Photographs of your children

There are lots of important things to consider about a child's safety and one of them is the taking of photographs of children.  At The Tots' Clubhouse, we have always taken this serious and will not take photographs of your child unless we have permission to.  We will also not publish these on public online media without your permission.

We only take occasional photographs during activities.  We know it is important to share what we do and to show families what we do, but we respect your child's privacy and keep it to a minimum as a general rule.  We like you to come to social events within our setting to see for yourself.

We generally don't take pictures of children's faces, blur out, if we catch them looking, and edit pictures with you, so you can decide what is right for you.  We have photo permission forms and ask for agreement if we do take one of a face and would like to use it on social media/website.  We respect everyone's privacy.  BUT, we know that it's perfectly fine for many and we will share any that you want us to. 

Photographs for Progress Files

We will take photographs of your child to record their learning progress.  We will share these with you at our parent-partnership meetings each term.

Stock Photographs for Advertising

We use commercially available stock photographs for many of our website, Facebook and Instagram posts.  This means that these children do not attend our setting and avoids creating any safeguarding issues.

 Storage of Photographs

We store photographs in secure cloud file stores.  Where photographs are taken on a personal device, they will be uploaded and deleted from the device.  These are not kept on personal devices.

 Any parent, at anytime can request for any photographs of their child to be removed from any cloud storage where their child's photograph has been used on our website, Facebook or Instagram.

Social Media

From a Facebook and Instagram page that is 'public' these images can be used by them for any purpose and sold to third parties.  This is what underpins our decision to keep your photos off our public page.  We post to our private group as a means of sharing more and this falls under a different set of privacy conditions.  If you ever worry, please message and we will send you full details.

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

We ask families to be sensitive to others when taking photographs, so that they only take photographs of their own children.

Dated: 12 September 2024 Review date: December 2025