Privacy Policy
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices. By using or accessing this website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
- Information Gathering
- Children Under 13
- Information Sharing and Disclosure
- Security
- Links
- Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Information Gathering
We may use your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address to administer the Website by tracking Website and web page traffic, and by analyzing statistics relating to visitors’ IP addresses. In some cases we may link IP addresses to personally identifiable information, and may share that information with your school (“School”) or third parties for the purposes of enforcement of our Terms of Use, School’s Terms of Use and law enforcement. We may also share such information with third party service providers (“Partners”) who operate websites or other systems in conjunction with the Website (“Partner Systems,” which are included under the term “Website”) that you choose to access or otherwise patronize.
The Website may also use “cookies”, which are text packets sent by the a server to a user’s web browser and then sent back unchanged by the user’s browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences. No personally identifiable information is exchanged via cookies. user. We may use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to the Website. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this feature.
If you register or input personally identifiable information to the Website, you will not be anonymous to us. St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School, School and Partners may request your e-mail address or mailing address on some of the forms contained on the Website in order to communicate with you, and your provision of such information constitutes your agreement to allow St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School, School and Partners to contact you. We may also monitor and aggregate data regarding search terms entered into the Website.
When you use the Website, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, download files, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
If you post user content to the Website, such as, profiles, messages, notes, text, information, images, photos, listings and other content that you upload, publish or display through the Website, or transmit to or share with other users, you do so at your own risk. St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School cannot control the actions of other users, so we do not guarantee that your user content will not be viewed by unauthorized users. You agree that St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School shall not be responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of your user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or if other users have copied or stored your user content. Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on the Website is a violation of the St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School Terms of Service, and should be reported.
By using the Website, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Children Under 13
If you are under 13 years of age, you are required to have your parent or guardian register or input personally identifiable information on your behalf. St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School will not contact children under age 13 for marketing purposes without your parent's permission. St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School will not, as a condition of use of the Website, ask a child under age 13 for more personally identifiable information than is reasonably necessary to use the Website. You agree that St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School shall not be responsible for the actions or inactions of School or any Partner.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School does not rent, sell, or share personally identifiable information about users with other people or non-affiliated entities, except to provide our services, or under the following circumstances:
We will provide personally identifiable information to School for the purpose administering and hosting the Website and/or communicating with you. The School may or may not share this information with other third parties, depending on its own privacy policy. You agree that St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School shall have no liability with regard to the School’s use or dissemination of such information.
We may provide personally identifiable information to Partners for the purpose administering and hosting Partner Systems and/or communicating with you. If you use a Partner System, the Partner may or may not share this information with other third parties, depending on its own privacy policy. You agree that St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School shall have no liability with regard to any Partner’s use or dissemination of such shared information. We will provide personally identifiable information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to exercise our legal rights or defend legal claims. We will provide personally identifiable information when St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School, School or any Partner believes it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of any St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School, School or Partner Terms of Use, violation of School’s code of conduct, or as otherwise required by law. We will transfer information about you, if School is acquired by or merged with another school or entity. Refer to your School’s privacy policy before and after any such acquisition or merger.
Security
St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personally identifiable information. We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to the Website. You agree that St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School shall not be liable for School’s or any Partner’s security safeguards.