Privacy at St Elowen’s
We have written this twice. Once for children, in the school’s own voice, and once for grown-ups, plainly. Both say the same thing, because it is a simple thing.
If you are a child, read this one
You may look at everything here. You may open every door on the map, be sorted into your house, make your acceptance letter, and solve the cipher, and we will never ask you for your name, your age, your address, or anything at all. When you type your name into your letter, it stays on your own screen, in your own house, and goes nowhere else in the whole world.
We do not watch you. We do not follow you around the internet. We keep no list of children, because a child should not have to give anything away to be welcome, and at St Elowen’s you are welcome already.
If you would ever like the school to forget the little it remembers on your device, your house, your door, the pins you have opened, the name on your letter, there is a button at the foot of every page that says Forget everything about me. Press it, and it is all gone, in one go. Nothing was ever anywhere else, so there is nothing else to forget.
If you are an adult, read this one
This site is designed for, and very likely to be visited by, children, and we have built it to the standard that fact requires.
- No data from children. Every child-facing feature, the acceptance letter, the Sorting, the map, the cipher, runs entirely in the browser. Nothing is transmitted, logged, or stored anywhere but on the visitor’s own device, and it is erasable in one click.
- The mailing list is adults only. It is double opt-in, age-gated, single-purpose, and held with a reputable provider with UK or EU data residency. We never sell it, never share it, and never use it to build advertising audiences.
- No tracking. There are no advertising or behavioural pixels anywhere on this site. No Meta pixel, no TikTok pixel, no Google remarketing. Our analytics are cookieless and aggregate, and never record the content of anything anyone types.
- Downloads are never gated. A gate is a way of asking for something, and a child cannot consent, so we do not ask.
- Competitions are entered by a parent, guardian or teacher, who gives their own details and confirms they act on the child’s behalf.
To exercise any right over data you have given us as an adult, or to be removed from the list, write to the Admissions Office and it will be done.