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Status of Information on this Website
This website has been prepared to give you general information about St. Dominic's Primary School Melton. The information on this website is in summary form and does not purport to be a comprehensive guide to our policies and statements. It is not the intention of St. Dominic's Primary School that any information contained on this website be relied upon by any person for any reason whatsoever. Accordingly, it is suggested that in circumstances where you require accurate and up to date information pertaining to St. Dominic's Primary School that you make contact directly with the School.
Accuracy of Information St. Dominic's Primary School does not warrant that this website contains accurate information. The information on this website is subject to change without notice and the information may not be up-to-date at the time the website is accessed by you.
Copyright The information and photographs on this website are copyright © St. Dominic's Primary School. You may only display and/or store this information on your computer or print the information if it is for your personal information and non-commercial use. No link may exist to this website from another website and no information from this website may appear on any other website without the express permission of St Dominic's Primary School.If you wish to store or print material from a website linked to this one, it is your responsibility seek the copyright owner's permission (if it is not given on the website).
Privacy The following point are an explanation to how St. Dominic's School handles the personal information of the students and their families:
1. The School [the Diocese both independently and through the Schools] 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.
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 principals under the Privacy Act. We 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 to other schools, government departments, Catholic Education Office, the Catholic Education Commission, your local diocese and the parish medical practitioners, and people providing services to the School, including specialist visiting teachers.
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/daughter.
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.
8. 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 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 this 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. 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 the their parties
