Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Bright Learners Academy have a few fundamental principles:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our services, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our administrative office.
Bright Learners Academy operates this website. It is BLA’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, BLA collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Bright Learner’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how its visitors use its website. From time to time, Bright Learners Academy may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Bright Learners Academy also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. Bright Learners Academy only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Bright Learners Academy website choose to interact with Bright Learners in ways that require Bright Learners to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Bright Learners Academy gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a login at brightlearnersacademy.com to provide a email address. Those who engage in transactions with Bright Learners Academy are asked for information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Bright Learners. Bright Learners does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Bright Learners Academy may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Bright Learners Academy may monitor the most frequently visited pages. Bright Learners Academy may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Bright Learners Academy does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Bright Learners Academy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Bright Learner’s behalf or to provide services available at Bright Learners Academy website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. By using Bright Learners Academy website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Bright Learners Academy will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Bright Learners Academy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Bright Learners Academy believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Bright Learners Academy, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Bright Learners Academy website and have supplied your email address, Bright Learners Academy may occasionally send you an email to tell keep you up to date with what’s going on with Bright Learners Academy. We primarily use our “Class Dojo” to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Bright Learners Academy takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Bright Learners Academy uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the Bright Learners Academy website, and its website access preferences. Bright Learners Academy visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Bright Leaners Academy websites, with the drawback that certain features of Bright Learners Academy website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Bright Learners Academy additional Limited Terms and Conditions.
These terms and conditions govern the basis on which we agree to provide childcare services to you.
1 OBLIGATIONS ON BRIGHT LEARNERS ACADEMY
We will:
1.2. Contact parents within seven days upon receipt of the registration form via telephone and email.
1.3. Provide childcare facilities at the contracted times excluding Bank Holidays and one week over the Christmas period.
1.4. Notify you at least two weeks in advance if we change the opening hours and we will endeavor to accommodate your child’s hours at the school.
1.5. Operate a waiting list which will be based on the following criteria:
1.5.1. The date the application is received and those who have been on the waiting list for the longest time.
1.5.2. If children already have siblings at the school
1.5.3. Children who are currently attending the school who wish to change their days. This includes any additional sessions and/or extended hours.
1.6. Whenever possible provide ongoing verbal updates to your child’s progress along with parents evening which will take place on 6-month basis
1.7. Contact parents immediately should their child become unwell during the day. In the case of our staff being unable to contact the parent, the school reserves the right to contact the child’s own GP and if necessary take a child to hospital in an emergency.
2 OBLIGATIONS ON YOU, You will:
2.1. Complete and return our health record including notification of any allergies before your child starts school and you are obliged to immediately inform us of any changes to your child’s health so that our records can be updated accordingly.
2.2 Be requested to fill in a medicine consent form if at any time our staff are required to administer any medicines to your child (whether they are prescribed or over the counter medicines).
2.3 Keep your child from attending school if they are poorly and upon their return to us we will ask you to identify your child’s illness so that we can update our health records and to avoid the spread of contagious illnesses to other children.
2.4. Children suffering from sickness are asked to stay away from the campus for a recommended period of time, details of which are set out on our website under our Health & Safety Section.
2.5 Immediately inform us of any changes to your contact details
2.6. Provide the school with up to date details of authorized adults permitted to collect your child. If the person collecting your child is not usually responsible for collecting them, then we require you to provide us with your unique password and government id before we will release your child.
2.7. Supply us with all information regarding any court order you child may be involved in and provide us with a copy of such order on request and complete a Legal Guardian Form at Registration.
2.8. Immediately inform us if you are unable to collect your child from school by the official collection time. A late payment charge of $2 per minute after the contracted collection time will be added to your next monthly fee.
2.10. Notify us at the earliest opportunity of any dates on which your child will not be attending the school.
2.11. Provide your child with waterproof clothing and at least one spare change of clothes and all clothes must be clearly marked with your child’s name as we do not take responsibility for any loss or damage to your child’s property.
2.12. Provide your child with a toothbrush if you wish your child to wash their teeth after meal times or at any point during the day.
3 PAYMENT
3.1 Our fees are based on a “weekly fee” which we will inform you of when you child’s place has been accepted and confirmed at Bright Learners Academy We may review these fees periodically however we will give you at least 1 months’ notice of the updated fees before they come into effect.
3.2. If you do not feel you are able to pay the revised fees, we request you to complete a Leaving Form at least one month prior to withdrawing your child from the campus. This can be obtained from our Director.
3.3 . Charges are calculated on a weekly basis and multiplied by 52 weeks and divided by 12 to arrive at a pro-rate monthly fee. Bank Holidays and family holidays that fall within this 52-week period are non-refundable. All payments made under this Agreement must be by direct debit. We may agree to payment by check, but it is your responsibility to obtain a receipt from the director as proof of payment.
3.4 In order to secure your child’s place at our school you are requested to pay an upfront registration fee of $180 per child. Failure to pay the registration fee will result in your child losing their place at Bright Learners Academy. Registration fees are non-refundable in cases where a place has been accepted and a parent changes their mind.
3.5 We require a minimum of two weeks notice in writing providing the campus with a specific leaving date and you are required to inform us in writing.
3.6. If you fail to make payment in full by your assigned due date of each week/month we will enforce a penalty charge of $25 daily until payment has been made. Overpayments will be added to the next invoice, but will not be refunded.
4 SUSPENSION – We reserve the right to suspend your child’s school attendance if:
4.1. You fail to pay any outstanding fees within seven days of the due date when all payments are due.
4.2. Your child displays consistent signs of unacceptable behavior or endangers the safety and well-being of another child or adult at the school. If these issues are unresolvable, then the suspension may lead to termination, however we will endeavor to work with parents, third parties or agencies that will assist in alleviating the child’s behavioral issues.
4.3 In the event that your child is either suspended and/or the suspension leads to termination of this Agreement, a refund will be given on a pro-rate basis and will be paid within seven days of your child leaving the school.
4.4 Both parties reserve the right to termination this Agreement in writing if the duration that the child is suspended exceeds one month.
5 TERMINATION
5.1 You may terminate this Agreement at any time by providing us with at least two weeks notice in writing by letter or email.
5.2 We may immediately terminate this Agreement if:
5.3 You fail to pay any outstanding fees within seven days of the due date when all payments are due.
5.4. You breach any of your duties and responsibilities under this Agreement and you have not or cannot put right that breach within a reasonable period of time of us asking you to.
5.5 You behave unacceptably, as we will not tolerate any physical or verbal abuse towards staff.
5.6. Your child continues to display consistent signs of unacceptable behavior or endangers the safety and well-being of another child or adult and where remedial action from third parties or agencies has been unsuccessful.
5.7. Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, Bright Learners Academy are required to close, the school will notify you at the earliest opportunity.
5.8. You may immediately end this Agreement if:
5.9. We breach any of our duties and responsibilities under this Agreement and we unable to resolve the breach within a reasonable time period.
5.10. Bright Learners Academy become insolvent.
6 GENERAL
6.1 We have an obligation to report any instances where we consider that a child may have been neglected or abused to the relevant authorities. We may do so without your consent and/or without informing you.
6.2. Customer satisfaction is of the utmost importance to us and we endeavor to address any complaints within a reasonable time period and all matters will be treated in the strictest confidence. Any complaints should initially be discussed with your child’s teacher. If you feel that the complaint has not been resolved satisfactorily, you are requested to report the complaint to the Director.
6.3. Unless we specifically request otherwise your child should not bring any of their own toys to school. If they do bring toys with them, we accept no responsibility for any loss or damage to those toys.
(Last updated October 2019)
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Bright Learners Academy may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Bright Learners Academy sole discretion. Bright Learners Academy encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.