Legal Notices

Newstead Christian School maintains this website to ensure access to information about its operations and to meet registration guidelines. We aim to keep this information timely and accurate, however if errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them.

The School will, however, accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the material on this site.

This material is:

- Information of a general nature only which is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity;

- Not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date;

- Sometimes linked to external sites over which the School assumes no responsibility.

While all reasonable endeavour is made to ensure that this site is safe and secure and free from any form of malware, users should be aware that the world wide web is an insecure public network, which means information you may download could be intercepted or modified by third parties and may contain computer viruses or other defects.

The School accepts no liability for any interference with or damage to a user's computer system, software or data occurring in connection with this website. Users are encouraged to take appropriate and adequate precautions to ensure that whatever is selected from this site is free of viruses or other contamination.

This website may contain links to other websites which are external to the School. It is the responsibility of users to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in the linked external websites. Likewise Links to external websites should not be taken to be an endorsement or a recommendation of any third party products or services offered by the linked site. Users of links provided by this site are responsible for being aware of which organisation is hosting the site they visit.

Views or recommendation provided in linked sites do not necessarily reflect those of the School.

This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of the School in contravention of any requirements laid down in applicable national law nor to exclude its liability for matters which may not be excluded under that law.

1. Newstead Christian School 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. This maybe in writing or in the course of conversations. The primary purpose for 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 theSchool 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 relevant Education Acts, Public Health and Child Protection laws.

4. Health information about students is sensitive information within the terms of the National PrivacyPrinciples under the Privacy Act. We ask you to provide medical reports about students 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, medical practitioners, and people providing services to the School, including specialist visiting teachers, sportscoaches and volunteers.

6. Personal information collected from students is regularly disclosed to their parents or guardians. Onoccasions information such as academic and sporting achievements, student activities, photographs andother news is published in School newsletters, magazines, annual reports and on our website.

7. Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son/daughter by contacting the School. Students may also seek access to personal information 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 the student, or where students have provided information in confidence.

8. 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. It may also be disclosed to organisations that assist inthe School’s fundraising activities solely for that purpose. We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.

9. We may include your contact details in a class list and School directory. It you do not agree to this you must advise us now.

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 third parties.

11. The School Privacy Policy sets out how you may complain about a break of privacy and how the School will deal with such a complaint.

12. 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.

Any forms completed on this site that are related to enrolment such as Book a Tour, Register Your Interest or the Enrolment Form, do not constitute an offer of enrolment by the school. All offers of enrolment are duly notified by a letter from the Principal only.