Privacy Policy

York Steiner School is a Limited Company registered in England and Wales (No. 1591107) and a Registered Charity (No. 511974). ‘Waldorf School’ is a collective mark (®3069952) of the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship.

York Steiner School is the owner of the website www.yorksteinerschool.org

We are committed to respecting your privacy rights and maintaining the security of your data is a priority.  We will always handle your data fairly and legally and will be transparent about what data we collect and how we use it.

Our Privacy Policy outlines when and why we collect your personal information, what personal data we collect, how we use it and your legal rights relating to your personal data.

• How we use your personal data

• to provide goods and services to you;

• to verify your identity;

• for crime and fraud prevention, detection and related purposes;

• where we have a legal right or duty to use or disclose your information (for example in relation to an investigation by a public authority or in a legal dispute).

York Steiner School uses the personal data you have provided via forms completed on our website to supply you with the information requested. This may be provided by responding to your enquiry via email or telephone.

Sharing data with third parties
We will never share, sell or rent your data to third parties for marketing reasons.

In addition to our own suppliers, we may be legally asked to share your data with:

• governmental bodies, regulators, law enforcement agencies, courts/tribunals and insurers where we are required to do so:

• to comply with our legal obligations;

• to exercise our legal rights (for example in court cases);

• for the prevention, detection, investigation of crime or prosecution of offenders; and

• for the protection of our employees, suppliers and pupils.

We will not retain your data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.

What personal data do we collect?
York Steiner School may collect the following information about you:

• your name;

• your contact details: postal address including billing and home address (if different), telephone numbers (including mobile numbers);

• your email address;

• your online browsing activities on our website;

• your location (via a cookie for Google/Facebook analytics);

• your correspondence and communications with York Steiner School; and

• other publicly available personal data, including any which you have shared via a public platform (such as an Instagram feed or public Facebook page).

This list is not exhaustive and, in specific instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set out in this Policy.  Some of the above personal data is collected directly.  Other personal data is collected indirectly, for example, your browsing activity, see Cookie Policy.

All your data is held securely on our private, secure email server and is only used to correspond directly with you for the reasons outlined above.

Your Rights
You have the following rights:

• the right to ask what personal data we hold about you at any time;

• the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you free of charge

• If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact details set out below.

Contact Details

York Steiner School, Danesmead, Fulford Cross, Fulford, York, YO10 4PB

Telephone: 01904 654983
reception@yorksteinerschool.org