Privacy Policy

Introduction

The International School of Boston is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal data.).

1. Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following personal data about you:

• Identity Data: name, username, or similar identifier.
• Contact Data: billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Usage Data: information about how you use our website, products, and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data: your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

2. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:

• Direct interactions: You may provide us with your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling out forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
• Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To perform the contract, we are about to enter or have entered it with you.
• To comply with a legal obligation.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights, do not override those interests.
• To send you marketing communications if we have your explicit consent to do so.

4. Sharing Your Data

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services, including our third-party hosting provider.
• Professional advisers, including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
• Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

5. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. Additionally, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request the erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at: IT Director, helpdesk@isbos.org

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we make in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently for any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

International School of Boston  
45 Matignon Rd, Cambridge MA, 02140 
IT Director, helpdesk@isbos.org