Terms of use

Who this is for

starflow is an internal STAR Education tool. Access is granted to named STAR staff for STAR business only. Your account is yours: do not share your sign-in, and do not let somebody else work under your name — several actions here are recorded against whoever performed them, and a shared account makes that record false.

What this system holds

Budgets, attendance, staff records and payment records. That includes children's names beside what their families have paid, and colleagues' names beside their pay rates. Treat everything here as confidential. It is the families' and your colleagues' information, not the company's to pass around.

What you may do with it

Use it for your own sites and your own work: preparing budgets, checking attendance, keeping staff and room records accurate. Look only at what your role gives you. If you can reach something you do not believe you should, that is worth reporting rather than using.

What you may not do

Do not copy, download, photograph, email or upload this information anywhere outside STAR systems, including personal email, personal devices, messaging apps or AI tools. Do not use it for anything other than your job here. Do not attempt to reach other sites' or other clusters' data. Exports are for STAR business only and carry the same duty of care as the screen they came from.

Accuracy, and money

Figures entered here decide what is claimed and what is paid. Enter what is true, not what is convenient, and leave a box empty rather than guessing — this system deliberately distinguishes "nobody said" from "zero". If a figure looks wrong, say so rather than editing around it. Attendance in particular cannot be reconstructed later: a day not recorded is income nobody can work out again.

What is recorded

Sign-ins are recorded, and so are saves, deletions and restores of budgets, along with who performed them and when. This is kept so that a missing record can be explained rather than guessed at. It is not used to monitor individuals' productivity.

Deletion

A deleted budget is moved to a bin and can be put back. Permanent deletion is available to named administrators only and cannot be undone — it requires a typed confirmation and is recorded. Think before using it.

When your access ends

Access ends when you leave STAR or change role, and may be removed at any time. Information you saw here stays confidential afterwards.

If something goes wrong

If you think data is missing, wrong, or has been seen by somebody who should not have seen it, report it straight away. Nobody is in trouble for reporting a problem early; the cost of a late report is much higher, and attendance data in particular has a short window in which it can still be recovered.

No warranty

This is an internal tool provided as-is to support STAR's work. It is not a system of record for legal or audit purposes on its own, and figures should be checked before they are relied on outside the organisation.