Disclaimers

The content of the Matthew Hart website is intended for information purposes only. Please seek professional advice before taking any action. Matthew Hart cannot be held responsible for any loss as a result of any action taken or not taken in consequence of its contents.

We do not accept any liability for the content or performance of external third party websites accessed through this website, nor do we endorse or approve the contents of any external site.

Copyright Notice

The material contained in this website, including text and graphics is under copyright. All rights are reserved. None of this material may be reproduced or redistributed without our written permission. You may, however, download or print a single copy for your own non-commercial use.

Privacy Statement

Data Protection Privacy Notice

When you supply any personal information I have a legal obligation towards the you in the way that I keep that data.  I must explain to you how I will collect and store the information and tell you if I want to pass the information onto anyone else.

Matthew Hart, Educational Psychologist:

• is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulations, is registered with the Information Commissioners Office and is the Data Controller for his practice
• will keep a note of all reports given to parents in electronic form to support the advice that he gives to parents and schools.
• will ensure that electronic records are held in only one physical location and are not carried on laptops or memory sticks outside of the practice office at the above address
• will only distribute reports to parents/carers who have commissioned a report and no third parties. Parents/carers may choose to distribute the reports
• where schools have commissioned a report, Matthew Hart will distribute reports to schools and schools are responsible for storing the report securely uncirculated report to parents
• will ensure that no other information on your child in paper or electronic form will be held by Matthew Hart, no reports from schools and open for other professionals.
• Parents are entitled to access the child's reports at any time
• files will be From minimum seven years that can be deleted at any time at the written request of parents or carers
• will request permission from parents/carers directly to access information from other professionals and to distribute information to other professionals
• will ensure that reports will be distributed by email in PDF form and password protected and student names will not be used in the email title. Reports will only be distributed from the practice server.

We respect your privacy. Any personal or company details received via our website will only be used by us in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We do not sell or otherwise give away your private information to any third parties. The details provided will only be used to update you regularly with details of our services and products.

This page explains the privacy policy for  Matthew Hart and how we will use and protect any information we collect about you when you visit this website.

Matthew Hart is the Data Processor and the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.

In the course of using our website you may provide us with your Name, Address, Postcode and contact details for telephone and e mail. This information is only retained by Matthew Hart for the following purposes:

• To provide you with information about my services and any products
• To inform you of updates, changes or news regarding Matthew Hart

We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.

Security

Matthew Hart need to collect and handle certain personal information about you so that we can provide our services to you. We will ensure that we look after that information and keep it secure.

When we ask for your information we commit to:

• make sure you know why we need it (i.e. information on our services and any products)
• only ask for what we need, and not to collect too much or irrelevant information
• protect it and make sure nobody has access to it who should not
• make sure we do not keep it for longer than necessary, and
• not to make your personal information available for commercial use without your permission.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information which are sent to your computer or any other device when you visit a website. We may use cookies to store information which we can access when you visit our site in future. We do this to:
To improve your experience of some of our online services
To improve our understanding of how people use our website
We will not use cookies to collect personal information about visitors to the Matthew Hart website.
If you delete cookies or you set your browser not to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some of our website services.
For more information about cookies visit AboutCookies.org.

Visitors to our website

When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the website. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

We use Google Analytics to help analyse use of our website. This analytical tool uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Matthew Hart To find out more about cookies, including how to control and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, or to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Matthew Hart will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Matthew Hart nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be upfront about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it and how we will protect the information.

Links to third party websites

Our website contains links to other external sites. This privacy policy applies only to the Matthew Hart website. When you move to another website, you will need to read the privacy statement of that website.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes, we will update this page. Check this page to make sure you are aware of what information Matthew Hart collect, how we use it and the circumstances we may share it with other organisations.

e mail: Matthew@matthewhartep.co.uk