Admissions Privacy Policy

In connection with your application for a place, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of
personal information about you:
 For parents or guardians: the information you have provided on our admissions form, including names,
titles, relationship to child, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, nationality, passport
number.
 For prospective pupils: date of birth, gender, education history, nationality, passport number. birth
certificate.
 For both parents/guardians and prospective pupils, any information you provide to us during an
interview.
We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information:
 Information about race, ethnicity, religious beliefs or occupation.
 Information about health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records.
 Information about any special educational needs.

We collect personal information about prospective pupils from the following sources:
 You, the prospective pupil.
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 You, the parents or guardians (or agent) of the prospective pupil.
 The pupil’s current School, if applicable, from whom we collect the following categories of data:
educational attainment; any conduct or other relevant behavioural issues, confirmation that there are
no outstanding fees.

We will use the personal information we collect to:
 Assess the prospective pupils suitability for attendance at the School.
 Communicate with the parents or guardians (or agent) about the admissions process.
 Communicate with the parents or guardians (or agent) about the school
 Keep records related to our admissions processes.
 Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to admit the prospective pupil, since it would be beneficial
to the School to admit appropriate applicants. We also need to process personal information to decide
whether to enter into parental contracts.
Having received your application for enrolment form, we will then process the information to help to decide
whether you meet the requirements to be considered for admission to the School. Depending on the age
of the child, we may take the results of entrance assessments and interviews into account. We may also
base decisions on information regarding educational attainment and conduct or other relevant
behavioural issues at current or previous schools. There is fuller information regarding this in our Admissions
Policy (see school website).

If you fail to provide information that is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of
educational attainment), we may not be able to process your application.

We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:
 We will use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate
adjustments during the admissions process.
 We will use information about race, ethnicity, religious beliefs and occupation, to assist with equal
opportunity monitoring and reporting.

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated
decision-making.

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being
accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access
to your personal information to those employees who have a business need to know. They will only process
your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Details of
these measures may be obtained from the Registrar. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

If a place is not offered, we may keep the personal information supplied for a period of up to two years. We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against applicants on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the admissions exercise in a fair and transparent way. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy. If we wish to retain your personal information on file, on the basis that a further opportunity may arise in future and we may wish to consider you for that, we will write to you separately, seeking your explicit consent to retain your personal information for a fixed period on that basis.

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
 Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).
This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that
we are lawfully processing it.
 Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any
incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
 Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal
information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask
us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to
processing (see below).
 Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those
of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object
to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal
information for direct marketing purposes.
 Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend
the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy
or the reason for processing it.
 Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact the Registrar in writing.

When you completed the application for enrolment form, you provided consent to us processing your personal information for the purposes of the admissions exercise. You have the right to withdraw your consent for processing for that purpose at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact the Registrar. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your application and, subject to our retention policy, we will dispose of your personal data securely

If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact Assistant Rector Robin Macpherson at dataprotection@dollaracademy.org.uk. 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.