Privacy Policy

Scope
This policy describes how Heritage Christian School (“we,” “us,” “our”) collects, uses, and discloses personal information and technical information collected through this website. It does not apply to information collected through other channels (e.g., student records in our SIS, learning data in our LMS, paper forms, or in‑person interactions).

Information We Collect and How We Use It
We collect information you voluntarily provide to us, such as information submitted through forms, email, surveys, event registrations, or inquiries. We may also automatically collect limited technical and usage information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring pages, and general location information, through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, and similar technologies. We may use this information to respond to inquiries, provide requested information, process registrations or forms, communicate with you, maintain website security, analyze website performance, improve our website and communications, and comply with legal obligations. We retain website form submissions and related security records for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including responding to inquiries, maintaining business records, protecting the security of our website, complying with legal obligations, and resolving disputes.

Consent
When consent is required for the collection, use, or disclosure of a student’s personal information through this website, we will seek consent from a parent or guardian, or from the student where appropriate and permitted by law.

Children's Privacy
Our website is intended primarily for parents, guardians, alumni, prospective families, employees, donors, and other adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through this website without appropriate parental consent. If we learn that a child has submitted personal information through the website without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete or address that information.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file stored by your browser that allows the website to “remember” your preferences (such as calendar settings and site bookmarks) on the site from visit to visit, or to maintain your “logged in” status when visiting protected areas. Cookies may also be used for performance or analytics purposes. Cookies and similar technologies may collect or be associated with technical and usage information, such as browser type, device information, IP address, pages visited, and cookie identifiers. We use this information to help operate the website, remember certain preferences, analyze website performance, and improve the user experience. Please be aware that rejecting or deleting cookies from our website may make certain functions unavailable to you.

Advertising and Conversion Tracking
We may use Google Ads and similar advertising tools to help promote Heritage Christian School to prospective families and other relevant audiences. These tools may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, understand how visitors interact with our website after clicking an ad, and help us improve future communications. These services may collect or process information such as IP address, device information, browser type, pages visited, referring pages, ad interactions, cookie identifiers, and general location information, in accordance with their own privacy policies. We do not sell personal information. We do not knowingly use personal information collected from children through this website for targeted advertising. You can manage certain advertising preferences through your browser settings, device settings, or Google’s advertising settings.

Third-Party Services and Embedded Content
We use third-party services to help operate, secure, analyze, and improve our website. These may include analytics, advertising, content-delivery, form-security, payment-processing, and embedded-content providers, such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, CAPTCHA services, YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps, and EventLink. These services may collect or process information such as IP addresses, timestamps, browser or device information, cookie identifiers, pages visited, interactions with embedded content, or other technical and usage information in accordance with their own privacy policies. We do not control how these third-party providers collect or use information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services used through or linked from our website.

Payments and Donations
If you make a payment or donation through a link on our website, payment information may be collected and processed by a third-party payment processor. We do not store full credit card numbers on our website servers.

How We Share Information
We may share personal information with trusted service providers who help us operate the website, process forms, provide analytics, secure the site, host content, process payments, or communicate with users. These providers are authorized to use the information only as necessary to provide services to us or as otherwise permitted by law. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect the rights, safety, or security of Heritage Christian School, our website users, or others, or in connection with legal, administrative, or security-related matters.

Log Files
Like most standard website servers, we use website statistic packages to analyze trends in how our website is accessed and utilized. Information monitored includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, geographic location of visitors (country, city), browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, time spent on pages, and keywords used to find our site via search engines. This information is generally used in aggregated or pseudonymous form and is not typically used by us to identify individual visitors by name. We may use it to identify high‑use or low‑use areas of the site, pinpoint problem areas of the site, analyze broad demographic trends in our visitors, and make decisions about how to make it easier for people to find and navigate our website.

Links
This website may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

Security
We use industry‑standard encryption to protect data in transit. Servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment. Although we take reasonable steps to protect information submitted through our website, no website, server, or method of electronic transmission is completely secure.

Communications
If you provide your contact information, we may use it to respond to your inquiry, send requested information, provide school-related updates, or communicate about admissions, events, giving, or other school programs. You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter communications where an unsubscribe option is provided.

Your Rights & Contact Information
If you wish to access, correct, or delete information you have submitted via this website, please contact us at info@heritagechristian.net. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.