MEDBURY SCHOOL PRIVACY POLICY

Our Commitment to Privacy

Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality education services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our students, parent community, staff, and other members of the Medbury School community. The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you may provide to us now or in the future and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and school needs.

What Information Do We Collect?

When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.

Web Site Use Information

While this site does not currently employ the use of "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") Medbury reserves the right to employ the use of such technology in the future, including Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

How would we use Information Collected from Cookies?

Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs gather information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. This information would assist us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our School community.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We do not share any information collected from our website with any third party.

What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.