Photography Policy

At Tiny Terrapins Swim School we like to encourage as many family members & friends to get involved with you’re little ones swimming journey! However we know life does get in the way & photos & videos are the next best in line to the real thing! We do allow photography, however this must be of your own child only with no other parents & tiny terrapins in the background! Please kindly make sure you take these photos to one side at the end of the lesson, Please share this policy with your loved ones on poolside,

Safeguarding Policy

Tiny Terrapins Swim School recognises and accepts its responsibility to safeguard the health and welfare of children under its care by protecting them from physical, sexual or emotional harm; and from neglect or bullying. It is essential that children and young people participating in our swimming lessons and other pool activities are able to do so in a safe and secure environment. Tiny Terrapins Swim School Ltd is totally committed to raising awareness of child protection in swimming; and takes every possible measure to ensure that swimming is a safe and secure experience for children. We follow the Swim England (formerly the Amateur Swimming Association) Child safeguarding policy and procedures. All Tiny Terrapins staff are required to undertake enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks through its disclosure service. This service enables organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make safer recruitment decisions by identifying candidates who may be unsuitable for certain work, especially that involving children or vulnerable adults.

Tiny Terrapins Swim School recognises that all those directly involved in the swim school and its activities have a responsibility to:

• Provide a safe environment for children and young people to enjoy swimming lessons and water-based activities whilst in the care of instructors of Tiny Terrapins Swim School.

• Take the interests of its members into account in all its activities.

• Promote the health and welfare of its members through a relationship of mutual trust.

• Take all practical steps to protect its members from physical, sexual or emotional harm

We do this by:

• Recognising abuse.

• Treating all suspicions and allegations of abuse seriously.

• Responding in an appropriate way to children who disclose they are being abused.

Providing a structure to deal sympathetically with abuse. Tiny Terrapins encourages all instructors and officials to attend suitable training so that they are able to:

• Understand what child abuse means.

• Recognise the signs and symptoms of each category of child abuse.

• Identify the foundations of good practice in child protection.

• Review their own practices to ensure that it complies with recognised codes of conduct.

• Ensure that their own behaviour and conduct is always beyond reproach to prevent exposure to false allegation.

• Take appropriate action if concerns are raised which suggest a child is abused. Deal sensitively and effectively with the issue should it arise.

• Identify appropriate action if abuse is suspected.

• Take any swimmers’ or parents’ concerns seriously and deal with them confidentially.

• Recognise the roles and responsibilities of other agencies/organisations.

Tiny Terrapins Swim School recognises that all those directly involved in the swim school and its activities have a responsibility to: Tiny Terrapins encourages all instructors and officials to attend suitable training so that they are able to.

Data Protection & Use Policy brief & purpose

Our Company Data Protection Policy refers to our commitment to treat information of employees, customers, stakeholders and other interested parties with the utmost care and confidentiality.

With this policy, we ensure that we gather, store and handle data fairly, transparently and with respect towards individual rights.

Scope. This policy refers to all parties (employees, job candidates, customers, suppliers etc.) who provide any amount of information to us.

Who is covered under the Data Protection Policy?

Employees of our company and its subsidiaries must follow this policy. Contractors, consultants, partners and any other external entity are also covered. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf and may need occasional access to data.

Policy elements as part of our operations, we need to obtain and process information. This information includes any offline or online data that makes a person identifiable such as names, addresses, usernames and passwords, digital footprints, photographs, social security numbers, financial data etc.

Our company collects this information in a transparent way and only with the full cooperation and knowledge of interested parties. Once this information is available to us, the following rules apply.

Our data will be:

• Accurate and kept up-to-date

• Collected fairly and for lawful purposes only

• Processed by the company within its legal and moral boundaries

• Protected against any unauthorized or illegal access by internal or external parties

Our data will not be:

• Communicated informally

• Stored for more than a specified amount of time

• Transferred to organizations, states or countries that do not have adequate data protection policies

• Distributed to any party other than the ones agreed upon by the data’s owner (exempting legitimate requests from law enforcement authorities)

Data handling

In addition to ways of handling the data the company has direct obligations towards people to whom the data belongs.
Specifically we must:

• Let people know which of their data is collected

• Inform people about how we’ll process their data

• Inform people about who has access to their information

• Have provisions in cases of lost, corrupted or compromised data

• Allow people to request that we modify, erase, reduce or correct data contained in our databases

Actions

To exercise data protection we’re committed to:

• Restrict and monitor access to sensitive data

• Develop transparent data collection procedures

• Train employees in online privacy and security measures

• Build secure networks to protect online data from cyberattacks

• Establish clear procedures for reporting privacy breaches or data misuse

• Include contract clauses or communicate statements on how we handle data

• Establish data protection practices (document shredding, secure locks, data encryption, frequent backups, access authorization etc.)

• Our data protection provisions will appear on our website.

Disciplinary Consequences

All principles described in this policy must be strictly followed.

A breach of data protection

guidelines will invoke disciplinary and possibly legal action.​