Worcester Academy
Privacy And Cookies Policy
Last updated: February 12, 2025
This privacy policy describes our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the service and informs you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words with an initial capital letter have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions apply regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this privacy policy:
- Account means a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for the election of directors or other managing authority.
- Worcester Academy (referred to as either "the school," "we," "us," "WA," or "our" in this agreement)
- Cookies are small files placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website, among its many uses.
- Country refers to Massachusetts, United States.
- Device means any device that can access the service, such as a computer, cell phone, or digital tablet.
- Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the website.
- Service provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of WA. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the school to facilitate the service, provide the service on behalf of the school, perform services related to the service, or assist the school in analyzing how the service is used.
- Usage data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to Worcester Academy, accessible at https://www.worcesteracademy.org/.
- You means the individual accessing or using the service, or the school, or other legal entity on behalf of which such an individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our service, we may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, state, province, ZIP/postal code, city
Usage Data
Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.
Usage data may include information such as your device'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.
When you access the service through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device's unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device. 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 parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.
- Web Beacons: Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the school, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary/Essential Cookies (Session Cookies): These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features.
- Cookies Policy/Notice Acceptance Cookies (Persistent Cookies): These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
- Functionality Cookies (Persistent Cookies): These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our cookies policy or the cookies section of our privacy policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The school may use personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our service.
- To manage your account and user access.
- To fulfill contracts and transactions.
- To contact you regarding updates and communications.
- To provide marketing and promotional content.
- To manage user requests and inquiries.
- To conduct business transfers, mergers, or sales.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With service providers.
- With other users in public areas.
- With your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data as required to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your personal data is important to us, but no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us:
By email: info@worcesteracademy.org
By phone: 508-754-5302