File: KBE
The Bedford County Public School Board is committed to
complying with the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act
(formerly known as the Privacy Protection Act) and the Virginia Freedom of
Information Act. The Bedford County Public School Division shall not collect
unnecessary personal information by means of its website, and shall collect
only appropriate personal information to the extent necessary to serve its
constituents and the community.
Personal information collected and retained by the school
division's website will be maintained in compliance with the Government Data
Collection and Dissemination Practices Act. Any individual wishing to learn the
purpose for which information has been recorded and the particulars of its use
and dissemination may contact the Superintendent or the Superintendent's
designee regarding this information. Any person wishing to correct, erase or
amend inaccurate, obsolete or irrelevant information may do so by procedures
established by the Superintendent or the designee.
The school division shall inform the public of any personal
information collected through its website by posting the following privacy
statement or a link to this privacy statement in a conspicuous fashion at the
top of the website home page:
Bedford County Public
Schools
Internet Privacy
Policy Statement
The
following information explains the Internet Privacy Policy, which the Bedford
County Public Schools has adopted for its website. The following is intended to
explain our current Internet privacy practices, but shall not be construed as a
contractual promise. We reserve the right to amend our Internet Privacy Policy
Statement at any time without notice.
Virginia Law
We protect our records in accordance with our obligations as
defined by applicable Virginia statutes, including, but not limited to, the
Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act, the Virginia
Freedom of Information Act, and by any applicable federal laws.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other public or private
entities’ websites, whose privacy practices we do not control.
Information we collect
When you access our website, the routing or client
information, and the essential and nonessential technical information listed
below, is automatically collected. No other information is collected through
our website except when you deliberately decide to send it to us (for example,
by clicking on a link to send us an e-mail.) The information you might choose
to send us is listed below as “optional information.”
Routing, or
client, information: the Internet domain and Internet address of the computer
you are using;
Essential
technical information: Identification of the page or service you are
requesting, type of browser and operating system you are using, and the date
and time of access;
Nonessential
technical information: The Internet address of the website from which you
linked directly to our website, and the “cookie information” described below;
Optional
information: when you send us an e-mail, your name, e-mail address, and the
content of your e-mail, and/or when you fill out online forms, all the data you
choose to fill in or confirm; and,
Cookies:
Our website does not place any “cookies” on your computer.
How the collected information is used
Routing information is used to route the requested web page
to your computer for viewing. We send the requested web page and the routing
information to our Internet Service Provider (ISP) or other entities involved
in transmitting the requested page to you. We do not control the privacy
practices of those entities. Essential and nonessential technical information
helps us respond to your request in an appropriate format, or in a personalized
manner, and helps us plan website improvement.
Optional information enables us to provide services or
information tailored more specifically to your needs or to forward your message
or inquiry to another entity that is better able to do so, and also allows us
to plan website improvements.
We may keep your information indefinitely, but we ordinarily
delete the routing information from our computer within 30 days after the web
page is transmitted and do not try to obtain any information to link it to the
individuals who browse our website. We
use this routing information primarily in a statistical summary type format to
assess site content and server performance. We may share this
summary information with our business partners when needed.
However, on rare occasion when a “hacker” attempts to breach
computer security, logs of routing information are retained to permit a
security investigation and in such cases may be forwarded together with any
other relevant information in our possession to the appropriate law enforcement
agency.
Optional information is retained in accordance with the
Records Retention Schedules promulgated by the Library of Virginia.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, any records in our
possession at the time of a request for information may be subject to being
inspected by or disclosed to members of the public for any reason.
Choice to provide information
There
is no legal requirement for you to provide any information at our website.
However, our website will not work without routing information and the
essential technical information. Failure of your browser to provide nonessential
technical information will not prevent your use of our website, but may prevent
certain features from working. Failure to provide optional information may mean
that the particular feature or service associated with that part of the web
page would not be available to you.
Comments or Review
If you have questions about this privacy statement or the
practices of this website or if you choose to review or correct any
information, please contact our technology department at (540) 586-1045.
Adopted:
Revised: September
2002
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Legal Refs.: Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, section
2.2-3803(B).
Internet Privacy Guidelines (Final Draft), Virginia
Department of Technology Planning.
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