www.st-chris.net
Last Updated: October 12th, 2023
St Chris Bahrain maintains this website www.st-chris.net ("the Site") and the information and materials on the Site ("Content").
Disclaimer
Whilst St Chris Bahrain takes care to ensure the accuracy of the Content, to the extent permitted by law, St Chris Bahrain assumes no legal liability for and does not warrant that the information contained on the Website is accurate or complete, or that these web pages will be free from errors or that its availability will be uninterrupted and St Chris Bahrain hereby expressly disclaims and excludes all express and implied warranties terms or conditions not stated herein, so far as such exclusion or disclaimer is permitted under the applicable law. St Chris Bahrain excludes all liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by any errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident or any other cause but this disclaimer is without prejudice to any claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, personal injuries or death.
Restrictions on Use of Content
The Content of the Website and all copyright and other intellectual property rights therein belong to St Chris Bahrain or its Content providers. You are hereby granted permission to access the Website and print a copy of the Content as a record of your visit. All other use of the Website and its Content, including modification, publication, transmission, creation of derivative works, incorporation into another website or reproducing the Website or the Content (whether by linking, framing or any other method) is not permitted without St Chris Bahrain's prior express written consent.
This Website and Cookie Privacy Policy (this " Policy") explains how personal information is collected, processed, and disclosed by St Christopher’s School Bahrain (hereafter referred to as "we" or “our” or "us" or “St Christopher’s School” or “organisation”) through the Website. This Policy applies to visitors and users (individually, "you") of the Website. For our full Privacy Notice, applicable to staff, students, parents, and visitors to our campuses please click here.
By visiting or using the Website to the extent permitted by applicable law, you are consenting to us gathering and processing information about you in accordance with this Policy, although consent may not be required for all of the elements described in this Policy. For particular types of information or processing, we may provide you with choices or request your further consent related to what information we collect and how we may process it.
This Policy does not cover third parties or their services and we do not take any responsibility for how such third parties may use any information they collect. For information about third-party privacy practices, please consult with them directly.
By visiting or using the Website, we may collect the following categories of personal information ("personal information") you provide to us: name, title, email address, postal address, phone number (including your mobile phone number), children's names, job role, marketing responses, admissions follow-ups, and other information you may provide about yourself to the Website or to which you provide us with access via third-party platforms.
We do not proactively collect personal information considered as sensitive personal information directly through the Website. However, the Website may include text boxes which are designed for you to provide your choice of certain information.
If you are an existing St Chris Bahrain family, we will combine this information with information we collect on the Website and use it for the purposes described below.
When you visit the Website or open communications (such as emails) , some information is automatically collected from devices (eg. mobile, computer, laptop, tablet) used to visit or use the Website including, but not limited to, operating system, access times, browser information (eg. type, language, and history), settings, and other data about your device that we use to provide the services or as otherwise described in this Policy ("device information"). We also collect information about your usage and activity on the Website using certain technologies, such as cookies, web beacons and other technologies (see section ‘Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies’ below for more details).
If you use the Website, we may receive your generic location (such as city or neighbourhood). We may use and store this information to provide and improve features of the Website, for example, to tailor the Website in a needs-based manner to better facilitate your requests and to provide you with more relevant content.
We may use your information for the following purposes: to provide you with the services, and functionality offered through the Website and fulfil your requests, including, but not limited to; to administer and protect our organisation and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data); to manage and maintain our relationship with you including to communicate with you about your enquiry or use of the Website, services, or functionality and respond to, or follow up on, your comments and questions, and otherwise provide customer service; to operate and improve the Website, services, and functionality; to power our security measures and services in order to protect you, our students and our organisation; comply with our policies, procedures and legal obligations; and as otherwise consented to by you and as required or permitted by applicable law.
If you choose not to provide us with certain information, we may not be able to fulfil the requested Purpose of collection, such as to respond to your queries or provide the Website to you.
We may combine your personal information with device information and location information (with your consent, where required) to serve you specifically, such as to deliver a service to you according to your preferences or restrictions, or for advertising or advertising targeting purposes. When we combine personal information, device information and location information in this way, we treat it as, and apply all of the safeguards in this Policy applicable to, your information.
Consistent with the above purposes, we may communicate with you via electronic messages, including email, text message, or mobile push notification to, for example: send you information relating to our school, including event reservation and waitlist confirmations and updates, receipts, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; and/or, communicate with you about school events and other news about services offered by St Chris Bahrain.
We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfil the Purposes outlined in this Policy and as otherwise needed to comply with applicable law and internal company policies.
We do not share your information collected on this website with third parties other than as described above and as follows:
We may disclose your information to regulatory authorities, courts, government agencies and other third parties where we believe that doing so would be in accordance with or permitted or required by any applicable law, regulation or legal process, to defend the interests, rights, and/or property of St Chris Bahrain or others, or to respond to emergencies or otherwise where we have legal basis to do so.
We may otherwise share your information as directed by you or subject to your consent.
The Website may allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with friends. The Website may also allow you to connect with us on, share on, and use third-party platforms, including those on which St Chris Bahrain has a presence. Please be mindful of your personal privacy needs and the privacy needs of others as you choose whom to connect with and what to share and make public. We cannot control the privacy or security of information you choose to make public or share with others. St Chris Bahrain also does not control the privacy practices of third-party platforms. Please contact those websites and services directly to learn about their privacy practices.
St Chris Bahrain takes commercially-reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
When a credit or debit card account information is being transmitted to the Website or through the Website, it will be protected by cryptographic protocols. To be clear, the Website does not itself store your credit or debit card account information, and we do not have direct control over or responsibility for your credit or debit card account information. We use third party payment processors that are the controllers of your credit card information. Our contracts with third parties that receive your credit or debit card account information require them to keep it secure and confidential.
Nonetheless, we cannot guarantee that transmissions of your credit or debit card account information or your other information will always be secure or that unauthorised third parties will never be able to defeat the security measures taken by St Chris Bahrain or our third-party service providers. Except to the extent that liability cannot be excluded or limited due to applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorised third-party access, or other causes beyond our control. You play an important role in keeping your information secure. You should not share your username, password, or other security information for your St Chris Bahrain accounts with anyone. If we receive instructions using your username and password, we will consider that you have authorised the instructions.
Information systems and data security is imperative to us to ensure that we are keeping our clients and subscribers happy.
We operate a robust and thorough process for assessing, managing and protecting new and existing systems which ensures that they are up to date and secure against the ever changing threat landscape.
When you trust us with your data we will always do our best to keep your information secure. By utilising strong encryption when your information is stored or in transit we minimise the risk of unauthorised access or disclosure; when entering information on the Website, you can check this by right clicking on the padlock icon in the address bar.
St Chris Bahrain hosting operations are based in the UK and we store most of our data within the European Union (EU). Some organisations which provide services to us may transfer data outside the Kingdom of Bahrain and/or outside the European Economic Area but we'll only allow this if your data is adequately protected. Some of our platforms and social media channels are provided by US companies and it may be that using their products results in data transfer to the USA. However we only allow this when we are certain that it will be adequately protected.
We collect information about your usage and activity on the Website using certain technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, and other technologies. We and our third-party service providers, and/or partners may also place web beacons for measuring sales and marketing campaigns. The use of these technologies by such third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Policy, except as required by law.
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to do different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving your browsing experience. If you visit our website, we will deploy these technologies to provide an online service more suited to the device you connect from, as well as for administrative purposes and to enhance your online experience by keeping track of your behaviour within the site and to make sure you do not see the same special offers repeatedly. We collect information about your use of this site, information about the device or browser you use to access etc.
We use a limited number of cookies for several reasons as listed in this notice. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate or for administrative purposes and to enhance your online experience by keeping track of your behaviour within the site and to make sure you do not see the same special offers repeatedly.
We classify our cookies as:
St Chris Bahrain does not send marketing or promotional emails. We also do not collect any Personal Data for direct marketing purposes. However, we may ask you to leave a review or take a survey to allow us to provide you with a better service. We may also collect your Personal Data to respond to your queries and comments, social media posts and questions/ queries.
Under certain circumstances, by law, you have the right to:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within 10 working days. Occasionally, it may take us longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
The Website may contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by St Chris Bahrain. This Policy only applies to information collected by the Website. We have no control over these third party websites, and your use of third party websites and features are subject to privacy policies posted on those websites. We are not responsible or liable for the privacy or business practices of any third party websites linked to the Website. Your use of third parties' websites linked to the Website is at your own risk, so we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any linked third party websites before you leave their sites.
Except to the extent limited by applicable law, we reserve the right to update this Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. Any updates will become effective immediately after posting the updates to this Policy and apply to all information collected about you. You agree that you will review this Policy periodically. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will change the "Last Updated" date at the top. By using the Website, you accept this Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy or any modified version of this Policy, your sole recourse is to terminate your use of the Website.
If we make any changes to this Policy that materially impacts information that was previously collected about you, we will obtain your prior express consent.
If you have any questions about this Policy or information we have collected about you, please contact us at [email protected].
For any complaints, please contact us directly first so we can resolve your problem or query. You also have the right to contact the Personal Data Protection Authority. You can contact them at http://www.pdp.gov.bh/en/index.html.
