1. Introduction
Welcome to Manor Farm Nursery. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you visit our website (www.themanorfarmnursery.co.uk), interact with us, or use our services.
This policy is written in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
2. Who We Are
Manor Farm Nursery Ltd. is the data controller responsible for your personal data.
Company Name: Manor Farm Nursery Ltd.
Address: Manor Farm, Burford Road, Lechlade, GL7 3EX
Contact Email: themanorfarmnursery@eygloucestershire.co.uk
3. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you and your child, which we have grouped together as follows:
•Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, date of birth (for your child), and relationship to the child.
•Contact Data: Includes billing address, email address, and telephone numbers.
•Enquiry Data: Includes any information you provide to us when you make an enquiry about our services, including details about your child’s needs.
•Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
•Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website and services.
We also collect Special Category Data about your child, including health information (allergies, medical conditions) and dietary requirements, to ensure their safety and well-being while in our care. We will always seek explicit consent for this.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
•To respond to your enquiries about a place at our nursery.
•To register you and your child for our services.
•To provide our childcare services safely and effectively.
•To manage our relationship with you, including sending you updates and information about our services.
•To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
•To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (e.g., Ofsted requirements).
5. Our Legal Basis for Processing Your Data
Under UK GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases for processing your data:
•Consent: Where you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., sending you marketing updates).
•Contract: Where processing is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
•Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations).
Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
6. Data Sharing
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We may have to share your data with:
•Service Providers: Such as our website developer or IT support, who provide services to us.
•Regulatory Bodies: Such as Ofsted, where we are legally required to do so.
•Emergency Services: In the event of an emergency, to protect your child’s vital interests.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For example, data relating to a child’s time at the nursery will be kept for a period as required by law after they leave.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:
•Request access to your personal data.
•Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
•Request erasure of your personal data.
•Object to processing of your personal data.
•Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
•Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
•Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at themanorfarmnursery@eygloucestershire.co.uk.
10. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: themanorfarmnursery@eygloucestershire.co.uk
Address: Manor Farm, Burford Road, Lechlade, GL7 3EX
You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 20th November 2025.
1. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to understand how you use our website and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. We use cookies for the following purposes:
•Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
•Performance & Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymised. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited.
•Functional Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.
3. Cookies We Use
Below is a list of the cookies we use on our website:
Cookie Category | Cookie Name(s) | Purpose |
Strictly Necessary | PHPSESSID | To identify your unique session on the website. |
Analytics (Google Analytics) | _ga, _gid, _gat | To distinguish users and track usage of the website. |
Functional | cookie_consent_status | To remember your cookie consent preferences. |
4. How to Manage Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.
When you first visit our website, you will be shown a cookie consent banner, allowing you to accept or reject different categories of cookies.
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page. This version was last updated on 20th November 2025.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, you can contact us at:
Email: themanorfarmnursery@eygloucestershire.co.uk
Address: Manor Farm,Burford Road, Lechlade, GL7 3EX