Privacy Policy
For students, families and staff
Staff
Copenhagen International School (CIS) is committed to protecting the personal data of its employees and contractors.
We process personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Danish Data Protection Act (Databeskyttelsesloven) to manage employment relationships, meet legal and contractual obligations, ensure IT and workplace security, and support a safe and professional environment.
CIS collects only information that is necessary and relevant, and retains it only for as long as required by law or legitimate need. All staff have full rights under GDPR, including access, correction, deletion, and objection to processing.
For detailed information about how CIS handles staff data, please see the internal Staff Data Privacy Statement available on the staff intranet, or contact hr@cis.dk.
Students and families
CIS is committed to protecting the personal data of its students and families.
In the course of the services we provide to you, the International School of Copenhagen (hereinafter “Copenhagen International School” or “we”), will process personal data relating to you and your children. With regard to such processing, Copenhagen International School will qualify as data controller.
In this capacity, Copenhagen International School strives to comply with applicable data protection regulations, such as the Law 502 of 23 May 2018 and the European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of privacy in relation to the processing of personal data, as may be amended from time to time. This Copenhagen International School Privacy Notice (hereinafter “Notice”) explains how we collect and use personal data, who we share it with and the ways in which we protect your privacy while doing so. This Notice applies to all personal data collected for and on behalf of Copenhagen International School. This pertains to both information collected in analogue form (forms, documents, in writing) and through technological means, such as information systems and email.
From time to time, we may make you aware when we require additional personal data for processing activities through a separate specific privacy notice.
Copenhagen International School reserves the right to make changes to this Notice from time to time, for example in the light of new developments or new legislation. Copenhagen International School will always inform you of such changes in advance. In any event, it is recommended that you consult this Notice regularly.
How we collect your personal data
We may collect your personal data in a variety of ways:
- Personal data relating to you or your children can be obtained directly from you or your children, for example via completing the Application form, via information provided via Classlists©, Googleforms©, Veracross©, via meetings with teachers and staff, etc.
- Personal data relating to you or your children can also be obtained via other information channels, such as previous schools, health professionals, social media channels, etc.
- Personal data relating to you or your children also obtained by actions of Copenhagen International School itself or its data processors, e.g. through evaluations, camera surveillance, access control measures, etc.
Why we use your personal data
Copenhagen International School collects personal data, including special categories of personal data of students and parents to provide a safe and caring international environment for teaching, learning and general educational purposes.
More specifically we process your or your children’s personal data for the following purposes, and other purposes that are compatible with the purposes described below:
- to undertake and manage the school admissions and enrolment
- to provide a safe and secure learning environment
- to comply with child protection requirements
- to support and enable the academic, pastoral and personal objectives of children, including the monitoring and reporting of progress
- to provide our educational services
- to provide support and care for emotional and psychological wellbeing (pastoral and counselling)
- to protect the health of the students and staff we serve
- to provide a tailored learning environment and make evidence based education decisions for the children we serve
- to enable the children we serve to continue or progress their education at other educational organizations
- to support and develop our employees in the performance of their duties
- for financial planning to help in the future planning and resource investment purposes
- to meet our statutory reporting requirements to the education and other authorities
- to help investigate any concerns or complaints you may have
- to build and maintain the Copenhagen International School community, including fundraising
- to make you aware and inform you about our services, news, events and activities that are undertaken at or in association with Copenhagen International School
- to communicate with you within the framework of your relationship with Copenhagen International School
- to ensure the safety and security of students and staff, including camera surveillance
- for forecasting and planning for education service provision
- to respond to requests of our staff and (former) students regarding historic information pertaining to their time at Copenhagen International School.
On which basis Copenhagen International School processes your personal data
We collect and use personal data to carry out the education services as prescribed above. We do so under the lawful basis that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract in which you are entering or have entered into. In some circumstances we may have to process data for other purposes that are not necessary for the performance of the contract. In such cases, the processing may be based upon
(i) our legitimate interests, such as providing a safe learning environment, maintaining the Copenhagen International School community, fundraising, etc., (ii) on the protection of you or your children’s vital interests, (iii) on the compliance with our legal obligations and/or (iv) on the consent you or your children may have provided to us.
The categories of personal data being processed
The categories of personal data that Copenhagen International School collects and processes include:
- personal information (such as name, unique number and address)
- special categories of data (such as health information, ethnicity)
- educational and evaluation data (such as assessments, relevant medical information, special educational needs information, exclusions / behavioural information and psychological reports and assessments)
- attendance information (such as sessions attended, number of absences and absence reasons)
- logging and audit in the use of IT systems and education technology apps, applications and cloud based systems
- communication and correspondence data (such as emails, letters and other types of correspondence)
- photographs and videos (see also section 8 and 9 of this Notice).
Special categories of data
The education services we provide require us to collect and process special categories of data, such as health information, for the purposes of safeguarding the protection of your children and the wellbeing of those within our care. We do not disclose or share special categories of data without explicit and unambiguous consent unless we have to do so where we are required to by law, or where we have good reason in protecting the vital interests of an individual, or where not doing so would place someone else at risk.
Storing personal data
We keep personal data for as long as necessary with regard to the purposes described in Article 2 of this Notice or for any other purposes that may be communicated to you.
In general, your personal data are stored on our own servers and on the servers of our data center service provider, located in the European Union. Regarding transfers outside the European Union, see Article 6 of this Notice.
Sharing and transfers of personal data
Your personal data is shared internally within Copenhagen International School for the purposes of delivering the services required.
For the purposes described in Article 2 of this Notice, Copenhagen International School may need to share your personal data externally with certain recipients, as well as with third parties processing your data on behalf of Copenhagen International School. More specifically, this includes the following categories of recipients:
- Schools, colleges or universities that the students plan to or are attending after leaving Copenhagen International School; Other international schools (amongst others for the purposes of trips, sports and activities);
- Local education authorities in Denmark
- Family nurses, doctors or social service organizations (amongst others where sharing is in the vital interests, or where not sharing could have a negative impact on the individual);
- Providers of information systems that are necessary for Copenhagen International School to deliver the admissions, administration, teaching and learning, pastoral development, and child protection services;
- Providers of IT hosting and maintenance services;
- Government organizations, police, health and social care (where we are required to do so by law, or where we have obtained your consent to do so).
Personal data may also be transferred to organizations outside Denmark and outside the European Union. This may for example occur for the purposes of student application for college or university. Various teaching and learning applications of providers that are based outside the European Union are also used. Additionally, Copenhagen International School uses Google Workspace for Education in order to deliver educational services. While in most cases Copenhagen International School is the Data Controller, Google processes Service Data as a controller. A supplemental Google Cloud Privacy Notice can be found here detailing the processing of Service Data.
Photographs and videos
Photographs and videos of your children may be taken by staff and students throughout the school year to record and share everyday life at Copenhagen International School. Your child may be identifiable in these photographs or videos. Identifiable photographs of your child may be used for:
- educational and informational purposes (such as keeping records of lessons, field trips, sports, events, staff training, yearbook), as we have a legitimate interest to do so;
- the identification of your child for health related purposes, such as allergies, as it is in the vital interest of your child to do so
- marketing and publication purposes, if and to the extent we have obtained you and/or your child’s consent where required under applicable data protection legislation to do so.
If such photographs and videos reveal any sensitive personal data of you or your child, we will only process and use such photographs and videos if and to the extent we have obtained you and/or your child’s consent where required under applicable data protection legislation to do so.
Your rights
Parents and students may exercise a number of rights with regard to the processing of their personal data vis-à-vis Copenhagen International School, in so far as they effectively have those rights under applicable data protection legislation, such as the Law 502 of 23 May 2018 and the European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016.
The rights which you may have under applicable data protection legislation are:
- Right to object – the right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation to the processing of personal data based on the legitimate interests of Copenhagen International School, and the right to object to the processing for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to information and access – to request access to and a copy of the personal data Copenhagen International School holds on you, as well as the right to information about relevant aspects of the data processing by Copenhagen International School. This Notice serves to inform you thereon, but do get in touch if you have any questions.
- Right to rectification – to correct inaccurate personal data or to complete incomplete personal data.
- Right to erasure – to request the deletion or removal of personal data in specific circumstances, for example if your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes pursued by Copenhagen International School or if there no longer is a legal ground for the data processing.
- Right to restriction of the processing – to limit the processing, e.g. where you have told us the data is inaccurate and we are in the process of checking this. In such circumstances we will continue to store your data but will not process it further until we have checked and confirmed whether the data is inaccurate.
- Right to data portability – to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used format and to transmit it or have it transmitted to another international school.
- Right not to be subject to automated individual decision-making – the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
- The right to dispute and to contact the Data Protection agency (Datatilsynet)
Where the processing of your personal data is based upon consent, you and/or your child have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Such withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before the withdrawal.
There may be instances where you may not want us to process or share your personal information. In these cases, we may not be able to fulfil the service you need, or do so in a limited way, or be able to comply with a statutory obligation. In those instances, we will not be able to comply with your request and we will tell you if this is the case.
Contact Information
The Datacontroller is Copenhagen International School, CVR 53060811.
If you want to exercise your rights as described above or if you have any questions about this data privacy policy please contact us at DPO[at]cis.dk