Privacy Policy

When you visit the Finton House website, non-personally identifiable data about you is automatically detected and logged by our server. Typically this will include your domain name and country, the page(s) visited, search terms and search engines employed and the web browser used. This information is used by us solely to monitor usage of our website and to find ways of improving it. It is never passed or sold to any third party. We use an online form to enable interested parties to request a printed prospectus or register details on a contact us form. All personal information submitted in this form is treated in strict confidence and is held on the website for a maximum of 30 days before being deleted. All data is processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act and related legislation.

Photographs of pupils

Permission to use photographs of pupils for the school’s publicity purposes, including the website, is sought from parents when they join the school. Downloading of images of pupils by any persons or companies not connected with the school from our website without consent is a violation of the GDPR and the privacy of our pupils. Please contact the school if you wish to use any images from our website.

Links to Other Sites

Finton House accepts no responsibility for the content of any third party sites linked to or by this site, which you view at your own risk. While every effort is made to check these sites on a regular basis to ensure that they are relevant and appropriate, linkage does not imply any endorsement of such sites.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.

Cookies our website uses:

1. Performance cookies – These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. We are using Google Analytics cookies on this website.
2. Functionality cookies – These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make such as your user name, or save the type of device which is being used to determine whether the site should display the mobile or desktop version. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
3. Blocking cookies – Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. Please refer to the help documentation 4for your browser. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics which are the performance cookies we use on this website, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout