Privacy Policy

Baylor School (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us. This privacy policy explains how we use and disclose personal information that we collect from people who visit our website at https://www.baylorschool.org. We apply the same principles to all personal information provided to us offline.

Information Security

We maintain an information security program with administrative, technical, and physical controls designed to safeguard your personal information. Personal information is any information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact you or (if you are a parent or guardian) your child. It also includes other information that may be associated with your personal information, including information about your relationship with us.

Information Collection
We endeavor to limit our collection of personal information to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary in relation to the purposes for which we process the information. When using our website or otherwise interacting with us, you may voluntarily provide personal information about yourself and others. We may also receive information about you, students, or prospective students from third parties and combine that information with other personal information that we gather. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. 

In addition, when you use our website, we may collect information including IP address, browser type, location of visitors (city, country), pages visited, device type, and date and time of visit. We and our service providers may use cookies or similar technology to collect such information. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return and help us provide a customized experience and to detect certain kinds of fraud.

Information Use
We may use the personal and non-personal information we gather for any lawful purpose. These purposes include the following:

• To communicate with website visitors and others (e.g., parents, students, and alumni);
• To provide Baylor’s services, including to process applications for admission and financial aid, register you or your child for Baylor's programs, prepare enrollment contracts, and create student, alumni and parent directories;
• To operate and improve our website, including in working with third parties that collect data about your use of the website and other websites over time for non-advertising purposes;
• To fundraise;
• To engage in standard business practices for schools, such as analytics, research, marketing, and payment processing;
• To comply with law enforcement;
• To maintain the security of information gathered via our website or otherwise; or
• To facilitate any other appropriate use disclosed at the time of collection or use.
   

Information Sharing and Disclosure
We limit our sharing of the personal information we collect through this website as follows:

• To a student’s parents or guardians;
• With other members of Baylor’s community, including in student, parent, and alumni directories;
• To our employees, volunteers, or third-party service providers;
• At your request, such as providing student information to third parties for standardized testing, transfers to a new school, financial aid applications and administration, or applications for college;
• With your consent or the consent of a student’s parent or guardian or as stated at the time of data collection or sharing;
• With research, accreditation and oversight entities;
• As required or requested by legal, regulatory, or governmental process, such as subpoenas and court orders; or
• In connection with a health or safety emergency, disciplinary proceedings, or as otherwise determined by Baylor to be reasonably necessary to protect the rights of Baylor, its students, its employees, or other members of our community.

In addition, we may disclose, without restriction, non-personal information and any aggregated or de-identified personal information that is not linked to a specific person.  We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Links
This privacy policy does not apply to the practices of websites linked through our website. We encourage you to read linked websites’ privacy policies.

Updating your Information
You may request to review, update, change, or delete your personal information, or the personal information of a student of whom you are the parent or guardian, by logging into myBaylor at https://baylorschool.myschoolapp.com or by making a request via the contact information specified below.  You may also request to opt out of our processing of your personal information (e.g., unsubscribe to our emails).  We may require authentication of the requester’s identity before considering any such request.

Updating our Privacy Policy
Baylor may revise this privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to review our privacy policy periodically to learn of any updates.

Terms of Use
Your use of our website and any disputes arising from it are subject to this privacy policy and our terms of use. All content and website code are the exclusive property of Baylor, its licensors, or third-party content providers. Baylor makes reasonable efforts to provide accurate content on our website. However, some content may be inaccurate or outdated.  Your use of this website is entirely at your own risk.

Social Media Use
Baylor reserves the right to remove any material from our social media channels that we deem in violation of our community standards.

Contact Us
If you have questions or suggestions regarding this privacy policy or our website, please contact us at:

Baylor School
171 Baylor School Rd.
Chattanooga, TN 37405
privacy@baylorschool.org

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