PRIVACY POLICY

Updated 27 March 2019

This Privacy Policy discloses how we gather, use and protect your personal data. This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected by St. Francis Xavier’s High School through its website www.sfxhs.in

Contact

On our website we use several contact forms which can be used to get in contact with us electronically. We also take contact information from Facebook advertisements. If you use one of these channels, the personal data transmitted will be stored automatically in our database to handle our contact with you.

Cookies

This website make use of cookies to save and retrieve information about your visit to our sites. Cookies are small files of software which save and retrieve information about your visit to a website or application. They reside in your internet browser to help remember your preferences and previous activity.

Cookies currently used on our site identify you as an anonymized number.  We use cookies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users movements around the website, and gather demographic information about our user base. We also use this data to provide the site’s content, ensure the functionality of our information technology systems, and to optimize our website.

Users can control and refuse the use of cookies at the individual browser level. Cookies installed can be deleted. If you reject cookies, you may still use our website, but your ability to use some features or areas of our website may be limited.

When you visit our website, the following cookies will be set in your browser:

# Google Analytics – In order to keep our website services relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use web analytics services to help us understand how people use the site. Cookies allow web analytics services to recognise your browser or device and, for example, identify whether you have visited our website before, what you have previously viewed or clicked on, and how you found us. The information is anonymous and only used for statistical purposes, and it helps us to analyse patterns of user activity and to develop a better user experience.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there. Google uses this information to analyze your use of our site, to compile reports for us on internet activity and to provide other services relating to our website.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage. You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on referenced above at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used.

# Facebook Pixels – We use We use the “Custom Audience pixel” of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”) on our website. With its help, we can keep track of what users do after they see or click on a Facebook advertisement. This enables us to monitor the effectiveness of Facebook ads for purposes of statistics and market research. We also use Facebook pixels for re-targeted Facebook advertisements shown to website visitors.

Data collected in this way is anonymous to us, which means we cannot see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is saved and processed by Facebook. Facebook can connect this data with your Facebook account and use it for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Policy which can be found at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and outside of Facebook. A cookie can also be saved on your device for these purposes.

Please click here if you would like to withdraw your consent https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_=_

# Google Tag Manager (GTM) – GTM is a tag management system to manage JavaScript and HTML tags used for tracking and analytics on websites. GTM makes it easier for us to integrate and manage our tags. We use GTM on our website to include the Google Analytics tracking tools.

# Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) – UTM tags are not tools. UTM works as a custom URL for marketing campaigns and reports can be viewed in platforms like Google Analytics. UTM tags are appended as part of the visible URL in marketing programs to understand the specific instance of a link. UTM tag reports are observed in Google Analytics for understanding visitors to our website – for example, if they have visited the website, clicked on a link or filled a form. These details are collected at an aggregated level. Customizing the URL with UTM tags allows us to better understand the marketing activity, which then allows us to better serve our audience. The tracking occurs via the UTM parameters that are appended in the URL. When a user clicks an UTM tagged URL, based on the parameters set, we will be able to track from which end source the user has interacted with that URL.

Privacy Protection

We will respect and protect your privacy as set out in this Privacy Policy. We do not and will not share or sell your personal data with third parties except as described in this privacy policy (Google Analytics only uses your cookies data – sharing usage data, not user’s information).

Your Rights
  • Right of  access
  • Right to rectification or erasure
  • Right to restriction of processing
  • Right to object
  • Right to data portability
Changes to Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time and will note the date of any updates.  In the event of any material and significant changes we will endeavor to provide a more prominent notice of the changes to this Privacy Policy.

Write to [email protected] if you have any questions about this privacy policy or any concerns about your privacy with regards to usage of this website.