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Privacy Statement

GENERAL

The Providence Public School District (“PPSD” or “District” or “we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of its users (“user” or “you”) that use our website located at www.providenceschools.org, including other media forms, media channels, web applications, portals, mobile websites or mobile applications related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Website”). This District privacy statement is designed to inform you, as a user of the Website, about the types of information that District may gather about or collect from you in connection with your use of the Website. It also is intended to explain the conditions under which District uses and discloses that information, and your rights in relation to that information. Changes to this Privacy Statement are discussed at the end of this document. Each time you use the Website, however, the current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, each time you use the Website you should check the date of this Privacy Policy and review any changes since the last time you used the Website.

Use and operation of the Website is subject to all applicable District policies and administrative directives, including but not limited to:

  • Internet Acceptable Use Policy
  • Take Home Device Policy
  • Employees must adhere to the Social Media for Employees School Board policy, as well as the Social Media for Employees Regulations.PPSD Social Media for Employees Policy
  • Use of Technology: The use of school computers, software, network resources, and/or the Internet for non-educational purposes such as for-profit activity, personal business, or illegal activity is prohibited. The use of all District computer systems and the Internet is a privilege, not a right. The District's computer systems are District property to which users are permitted access. All passwords and restricted access to District computer systems must be protected.

    Users of the District's computer systems must comply with the PPSD Internet Acceptable Use Policy and accompanying regulations. Failure to comply may result in suspension of access to the District's computer systems and/or other appropriate penalties, up to and including termination of employment.

    Employees should not have any expectation of privacy with respect to messages, data, or files sent, received, or stored on the District’s electronic mail, voicemail, or computer systems. The District has the right to monitor any and all voicemail or electronic mail messages. They may be accessed by authorized employees and authorized individuals from outside the school or department at any time and without notice. The District will inspect the contents of computers, voicemail, or electronic mail in the course of an investigation triggered by indications of unacceptable behavior or as necessary to locate needed information that is not more readily available by some other less intrusive means. (4.10 Technology Usage for employees per Employee Handbook (14))

BY USING OR ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT.

GATHERING, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF NON-PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION.

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes in order to serve our students, staff, and families.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to cookies and usage data.

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies.We use session cookies to operate our service.
  • Preference Cookies.We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies.We use security cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Providence Public School District uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Service
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer care and support
  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
  • To monitor the usage of the Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer of Data

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

PPSD will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

PPSD may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Providence Public School District
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

The security of your data is of the utmost importance to us. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we will use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

Finalsite

This Content Management System of this website is Finalsite. Their privacy policy can be found here.

Links To Other Sites

Our service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your children has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please call 401-456-9100.