Privacy Statement for Queen Anne School Web Site

Last Updated 8/4/2008

Your Privacy:

Information Collection and Use
Daily Announcements
Cookies
Queen Anne School's Commitment to Children's Privacy
Links to Other Sites
Public Forums
Correction/Updating Personal Information
Choice/Opt Out
Security
Notification of Changes
Contacting the Web site

Information Collection and Use

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Queen Anne School is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. We collect information from our users at several different points on our Web site. Our server collects IP addresses, dates and times of visits, and other general data. IP addresses are not linked to personally  identifiable information. We use this information to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our Web sites.

If you supply us with your name, address, phone number, and/or fax number online, - either by an information request form, prospective parent form, or via our other online forms - you may occasionally receive information from Queen Anne School regarding news and events at our school.

We do not make our mailing list available to any outside organizations. We do monitor and filter all communications through the Web site as well as through our servers and require all communications to be within the bounds of our school philosophy and goals as set forth in our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

Daily Announcements

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If, as a qualified community member, you choose to receive the Daily Announcements electronically through our distribution list, we ask for contact information such as an email address. You have the right at anytime to remove your email address from receiving the Daily Announcements. Simply send a message from that email address with "Unsubscribe Daily Announcements " in the body of the message.

Cookies

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A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive that might contain information about the user. Queen Anne School does not use cookies of any kind to collect information from the visitors of our site nor do we knowingly link to other sites and servers that do so without expressed purpose or policy.

Queen Anne School's Commitment to Children's Privacy

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Protecting children's privacy is especially important to Queen Anne School. It is our policy to comply with all applicable privacy laws. Queen Anne School does not collect online or off-line contact information from a minor (under the age of 18) without prior parental consent or notification, which includes an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Should any parent choose to remove the use of their child's information they can contact Queen Anne School:

1. Via email info@queenanne.org
2. Via postal mail to the following address:
   Queen Anne School 14111 Oak Grove Road PO Box 4528 Upper Marlboro, MD 20775
3. Call the following telephone number : (301) 249-5000

Furthermore, while we make every effort to ensure that our Web sites are fun and age appropriate for our younger visitors, we believe that there is no substitute for proper parental supervision. We encourage parents to visit our sites with their children and to be active participants while their children are browsing not only our sites but also other sites as well.

Links to Other Sites

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This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware, that although Queen Anne School evaluates each site before creating the link, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read carefully the privacy statements of each web site they visit to see if that site collects personally identifiable information.

Public Forums

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This site makes use of chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups. Please remember that any information that is disclosed by users in these areas is public information. Users have no expectation of privacy. Please use caution when deciding to disclose any personal information.

Correction/Updating Personal Information

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This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

1. Via email info@queenanne.org
2. Via postal mail to the following address:
   Queen Anne School 14111 Oak Grove Road PO Box 4528 Upper Marlboro, MD 20775
3. Call the following telephone number : (301) 249-5000

Choice/Opt Out

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Users who no longer wish to receive mailingsfrom us may 'opt-out' of receiving these communications by contacting Queen Anne School. This site gives the following options for removing their information from out database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service:

1. Via email info@queenanne.org
2. Via postal mail to the following address:
   Queen Anne School 14111 Oak Grove Road PO Box 4528 Upper Marlboro, MD 20775
3. Call the following telephone number : (301) 249-5000

Security

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This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users' personal information through levels of community and personal password protection and selected first and third-party servers. We are constantly looking for new technology that will maintain the high security and integrity we now offer our visitors, and will implement these technologies as we determine they are effective and fit our needs.

Notification of Changes

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If Queen Anne School decides to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use that information, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email prior to its new use. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.

Contacting the Web Site

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If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you may contact:

Christiana Holyer, Head of School
Queen Anne School
14111 Oak Grove Road
PO Box 4528
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
cholyer@queenanne.org

We welcome your interest and we expect your participation with our site; in return our school will model the respectful, trustworthy goals we set forth in our school philosophy.