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Privacy & Cookies Policy

At The British International School of New York we respect and are committed to maintaining your privacy. Our web site provides information to you and facilitates your interaction with us.

This Privacy Policy discloses the practices undertaken to collect personal nonpublic information via www.bis-ny.org (the Website).

Collection of Information

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.

Student Privacy

The British International School of New York is committed to protecting the privacy of our students and their families. We do not post the full names of students on the public pages of our website. Images of students are used on the public pages of the site; however, students are never identified by name in images.

Use of Information

We will not disclose any of your personal information to anyone, other than to The British International School of New York 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 The British International School of New York, unless otherwise indicated.

The British International School of New York website uses cookies. A cookie is a text file that websites save to your device.The use of cookies is an industry standard, and they are currently used on most major websites. It is possible to adjust your browser preferences to alert you when a cookie is sent to your hard drive, or to refuse cookies altogether. However, this may significantly alter what you are able to see or access on the BISNY website. These cookies are anonymous but allow us to track your actions and information while you are browsing our website through Google Analytics and similar services. To learn more about how Google collects and processes information, go to: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Our use of Cookies:

Our platform uses several different categories of cookies:

Necessary for the operation of the site: Certain cookies are necessary for the operation of the site. For example, certain cookies are used to help keep track of your session status. This makes it possible for you to stay logged into the site as you move from page to page.

User Preferences

We may use cookies to store certain user preferences that you make as you use our site. This allows your preferences to be used when you visit the site at a future time.

Tracking

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to track what pages you visit and how long you stay on a page. We use this information to measure how our site is used and to improve our product. We also use this information to track what users have received administrative notices so we can only show these notices to each user once.

Certain cookies are necessary for the operation of our site. Information given to us through cookies is not 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/.

Please be mindful that third parties linked will have their own cookie policies.

Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personally identifiable information. We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to the Website. For example, when you submit personal information (such as contact information), that information is encrypted and communicated using Secured Sockets Layer, one of the security standards for online banking. Access to this information is only provided to employees responsible for providing you with the specific service that you have requested.

Third Party Providers

Pages on the Website may contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any external site linked from the Website, a number of which are linked below for your reference but may be updated at any time.

We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our website.

FAST: https://ismfast.com/home/ Search Privacy Policy
Nutrilslice: https://docs.nutrislice.com/privacy-policy.html
Schools Buddy: https://www.schoolsbuddy.com/terms/privacy-policy
Managebac: https://www.managebac.com/terms/privacy-policy
Hubspot: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy

We may also have links to outside websites or services (such as The British International School of New York social media, etc.) on our website.

Please note that when you leave our site to access these pages, be aware that they have separate cookie policies and may use your information differently.

Your Choices:

Email. If you do not want to receive marketing and promotional emails from The British International School of New York, you may click on the “unsubscribe” link in the email to unsubscribe and opt-out of marketing email communications. Alternatively, to the extent that applicable law requires your prior opt-in consent to receive marketing and promotional emails, you can choose not to opt-in. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving marketing communications from the Website, we may need to send you service-related communications, such as confirmations of any future reservations to our events.

Your Rights:

You have the right to request:

Access to the personal data we hold about you, free of charge in most cases.
The correction of your personal data when incorrect, out of date or incomplete.
That we stop using your personal data for direct marketing (either through specific channels, or all channels).
That we stop any consent-based processing of your personal data after you withdraw that consent.
You can contact us to request to exercise these rights at any time, below.
If we choose not to action your request we will explain to you the reasons for our refusal.

Your right to withdraw consent. Whenever you have given us your consent to use your personal data, you have the right to change your mind at any time and withdraw that consent.

Where we rely on our legitimate interest. In cases where we are processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you can ask us to stop for reasons connected to your individual situation. We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing your personal data.

Direct marketing. You have the right to stop the use of your personal data for direct marketing activity through all channels, or selected channels. We must always comply with your request.

Keeping your information. We will only use and store your information for as long as it is required for the purposes it was collected for. How long it will be stored depends on the information in question, what it is being used for and, sometimes, statutory legal requirements.

CONTACTING US

By using this website, you agree to accept the terms and conditions above. If you have questions or suggestions regarding the Website or the Privacy Policy, please contact info@bis-ny.org