Who we are
We are a site owned by Herrick Middle School PTA. Our website address is: https://www.herrickpta.org/.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
At our site, we collect personal, identifiable, and aggregated information. We DO NOT collect personal, identifiable information from you unless you provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. You can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing information about yourself. However, if you do give us your personal identifiable information, such as, by asking to be put on our mailing list or use our products and services, we may contact you from time-to-time.
How Information is Collected
Information is collected from you directly and with your knowledge. There are some features of our site that do require sign up to use. If you do decide to sign up, we use the information you supply to us for the purpose of providing the news, information, and/or services you request.
Contact forms
If you submit a contact form on our site, any information you provide in the contact form will be retained and digitally archived by us. Additionally, your IP address is recorded with each submission.
Cookies
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
You may opt out of Google Analytics and AdWords and opt out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager. To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on to enable you to opt-out of Google’s programs. This add-on is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Our website saves the cookie heateorSsBrowserMsg in your browser to track which visitors have seen the popup notification and which haven’t. This cookie isn’t related to your personal data or your IP address.
We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collects and stores certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
We may embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Who we share your data with
We do not share or resell any data tracked by or submitted to our website with any third-parties, other than as described in this privacy policy.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Our contact information
You may contact us using the following contact info:
Herrick Middle School
4435 Middaugh Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515
630-719-5810
Or by submitting the contact form on our website.
