Mounts Bay Academy, together with the Leading Edge Academies Partnership (LEAP) take data protection and our obligations with regard to data protection seriously.
The Leading Edge Academies Partnership is a Data Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation and is registered with Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”). Our registration number is Z2727836.
This section of the Academy’s website provides information on how the school uses (“processes”) personal data about individuals (together “data subjects”).
The Data Protection Officer for LEAP is David Teasdale and is available to contact on any Data Protection issue by emailing: dteasdale@leadingedgeacademies.org
This section of the website is intended to be read in conjunction with the Trust’s Data Protection Policy and other relevant policies, including:
Child Protection and Safeguarding Policies
Photographic and Video policy
Health and Safety Policy
CCTV Policy
Acceptable Usage policy
All data subjects have certain rights under Data Protection Law, including a right to be given access to data held about them by a data controller. Other rights will be dependent on the nature of the information given and are more fully explained in the privacy notices.
Personal data is data relating to a living individual who can be identified from that information or from that data and other information in the School’s possession (for example: name, address, telephone number, staff number). It can also include expressions of opinions about an individual.
Sensitive or special category personal data relates to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, health, sex life, criminal convictions. Personal data concerning disability is sensitive data.
In order to carry out its ordinary duties to staff, pupils and parents, the school needs to process a wide range of personal data about individuals (including current, past and prospective staff, pupils or parents) as part of its daily operations. Dependent on the nature of the school’s relationship with the data subject, there will be different reasons and purposes for the school processing your personal data, the types of data held, how the data is collected, the legal basis for processing the data, who has access to the data, who the data is shared with, the retention period for that data, and the specific subject rights with regard to that data.
For ease of reference and understanding, the Academy has produced different Privacy Notices for the different categories of individuals it deals with. These can be accessed below.
All data subjects have certain rights under Data Protection Law, including a right to be given access to data held about them by a data controller. Other rights will be dependent on the nature of the information given and are more fully explained in the privacy notices below.
If you have any concerns about the Academy’s or Trust’s handling of personal data, please contact the Trust’s Data Protection Officer.
Click on a link below to see our Privacy Notices:
Privacy Notice for Governors, Trustees and Volunteers
Privacy notice for Parents_Carers – Use of child data
Privacy notice for Parents_Carers – Use of parent data
Privacy notice for Suppliers of goods and services