Cotting School Privacy Policy
Cotting School (“Cotting”) is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting any personal information you share with us. We have created this policy to help you understand the privacy practices of Cotting’s website(s) and services, including how and why we collect information on our website(s) and how we protect your privacy in doing so. By interacting with Cotting through our website(s) and services, you consent to the use of information that is collected or submitted as described in this privacy policy.
Information Collection and Use
You may choose to provide information directly to us in the following ways:
- Submitting an inquiry, question or request
- Making a donation to Cotting
- Subscribing to Cotting communications or other Cotting-curated news, services and products
- Registering to attend, participate in or volunteer at a Cotting-sponsored program or activity
- Purchasing goods or services
- Submitting applicant information, such as contact details, employment history and qualifications, in response to a job application or for admission
- Providing feedback about about our services
The information you provide may include your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, date of birth and/or credit or debit card information. Our systems may also collect information automatically about your browser or mobile device. This information may include your IP address, browser type or mobile device information, or geolocation, as well as how our site is being used, the pages visited and the search terms entered. If you choose not to provide information, we may not be able to provide you with the requested information or services.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To respond to an inquiry, question or request
- To process payment for a donation to Cotting
- To provide information about our programs, goods, services, course offerings, events and activities
- To share news about and support the work of Cotting
- To communicate with Cotting alumni, current students and their families
- To evaluate candidates for employment and applicants for admission to Cotting School or a Cotting program
- For other reasons, with your consent
We reserve the right to use non-personal data for systems administration and security purposes, as well as to analyze trends, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use to help us improve the website and deliver customized, personalized content. We may also use geographic, demographic and interest-based reports of our website visitors to create custom audience lists. This data is used in aggregate and does not contain personally identifiable information. We do not link IP addresses to any personal information.
Sharing Your Information
We occasionally hire third parties to provide limited services on our behalf. We only provide these third parties the information they need to deliver the service, and we prohibit them from using that information for any purpose other than providing the services for our and our users’ benefit. We do not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address for commercial purposes without your express permission.
Please note that we may use or disclose personal data if we have reason to believe it is necessary to protect the rights and safety of Cotting or our users, to comply with a judicial or regulatory proceeding or a court order as otherwise required by law.
Email Privacy and Spam
This website contains email addresses of Cotting parents and guardians within the password-protected parts of the site. Use of this information for private, commercial or political mailings and/or distribution to any outside party is prohibited.
Student Privacy and Consent
Cotting School is committed to protecting the privacy of its students and their families. If and when we identify students, we use only their first name and the first initial of their last name. We do not post the full names of students on the public pages of our website. Images of students are used on the public pages of our site; however, students are never identified by name in those images. Within the password-protected pages of the site, use of students’ full names is allowed.
Where consent for use and disclosure of personal information is required, the school will seek consent from the appropriate person. In the case of a student’s personal information, the school will seek the consent of that student’s parent or guardian.
Cookies
Cookies may be used to enhance your experience of our site. Cookies are pieces of information that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as remembering your customized settings for viewing our site and saving your password. The cookies will at no time reveal your personal data (e.g., your name, email address, street address or telephone number) to Cotting School or to others. You may control how cookies are used through the preferences on your web browser.
Embedded Content and Links to External Sites
Our website may contain links to other websites not managed by Cotting, including embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Cotting is not responsible for the content or accuracy of information on other sites; therefore, including a link to other sites should not be construed as an endorsement by Cotting of that site. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
The school sends bulk emails via MailChimp. For more information, please click here to review MailChimp’s privacy policy. There are instructions for unsubscribing from MailChimp at the bottom of each email. If you opt out of receiving emails through MailChimp, you may miss important information from the school.
The school uses Finalsite Blackboard Connect to send out important information via automated phone calls, text messages and emails. For more information, please click here to review Blackboard’s privacy policy.
The school uses Zoom for conferencing, phone calls and SMS/MMS text messaging. Zoom’s privacy policies can be found by clicking here. Their text messaging policy can be found by clicking here.
Changes to This Policy
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time without prior notice by posting a revised privacy policy. Alternatively, we may provide supplemental privacy notices on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you. Those supplemental notices should be read together with this privacy policy.
Contact Information
If you have questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at info@cotting.org.
