Privacy Policy
Inspired Scholar is committed to protecting the privacy of all our students and clients as well as teachers and employees. Maintaining the trust of our constituents is important to Inspired Scholar, and we recognize that, to maintain this trust, we must be responsible, transparent and accountable in how we treat the personal information that is shared with us.
IS Processes and Practices
Inspired Scholar gathers and stores personal information — such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address — as provided by you to communicate with you. Our privacy practices are designed to protect this information.
Inspired Scholar keeps and uses personal data from the point of inquiry through to enrollment to a student concluding his or her time at the organization. This includes both children and adult students as well as participants in other programs associated with the Inspired Scholar, such as our camps. Inspired Scholar keeps data on students and their parents or guardians, staff, vendors, donors, contractors, volunteers, and other individuals connected to the school. The personal information kept is listed below, although not all types of data are kept for each individual. The only personal data we keep on individuals depends on their roles and the business and operational needs of the organization.
The personal data kept by Inspired Scholar include:
How Long are Personal Records Kept?
Student academic data is kept for ten years after the student has left the organization. This information is available by request.
Your Rights
You have various rights under Data Protection Law to access and understand the personal data Inspired Scholar holds about you, and in some cases to ask for it to be erased or amended or for Inspired Scholar to stop processing it, but subject to certain exemptions and limitations. Requests to have your personal data erased or updated must be asked for via written notice, either on paper or via email.
Questions about our policies?
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you may contact us at email info@theinspiredscholar.com.
IS Processes and Practices
Inspired Scholar gathers and stores personal information — such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address — as provided by you to communicate with you. Our privacy practices are designed to protect this information.
- Use of Links: Throughout our web pages and social media, we provide links to other servers which may contain information of interest to our readers. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers.
- Use of text and images: If you would like to publish information that you find on our website, please send your request to email info@theinspiredscholar.com. Where text or images are posted on our site with the permission of the original copyright holder, a copyright statement appears at the bottom of the page. Information about using our logo and images is available by emailing info@theinspiredscholar.com.
- Reading or Downloading: We collect and store only the following information about users: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton University's domain), the date and time you access our site, and the Internet address of the website from which you linked to our site. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
- Online Profile Updates and Donations: If you complete the profile update form and share your personal information (name, email, telephone number), this information will be used only to provide you with more targeted content. We may use your contact information to send further information about our organization, updates, free lessons, or to contact you when necessary. You may always opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the "Opt-Out" section below.
- Sending us an email: You also may decide to send us personal information, for example, in an electronic mail message (email) containing a question or comment or by filling out a web form that provides us with this information. We use this information primarily to respond to your requests and, as such, may forward your email to other employees who are better able to answer your questions. We may also use your email to contact you about our programs that may be of interest.
- We want to be very clear: Providing personally identifying information about yourself is voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties. If you sign up for one of our email lists, we will only send you the kinds of information you have requested. We won't share your name or email address with any outside parties.
- Opt-out or Change Your Contact Information: Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us through a special online form. You may also update your contact information previously provided to us through another online form. You cannot remove yourself from our database, but you can unsubscribe to prevent unwanted communication. Requests to have your personal data erased or updated must be asked for via written notice, either on paper or via email.
Inspired Scholar keeps and uses personal data from the point of inquiry through to enrollment to a student concluding his or her time at the organization. This includes both children and adult students as well as participants in other programs associated with the Inspired Scholar, such as our camps. Inspired Scholar keeps data on students and their parents or guardians, staff, vendors, donors, contractors, volunteers, and other individuals connected to the school. The personal information kept is listed below, although not all types of data are kept for each individual. The only personal data we keep on individuals depends on their roles and the business and operational needs of the organization.
The personal data kept by Inspired Scholar include:
- Names, date of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, emergency contact/family details.
- Information needed to support individuals, such as their health card number and SIN information.
- Admissions, academic, disciplinary and other education-related records, information about special educational needs, references, examination reports, grades and evaluations, and any data needed to support the educational success of our students.
- Images, audio, and video recordings from classes, camps, and other Inspired Scholar-related activities. (Any images, audio, and video taken with students must have parental/guardian consent in the form of a signed waiver, which is kept on file.)
- Financial information connected to the individual and their payment status for whatever programs they have enrolled in or resources they have purchased.
- Courses, meetings, and events attended.
- Selection and admission of students
- Data required for the Ontario Student Record (OSR)
- Academic, operational, and support data kept beyond the OSR requirement for students and parents at Inspired Scholar.
- Compliance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the Canadian Anti Spam Legislation (CASL).
- Faculty and staff administration, including recruitment of staff, administration of payroll, sick leave, review, and appraisal of staff and faculty performance, the conduct of any grievance, capability, or disciplinary procedures, and the maintenance of appropriate human resources records for current and former staff; and references.
- Promotion of Inspired Scholar through its own websites, prospectus, and other publications and communications (including through social media channels).
- Maintaining relationships with alumni and the school community by communicating with the students, families, and organizing events.
How Long are Personal Records Kept?
Student academic data is kept for ten years after the student has left the organization. This information is available by request.
Your Rights
You have various rights under Data Protection Law to access and understand the personal data Inspired Scholar holds about you, and in some cases to ask for it to be erased or amended or for Inspired Scholar to stop processing it, but subject to certain exemptions and limitations. Requests to have your personal data erased or updated must be asked for via written notice, either on paper or via email.
Questions about our policies?
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you may contact us at email info@theinspiredscholar.com.