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Privacy Policy

Napa Valley Unified School District is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Napa Valley Unified School District website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Napa Valley Unified School District website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Use of Personal Information

Napa Valley Unified School District may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Napa Valley Unified School District may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites. Personal information submitted will not be transferred to any non-affiliated third parties unless otherwise stated at the time of collection.  When a user submits personally identifiable information it is used only for the purpose stated at the time of collection.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Napa Valley Unified School District. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Napa Valley Unified School District for the operation of the website, to maintain quality of the website, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Napa Valley Unified School District website.  

Napa Valley Unified School District does not sell, rent, or lease its collected data to third parties.  Napa Valley Unified School District may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis or provide user support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Napa Valley Unified School District, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Napa Valley Unified School District will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Napa Valley Unified School District or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Napa Valley Unified School District; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Napa Valley Unified School District website, or the public.

Note: Napa Valley Unified School District does not read any of your private online communications.

Consent

Where consent for the use and disclosure of personal information is required, the school will seek consent from the appropriate person. In the case of a student’s personal information, the school will seek the consent from the student and/or parent depending on the circumstances and the student’s mental ability and maturity to understand the consequences of the proposed use and disclosure.

Links

Napa Valley Unified School District encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the Napa Valley Unified School District website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Napa Valley Unified School District is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Napa Valley Unified School District website.

Use of Cookies

The Napa Valley Unified School District website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Napa Valley Unified School District pages, or register with the Napa Valley Unified School District site or services, a cookie helps Napa Valley Unified School District recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, and so on. When you return to the same Napa Valley Unified School District website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Napa Valley Unified School District features that you customized.

You can accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Napa Valley Unified School District web services.

Security of your Personal Information

Napa Valley Unified School District secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Napa Valley Unified School District secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information is submitted, it is protected using encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Napa Valley Unified School District will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect user feedback. Napa Valley Unified School District encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Napa Valley Unified School District is protecting your information.

Contact Information

If you believe that Napa Valley Unified School District has not adhered to this Statement, please send an email to the webmaster at Napa Valley Unified School District. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.