Privacy Policy

Thompson School District (“TSD” or “District”) is committed to protecting your privacy.

This Privacy Policy applies when you are using a website with a tsd.org address and is guided by federal and state laws, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Student Data Transparency and Security Act. You should review this policy to be familiar with TSD’s methods of collecting and using your personal information as well as circumstances when TSD may share it. By using the website, you consent to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. At the time of a material change, the date of the change will be posted on this page.

Collection of Personal Information

When you email us, submit an online or paper survey response, or complete a form, you may be asked to share personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. TSD may also collect anonymous demographic information from an online form on the TSD website, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.

Information Automatically Collected

Information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by the TSD website. Like most standard website servers, we use website statistic packages such as Google Analytics to analyze trends in how our website is accessed and utilized. Information monitored includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, geographic location of visitors (country, city), browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, time spent on pages, and keywords used to find our site via search engines. This information is anonymous and cannot be directly linked to individual users.

Use of Personal Information

Personal information that you submit or that we automatically collect is used by TSD to deliver the services you have requested, to maintain quality of the service, to operate the TSD website, to identify high-use or low-use areas of the site, to pinpoint problem areas of the site, to analyze broad demographic trends in our visitors, to make decisions about how to make it easier for people to find and navigate our website, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the TSD website. TSD does not use, sell, rent, transfer or disclose your personal information to any non-affiliated third parties unless otherwise stated at the time of collection or as allowed by law. When a user submits personally identifiable information it is used only for the purpose stated at the time of collection.

Consent

Where consent for the use and disclosure of personal information is required, we will seek consent from the appropriate person. In the case of a student’s personal information, we will seek the consent from the parent or eligible student depending on the circumstances. We may disclose your personal information without notice or consent if required by law or legal process and in good faith in exigent circumstances to protect the safety of students, staff or the public.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file stored by your browser that allows the website to “remember” your preferences (such as calendar settings and site bookmarks) on the site from visit to visit, or to maintain your “logged in” status when visiting protected areas. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Web browsers have settings allowing you to reject cookies, or selectively accept cookies, or delete cookies previously accepted. You can modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. Please be aware that rejecting or deleting cookies from our website may make certain functions and features of the TSD website unavailable to you.

Links

This website may contain links to other sites. TSD assumes no responsibility for the privacy policies, practices or content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and access other websites 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.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users' personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Whenever users submit personal information (such as contact info or credit card info) via online forms, registration, or online purchase, upon submission that information is encrypted via the highest level of SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) available. Servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment. Under no circumstances are credit card numbers permanently stored on our website servers.

Retention of Your Personal Information

We will keep your personal information that we collect for as long as we deem it necessary to continue to provide you the services you requested or when such retention no longer serves the purpose for which the personal information was collected. We may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.