WEBSITE STATEMENT OF PRIVACY

Southgate Academy respects the privacy of all visitors to the web site at www.southgateaz.org and protects your privacy to the extent permitted by law. You can read and download information at the Southgate web site without identifying yourself or providing any personal information. This privacy statement discloses what information this web site collects and how school officials use that information. The Southgate web site collects three types of information:

  • information you voluntarily provide through email messages, web forms, and surveys
  • information automatically gathered through web visit logs
  • information collected by network traffic logs

VOLUNTARY INFORMATION

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily choose to provide it to us by sending mail, completing online forms, or filling out online surveys. You are not required to participate in any of these activities to view or download any information from our web site. If you send an email message to the Southgate webmaster, your email message will be answered directly by the webmaster or forwarded to the Southgate employee best able to address your message. The following types of information may be requested by online forms:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your phone number
  • Your affiliation with Southgate Academy
  • Comments or information solicited by the specific form

The web site feedback form may be filled out anonymously. Unless you choose to provide it, your email address will not be collected by completing this form. This form submits your responses through an anonymous account. Your responses to an online survey will be used to fulfill the purpose of that survey. Any personal information that you voluntarily provide to us through email messages, forms, or surveys will only be used to respond properly to your request. Southgate Academy does not share, disclose, or sell email addresses or phone numbers to other organizations.

WEB VISIT LOGS

The Southgate web site automatically collects and stores the following standard information when you visit our web site:

  • The web pages you visited at our site
  • The date and time you visited the site
  • The web browser and operating system you used
  • The Internet protocol address and domain name used to connect to our services

This information is stored on our servers for the time necessary to perform site analysis and maintenance. We analyze this information to help us understand how people use our web site so that we can improve its content, design, and services. This information is not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to use it to identify individual web site visitors.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

NETWORK TRAFFIC LOGS

To secure the school network and provide reliable service, Southgate Academy uses software programs to monitor network traffic, scan for computer viruses, and identify attempts to access the network without authorization. Any information gathered through these activities, such as network-packet addresses or email-headers, is used solely for the purpose of maintaining network security. Personally identifiable information gathered through these activities is not released to other parties unless required by law.

COOKIES

One section of the Southgate website store cookies on your computer: the Outlook Web Access (Staff Email Login). These cookies store and remember your login credentials until you click the link "Log Out" in each of these respective sections. No other personally identifiable information is collected using cookies, and the login information is stored only on your computer, not the Southgate website.

LINKS TO EXTERNAL WEBSITES

This web site provides links to other web sites. Southgate Academy is not responsible for the privacy policies of other web sites, and Southgate's privacy policy does not apply when you visit these other sites. We recommend that you be aware when you leave our web site and encourage you to read the privacy statements of other web sites you visit.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

We will post notification on the Southgate Academy front page when we make any revisions to the web site privacy statement.

DEFINITIONS

  • Internet Protocol Address: a 32-bit number assigned to your Internet service provider or computer to identify requests for information sent from and to your computer.
  • Domain Name: the name used to identify an organization or entity on the the Internet. Your Internet service provider has a domain name (i.e. aol.com or www.cox.net)
  • Cookie: a text file that a web site can place on your computer or the server to track information about your visit. Some web servers use this information to gather customer information and to supply specific information for specific constituents. To detect when cookies are being sent, or to prevent them from being sent, set your browser to warn you when a web site attempts to place a cookie on your computer.