Online Privacy Policy

 
The privacy of all students, parents, faculty and staff, and members of the public who visit this website for any purpose ("users") is a matter of significant importance to Gilmour Academy (“Gilmour”), and it is Gilmour's policy to take reasonable steps to respect the privacy of users regarding any personally identifiable information which Gilmour may collect from time to time while operating this website (the "Site"). To that end, Gilmour has created this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to inform users of Gilmour's policies concerning privacy and its practices concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information that users may provide via the Site. This Privacy Policy applies to personally identifiable information that is collected online from all areas of the Site, whether public areas or areas that are password-protected.Please read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting information to this Site.
 
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, (i) the terms "we," "us," or "our” refer to Gilmour and (ii) the terms "you," "your" or "yourself" refer to the user who is using this Site.
 
Personally Identifiable Information/ Non-Personally Identifiable Information
The term "personally identifiable information" refers to information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, phone number, email or postal address. The amount of personally identifiable information that you choose to disclose to Gilmour is completely up to you. The only way we obtain personally identifiable information about you is if you provide it to us in conjunction with using one of the services we make available through the Site. In operating the Site, Gilmour may also collect non-personally identifiable information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, language preference, referring site and date and time of each visitor request. Generally, the purpose in collecting information of this nature is to better understand how visitors find and use the Site, and how the Site, access to the Site or the scope of services offered on the Site can be improved. Gilmour reserves the right to release or disclose non-personally identifiable information from time to time. 
 
Your Consent
When you access or use this Site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By providing personally identifiable information to the Site, you fully acknowledge that you understand and consent to the collection, processing and use of such information according to United States law and the terms of this Privacy Policy.
 
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
We collect personally identifiable information from users both by asking specific questions and by permitting you to communicate directly with us via email and the site’s other online functions. The amount and type of information collected depends on the nature of your use of the Site. For example, if there are areas of this Site which require you to register as a user as a condition to access, you may be asked to provide information such as your name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, gender, user name and/or password associated with the password protected portions of this Site, educational and professional information and other personally identifiable information. There are also portions or features of the Site (such as the online store, online giving or features which allow you to pay tuition or other charges) where you may be required to provide us with credit card information. Our use and disclosure of any personally identifiable information collected in this manner is subject to this Privacy Policy.
 
Use and Disclosure of Information
Personally identifiable information that you provide to Gilmour is typically stored, processed, and used by us to maintain a database of contact information and update records, contact you, provide you newsletters, updates, literature or other information about Gilmour, respond to your requests for information and engage in transactions with you. In connection with activities of this nature and other professional, technical and administrative services, we may provide your personally identifiable information to employees, agents or service providers acting on Gilmour’s behalf to the extent they need the information to perform their functions for us and on the condition that they agree to use any personally identifiable information consistently with the terms of this Privacy Policy and only for the purposes for which we disclose it, and not for their benefit or the benefit of any other third party. Further, with regard to users who are alumni of Gilmour, some personally identifiable information we collect may be shared from time to time with other alumni for purposes related to alumni activities, such as class reunion and alumni fundraising activities. In addition, if you request or direct us to do so, we will disclose personally identifiable information about you as so requested or directed by you.
 
Additional Circumstances Where Information May be Disclosed
In addition to the above, Gilmour reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information to appropriate third parties in instances where it is required to do so by law or we believe that such action is necessary. Situations or circumstances of this nature include the following:
  • To comply with legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order;
  • To comply with the USA Patriot Act;
  • To protect the School’s rights and property or defend against legal claims;
  • To protect any other party's rights, property, and safety;
  • To report to any law enforcement agency any activity that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful;
  • To investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud, situations involving harassment, abusive messages or potential threats to the physical safety of any person;
  • To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Site; or
  • During emergencies, such as when we believe someone's safety is at risk
Privacy of Children
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires that we never knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. Gilmour requires that all parents and legal guardians of students under the age of 13 review and sign an authorization form each year that will permit us to collect and maintain personally identifiable information about their children. In instances where we discover that we have inadvertently received unauthorized personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete such information unless we have received verifiable consent from that child's parent or legal guardian to keep it.
 
Gilmour may collect personal information from students when they use their school email account. Students will not have, or be able to use, a school e-mail account without our having a current parental authorization form. Where a student corresponds with us via email, we may store, process and use any personally identifiable information contained therein to communicate with the student and/or his parent or legal guardian, to address technical issues with the student's email account or access to the internet or network, to update our records or perform other administrative functions. We may retain the student's email messages together with his email address and our responses. We may provide the collected information to employees, agents or service providers acting on Gilmour's behalf in connection with these activities subject to the same limitations and exceptions noted above in the sections entitled "Use and Disclosure of Information" and "Additional Circumstances Where Information May be Disclosed."
 
In addition, Gilmour may disclose such child's personally identifiable information if you, as parent or legal guardian, direct us to do so. A parent or legal guardian may request that Gilmour not disclose personal information about their children to third parties, except as described in the section above entitled "Additional Circumstances Where Information May be Disclosed ". If so desired, you may also review your child's personal information, ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child's information. If you wish to take any of the foregoing actions, please see "Contact Information" below for information on how to contact Gilmour.
 
Access and Correction
Gilmour will endeavor to take reasonable steps to update or correct personally identifiable information in our possession that users have previously submitted via this Site. In many cases, users of the Site will be able to change or update their own information in an efficient manner. You may also contact us as specified below in "Contact Information."
 
Security
When using this Site, you should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever 100% secure or error-free. While we take reasonable steps to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you submit to us other than to use our best efforts. Accordingly, any personally identifiable information you submit to us is submitted at your own risk. In particular, email sent to or from this Site may not be secure. You should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail and safeguard passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features you use on this Site.
 
Linked Websites
This Site may contain links or references to other third-party websites. Gilmour is not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices of other websites to which this Site may link. You should review any additional privacy policy and terms of use agreements of any such websites before providing that site with any personally identifiable information. The inclusion of any website link does not imply any endorsement of or recommendation for the third-party, its website, its products or services, or its privacy policy.
 
Other Terms
Your use of this Site is subject to our Terms and Conditions of Use. Please review the Terms and Conditions of Use before using the Site or submitting any personally identifiable information.
 
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site, or if you would like to review, update and delete any personal information that you provide to us through this Site, please contact us at communications@gilmour.org.
 
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Gilmour reserves the right to, change, update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and in its sole discretion without prior notice to you, other than posting the revised Privacy Policy on this Site. Your continued use of the Site after any change in our Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of this Privacy Policy as so changed and any changes in practices concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information that users may provide via the Site as described in the Privacy Policy as so changed. Accordingly, please check back and review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Terms of Use

 
This website (the "Site") is provided by Gilmour Academy ("Gilmour").  The terms "you," "your" or "yourself" refer to the user who is browsing this Site.
 
Your use of this Site is governed by the policies, terms and conditions set forth below ("Terms and Conditions of Use") and Gilmour's policies concerning privacy and its practices concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information that users may provide via the Site Private Policy as outlined above.  Please read these Terms and Conditions of Use and Gilmour's Privacy Policy carefully before using this Site.  Your use of this site indicates your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OR DO NOT WANT TO ACCEPT ANY OF THESE TERMS, PLEASE EXIT THIS SITE AND REFRAIN FROM ANY FURTHER ACCESS AND USE OF IT. Gilmour reserves the right to make changes to this Site, these Terms and Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy at any time.
 
Intellectual Property Rights
All content and graphics on this Site are the exclusive property of Gilmour, its licensors or third-party content providers. Certain names, words, titles, phrases, logos, icons, graphics or designs in the pages of this Site may constitute trademarks, trade names, service marks, trade dress, copyrights or other intellectual property of Gilmour or its licensors. The display of trademarks, trade names, service marks, trade dress, copyrights or other intellectual property on pages at this Site does not imply that a license of any kind has been granted to you or anyone else to use them in any manner. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks, trade names or service marks of their respective owners.
 
You are free to view the material posted on this Site for non-commercial purposes, and to print it solely for your own personal purposes. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any downloaded content. You may not distribute copies of the material for any purpose or 'frame' it in any site you create or operate. You agree to abide by all copyright notices, information and restrictions contained in any content on this Website.
 
Any unauthorized downloading, transmission, republication or other copying or modification of material posted on this Site, including trademarks, trade names, service marks, trade dress, copyrights or other intellectual property of Gilmour or its licensors, may violate federal, common or civil law trade-mark law and copyright law, and may result in legal action.
 
Gilmour reserves the right to take legal action against any unauthorized use of the trademarks, trade names, service marks, trade dress, copyrights or other intellectual property of Gilmour and its affiliates found on this Site.
 
Disclaimer of Warranties
THE INFORMATION, MATERIALS, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. GILMOUR MAY MAKE CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS TO THIS SITE AT ANY TIME. THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, GILMOUR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OR MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GILMOUR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL ON THIS SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. GILMOUR DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, OR OTHERWISE.
 
This Site is operated by Gilmour from the State of Ohio, United States of America. Gilmour makes no representation that materials in this Site are appropriate or available for use in other jurisdictions.  If you access this Site from other locations, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
 
Exclusion of Liability
Gilmour expressly disclaims, and in no event will Gilmour be liable for, any liability for any damages, including without limitation, direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, loss of profits, opportunities or information or expenses, whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, arising out of or relating to arising in connection with:
  • the contents of any communication, message, or information provided to Gilmour by you or other third parties;
  • the contents of any website not controlled, owned, or operated by Gilmour that is accessed from or linked to this website by direct or indirect means;
  • any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation of transmission, computer virus, or line failure.
  • the use of or inability to use this Site, even if Gilmour has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
 

Third-Party Websites
Gilmour does not control any third party website and is therefore not responsible for the content of any linked website or any link contained in a linked website. Gilmour provides such links only as a convenience to you and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement, investigation or verification by Gilmour of the linked website or any information contained in it.
Prohibited Use
 
As a condition of your use of this Site, you warrant to Gilmour that you will not use this Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. Although Gilmour may from time to time monitor or review any third-party postings, transmissions and the like which may appear on this Site at any time, Gilmour is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such third-party postings, transmissions or communications nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any such postings, transmissions or communications. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Gilmour will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Gilmour to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.
 
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Gilmour, its directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives harmless from all claims, liabilities, damages, and expenses (including attorneys' fees and expenses) arising out of or relating to any breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
 
Remedies
Given the nature of these terms, you understand and agree that, in addition to money damages, Gilmour will be entitled to equitable relief upon a breach of them by you.
 
Law
These Terms and Conditions of Use shall be governed by Ohio law and relevant federal laws, and irrevocable consent is hereby granted by both Gilmour and you to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any action or dispute in the state and federal courts located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Use of this Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not affect to all provisions of these Terms and Conditions of Use, including without limitation this paragraph.
 
Survival of Provisions
Each provision of the Terms and Conditions of Use shall be construed as separately applying and surviving even if for any reason one or other of those provisions is held to be inapplicable or unenforceable in any circumstances. These Terms and Conditions of Use shall be severable and construed to the extent of their enforceability in light of the parties' mutual intent if deemed at all unenforceable by the competent court.
 
Changes and Modifications
Gilmour reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without advance notice, to change, modify, add or remove all or any portion of this Site, these Terms and Conditions of Use and all policies and guidelines incorporated herein by reference, including the Privacy Policy, at any time. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions of Use shall become effective immediately after being posted to this Site. Your access to and continued use of this Site after any changes are posted shall constitute acceptance of those changes.
 
Contact Information
If you have any questions concerning this site or its policies, please contact us by emailing us at communications@gilmour.org.

Mailing Address

34001 Cedar Road, Gates Mills, Ohio 44040
phone: (440) 473-8000

Campus Addresses
An independent, Catholic, coed, day and boarding school in the Holy Cross tradition. Toddler-Grade 12.