Privacy Policy
Your trust matters to us — here is how we look after your information.
Last updated: January 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Discovery House Montessori School ("we", "us", "our"), with its campus at 1A Michael-Olawale Cole Drive, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, collects and uses personal information through this website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your information carefully, honestly and in line with applicable data protection law, including the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.
1. Who we are
Discovery House Montessori School is a Montessori school serving children from infancy through elementary school, rooted in Christian faith and enriched by French. This website communicates our school programmes and lets families explore admissions, book a visit, apply, connect with our community and contact us.
For any privacy question, you can reach our front desk at frontdesk@discoveryhousemontessori.com or call 0803 488 0173.
2. Information we collect
We only collect information that you choose to give us through this website:
- Booking a visit — your name, email address, telephone number, your child's name and age, and any message you send.
- Apply now — family and child details you provide in the application form, including contact details and other information needed to begin the admissions process.
- Contact form — your name, email address, telephone number and the contents of your message.
- Careers / partnership and other community forms — whatever you choose to submit through those forms.
- Basic technical information — when you visit, our server may record your IP address, browser type and the pages you request. This is routine web-server logging used to keep the site secure and reliable.
We use a simple, self-hosted maths CAPTCHA on our forms to block automated spam. We do not use third-party advertising, analytics scripts that profile you, or marketing cookies.
3. How we use your information
- To respond to your enquiries and schedule school visits.
- To process and support your application for admission.
- To communicate with you about your enquiry or application.
- To maintain and improve this website, and to keep it secure.
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We will not sell your personal information to anyone.
4. Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. This website uses them sparingly:
- Essential (session) cookies — a temporary session cookie is used by our forms and CAPTCHA to keep you safe from spam, and by the private admin area to keep logged-in sessions secure. These are strictly necessary for the site to work.
- Consent preferences — with your permission, your consent choice is remembered in your browser's local storage so the cookie banner is not repeated on every visit.
- No advertising or tracking cookies — we do not use third-party advertising cookies, cross-site trackers or fingerprinting on this website.
When you first visit, a small banner asks for your choice. You can change your preference at any time from the Cookie Preferences section of this page or the link in the website footer.
5. Sharing your information
We do not sell, rent or trade your information. We only share personal data with:
- Members of our admissions and administrative team who need it to respond to you;
- Service providers who host and secure this website and our email, who are bound by confidentiality;
- Authorities where required by law.
6. How long we keep your information
We keep enquiry and application information only for as long as is needed for the purpose it was collected, or as long as the law requires. When it is no longer needed, it is securely deleted or anonymised.
7. Children's information
Some of the information we collect relates to children (for example, a child's name and age when booking a visit or applying). We treat children's information with particular care, collect it only with the involvement of a parent or guardian, and use it only for school admission and communication purposes.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information;
- Ask us to delete or restrict how we use your information;
- Object to how we process your information;
- Withdraw consent where processing relies on it.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at frontdesk@discoveryhousemontessori.com. We will respond within a reasonable time and will never penalise you for making a request.
9. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information against loss, misuse, unauthorised access and alteration — including secure storage of submissions and restricted access to our admin area.
10. External links
Our website may contain links to external sites such as YouTube (for our hero video). Once you leave our site, the privacy practices of those external services apply, and we encourage you to review their policies.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time and will post the updated version on this page with a new "Last updated" date.