SECURITY AND PRIVACY POLICY
Oelwein Community Schools 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 Oelwein
Community Schools website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Oelwein Community
Schools website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Oelwein Community Schools collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address,
name, home or work address or telephone number. Oelwein Community Schools may also collect
anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender,
preferences, interests and favorites.

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

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive
data through Oelwein Community Schools public message boards, this information may be collected and
used by others. Note: Oelwein Community Schools does not read any of your private online
communications.

Oelwein Community Schools encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to
link to from Oelwein Community Schools so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and
share your information. Oelwein Community Schools is not responsible for the privacy statements or other
content on Websites outside of the Oelwein Community Schools and Oelwein Community Schools family
of websites

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Oelwein Community Schools collects and uses your personal information to operate the Oelwein
Community Schools website and deliver the services you have requested. Oelwein Community Schools
also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from
Oelwein Community Schools and its affiliates. Oelwein Community Schools also may contact you via
surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may
be offered. Oelwein Community Schools may contact you via phone or SMS text message if a phone
number is provided at any time while visiting our website. Message frequency and Data Rates may apply. You can STOP messaging by sending STOP and get more help by sending HELP.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties

Oelwein Community Schools may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a
particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable
information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition,
Oelwein Community Schools may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis,
send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are
prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Oelwein Community
Schools, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Oelwein Community Schools does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race,
religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Oelwein Community Schools keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Oelwein
Community Schools, in order to determine what Oelwein Community Schools services are the most
popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Oelwein Community
Schools to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Oelwein Community Schools websites 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 Oelwein Community Schools or the site; (b) protect and
defend the rights or property of Oelwein Community Schools; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to
protect the personal safety of users of Oelwein Community Schools, or the public.

USE OF COOKIES
The Oelwein Community Schools 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 you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize
Oelwein Community Schools pages, or register with the Oelwein Community Schools site or services, a
cookie helps Oelwein Community Schools to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This
simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping
addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Oelwein Community Schools website, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Oelwein Community Schools features
that you customized.

You have the ability to 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 Oelwein Community
Schools services or websites you visit.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Oelwein Community Schools secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. Oelwein Community Schools 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 (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is
protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Oelwein Community Schools will occasionally update this statement of privacy to reflect company and
customer feedback. Oelwein Community Schools encourages you to periodically review this statement to
be informed of how Oelwein Community Schools is protecting your information.