Privacy Notice

Terms and conditions

Montessori Calmecac, S.C., located at calle 15 Poniente No. 1326, colonia Santa María Xixitla, San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, is responsible for collecting your personal data, for the use made of it and for its protection.

Naturally, in the case of personal data of minors, it will be the parent or guardian of the student or applicant who provides it and consents to its processing. Montessori Calmecac, S.C. will likewise be responsible for collecting it, for its use and for its protection.

Purposes of processing

The personal data you provide will be used for the following purposes:

• Identification, location and contact with the data subject;
• Operation and administration of the school record;
• Sending information about services, requirements, events and products;
• Preparing reports required in accreditation or certification processes;
• Research for decision-making in institutional planning and evaluation processes.

For the stated purposes, Montessori Calmecac, S.C. may collect data in person or directly, when the data subject uses online services, and when information is obtained from other public sources.

Likewise, Montessori Calmecac, S.C. records (audio and video) and takes photographs of the events it holds, such as classes, conferences, and cultural or recreational events, among others; material that it may use, distribute or transmit for courses, classes and promotion of the educational services it provides.

Records of the national education system

Where applicable, and under the terms of Articles 3 and 5 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States; Articles 1, 2, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 30, 37, 43, 44, 45, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and other relevant and applicable provisions of the General Education Law; Articles 1 and 12 of the Law for the Coordination of Higher Education; Articles 13 and 15 of the Regulatory Law of Article 5 of the Constitution, relating to the Practice of Professions in the Federal District; Articles 14, 15 and 22 of its Regulations, as well as under the terms of local legal provisions related to education and professional practice, the personal data collected will be protected, incorporated and processed in the Personal Data Systems administered by the federal education authority and the local education authorities, called the “National Student Registry” (RNA) and the “National Registry for the Issuance, Validation and Registration of Academic Documents” (RODAC), systems that were registered on July 8, 2009 in the List of Personal Data Systems before the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information (IFAI) and that are subject to the provisions of the Federal Law on Transparency and Access to Government Public Information, the Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties, the provisions arising from those laws, and the corresponding legislation in force at the local level.

In particular, the aforementioned registries have the following main purposes:

• To generate and back up information relevant to decision-making in educational planning and evaluation processes (in this case, the information will be dissociated from its data subject);
• To protect the identity of students, administrators, teachers, parents or guardians and other actors in the national education system;
• To facilitate the mobility and transit of students within the national education system;
• To prevent the falsification of school records, report cards, booklets, evaluation reports, certificates, proofs, diplomas, titles, degrees and other documents issued by the institutions that make up the national education system, and to facilitate the processes of verifying or validating the authenticity of those documents through physical or electronic validation;
• To promote the simplification of educational procedures and services through the use of electronic records that facilitate consulting school records (pre-enrollment, enrollment, re-enrollment, transfer, issuance of duplicates, revalidation and equivalency of studies, accreditation of teaching profiles, authorization and recognition of official validity of studies, authentication of documents, accreditation of knowledge, skills and others related to school control), and, in general,
• To offer citizens and society greater certainty and simplification in administrative processes related to the education sector.

The central authority responsible for the Registries in question is the Undersecretariat for Planning and Evaluation of Educational Policies of the Secretariat of Public Education, which will act directly or through the General Directorate of Accreditation, Incorporation and Revalidation, located at Arcos de Belén number 79, 5th Floor, Colonia Centro, Postal Code 06010, Cuauhtémoc Borough, Mexico, Federal District.

Transfer of personal data

The personal data you provide may be transferred and processed inside and outside the country by persons other than Montessori Calmecac, S.C., namely:

• Third parties contracted to provide services;
• Public or private institutions that provide accreditation or certification services;
• To carry out socioeconomic studies, when educational financing is requested;
• To carry out collection actions on overdue accounts.

The personal data collected in connection with the educational service may be transmitted to local and federal authorities, exclusively for the exercise of their powers.

Montessori Calmecac, S.C. undertakes not to transfer to third parties, without your consent, the personal data you provide, except in the exceptional cases provided for in Article 37 of the Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties and in the event that you do not formally and in writing express your objection to the transfer of the personal data you provide.

Under the terms of Article 22, section III of the Federal Law on Transparency and Access to Government Public Information, the consent of the data subject is not required for data transmitted between entities or between agencies and bodies when used for the exercise of their own powers. This is reported in compliance with the Seventeenth of the Guidelines for the Protection of Personal Data published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on September 30, 2005.

Sensitive personal data

In order to safeguard the safety and healthy coexistence of the school community, Montessori Calmecac, S.C. may collect sensitive personal data of parents, students or applicants, such as data relating to health status, medical history, and hereditary, congenital or acquired diseases. In these cases, Montessori Calmecac, S.C. undertakes to process such data under the strictest security measures guaranteeing its confidentiality, and to block such data once the purpose for which it was collected has been fulfilled, so that only the data related to the student's school record will be kept in the corresponding file. In accordance with Article 9 of the Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties, the holder of sensitive personal data, being the parent or guardian of the student or applicant, must express their consent for the processing of sensitive personal data, indicating whether or not they accept its handling.

Rights of access, rectification, cancellation and objection (ARCO)

In accordance with Article 27 of the Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties, the data subject or their legal representative has the right to access their personal data and the details of its processing; to rectify it if it is inaccurate or incomplete; to cancel it when they consider that it is not required for any of the purposes stated in this Privacy Notice, is being used for purposes they have not consented to, or the contractual or service relationship has ended; or to object to its processing for specific purposes.

To exercise the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and objection, you may submit the corresponding request, which must be presented at the Office of the Director of Montessori Calmecac, S.C., or by electronic means to the following address: alejandra@montessoricalmecac.com. Your request must be accompanied by a simple copy of an official photo ID and, where applicable, the document proving the legal representation conferred on you; and must contain your full name, address or email so that Montessori Calmecac, S.C. can communicate the response to your request, clearly and precisely describe the personal data regarding which you are submitting your request, and refer to any other data or provide any other document that helps locate the personal data.

To respond to your request with the determination adopted, Montessori Calmecac, S.C. will have a period of 20 business days counted from the date on which it received the request for access, rectification, cancellation or objection of your personal data, to issue and make known to you the corresponding response. If the request is granted, it will be carried out within the 15 business days following the date on which the previous response was communicated to you. These periods may be extended only once, for an equal period, when the circumstances of the case warrant it. The delivery of information will proceed after verification of your identity or that of your legal representative, as applicable.

Changes to the Privacy Notice

Montessori Calmecac, S.C. reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time, in which case the Notice, with its modifications, will be made publicly available on the website www.montessoricalmecac.com, so we invite you to visit this section periodically in order to stay informed of any changes.