Our Website is not intended for children 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@isbrooklyn.org.

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address,
  telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as occupation or employer; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage
  details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site.
• Information collected automatically may
  include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web
  beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of applying to ISB or signing into your account.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
• Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection
technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns,
including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other
  communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address,
  operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).  The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

-Cookies (or browser cookies): A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your
computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting
on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain
parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse
cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. The
following cookies may be in use on our Website:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are required for maintaining security,
  improving Website navigation, accessing secure areas of the Website, and storing
  products in our online cart, among other essential functions. These cookies cannot be
  disabled.
• Statistics Cookies – We use these cookies to track your activity on our Website, which includes the pages you visit, products you view, and links you click. This includes cookies placed by third-party analytics services. This data is anonymized and aggregated to inform our marketing efforts.
• Marketing Cookies – These cookies track your online activity to help third parties
  deliver relevant advertisements. Please see Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technology for more information about the third parties that collect data on our website.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other
tracking technologies collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To provide you with notices about your account.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify
any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you
provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the ISB’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in
  which personal information held by ISB about our Website users is among the assets
  transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory  request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of ISB, our students, or others.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the
top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

We collect and use your personal data as described in the Privacy Policy listed above. If we are processing the personal data of individuals that are under the age of majority for a certain jurisdiction in the UK or EU, we will rely on parental authorizations, consent, or any other justification pursuant to applicable law, to process information about your child.

The GDPR prohibits the processing of “special categories” of personal data unless certain exceptions apply, because this type of data may create more significant risks to an individual’s fundamental rights and freedoms. We do collect limited special category data, which may include information about your racial or ethnic origin; religion or similar beliefs; and sexual orientation or gender identity. This information may be collected during the admissions process, and otherwise to provide our services to you. This information will not be collected unless you specifically disclose the information, and will not be collected without your consent. 

We share your personal data with third parties in the ways described in the Privacy Policy outlined above.

We process your personal data for the purposes outlined in the Privacy Policy. We also process your Personal Data in line with the legal bases recognized under GDPR. We may rely on the following legal bases for processing: to pursue International School of Brooklyn’s legitimate interests, to process transactions requested by you to meet our contractual obligations (for example, registering you for online courses or events, to process your application for admissions, etc.), as necessary for compliance with a legal obligations (for example financial aid and tax reporting obligations, etc.), or on the basis of your consent, where applicable, or for any other legal bases as allowed by applicable law, including processing your personal data under the following conditions:

• Performance of a Contract: when your personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement that we make with you and/or for any contractual obligations thereof. 
• Legal Obligation: when your personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which ISB is subject. 
• Legitimate Interests: when processing your personal data is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by ISB.
• Consent: you have given your consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes. 
• Vital Interests: when your personal data is processed in order to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person.
• Public Interests: when your personal data is processed relating to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in ISB.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights with respect to your personal data that we collect and process:

• The Right to Request Access. You have the right to access, update, or delete the information we have about you.
• The Right of Rectification. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected. 
• The Right to Object. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.
• The Right to Restrict Processing. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data. 
• The Right of Erasure/The Right to be Forgotten. In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to remove or delete your personal data.
• The Right to Transfer. Upon request we will provide you (or a third-party you have chosen) the personal data we have collected about you. Your personal data will be provided in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the personal data to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw Your Consent. In the event we have relied on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where ISB relied on your consent to process your personal data. 

Be informed of your right to complain to a supervisory authority if you feel that we have not complied with applicable laws regulating your personal data. EEA authorities can be found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en#member-uk. If you are a UK resident, you can file a complaint with the ICO here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.

You may exercise any of the rights enumerated above by contacting us at privacy@isbrooklyn.org or via the toll-free number listed below. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.  Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply.  For more information, or to make a request, please use the information below and provide your name, email address, request, and basis for your request.

We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to comply with your request, provide services, or as required by law, or as necessary to comply with legal or contractual obligations and for our legitimate purposes. 

We are based in the United States of America. We may process, store, and transfer the Personal Data, in and to a country outside your own, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as your own, including the United States of America. In the event we transfer your Personal Data outside your country as part of our processing, we rely where required on appropriate or suitable safeguards or specific legal provisions permitting such transfers under GDPR. 

When transferring Personal Data from a country in the European Economic Area (EEA) or from the United Kingdom (UK) to a country outside such areas, we may base such transfers on contracts containing legally authorized data protection provisions.

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy statement on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal data, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy statement was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy statement to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or to exercise your rights under the GDPR, contact us at: privacy@isbrooklyn.org  or via our toll-free number: +1 (718) 369-3023.