Information for you about how we look after personal information about yourself and your child or children.
Bloom Education is committed to ensuring the privacy rights of its employees, customers, suppliers and all other associates who may provide personal information to the company, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have implemented this privacy notice to inform you of the types of data we process about you. We also include within this notice the reasons for processing your data, the lawful basis that permits us to process it, how long we keep your data for and your rights regarding your data.
Our commitment is to:
Under GDPR, all personal data obtained and held by us must be processed according to a set of core principles. In accordance with these principles, we will ensure that:
You have the following rights in relation to the personal data we hold on you:
Where you have provided consent for us to store your data, you may also withdraw this consent at any time, withdrawal of data which would impact our ability to provide our service will be clearly communicated.
Bloom Education provides children with a nurturing, safe and caring environment in which to learn. Bloom Education is run by Joanna Clemo and Julia Beckett both fully qualified teachers. To operate effectively Bloom Education require personal information concerning parents, legal guardians (parents), students and supply chain partners. We set out in this document what personal information is collected and how it is used. The term Data Controller is applied to a business which determines how personal information is used. Bloom Education (directed by Joanna Clemo and Julia Beckett) is known as a Data Controller.
Information in relation to parents, students and teachers will be collected by Bloom Education. This might be achieved by providing information verbally, whether face to face or by telephone, completion of paper documents or by electronic means such as through email or interaction with our websites. We ask that any personal information is accurately provided as the information which is held is only as accurate as the information initially provided. If any of the personal information provided changes, we ask that Bloom Education is notified as soon as possible in order that the personal information can be updated.
Bloom Education will require the following information about the student:
Information which will be required from parents/legal guardians:
Bloom Education will require the following information about teachers:
Bloom Education may also ask for or receive contextual information about students and/or their parents. This might, for example, relate to the student’s lifestyle, interests and skills, be about the student’s family including the structure of it and the occupation of the parent(s), any background issues that may be impacting upon the student’s study and whether the student is a native English speaker. Bloom Education will not seek any further personal information in relation to parents or students without gaining specific authority. Bloom Education will not take or publish photographs of students or publish students’ names without your consent as the parent/legal guardian.
To fulfil contractual obligations and to respond to enquiries to:
To ensure vital interests: This relates to the health and safety of a student. For example, if there was a medical emergency Bloom Education may need to provide relevant medical information about a student to the emergency services. Similarly, information may be provided to local or public authorities where welfare and child protection issues arise. When it is Bloom Education’s legal duty Bloom Education may in very rare circumstances be required under safeguarding and child protection issues to provide information to local or public authorities including the police. When legitimate interests apply It is possible that from time to time that Bloom Education may wish to communicate with parents concerning other matters which may be of interest to them or where they may know of others who may have an interest. The nature of such contact will be:
Any communication under this heading will be of the nature referred to above. Bloom Education will not communicate to you under this heading where there is any perceived detriment to you in receiving the communication. If you do not wish to receive communications under this heading please contact Bloom Education and let them know which type of communications you would not wish to receive.
When you consent There are certain uses to which Bloom Education will use personal information without your specific consent. Where such consent is required it will be sought separately. It is likely to be in areas such as in photographs of the children and using children’s names and/or photographs in publicity material and/or publication of children’s names in relation to results and award ceremonies. If consent is given it can be withdrawn at any time by providing notification to Bloom Education in writing or by email. Other Bloom Education may also use personal information for data management to enable the efficient running of the business.
Bloom Education require the personal information set out in this privacy notice in order to ensure that the lessons can be safely and effectively delivered to your children and continually developed and improved for the benefit of children. Without this information it will not be possible to deliver the services for the benefit of the children or at least not as well as we would like. We have though set out above some purposes for which either Bloom Education wish to use personal information under the heading of “Legitimate interests”. If we receive an objection to use any personal information being used under this heading this must be received in writing by the person/organisation objecting. If Bloom Education wish to gather personal information for which consent is required, they will obtain that specific consent before gathering that information and individuals/organisations have the right not to provide such information.
Bloom Education will only retain personal information:
Access
You have a right to request copies of all personal data Bloom Education holds about you or your child/children. In the event you make a DSAR, Bloom Education will respond to you within one month of receipt of the request. Bloom Education may extend this period for a further two months, where necessary. Bloom Education shall notify you of any such extension. Where we receive your request in electronic form, your data shall be provided in electronic form (where possible), unless otherwise requested.
Correction
It is important that you keep Bloom Education up to date with any changes to the personal information provided. Subject to that you have the right to ask the Bloom Education, as appropriate, to correct or complete any inaccurate or incomplete data held about you or your children. It is possible that evidence will be required of the new information provided.
Erasure
You are entitled to ask Bloom Education to delete or remove personal information held where there is no good reason for Bloom Education to continue to hold it. It may not always be possible to comply with your request due to ongoing regulatory or legal obligations in relation to the personal information. However, where this is the case you will be informed and be told of the reasons why it is not possible to comply with the request.
Object to processing
You may object to Bloom Education processing personal information. There are some circumstances in which it will not be possible to comply with your request, for example if it is necessary to process the information in connection with obligations which Bloom Education have and which have been explained to you in this document. If you object to Bloom Education processing information which has been processed under the legitimate interest head, we will stop processing it.
Restriction of processing
You may ask Bloom Education to suspend processing of personal information in the following situations:
Request the transfer of information
Sometimes rights apply to request a transfer of personal information held to other organisations. This right only applies to personal information that is processed by automated means and is held because it was necessary for the performance of the contract with you or personal information which is processed based on consent.
Bloom Education have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent the personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. Access to personal information is limited to those employees who have a business need to know the personal information and will only be processed upon instructions from the partners. Procedures have been put in place to deal with any suspected breach of the requirements under the GDPRs and you and/or the Regulator referred to below will be notified of any potentially significant breach.
It is hoped that you will not have cause to complain. If you do, complaints relating to Bloom Education should be referred to Julia Beckett via the contact details below. If it is not possible or appropriate to refer a complaint to Bloom Education, it may be referred to the Regulator.
For the UK the contact details are:- Information Commissioner's Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF For more information contact www.ico.org.uk.
Bloom Education anticipate using automated decision making in relation to the personal information provided. This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time. The latest Privacy Notice will be displayed on the Bloom Education website
Contact information
Bloom Education
Unit 2, The Red Barn,
Easton Lane, Easton
Winchester SO21 1DQ
07591998272
