LEGAL NOTICES

DISCLAIMER

All reasonable measures have been taken to ensure the accuracy of information and links contained on this website and/or conveyed by our mentors.  Nevertheless, any liability in connection with the use of such information or links or any trust in their accuracy is excluded.  None of the information contained on this website constitutes legal advice.

TEACHER/PARENT/GUARDIAN CONSENT

If you are under 18, you should not contact us unless you have first notified someone over 18 with responsibility for you (i.e. a teacher, parent or guardian). By contacting us, you will be deemed to have confirmed that you have done this.

COOKIES

Our website uses cookies (small data files which are downloaded to your computer) so that we can recognise that your computer has visited the site before.  We do not use cookies to identify you, just to improve your experience of the site.  You can if you wish set your Internet browser so that it will not automatically download cookies; this will not prevent you from using our site.  The precise steps necessary to block cookies vary from browser to browser.  They are generally explained in the "Help" section of the browser.

GDPR/PRIVACY

The Scottish State School Mentoring Network (or SSSMN) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

SSSMN is the controller and responsible for your personal data. The administrative functions of SSSMN are carried out by the members of the Steering Committee, who are responsible for overseeing compliance with this privacy notice.  If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact admin@sssmn.org.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.  However, we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, and would ask that please contact us in the first instance.

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows: (i) Identity Data (including first name, last name, school, status, interests, topics/question on which you believe you would benefit from our mentors’ input and (ii) Contact Data (includes email addresses and phone numbers).

You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. 

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data only where it is necessary for the provision of the services we offer and/or where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.  In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those who have a need to know, subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.  In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data.

If you have any questions about your rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at admin@sssmn.org.

Last Updated: March 2019