ensuring the privacy & safety of pupils

Privacy Policy

The British School of Lisbon guarantees that in every case, the user’s rights to review and act on information relating to him/her as stipulated by current legislation will be fully respected. A user who wishes to exercise their rights should make a written request, along with a copy of their ID/Passport, through the following means:

• Email BSL Directly

• View Postal Address

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

The school’s Data Protection and Privacy Policy can be reviewed here.

Child Protection Policy

The British School Lisbon operates the following policy on its website regarding the use of photographs, to ensure the privacy and safety of pupils at the school:

If we disclose the name of a pupil, only their first names are given;

• If a pupil is named, no image of that pupil will be shown;
  Whenever a photograph is included that shows a pupil, no name will be displayed.

• The observance of the above points ensures that visitors to the BSL website cannot correlate images of pupils to their names.

The British School Lisbon adheres to a policy of seeking parents'/guardians' permission before utilising and images which include pupils on our website.

No private information about pupils is published on this website such as surnames or contact details.

Website Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy states how your personal information is treated.

(1) What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

Information about your visits to and use of this website.

Information about any transactions carried out between you and the school on or concerning this website.

Information that you provide to us to register with us, and leaving guestbook comments, or subscribing to our website services or email notifications.

(2) Information about website views

In general, we do not collate any information from your visit that you have not supplied voluntarily. We may collect information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, duration of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability, and for marketing purposes.

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie which may be stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you revisit our website and to personalise our site for you.

Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector.) This may, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

(3) Using your personal data

Personal data submitted freely to this website may be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website. In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

• Improve your browsing experience by personalising the website.

• Provide other organisations with statistical information about our users - but this information will not be used to identify any individual user.

We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for direct marketing.

(4) Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

To the extent that we are required to do so by law;

• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

• To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

(5) Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Our website is encrypted with SSL certification. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

(6) Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

(7) Third-party websites

The website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third-party websites.

(8) Our contact details

Please see our contact us page for contact details.

Website Disclaimer

(1) Introduction

This disclaimer governs your use of our website; by using our website, you accept this disclaimer in full. If you disagree with any part of this disclaimer, do not use our website.

(2) Intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all our intellectual property rights are reserved.

(3) Licence to use website

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website, provided that:

You must not republish material from this website (including republication on another website), or reproduce or store material from this website in any public or private electronic retrieval system.

You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, visit, or otherwise exploit our website or material on our website for a commercial purpose, without our express written consent.

(4) Limitations of liability

The information on this website is provided free-of-charge, and you acknowledge that it would be unreasonable to hold us liable in respect of this website and the information on this website.

While we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we not commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on this website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill).

Our liability is limited and excluded to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. We will not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage arising under this disclaimer or in connection with our website, whether arising in tort, contract, or otherwise - including, without limitation, any loss of profit, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, income, revenue or anticipated savings.

However, nothing in this disclaimer shall exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

(5) Variation

We may revise this disclaimer from time-to-time. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(6) Entire agreement

This disclaimer constitutes the entire agreement between you and us concerning your use of our website and supersedes all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

(7) Law and jurisdiction

This notice will be governed by and construed in accordance with EU law, and any disputes relating to this notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of applicable law courts.

(8) Our contact details

Please see our contact us page for details.