Privacy Policy

Data We Handle

The service uses public school information, including school names, locations, phase, type, Ofsted ratings, performance measures, pupil counts and related public profile details.

When you use search, comparison or map features, the service may process the search terms, filters, selected schools, map viewport bounds and approximate area needed to return relevant results. If you choose to use browser location features on the website, your browser asks for permission before sharing location with the site.

Search History on Your Device

The search box remembers your last ten searches and the last ten school pages you opened, so you can return to them. They are kept in your browser's local storage on this device and are never sent to us. Clear them here or with Clear history in the search box.

Usage Statistics

To make search better we record how it is used: the words searched, which suggestion or result was clicked and its position, how many schools a search found, which school pages are opened, when a school is added to the shortlist or compared, and the page address. Postcodes are cut to their first half (AL5 2XY is kept as AL5) and long numbers and email addresses are removed before anything is stored. Events from one visit are linked by a random id kept in your browser's session storage, which is deleted when you close the tab. We do not store your IP address or link these statistics to you. They are held by Cloudflare for three months and copied each night to our own analysis database, where individual events are deleted after 24 months and only daily totals are kept. They are used only to improve search, for example to rank suggestions and fix searches that find nothing.

Google Analytics also measures page visits. Both are on by default for statistical purposes, and you can turn them off for this browser here.

Chrome Extension

The MySchoolHub for Rightmove extension runs only on Rightmove map pages and property pages. On map pages it reads the visible map bounds and selected filters so it can request school markers from myschoolhub.co.uk. On a property page it reads the property's map position from the page and sends it to myschoolhub.co.uk to measure straight-line distances to nearby schools; that position is used for the request only and is not stored or logged.

The extension stores your overlay setting, filter choices, panel state and a generated analytics client id in Chrome storage. It does not collect property prices, personal account information, emails, names, passwords or payment information.

The extension sends allow-listed usage events to myschoolhub.co.uk, where they are counted in Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine and kept for three months. These events describe extension usage, such as install or update, map view, overlay toggle, filter change, reload, school data load result, marker click category and whether the property panel was shown. They do not include Rightmove URLs, property data, school names, URNs, coordinates or user-entered search text.

How We Use Data

Data is used to provide school search, comparison, map overlays, performance profiles, service reliability, abuse prevention, analytics and product improvement.

We do not sell personal data. We do not use Chrome extension data for personalised advertising, credit decisions or unrelated profiling.

Workplace postcode (Find an area)

When you use Find an area, the workplace postcode you enter is sent from our server to postcodes.io to find its location. That location is sent to Transport for London's journey planner (public transport) or to Mapbox (drive, cycle or walk) to time journeys. We keep journey times for seven days against the postcode sector (for example AL5 2), never the full postcode, and we do not store or log the postcode itself. The Open in Google Maps link sends the neighbourhood and workplace locations to Google only if you click it.

AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP apps)

MySchoolHub answers questions from AI assistants through its MCP server (www.myschoolhub.co.uk/api/mcp) and the Schools in England GPT. The assistant's provider sends us only the request it makes, such as a school name, a URN or a postcode. A postcode is sent from our server to postcodes.io to find its location and is used only to measure distances to schools; we do not store or log it. We receive no chat history, account details or other personal data from the assistant. What the assistant does with our answers is covered by its provider's own privacy policy.

Sharing

We share data only with service providers needed to run MySchoolHub, such as hosting, analytics, mapping, search and operational infrastructure providers. Extension analytics events are counted in Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine for aggregated usage reporting.

Chrome Web Store Limited Use

The use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.