Mentone Grammar Privacy Policy

Mentone Grammar is compliant with the National Privacy Principles contained in the Commonwealth Privacy Act.

Mentone Grammar collects personal information, including sensitive information, about students and parents or guardians before and during the course of a student's enrolment at the School. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the school to provide schooling for your son or daughter. This includes satisfying the needs of parents and guardians throughout the whole period he or she is enrolled.

Some of the information Mentone Grammar collects is to satisfy the School's legal obligations, particularly to enable the school to discharge its duty of care.

Laws governing or relating to the operation of schools require that certain information is collected. You may contact Mentone Grammar if you have any question about this.

Health information about students is sensitive information within the terms of the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act. We require medical reports about students from time to time. If you do not consent to Mentone Grammar obtaining this information you must advise the School.

Mentone Grammar, from time to time, also has to disclose certain information and sensitive information to others. This includes other schools, government departments, medical practitioners, publications and people providing services to Mentone Grammar, including specialist visiting teachers, coaches and volunteers.

If we do not obtain the information referred to above, we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment of your son or daughter or, at least, allow them to engage in certain school activities.

Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son or daughter by contacting Mentone Grammar. However, there will be occasions when access to that information is denied. Such occasions would include where the release would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others or where release may result in a breach of Mentone Grammar's duty of care to the student.

As you may know, Mentone Grammar from time to time engages in fund raising activities. The information received from you may be used by the School to make an appeal to you. It may also be disclosed to organisations to assist in the School's fund raising activities.

If you provide Mentone Grammar with the personal information of others, such as doctors or emergency contacts, you should inform them that you are disclosing that information to the School and why. You should also inform them that they can access the information if they wish and the School does not usually disclose the information to third parties.

Except for some special circumstances, individuals have a right to have access to personal information an organisation holds about them and to have the information corrected or annotated if the information is incorrect, out-of-date or incomplete. Mentone Grammar may, from time to time, review and update this Privacy Policy to take account of new laws and technology, changes to the School's operations and practices and to make sure it remains appropriate to the changing school environment.

Website Privacy Policy

This site is operated by Mentone Grammar. When visiting this site, a record of your visit is logged. The following information is recorded for statistical purposes and is used by Mentone Grammar to improve our service.

This information is supplied by your browser

• The user's server address
• The user's operating system
• The user's domain name
• The date and time of the visit to the site
• The pages accessed and the documents downloaded, and the type of browser used
• No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the Internet web server logs.

When you email us:

• We will record your email address
• We will only use your email address for the purpose of our communication with you
• We will not use your email address for any other purpose, and
• We will not disclose your email address without your consent.

Other information collected by us, for example through the use of an online form, will only:

• Be collected by lawful and fair means
• Be used for a lawful purpose
• Be collected with your consent, and
• The purpose for collection will be clear and explicit.

Reservation of Rights

By accessing the Mentone Grammar World Wide Web pages you agree to the following terms.

If you do not agree to the following terms, please notice that you are not allowed to use the site. The contents of Mentone Grammar World Wide Web pages are Copyright © Mentone Grammar 2002. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. Reproduction, transfer, distribution or storage of part or all of the contents in any form without the prior written permission of Mentone Grammar is prohibited except in accordance with the following terms.

Mentone Grammar consents to you browsing Mentone Grammar World Wide Web pages on your computer or printing copies of extracts from these pages for your personal use only and not for redistribution unless consented to in writing by Mentone Grammar. Individual documents in our World Wide Web pages may be subject to additional terms indicated in those documents. The use of this site and the content therein, is permitted to private, non-commercial use. The use of press releases and other documents classified as public is permitted in public communications if the source for the information has been stated.

This site and the contents herein are provided as a convenience to the reader. The contents of Mentone Grammar World Wide Web pages are provided on "as is" and "as available" basis. Mentone Grammar does not warrant that its Web pages will be uninterrupted or error-free. Mentone Grammar reserves the right to revise the pages or withdraw access to them at any time.

For your easy accessibility Mentone Grammar may include links to sites on the Internet that are owned or operated by third parties. By linking to such third-party site, you shall review and agree to that site's rules of use before using such site. You also agree that Mentone Grammar has no control over the content of that site and cannot assume any responsibility for material created or published by such third-party sites. In addition, a link to a non-Mentone Grammar site does not imply that Mentone Grammar endorses the site or the products or services referenced in such third party site.

By submitting material to any of our servers, for example, by e-mail or via the Mentone Grammar World Wide Web pages, you agree that: (a) the material will not contain any item that is unlawful or otherwise unfit for publication; (b) you will use reasonable efforts to scan and remove any viruses or other contaminating or destructive features before submitting any material; and (c) you own the material or have the unlimited right to provide it to us and Mentone Grammar may publish the material free of charge and/or incorporate it or any concepts described in it in our products without accountability or liability (d) you agree not to take action against us in relation to material that you submit and you agree to indemnify us if any third party takes action against us in relation to the material you submit.

Your access to this site should not be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any marks appearing on the site without the prior written consent of Mentone Grammar or the third party owner thereof.