How Sisi Academy handles your information

1. Who we are

Sisi Academy is the data controller for information collected through this website. Our school is in Uziwa, opposite Uziwa Secondary, Lamu County, and our data protection contact is the school administrator, reachable at info@sisiacademy.com.

2. Information we collect

We only collect what we need in order to respond to you and to run the school properly. Through this website that is contact details you give us — parent or guardian name, email address and telephone number — together with:

• Details about your child that you choose to share — first name, age, current school and any needs you wish us to know about.
• The content of your message or enquiry.
• Basic technical information such as pages visited and approximate location, collected in aggregate to help us improve the site.

3. How we use it

Information submitted through the site is used to reply to your enquiry, arrange a campus visit, and keep you informed about the stage of school relevant to your child. If your child later joins the school, the information becomes part of our pupil records and is governed by our school records policy.

We do not use your details for automated decision-making or profiling.

4. Legal basis

We process your information on the basis of your consent when you contact us, and on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating the school and responding to families who approach us. Where a child’s information is involved, we rely on the consent of the parent or guardian who provides it.

5. Who we share it with

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for advertising. We share it only with staff who need it to respond to you, and with service providers who host our website or email systems under written confidentiality obligations. We may disclose information where the law requires it — for example to the Ministry of Education or in response to a lawful order.

6. How long we keep it

Enquiries that do not lead to an application are deleted within twenty-four months. Records relating to enrolled pupils are retained for the duration of their time at the school and for the period afterwards required by Kenyan education and accounting rules.

7. Keeping information safe

Access to enquiry records is limited to authorised staff and protected by individual accounts and passwords. Paper records are kept in locked storage in the school office. Where we use third-party systems, we choose providers that offer encryption in transit and at rest.

8. Children’s information

We ask that only parents and guardians submit information about a child through this site. We collect the minimum needed to hold a useful conversation about your child’s placement, and we will delete it on request unless we are required to keep it.

9. Your rights

Under the Data Protection Act, 2019 you have the right to:

• Ask what information we hold about you or your child and receive a copy.
• Ask us to correct anything inaccurate or incomplete.
• Ask us to delete information we no longer need.
• Withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting processing already carried out.
• Lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.

10. Cookies

This site uses a small number of cookies: those required for the site to function, and anonymous analytics cookies that tell us which pages families find useful. No advertising or tracking cookies are set. You can block cookies in your browser settings, though parts of the site may then behave unexpectedly.

11. Contact and complaints

To exercise any of the rights above, write to info@sisiacademy.com or to the School Administrator, Sisi Academy, P.O. Box 202-80500, Lamu. We respond to requests within thirty days.