PA WEBSITE AND HARVEST FUNDRAISER PRIVACY POLICY

The Hemingway Parents Auxiliary website (https://www.hemingwayhuskies.org/) and the annual Harvest Fundraiser website is governed by the following Privacy Policy.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED AND WHY:

We collect personal data from users when they use our website.  Examples of the data we collect include:

  • Student information when a user creates a sub-campaign, including names, pictures, teacher and grade level.
  • Purchaser information, including names, addresses, email addresses, phone and purchase details.

The specific use of your personal information varies, depending on what you request:

  • We use the personal information voluntarily provided to us to provide a platform for a user’s sub-campaign, process orders, acknowledge contributions and otherwise comply with our contractual obligations.
  • We may analyze visitors’ use of our website by tracking information, such as page views, traffic flow, search terms and click-throughs so that we may improve our website to better suit users’ needs.

HOW WE ENSURE SECURITY AND INTEGRITY OF DATA:

Confidentiality of sensitive information is preserved by complying with the accepted standards and operational policies set forth by our organization.  Our website operates on a secure server running on WordPress and hosted by Kinsta.  Kinsta implements both active and passive measures to protect our site and your data. For more on Kinsta secure hosting, see: https://kinsta.com/secure-wordpress-hosting/.

We use Square for the processing of all payments and we have no access to and do not store any user’s credit card information outside of the Square application. For more on Square security, please see: https://squareup.com/us/en/security.

We may use a third-party web analysis service to improve our website performance and visitor experience, but do not share any personally identifiable information with them.

NOTIFICATION OF POLICY CHANGES:

If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this website.  If we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify our patrons in the most reasonable way possible.