Privacy Policy

At The Hockaday School (the School), we respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. We recognize that our primary responsibility is to meet the interests and needs of our school community, applicants and friends of the School. We also want you to understand how we use our constituent profile information and the choices you can make about the way your information may be displayed to other constituents or used by the School.

The only information involuntarily collected includes general information such as IP address, generic demographics, pages visited and length of stay. This information is gathered to enhance your visit to our website. No personally identifying information is gathered, unless voluntarily given and described at the point of collection in the following instances: to contact the school, to request information, applications, re-enrollment applications, update information and event registration. If you provide contact information, School staff may contact you to answer your question or comment. Hockaday constituents who register with the Site will provide a login, but the School will not have access to their personal passwords. The School is PCI-compliant with username and passwords.

 

Should you choose to do so, you may opt-out of receiving any communication from the School, including emails. In the password-protected areas, Hockaday constituents may chose not to publish their profile information, including contact information.

 

We don’t collect any information!

 

The Hockaday School is a non-profit entity which is in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not collect any voluntary information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent.

 

All financial information, such as tuition, Annual Fund or event payments, is processed through a secure third-party, which is PCI-compliant. Information requested can include name, address and credit card number and expiration date. None of your financial information is retained or accessible by the School. We do not share information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete the transaction.

 

We may link to other websites, but we take no responsibility for information and accuracy contained on other websites.

 

Unless otherwise specified, The Hockaday School websites are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information or service obtained from The Hockaday School websites.

 

Harassment in any manner or form on the Site or any of The Hockaday School websites, including via e-mail, blogs, text messages or by obscene or abusive language is strictly forbidden. You may not upload to, distribute or otherwise publish through the Site any contact which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable, or which may constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law. You may not upload commercial content on the Site or use the Site to solicit others to join or become members of any other commercial online service or social organization.

 

- All policies are subject to change, please refer to the Site for the most up-to-date information

- User must obtain permission prior to reposting/reprinting information or media from this Site.

 

If you have further questions about our Privacy Policy or website, please contact the Director of Communications.