Privacy and Cookie Policy

St. George Group of Schools (“the school”, “we”) runs this website and the school portal used by parents, pupils, teachers and staff. The school decides how this information is used, which makes it the data controller under the Act.

Address: Plot 13, Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway, Ashimolowo Ifo, Ogun State.
Privacy contact: the school's Data Protection Officer or the Principal, at stgeorgecollege01@gmail.com.

About pupils, entered by the school:

• name, class, admission details, portal username and a profile photo;
• daily attendance, including the times of QR-code check-in and check-out;
• subjects, test and exam scores, report cards and teachers' remarks;
• school fees billed and paid, and store wallet top-ups and purchases.

About parents and guardians:

• name, email address and phone number, and which children are linked to the account;
• payments made, including proof of bank transfers you upload and online payment records.

About teachers and staff:

• name, role, contact details and a profile photo;
• daily clock-in records;
• payroll details such as salary, loans and bank account details, seen only by authorised administrators and the staff member.

When you use the portal, we keep the records needed to sign you in and keep your account secure. We do not use advertising or tracking tools.

Card details for online payments are entered on Paystack's secure page. The school never sees or stores your card number.

We use personal information only to run the school and the services we provide to families. In particular:

• to educate and care for pupils: registers, results, report cards and keeping pupils safe on school grounds;
• to keep parents informed: attendance, results and fees for their own children;
• to manage fees and payments: billing, receipts, the school store and online payments;
• to employ our staff: attendance and payroll;
• to keep the portal secure: sign-in and access controls so each person sees only what they should.

The legal grounds we rely on are: providing the education and services you have enrolled for (our agreement with you); meeting our legal duties as a school and employer; our legitimate interest in running the school safely and well; and, where stated, your consent. You can withdraw consent at any time without affecting anything done before.

Most of our pupils are under 18. Their information is entered by the school, and a parent or guardian gives consent on their behalf when they set up a parent account. Parents can see their own children's records only, and pupils can see only their own.

Profile photos of pupils and staff are taken by the school for identification and records. They are stored privately and shown only to signed-in staff and to the pupil's own parents. They are never shown on the public website.

Event photos from school life, such as excursions, cultural days, sports and graduations, may appear on this website and on the school's Instagram and TikTok pages. If you would prefer that your child does not appear, or want a photo removed, contact us and we will take it down. Confirm that parents have agreed to the event photos already on the website.

We never sell personal information. We share it only with:

• Supabase, which stores the school's database, accounts and photos for us;
• our website host, which runs this website for us;
• Paystack, which processes online payments. Paystack has its own privacy policy for the payment details you give it;
• examination bodies, government agencies or the police, where the law requires it or a pupil's safety depends on it.

These service providers may only use the information to provide their service to the school.

Our service providers may store information on servers outside Nigeria. Where they do, we rely on the safeguards the Act allows, such as the provider's contractual data protection commitments.

We protect information with encrypted connections, individual logins with passwords, access rules so that each role sees only what it needs, and private storage for photos. If a data breach puts your information at risk, we will report it to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission and tell those affected, as the Act requires.

We keep information only as long as we need it for the purposes above, or as long as the law requires.

• Pupils' academic records and results: for example, permanently, so we can confirm results and issue transcripts.
• Attendance, fee and store records: for example, six years after the pupil leaves.
• Staff payroll records: for example, six years after employment ends.
• Parent accounts: for example, closed one year after no child linked to them remains at the school.

Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, you have the right to:

• be told how your information is used, as in this policy;
• get a copy of the information we hold about you or your child;
• have wrong or incomplete information corrected;
• ask us to delete information we no longer need;
• object to, or ask us to limit, some uses of your information;
• withdraw consent you have given, such as for event photos;
• receive your information in a common electronic format.

To use any of these rights, contact us as shown below. We will reply within 30 days. Some records, such as results or payment records, may have to be kept to meet legal duties.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (ndpc.gov.ng).

Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. This website uses only cookies that are strictly necessary for it to work:

We do not use analytics, advertising or social media tracking cookies, so we do not ask for cookie consent. If you block cookies in your browser, the public pages still work, but you will not be able to sign in. If we ever add optional cookies, we will ask for your consent first and update this policy.

Links to our Instagram and TikTok pages, and to Google Maps for directions, take you to those websites, which have their own cookie and privacy policies.

We may update this policy, for example when we add a new service. We will change the date at the top and, for significant changes, tell parents through the portal.

For any question about your information, or to use your rights, contact the school:

• Email: stgeorgecollege01@gmail.com
• Phone: 08033195554 or 09058702584
• In person or by post: Plot 13, Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway, Ashimolowo Ifo, Ogun State.