Privacy Statement/Disclaimer

Port Bimbi Pty Ltd understands that privacy and security is important to all its clients and customers. Personal information retained by this company is not passed on to any third party at any time with the exception of specific enrolment enquiries which are only passed on to relevent schools upon request. No credit card details or bank details have ever been used on this website. Transactions are only performed offline or via PayPal (third party website).

Updated 6 Sept. 2023

1. Introduction

Welcome to privateschoolsguide.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and the privacy of the students, parents, educators and others who use our website. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website and use our services. By accessing or using our website, you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect various types of information, including but not limited to:

• Personal Information: This may include the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other contact details of parents, educators, or other individuals when provided voluntarily or when necessary for the provision of our services.

• Educational Data: We may collect information related to student enrolments, school academic performance and other general educational records as required for the purposes of providing this service.

• Technical Information: We automatically collect certain technical information about your device and usage of our website, such as IP address, browser type, operating system, and pages visited.

• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior on our website. You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can manage cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

3. How We Use Your Information

We do not disclose personal infomation to third parties for any reason at any time with the exception of enrolment enquiries which may be passed on only to relevent schools.

We use the general information we collect for various purposes, including but not limited to:

• Providing and improving our services
• Communicating with schools about the preformance of our website
• Personalizing user experiences on our website
• Analyzing website usage and trends
• Complying with legal obligations related to schools

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share general information (data) with:

• Educational Institutions: We may share some data with educational institutions, as required, for purposes related to the performance of this website.

• Service Providers: We may share general information with third-party service providers who help us operate and maintain our website and services.

• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information when required by law or in response to a legal request.

We will NOT share personal information with telemarketing companies, advertising agencies or other service providers of any kind.

We will NOT share school contact information, such as staff contact details or email addresses (that are not readily available on this site) with anyone for any reason.

We will NOT share our database of schools with anyone as a downloadable file for any reason.

5. Your Choices

You have choices regarding the collection and use of your information:

• For student and parental consent, we will follow applicable laws and regulations, and you may have the right to opt out or withdraw consent where applicable.

• You can manage cookies through your browser settings.

6. Security

We take reasonable security measures to protect your information, but please be aware that no data transmission over the internet is entirely secure. Only very minimal personal information required for finding enrolment positions at schools is collected by this site.  That information is not published on the site and is not used for any other purpose. No credit card details are used or stored on our website or servers.

7. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The revised policy will be posted on our website, with the date of the latest revision indicated at the top of the policy.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests related to this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Purchasing Products
Port Bimbi Pty Ltd will collect information from customers to enable shipment of the Schools Guide magazines only. No credit card details are stored by this website. All payments are accepted via PayPal. Other details are retained for payment and/or delivery purposes only and are not passed on to any third parties.

Posting Comments and Questions
Comments and questions posted are moderated by PSG staff prior to being published. Any comments deemed offensive will not be puiblished. The email address of any user that publishes a comment or question on this site is not shared with any third party for any reason.

Enrolment Enquiries
Only legitimate enrolment enquiries are delivered to schools via this website. All enquiries directed at schools are moderated. Marketing messages and inappropriate comments will not reach any school. Messages forwarded directly to a school will recah the enrolment officer's email address. This site has no capacity to forward messages to any other staff member at a school.

General Requests
Port Bimbi Pty Ltd may respond to general enquiries via email or telephone. Personal information is retained for reply purposes only. No personal information will be made available to any interested parties and only School information which is readily available within the Schools Guide Magazine and/or this website will be passed on.

Schools Guide Database
Schools Guide does not provide any data appearing on this site as a downloadable file, spreadsheet or similar format.

Newsletter
From time to time Port Bimbi Pty Ltd may publish a newsletter regarding the Schools Guides. This may be forwarded to all advertisers in the Guides automatically via email unless requested not to do so.
Other interested parties may request and receive the newsletter by emailing your request.

Schools Guide Helpdesk
Schools Guide provides a limited helpdesk service to assist users in narrowing down schools that may be suitable for their needs. Schools Guide does not rate or rank schools and does not receive any specific payments, recompense or reimbursements from any school for being suggested by this service. This service is intended for general assistance only. In most cases a range of likely suitable schools will be suggested. These schools may not be an exhaustive list and may not be the most suitable for a particular child. Individuals and families should do their own research and make their own determinations before enrolling at any school.

School Visitors' Star Ratings

Many school pages appearing on this site contain a rating system allowing visitors to the site to post a rating for each school. Ratings are scored from 0 to 6 stars with six stars reperesenting what that visitor considers to be an excellent school.

The system is designed to allow a single vote per school per visitor to avoid having visitors rate schools overly unfairly or excessively and allow the site to, progressively over time, portray the average rating given by a wide number of different visitors. Ratings do not necessarily represent an accurate value of, or quality of, any school and should not be regarded as an accurate portayal of a school's capacity to educate or otherwise school a child. All ratings appearing on this site are entirely independent scores provided by the visitors to this site as they see fit. Those visitors may or may not have an accurate understanding of the school and may or may not score impartially. Parents should not use the ratings as a guide to what constitutes a good school or otherwise.

Port Bimbi Pty Limited does not take responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of the scores presented other than to provide a working system that accurately accounts for the votes as entered by each individual who has visitied the pages of this site and has taken the opportunity to offer a rating.

Should any school have a concern regarding its rating Port Bimbi Pty Ltd encourages it to use its login (every school on this site is enabled with a free login which enables the school to fully manage their content) and simply disable the Ratings system for their page. Please contact Schools Guide staff if you do not know your login details or would like instructions on disabling your ratings system. Alternatively, please feel free to contact Schools Guide staff at any time and request your ratings be disabled. If you believe your ratings have been represented inaccurately please feel free to request a reset. Schools Guide staff hope that every school is rated fairly and where errors occur or inaccuracies are evident we will happily reset any school's rating. Where a reset is performed the system will return to a score of 0 ratings from a total of 0 users for that school. On that school's page it will show 6 blank stars representing a score of 'not yet rated' until such a time as a visitor places a new vote.