The Nightingale-Bamford School understands and respects the importance of protecting the privacy, confidentiality and security of our families and visitors to the Nightingale website. The following privacy policy sets forth the terms and conditions of how our school handles the personal information either collected or provided by you through nightingale.org. This privacy policy further explains how we treat any information collected:
GENERAL INFORMATION
General information is not specific to you and is not traced to you in any way. Such information includes time spent on a site page, time of day the site is accessed, etc. We do not connect general information with anything personally identifiable. This means that while user sessions may be tracked, all users will remain completely anonymous.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information is specific to you and includes such things as your e-mail address or mailing address. The only personal information collected through the Nightingale website is information you choose to supply in response to a request to schedule a tour, make a gift online, or to register for an event. All personal information collected by Nightingale from prospective families, current families, and alumnae is stored in a confidential database. Access to this information is restricted to only authorized Nightingale staff.
SECURITY
The security and privacy of your data is of the utmost importance to Nightingale. Our website utilizes TLS (Transport Layer Security) technology to encrypt any data being communicated between your device and the web servers hosting Nightingale’s website. So any data you voluntarily provide over any form is encrypted and protected. In addition, the processing of any credit cards on our website is done by a trusted and reputable 3rd party PCI-compliant merchant. So you should feel confident that your payment information is being kept secure.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Our website utilizes Google Analytics to help monitor and analyze website traffic. Google Analytics collects data by placing a cookie on a user’s browser when they visit a site like ours, thereby providing insights such as how many users have visited, where they are from and which pages they click on.
If you would like further information about how Google processes and utilizes the data it collects through Google Analytics, please visit: Google's Privacy & Terms Disclosure Policy
COOKIES
Our website utilizes cookies as part of Google Analytics. Cookies are small files that are sent by websites to your device and stored by your web browser. Websites then use cookies to help remember you. For example, cookies are oftentimes used to remember your shopping cart at an e-commerce website or to remember your personal preferences. The use of cookies on our website does not store, collect or is linked to any personally identifiable information about you. It is strictly used to monitor and track data about visits and usage of our website.
Please note that you have the ability to manage cookies placed on your computer. If you visit your browser's privacy settings you should be provided the options to either block or remove cookies. However, doing so may cause certain functions within our site or the site you are visiting to be unavailable.
CONTACTING THE WEBMASTER
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, please contact webmaster@nightingale.org.