government
departments, medical practitioners, (b) people providing
services to the School, e.g. specialist visiting teachers,
sport coaches, camp/excursion directors, (c) Parents’
Association for the purposes of fundraising and social
activities.
If we do not obtain the information referred to above
we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment
of your son/daughter.
Personal information collected from students is regularly
disclosed to their parents or guardians. On occasions
information such as academic and sporting achievements,
student activities and other news is published in School
newsletters, magazines, the Australian Jewish News or
local newspapers and on our website. Parents may seek
access to personal information collected about them and
their son/daughter by contacting the School. Students
may also seek access to personal information about them.
However, there will be occasions when access is denied.
Such occasions would include where access would have an
unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where access
may result in a breach of the School’s duty of care
to the student, or where students have provided information
in confidence.
As you know, the School from time to time engages in fundraising
activities. Information received from you may be used
to make an appeal to you. We will not disclose your personal
information to third parties for their own marketing purpose
without your consent.
We may include your contact details in a class list and
School directory. If you do not agree to this you must
advise us now.
If you provide the School with the personal information
of others, such as doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage
you to inform them that you are disclosing that information
to the School and why, that they can access that information
if they wish and that the School does not usually disclose
the information to third parties.
When your child leaves the School, some personal information
will be retained by the Alumni Association so that he/she
can continue to be involved in School activities for past
students.
If you have any queries in relation to the collection
of your personal information, please contact the Privacy
Officer, Cathy Kaiserman, at The King David School, PO
Box 286, Malvern 3144, or by telephone on 9529 5277, or
by email c.kaiserman@kds.vic.edu.au.
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