Privacy Policy
Blue Mountains Grammar School and the Privacy Act 2001
Under the Federal Privacy Act 2001, the School is bound to comply with National Privacy Principles to ensure that personal information is collected, used and stored responsibly.
- The School 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/daughter.
- 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.
- Certain laws governing or regulating the operation of schools require that certain information be collected. These include Public Health laws.
- Health information about pupils is sensitive information within the terms of the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act. We ask you to provide medical reports about pupils from time to time.
- The School from time to time discloses personal and sensitive information to others for administrative and educational purposes. This includes to other schools, government departments, medical practitioners, and people providing services to the School, including specialist visiting teachers, sports coaches and volunteers.
- If we do not obtain the information referred to above we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment of your son/daughter.
- 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.
- Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son/daughter 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.
- We may include your contact details in a class list and School directory. If you do not agree to this you must advise us now.
- If you provide the School with the personal information of others, such as doctors or emergency contact, we encourage you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to the School and why, that they can access the information if they wish and that the School does not usually disclose the information to third parties.
