Legal Statement

Use of Photographs on our Website

The prime purpose of our website is to provide information. Having a school website will enable us to provide information for existing pupils and parents, to share and celebrate our achievements with you and to promote the school to prospective parents and pupils. The site will be used to publish all of the letters to parents, showcase examples of pupils work, children’s involvement in different activities and to show pictures of previous school events. We will have a school calendar identifying all of the school’s events for the year. By using the web site to keep our parents up to date we hope to reduce the letters sent home.

The safety of children and other users who appear or are referred to on the published website is of paramount importance. We will try to ensure that no individual child can be identified or contacted either via, or as a result of a visitor using, the school website.

To this end, St. Vincent’s adheres to the following guidelines for site content.

• We do not intend to use adult’s names, but if their names are published we will use their first name only e.g. Trevor, unless they are a well known personality then their full name will be used. 
• Any images of children will not be labelled with their names. 
• Close up pictures of individual children, group photographs and photographs with two or more children will be available online. 
• Children will only be shown in photos where they are suitably dressed. 
• Personal details of children, staff and governors, such as home addresses, telephone numbers, personal e-mail addresses, etc, will not be released via the website or school e-mail. 
• We will remove any picture / work that a parent asks us to remove.
• Adults have the right to refuse permission to publish their image on the published website. 
• Parents have the right to refuse permission for their child's work and/or image to be published on the published website.

Those wishing to exercise this right should express their wishes in writing to the Headteacher, clearly stating whether they object to work, images, or both being published, to the published site.