Privacy Policy
Overview
Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. To help you guard your privacy, we are providing this statement of our online information practices.
Information we gather from you
If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you. We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it.
Statistical information
When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit on our site, from which domains our visitors reach our site, and which browsers people use. We use these statistics about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us improve the performance of our website.
Personal information
There are several ways in which you may explicitly and intentionally provide us with and consent to our collection of certain personal information:
Contact form - We use links throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to contact us via email to ask questions, request information, or provide comments and suggestions. In this instance, the page from which you accessed the email form and your IP address may be collected.
Online newsletters - You have the ability to register to receive online newsletters from some schools or the district online newsletter, eMessenger, by providing your email address and your name should you choose to provide it.
Special online surveys or comment applications - We may ask for your name, address, telephone number, email address, and/or another form of identification in order to follow up on your questions or comments.
Use of Cookies
Certain features of the Mehlville School District website may use cookies to fully function. Cookies are text files, or entries in larger files, used to distinguish between visitors to a website, and to track information during multiple visits to a website. In most cases the cookies are temporary and expire upon the end of the browsing session. We never use cookie information to build a permanent profile of any user. The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet websites. Most Internet web browsers may be customized to reject cookies, to only accept or reject cookies by user intervention, or to delete cookies. Rejecting and/or removing cookies, however, may lead to loss of functionality on selected pages requiring cookies to function fully.
For more information about cookies and protecting your privacy on the World Wide Web, refer to your Internet web browser's Help page on their use of cookies.
How we use and with whom we share the information we gather
The information we gather from you is used by us only as explained below.
Sending you responses and updates
We generally respond to any email questions, requests for services, and other inquiries that we receive. We may also retain this correspondence to improve our services, and website, and for other disclosed purposes. We may retain contact information so that we can send individual updates or other important information.
If we are required to disclose by law
Under certain circumstances we may be required by law to disclose certain information to law enforcement authorities or to fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests. Suspicious email, electronic threats, and any information needed to determine illegal activity or a threat to the website’s security will be provided to the appropriate authority.
Surveys
From time to time we may request information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of, and satisfaction with this website, and improving our services.
Third-party links
The Mehlville School District website provides links to, and may be linked from, other websites. The existence and/or provision of those links neither constitutes nor implies endorsement of the destination or departure website(s) or of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policy(ies), product(s), accessibility or privacy policy of said destination or departure website(s). Nor does any link between the Mehlville School District website and a third-party website imply sponsorship of such website, or the creator of such website. Mehlville School District is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, or content regarding these other sites.
Some content on portions of the Mehlville School District website resides on servers run by third parties. Each entity providing content for the Mehlville School District website is bound by this privacy policy. Any entity using a third-party host, ISP, or other combination of third-party transport, storage, content or application provision services shall be responsible for such third party's compliance with this privacy policy.
Intellectual property
The content of Mehlville School District web pages is copyrighted, and contains some third-party images/graphics that are used with permission. Users are notified, therefore, that one should presume the need to obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise using images/graphics from this website.
Changes to this privacy statement
Mehlville School District may change this policy from time to time, and reserves the right to do so without notice.
Terms of use
Limits on responsibility for content
The materials on this website are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute a representation or warranty as to the status, condition or performance of any party contributing information to the website or constitute a commitment as to any matter disclosed on this website. These materials are intended, but not promised or guaranteed to be current, complete or up-to-date.
The documents and materials displayed or mentioned on this site are not official copies of documents. If you need official copies of any document displayed or mentioned on this site, you should contact the appropriate Mehlville School District office or other party contributing the information.
None of the parties contributing information to the website nor their officers, agents or employees are liable for any harm suffered as a result of reliance on information contained in this site.
Rights to restrict usage of published content
The owners of this data strictly prohibit redistribution, retransmission, or resale of the content and data on this website without express written permission by the owner of the data.
We reserve the right to restrict usage that may compromise the performance or security of our website. Such usage may include but is not limited to malicious probes or attacks as well as attempts to mirror website data using automated data retrieval programs.
Limits on responsibility for links
This website contains many pages with hyperlinks to other resources on the Internet. These links are provided as aids to help you identify and locate other Internet resources that may be of interest and are not intended to state or imply that any of the parties contributing information to the website are affiliated or associated with, or are legally authorized to use any trade name, registered trademark, logo, legal or official seal, or copyrighted symbol that may be reflected in the links.