PRIVACY STATEMENT

DepED General Santos City Division is committed to protect and promote the privacy of your personal information. We are committed to ensure the free flow of information as required under Freedom of Information Act (EO No. 2, s. 2016) and protect and respect the confidentiality and privacy of these data and information as required under the Data Privacy Act of 2012. (RA 10173).

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

The collected personal information is utilized solely for processing such as documentation and report generation within DepED General Santos and is not shared with any outside parties. These enables DepED General Santos to plan strategically and accord with the agency’s mandate to protect and promote the right to access and quality basic education.

Only authorized DepEd personnel have access to personal information collected, the exchange of which will be facilitated through email and web applications. These will be stored in a database in accordance with government policies, rules, regulations, and guidelines.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS

This application has a built-in service/plugin for us to analyze the web traffic data. Data generated are not shared with any other party. Only non-identifiable web traffic data are analyzed, including:
• Your IP address
• The pages and internal links accessed on our site
• The date and time you visited the site
• Geolocation
• The referring site or platform (if any) through which you clicked through to this site
• Your operating system
• Web browser type


SECURITY METHOD USED FOR DATA TRANSFER

This site is using AES 256 encryption to encrypt and decrypt data transferred between the user’s browser and the server to ensure that it is in compliance with the standard set by the National Privacy Commission.