Each year, parental/guardian consent must be given for each student to gain access to these online services.
The Department’s online services currently provide students with access to:
- individual email and calendar accounts;
- the internet, with all reasonable care taken by central office and schools to monitor and control students’ access to websites while at school;
- online teaching and learning services such as Connect, web-conferencing and digital resources;
- online file storage and sharing services;
- these online services at locations other than school.
Please note:
- Every reasonable effort is made by the school and the Department to prevent student exposure to inappropriate online content when using Department provided online services, it is not possible to completely eliminate the risk of such exposure.
- The Department has the right to review, audit, intercept, access and disclose messages created, received or sent over Department online services. Logs of email transactions and internet access data are kept for administrative, legal and security purposes and may be monitored. Similar to other corporate records, emails and internet access records are discoverable in the event of legal action and are subject to provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1992. (www.foi.wa.gov.au)
- General internet browsing not conducted via the Department’s network is not monitored or filtered by the Department. The Department encourages close family supervision of all internet use by children in locations other than school, and strongly recommends the use of appropriate internet filtering software. Advice on managing internet use at home can found on the Office of the E-Safety Commissioner website (www.esafety.gov.au/iparent).
Third Party Services
Personal information privacy is a critical element of online safety for everyone, including our students. There are risks involved with providing personal information to an online third party service. The level of risk will depend on the vendor’s security and privacy policies and processes.
As part of our commitment to keeping our students safe online, we require annual consent for Third Party Services (apps, websites and services) used in our school. These services require us to share some personal information about your child and obtain parental/guardian consent for each service, app and website before we do so. Bassendean Primary School have committed to keeping student privacy, and will always try and limit the information we share; this could be by omitting names or by using different names altogether. Please contact the school if you have any queries.