Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to hawken.edu and Hawken School and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Hawken School include hawken.edu, Hawken, Birchwood School and birchwoodschool.org. The Hawken website is a independent school site. By using the Hawken website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (c) sending us an email message; (d) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Sharing Information with Third Parties
Hawken does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Hawken may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Hawken, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Hawken may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Hawken or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Hawken; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Hawken, or the public.

Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Hawken. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Hawken website.

Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or 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 any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Children Under Thirteen
Hawken does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications
From time to time, Hawken may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Hawken or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Hawken, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the link in the footer of the email.

External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement
Hawken reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information
Hawken welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Hawken has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Hawken at:

Hawken School
PO Box 8002
Gates Mills, Ohio 44040

Email Address:
communications@hawken.edu

Telephone number:
440-423-4446
An independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school, toddler through grade 12

Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135 

Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

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