At Dwight School, we respect and are committed to maintaining your privacy. Our web site provides information to you and facilitates your interaction with us.

We only collect personally identifiable data that you voluntarily submit to us. You can have general access to our site and browse pages describing our school without providing any personal information or being required to register with us. However, you may not be able to access all parts of our site without supplying personal information. For example, you may need to provide us with personal information to register for an event or to complete online forms or applications, and to contact us through our online form, you must supply personal information.

We will not disclose any of your personal information to anyone, other than to Dwight School and other affiliates, except as permitted by law, such as to our attorneys. We will only release information about you if you direct us to do so, if necessary to comply with a legal process, or in connection with any government or regulatory organization request or investigation. We may also disclose information you provide to us to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf. If such a disclosure is made, we will require such third-parties to treat your private information with confidentiality.

All materials on this site are copyrighted by Dwight School, unless otherwise indicated. For permission to use any material from this site, please contact us at communications@dwight.edu.

Cookie Policy

The Dwight School website uses cookies. A cookie is a text file that websites save to your device. These cookies allow us to track your actions and information while you are browsing our website. 

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of purposes. The cookies used on our website help us:

• Administer our website
• Provide our users certain services 
• Store any user preferences or login information entered into our site
• Track our users’ movements on our site
• Gather data about our user base, such as locations or browsers used
• Analyze users’ actions to improve or change our site

Certain cookies are necessary for the operation of our site. Information given to us through cookies is not necessarily used to identify you personally. We use cookies for as long as needed for their purpose.

Controlling Your Cookies

You can control the use of cookies through your individual browser. However, should you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features of our website. You may learn more about cookies, how to disable them, and how to remove ones already saved to your device on sites such as https://cookiesandyou.com/ and https://www.aboutcookies.org/.

Third-Party Providers

Some features of our website are provided by third parties. We have linked to the policies on their websites which describe their use of your cookies. 

• Finalsite: https://www.finalsite.com/privacy-policy
• Formstack: https://www.formstack.com/acceptable-use-policy
• Issuu: https://issuu.com/legal/cookies

On our site, we may also have links to outside websites or services (such as Dwight School social media, etc.). When you leave our site to access these pages, be aware that they have separate cookie policies and may use your information differently. 

App Policy

This privacy policy governs your use of the software application “OurDwightNY” (the “App”) for mobile devices that was created by Active Internet Technologies LLC for Dwight School. The App is the official app of the Dwight School community. This purpose of this page is to inform visitors about our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by the App.

User Provided Information

While using our App, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to name; email address; age range (optional); gender (optional); phone number (optional); as well as additional profile information returned by an external provider such as Facebook or LinkedIn. The information that we request will be retained by us and used as described in this privacy policy.

Automatically Collected Information

In addition, the App uses third party services that may collect information used to identify you. You can find their privacy policies here: Google Play Services and Apple.

In the case of an error while you are using the App, we also collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing the App, the time and date of your use of the App, and other statistics.

Moreover, the App may use third party code and libraries that use cookies to collect information and improve their services.   Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device's internal memory. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this App.

Other Third Parties

We may use third-party companies and individuals to facilitate the App; to provide the App on our behalf; to perform services related to the App; or to assist us in analyzing how the App is used. These third parties have access to some or all of the personal Information created by the App to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Links to Other Sites

This App may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Security

We are concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your information. We provide commercially acceptable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect information we process and maintain. For example, we limit access to this information to authorized employees and contractors who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our App. Please be aware that, although we endeavor to provide reasonable security for information we process and maintain, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches.

Changes

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. We will notify you of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy here. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.

Your Consent

By using the App, you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us. "Processing,” means using cookies on a computer/hand held device or using or touching information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in the United States. If you reside outside the United States your information will be transferred, processed and stored there under United States privacy standards.

What are my opt-out rights?

You can stop all collection of information by the App easily by uninstalling the App. You may use the standard uninstall processes as may be available as part of your mobile device or via the mobile application marketplace or network.