Start > Privacy

Privacy

All visitors to a Web site that uses cookies must be notified that the Web site uses cookies, what their purpose is and how they can be blocked. On this Web site, cookies are used in the following instances:

If you are not logged in and respond to/submit a form, a cookie will be sent as a reminder to your computer that you have submitted the form.

When you log in, cookies are used to store your login information. If cookies are blocked during login, the login dialog box will appear for each new page that requires authentication.

MARIST COLLEGE NORTH SHORE

PRIVACY & PERSONAL INFORMATION: STANDARD COLLECTION NOTICE

 

 

1.       Marist College North Shore (and the Catholic Education Office, Sydney) collects personal information, including sensitive information about pupils and parents or guardians before and during the course of a pupil's enrolment at the School.  The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the School to provide schooling for your son.

 

2.       Some of the information we collect is to satisfy the School's legal obligations, particularly to enable the School to discharge its duty of care.

 

3.       Certain laws governing or relating to the operation of schools require that certain information is collected.   These include Public Health and Child Protection laws.

 

4.       Health information about pupils is sensitive information within the terms of the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act.  We may ask you to provide medical reports about pupils from time to time.

 

5.       The School from time to time discloses personal and sensitive information to others for administrative and educational purposes.  This includes disclosure to other schools, government departments, Catholic Education Office Sydney, the Catholic Education Commission, NSW, your local diocese and the parish, Schools within other Dioceses/other Diocesan offices, medical practitioners, and people providing services to the School, including specialist visiting teachers, coaches, volunteers and counsellors.

 

6.       If we do not obtain the information referred to above we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment of your son.

 

7.       Personal information collected from pupils is regularly disclosed to their parents or guardians.  On occasions information such as academic and sporting achievements, pupil activities and other news is published in School newsletters, magazines and on our website.

 

8.       Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son by contacting the School.  Pupils may also seek access to personal information about them.  However, there will be occasions when access is denied.  Such occasions would include where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where access may result in a breach of the School's duty of care to the pupil, or where pupils have provided information in confidence.

 

9.       As you may know the School from time to time engages in fundraising activities.   Information received from you may be used to make an appeal to you.  We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.

 

10.   We may include your contact details in a class list and School directory (where, in general, access is limited to school staff).

 

11.  If you provide the School with the personal information of others, such as doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to the School and why, that they can access that information if they wish and that the School does not usually disclose the information to third parties.