Updated: 2 July 2025

Your privacy is important to us.

This document describes how we protect and make use of the information you give us when you use this website.

We will not collect personal information/personal data about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information. Please read the following privacy statement to understand how we use and protect the information that you choose to provide to us.

Personal information which we collect from you

We do not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from the information which you volunteer to send us via the Contact form. 

This can include:

• phone number, email address, postal address or mobile number.

 

Non-Personal information which we collect

When you visit our website, certain non-personal data is available to us through our internet service provider. This non-personal data is collected on a statistical, aggregate, non-individual basis.

This information may include the IP address from which you access our website, the type of browser used to access our website (Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc.), the type of device and operating system used to access our website (e.g.Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, etc.), the “top-level” domain name used (ie, .com, .org, etc.), the date and time of your visit to our website and the number of pages you visited on our website.

Use of your information

If you have contacted us via the form on the website, we may use your personal information for the following reasons:

• To contact you and answer any queries which you have raised in the “Contact Us” form or to address any reasonably incidental purpose.
• To co-operate with regulators and law enforcement bodies.
• For our own internal records.

Disclosure to Other People

Information collected via the website is only used by the School in line with the purposes for which you provided it, and to improve the services provided by the site.

We do not disclose, sell or distribute any personal information which you send to us to any third parties.

We may pass aggregate information on the usage of our site to third parties, but this will not include information that can be used to identify you. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes.

Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.

Consent

We only store information that is provided to us.

We process your personal data:

• with your consent
• where we are required to do this by law (for example, where it is necessary to retain it in connection with potential litigation)
• when it is in our legitimate interests to do this and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.

Security

We take our security responsibilities seriously, employing the most appropriate physical and technical measures, including staff training and awareness.

We restrict access to your personal information to those who require access to such information for legitimate, relevant purposes.

We implement technical, organisational, administrative and physical measures to help ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk to the personal information we collect, use, disclose and process. These measures are aimed at ensuring the on-going integrity and confidentiality of personal information.

We review our security procedures regularly.

How long do we keep your data for?

We do not retain your personal data for longer than it is necessary for us to comply with the purpose for which you gave it to us. After this purpose has been completed, we will delete your personal data.

External Links

The School may include external links where they are considered to be useful or beneficial to the wider School Community. Such links will be provided with caution but the School does not accept responsibility for data tracking and usage on any external site. 

Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

This website contains links to Social Media Platforms (e.g. Instagram)

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

IP Addresses

An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer automatically when you use the internet. When you visit any web page on our website, our servers log your IP address. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive to identify you as the user of the website. Many internet sites use cookies. Typically, they are used by the website to identify the person accessing the website to track the person’s use of the site and any repeat visits made by that person.

When you first visit our website, and at intervals thereafter, you will be presented with a ‘Cookie notice’. This will give you the option to examine the cookies in use by the site at the time, as well as allowing you to select which types of cookie may be enabled. However, you must note that this may prevent certain features of the website from working as intended on your device. If you continue to use our website without selecting options via the cookie notice, you consent to our use of cookies on your device.

Please see our Cookie Policy for more information on cookies our website uses.

What are your rights?

If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you request to see this information and even have it corrected or deleted. If you wish to raise a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Contact us using the information below.

Contacting Us

If you are concerned about how your personal data is processed by our website, please do not hesitate to bring these concerns to our attention using the contact details below:

St. Mary’s Special School

Johnstown,
Navan,
Co. Meath
C15 H735

Telephone: 046 9023448

email: smspschoolnavan@gmail.com