MCPS网站隐私声明

蒙哥马利郡公立学校, a system of public schools operated by the Board of Education of Montgomery County ("MCPS"), 以及学校和办公室(统称为“我们”)," "our," or "us") maintain websites and online services to inform the community about and to engage it in our joint mission to provide a quality education to all children. We use the websites and online services to publish as much information about MCPS as possible and to enhance two-way communication between the district and community.

We know that as parents, students, educators, and citizens, you value your privacy.  我们想让你知道这对我们也很重要.  That is why we have created this Privacy Statement to  describe the ways in which we collect, use, and disclose information about you through our publicly accessible websites that link to this Privacy Statement, 包括中央MCPS网站 www.northfoxprojects.com代表学校和办公室的网站，移动应用程序，以及我们的开放数据网站 data.northfoxprojects.com (总的来说,“网站”).

This Privacy Statement applies in addition to any other applicable privacy rights, including but not limited to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), 保护学生权利修正案(" PPRA "), 以及其他州和联邦法律法规. For more information about our responsibilities and your rights under FERPA and PPRA, please visit our Student Records Regulation and our 学生隐私通知 page.    

Management

The central MCPS website is managed by the MCPS Web Services Team in the Department of Communications in Rockville, Maryland. A full description of our guidelines for administering the Sites is available in MCPS Regulation KBA-RA, MCPS网站的教育目的及管理, available at: http://ww2.northfoxprojects.com/departments/policy/pdf/kbarb.pdf.

这些网站包括许多代表学校和办公室的小型网站, 许多网站都有自己的网站管理员. 除了少数网站外，所有这些网站都是由MCPS托管的. Those schools with their own hosting arrangements that link to this Privacy Statement also must conform to this Privacy Statement. Principals and office administrators are responsible for content published to their websites. Information submitted by users to a specific school or office website is managed and archived by that school or office.

我们收集了什么信息?

你提供的信息 -网站的许多部分允许您与我们共享信息. For example, 您可以使用网站创建帐户, fill out guest books, 回应民意调查, apply for a job, 或以其他方式bet8备用线路网址的问题, comment, or request.

在使用这些特性时, 您可以选择向我们提供某些信息, such as your name, home address, email address, local school, and affiliation (e.g. parent, teacher, etc.). Many of these forms and surveys also include a blank space you can use to send us any type of comment or information. If you would not like us to have information that is highly personal or sensitive to you, 请不要通过网站提供.

自动从您处收集的信息 -像大多数网站的发布者一样, we and our service providers automatically collect certain technical information from users of the Sites. The purpose of this data collection is to analyze how people navigate the Sites and then use that analysis to make changes that improve user experience. 我们可以使用“cookies”来收集这些信息," which are small text files that the Sites save on your computer using your web browser and accesses when you return, 或类似的技术. 此信息不用于跟踪单个用户或创建用户配置文件.

这些信息包括, 但不限于, your Internet Protocol address; the date and time of your visit; the pages the Sites that you visited; the web address of the link you followed to reach the Sites; the type and version of your web browser; and the operating system of your computer.

这些网站还包括一些第三方应用程序, 比如专业的图书馆数据库和开放的数据门户, that rely on cookies.

如果您不希望网站通过使用cookie收集信息, 您可以设置您的网页浏览器拒绝来自网站的cookie. 每个浏览器都是不同的, so you should check your browser’s "Help" menu to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you reject or block cookies from the Sites, however, the Sites may not function as intended.

我们如何使用这些信息?

我们只将这些信息用于直接促进教育的目的, instructional, administrative, business, 以及MCPS的支援服务任务, including, but not limited to:

• 回应你对信息的要求;
• 在使用网站时定制您的体验;
• improving the Sites, such as by tailoring our content to your needs and preferences;
• 生成及分析有关网站使用情况的统计资料;
• 保护我们的权利, property, 网站的安全或完整性, 或者我们员工的人身安全, our students, 网站的用户或访问者, or the public; and
• detecting, preventing, 以及对欺诈的反应, 违反我们的使用条款, violations of law, 或其他滥用本网站的行为, 或者回应针对我们的法律索赔.

考虑到你的隐私，我们已经采取了措施 not to:

• collect, maintain, or use your personal information that we collect through the Sites for purposes beyond those we describe in this Privacy Statement;
• use your information we collect through the Sites for behavioral targeting of advertisements to you; or
• maintain a personal profile of you other than to support an account that you have created or use through the Sites (e.g., a MyMCPS account; an account through our Open Data website).

我们在什么情况下披露这一信息?

我们仅为直接促进教育的目的而披露信息, instructional, administrative, business, 以及MCPS的支援服务任务. 我们不向第三方出售用户信息. Nor do we disclose user information to third parties except as permitted by applicable privacy laws and only then in the following circumstances:

• with our schools, offices, and other appropriate staff to enable them to perform the functions described above;
• 与代表我们工作的服务提供商合作, including, but not limited to, 那些代表我们处理就业申请的机构, 协调代课教师的可用性, 并提供我们的开放数据平台, whom we require to ensure compliance with applicable state and federal laws regarding data privacy;
• as required by law, 例如遵守传票或其他法律程序, or to comply with government reporting obligations such as the Maryland Public Information Act; and
• when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary (a) to protect our rights, property, 网站的安全或完整性, 或者我们员工的人身安全, our students, 网站的用户或访问者, or the public, or (b) to detect, prevent, or respond to fraud, 违反我们的使用条款, violations of law, 或其他滥用本网站的行为, 或者回应对我们的法律索赔.

链接到其他网络资源

这些网站链接到许多其他可能对你有用的网络资源. 每个学校的网站管理员也可以选择连接到外部网站, 哪些应该与学校的教育目的相一致. Principals and office administrators are ultimately responsible for links published on their sites, 但你应该意识到，当你点击链接到一个外部网站, that website’s information privacy practices will be governed by the privacy statement of that website, 而不是本隐私声明

孩子们的信息

这些网站包含一些供MCPS学生使用的资源(例如.g., Homework Hotline). We encourage parents to discuss with their children responsible use of the Sites. If you have any questions or concerns about personal information that you believe may have been collected from your child through the Sites, 请随时与我们联系 webmaster@mcpsmd.org.

如何保护你的信息?

我们努力保持合理的管理, technical, and physical security safeguards of our computer systems that are designed to safeguard the information collected by the Sites. However, 没有任何信息系统是100%安全的, 所以我们不能保证您的信息的绝对安全.

Modification

随着网站的发展，MCPS可能会更新本隐私声明. Modifications will be posted on the Sites and the “date of last revision” date at the bottom of this page will be revised.  In addition, 查阅私隐声明的重大更改, 由我们自行决定, we will include a notice on the Sites that directs users to a copy of the latest Privacy Statement and/or send a communication to users for whom we have contact information notifying them of changes. 请与我们联络 webmaster@mcpsmd.org 如果你有意见或问题.

Contact Information

如果您对本隐私声明有任何疑问, MCPS, our schools,or our offices, 请随时与我们联系 webmaster@mcpsmd.org.

本隐私声明最后一次更新于2017年4月20日.