Privacy Policy

Last updated: [06.05.2025.]

At Stirling Schools, we are committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have regarding your data.

Who We Are

Stirling Education UK Ltd is the data controller for the purposes of this policy. Our registered office is located at 35-37 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JN, United Kingdom.

Legal Basis for Processing Your Data

We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:
- Your consent (e.g. for marketing communications or cookies)
- Our contractual obligations to you
- Compliance with legal obligations
- Our legitimate interests (e.g. website functionality, analytics)

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string (hash) from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you're using it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible publicly next to your comment.

Media Uploads

If you upload images to the website, we advise avoiding images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract such data from the images.

Cookies

- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don't have to re-enter your details for future comments. These cookies last one year.


- Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

- Upon login, several cookies are set to save login credentials and screen preferences. Login cookies last for two days; screen options cookies last a year. Selecting "Remember Me" extends login for two weeks. Logging out deletes these cookies.

- When you edit or publish content, a cookie is stored with the post ID. This contains no personal data and expires after one day.

Embedded Content

Articles on our site may include embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. These websites behave exactly as if you visited them directly and may collect data, use cookies, and track your interaction with their content.

Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email. Otherwise, we do not sell or share your data with third parties without your consent.

How Long We Retain Your Data

We retain your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including any legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting requirements.

Your Rights Over Your Data

You have the right to:
- Ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- Ask us to correct or delete your data
- Object to how we use your data or ask us to limit its use If you want to make a request, please contact us at [email protected].

If you’re not happy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be screened using an automated spam detection service.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your data or this policy, please contact us via [email protected].