South Canterbury Free Kindergarten (SCK) is committed to protecting your privacy when enrolling your child at any of the Kindergartens or subscribing or contributing to any of our online services including but not limited to Email, Facebook, Instagram, or Website.

Thanks for visiting our privacy page. Your privacy and security is important to us. We want you to feel secure knowing how and where your information in South Canterbury Kindergartens is be collected and used.
Below you will find our formal privacy policy, which contains all of the important details. We've done our best to make this as clear as possible for you, and not include legal terms, unless we really need to. If you are unclear about any part of this Privacy Policy, please contact office@sck.nz

Our Principles

South Canterbury Free Kindergarten (SCK) is committed to protecting your privacy when enrolling your child at any of the Kindergartens or subscribing or contributing to any of our online services including but not limited to Email, Facebook, Instagram, or Website. We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about Users, in particular, information that is capable of identifying a User (Personal Information).

Privacy – Procedure 3.18

Rationale

Personal information needs to be held on record for children, parents, caregivers, and staff. This information needs to be secure and only used for legitimate purposes. South Canterbury Kindergartens (SCK) is committed to protecting and promoting individual privacy with regard to:

1 The collection, use, and disclosure of information relating to individuals.

2 Access by each individual to information relating to that individual held by the Association.

Guidelines

“SCK is committed to honouring the personal information collection, storage, access and correction provisions and Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1993”

(a) Information shall be stored securely in hard copy or electronic form;

(b) Parents/legal guardians are entitled to access information about their child/children, and shall be entitled to request correction of any information they deem to be inaccurate;

(c) Staff will ensure that the disposal of any private or sensitive information is undertaken by either shredding, removing-deleting online information  or depositing material in the special disposal bin held at the main office;

(d) Personal information may be shared with Government departments such as Community Health for purposes concerning the education, health, and welfare of enrolled children;

(e) Any complaints, queries or requests about personal information shall be directed at first instance to the Privacy Officer appointed by the Board (or to the General Manager if no such appointment has been made).  office@sck.nz

Privacy Policy — updated 16 April 2019

This Privacy Policy (Policy) governs the manner in which your Personal Information is collected and used.

By joining SCK you are deemed to have consented to the collection, storage, disclosure and use of your Personal Information in a manner disclosed in this Policy. If you do not agree to be bound by the Policy, then please do not use our Product and Services or raise your concerns with the Office Admin at office@sck.nz

We reserve the right to amend the Policy from time to time. Changes to the Policy will be notified to you by us indicating on the Policy the date it was last updated. You should review the Policy periodically to familiarise yourself with any changes. Your continued use of our Products and Services shall constitute your consent to any changes in the Policy.

Definitions

In this Policy:

‘SCK/l/We/Us or Our’ means South Canterbury Kindergartens;

‘You/Your/Yourself/User’ means the Person enrolling their child, visiting and/or using our Website, visiting Facebook or social media;

‘Organisation’ means a group comprised of Members which subscribes to the Services, ‘Owner’ means the Member of an Organisation who is responsible for the administration of the Organisation.
‘Person’ means a legal person or organisation;
‘Personal Information’ means information that specifically identifies a User, such as name, address, telephone number, email address.
‘Policy’ means this Privacy Policy as may be amended by SCK from time to time;

‘Website’ means the website located at www.sck.nz.

Use of Personal Information

We use the Personal Information to facilitate the enrolment of your child/children, and our administration of, 

We will never:

• Sell or trade to third parties your Personal Information.

We may:

Use your personal data to communicate with you. This may include:

• Providing you with the information you’ve requested from us or information we are required to send to you.
• Operational communications, like changes to our website, Facebook and services.
• Marketing communications about SCK that we think you might be interested in.

Within SCK we allow you to select how we email you and what notifications you receive.

• Use trusted third-party applications to assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
• Release your Personal Information to third parties when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or third parties’ rights, property, or safety.

SCK does have the right to change the Privacy Policy. The latest version will be indicated in the Policy to provide all users with confidence that they are viewing the latest Policy.