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TASIS – Data Protection Policy 7 May 2018
Consent for the sharing of your data in this way may be given or withdrawn by you at any time during your child’s attendance at the School. If you wish to change your consent please contact Simon Fitch, Director of Student Recruitment and Admissions at sfitch@tasisengland.org.
We will not share information about you with third parties without your consent unless the law or our policies require or allow us to do so.
We are required, by law to pass on some of this personal data to:
• our local authority
• the Department for Education (DfE)
The lawful basis on which we use this information
We process this information under a number of Articles of the GDPR, including but not limited to:
• Article 6(1)(b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
• Article 9(2)(b) processing is necessary for the purpose of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller (the School) or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law in so far as it is authorised by Union or Member State law or a collective agreement pursuant to Member State law providing for appropriate safeguards for the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject.
Storing student and parent information
We hold student data in accordance with our Data Protection and Records Retention Policies, which can be accessed on our website.
We keep your information for as long as we need to in order to educate and look after your child. We will keep some information after your child has left the School.
In exceptional circumstances we may keep your information for a longer time than usual but we would only do so if we had a good reason and only if we are allowed to do so under data protection law.
We may keep information about you indefinitely for historical, research or statistical purposes. For example, if we consider the information might be useful if someone wanted to write a book about the School.
Sending information to other countries
We may send your information to other countries where:
• we store information on computer servers based overseas; or
• we communicate with you or your child when you are overseas (for example, during the
summer holidays if you live in a different country).
Rights of parents and students
GDPR gives you a number of rights regarding your personal data and information. Some of these are new rights whilst others build on your existing rights. Your rights are as follows:
• if information is incorrect you can ask us to correct it;
The current version of any policy, procedure, protocol or guideline is the version held on the TASIS
website. It is the responsibility of all staff to ensure that they are following the current version.
Information Sharing Classification: PUBLIC
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