Privacy Statement

Web Privacy Notice and Statement of Information Disclosure Practices

Coram Deo Academy (“Academy”) is committed to ensuring the privacy and accuracy of information shared by individuals who access the Academy’s website and services. This Notice describes the Academy’s website privacy procedures, web linking practices, and other practices of the Academy as they relate to the collection of electronic information. This Notice is not a contract and may be revised or updated at any time by the Academy.

Scope

This Web Privacy Notice applies to websites and services under the coramdeoacademy.org and fidelis.coramdeoacademy.org domains (the “Site”), unless otherwise indicated with a separate privacy notice. This Notice does not cover websites and services operated by third-parties or sites and services outside of the Academy’s domains, including those sites and services linked to or incorporated into the Academy’s Site.

Information Gathered

The Academy gathers several types of information when you access the Site.

Server Logs: Academy web server(s) gather server log information that include: Internet Protocol (IP) Address, User Agent information, date and time of access, and the URL accessed. These logs are maintained by the Academy’s third-party server hosting company and may be used for debugging and server usage statistics by the Academy and its agents or contractors. The Academy also uses a content management system that may collect additional log information.

Google Analytics and AdWords: The Academy and its agents use the Google Analytics Platform in the operation of the Site. Google Analytics is a service provided by the third-party company Google, Inc. The Academy may use the full Google Analytics package and may gather demographic data, IP address information, referrer information, click-through rates, traffic sessions, page views, metric information, and Google Analytics Advertiser Features in furtherance of Site effectiveness and performance. Google Analytics collects data about your web traffic via cookies or anonymous identifiers, in addition to other mechanisms. The Academy may opt to use Google’s remarketing feature in AdWords, an advertising platform, for marketing initiatives. This means that Google may use Google cookies to display our ads to you across other websites or platforms based on your interactions or past visits to the Academy’s Site. Other AdWords features the Academy may use in its marketing initiatives include affinity audiences, custom affinity audiences, in-market audiences, similar audiences, and demographic and location targeting.

Opting out: You may opt-out of Google Analytics or Google AdWords remarketing. To opt out of Google Analytics, please visit Google’s Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. To opt out of Google’s use of cookies for advertising and remarketing, please visit Google’s Ads Settings or alternatively you can opt-out of the use of these cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Online Forms: The Academy maintains several web-based forms, including, but not limited, to its Student Application Form, which will collect any personal data that you enter on the form.
Other tracking software: The Academy may use third-party tracking software in specific modules or sections of its site, including CDA Connect and social media tie-ins throughout the Site.
Secure, Hosted, and Third-Party Systems: The Academy uses several secure, hosted, and third- party systems on the Site either directly or through hyperlinks to other domains. Within the secure locations of the Site, there may be other third-party applications or systems. Every third- party system, application, and site is bound by their own privacy policies and procedures, unless otherwise indicated. Data gathered by these applications may be used and shared for their respective purposes in order to carry out the Academy’s mission and operations. These systems may use cookies, require your Academy username(s)/password(s), require personal information, or utilize other mechanisms to function.

Use and Sharing of Information

The Academy does not actively share information garnered from its Site, other than with the necessary employees or agents to maintain and carry out the Site and Academy’s purpose.

Coram Deo Academy also complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), in respect to student grades and transcripts. In general, a student’s information may not be released to a third party without the student’s permission. Certain exceptions apply, including an exception that requires the Academy to release information in response to a lawfully issued subpoena. Parent may exclude the release of student information during enrollment.

“Cookies”

Cookies are small pieces of data stored by the Web browser on your computer. Cookies are often used to remember information about preferences and pages you have visited. For example, when you visit some sites on the Web you might see a "Welcome Back" message. The first time you visited the site a cookie was probably set on your computer; when you return, the cookie is read again. You can configure your Web browser to refuse to accept cookies, to disable cookies, and to remove cookies from your hard drive as needed.

Information Security and Privacy Practices

Although no computer system is 100% secure, the Academy will use reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under the Academy’s control.

Information Security requires your active participation. Please keep all Academy usernames and passwords assigned to you safe and secure. If you have reason to believe that your security has been compromised, please contact help@coramdeoacademy.org.

Social Media

Social media platforms outside the Academy’s domains (e.g., Facebook) are operated by third- parties and your interactions on and with those platforms are governed by those third-party privacy policies. The Academy may link or incorporate functionality of social media platforms into the Site or provide links to social media platforms from the Site. The Academy is not responsible for those third-party platforms or the privacy and security practices of those sites, including any social media presence by the Academy on those third-party platforms.

Children Under the Age of 13

The Site is not intended to be accessed or used by children under the age of thirteen.

Statement Regarding Linking Practices

This linking notice incorporates and is intended to be consistent with the State Website Linking and Privacy Policy published by the Texas Department of Information Resources.

Links to non-Site URLs, both public and private, are provided as a service to our users and do not necessarily constitute an endorsement by the Academy. The Academy is not responsible for content found at these links and makes no representations, guarantees, or warranties.