Privacy Policy
The Hewitt School (“Hewitt”) respects the privacy of every individual who visits this website. This Privacy Policy outlines the information that Hewitt may collect and how that information may be used. The school reserves the right to alter this policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy at this location.
Definition
The website is defined as publicly accessible and password/login protected pages hosted under the domain hewittschool.org.
Hewitt is not responsible for the privacy practices of external sites linked from or referenced by hewittschool.org. This policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
Personal Data
Hewitt will not collect any personally identifiable information about you, such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address ("personal data") through this site unless you have provided it voluntarily. If you do not want your personal data collected, do not submit it. When you do provide personal data, that information may be used in the following ways, unless stated otherwise:
- to fulfill a request you have made
- to update your school-maintained record
- to contact you
The school will not sell, rent or market personal data about you to third parties.
Additional Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, this website may automatically (i.e. not via registration) collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, the IP address of your computer, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to this site. This information is used solely to provide the school with overall statistics on website usage and to evaluate generalized user demographics.
Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer - Cookies
When you view this website, some information may be stored on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or similar file and will allow the website to tailor the experience to your interests and preferences. With most Internet browsers, cookies can be blocked or erased after visiting a website. Some aspects of this website may not function properly if your browser is set to block cookies.
This site uses cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, to provide services to our users, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather information about our user base as a whole (location, browser, etc.) You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service. We retain cookies for as long as needed for their purpose.
Our platform uses several different categories of cookies:
- Necessary for the operation of the site: Certain cookies are necessary for the operation of the site. For example, certain cookies are used to help keep track of your session status. This makes it possible for you to stay logged into the site as you move from page to page.
- User preferences: We may use cookies to store certain user preferences that you make as you use our site. This allows your preferences to be used when you visit the site at a future time.
- Tracking: We use cookies and other tracking technologies to track what pages you visit and how long you stay on a page. We use this information to measure how our site is used and to improve our product. We also use this information to track what users have received administrative notices so we can only show these notices to each user once.
Security
Hewitt takes every precaution to protect users' information. When users submit sensitive information via this website, it is encrypted and remains secure during all stages of transmission. The school complies with all state and federal statutes requiring safeguards on specific types of information.