Thank you for visiting the Washougal School District (WSD) website and reviewing our privacy policy. Washougal School District is comprised of a number of schools, all of which may have individual sites on the Internet. Washougal School District does not collect your personally identifiable information when you visit one of our websites unless you choose to provide that information to us. This privacy policy applies only to the online activities of Washougal School District.

If you send us personal information
Washougal School District websites will collect personal information, which you knowingly and voluntarily provide to us by completing online forms, completing surveys, sending emails, or registering for accounts to access related information on our site. If you provide us with personal information, we may use it to respond to your inquiry or request, and store it to assist with future requests you make.

Information collected and stored automatically
If you visit our website, we automatically gather and store the following information about your visit so that we can track the use of our website in order to improve our website. This information includes, but is not limited to the following, and is stored and used in aggregate form only:

  • The IP address from which you access our website
  • The name of the domain from which you access the Internet
  • The type of device, browser, screen resolution, and operating system used to access our website
  • The date and time you access our site
  • The pages, files, documents and links that you visit
  • The Internet address of the website from which you linked to this website
  • It is not used to contact you personally.

Cookies
We may use cookies in order to recognize return visitors to our website, as well as to support Google Analytics (see below). These cookies are not required for site functionality. Additionally, third-party widgets such as YouTube or Flickr may install cookies depending on their configuration. You are not required to accept any cookies to use this site. Site visitors can turn off cookies from their browser.

Google Analytics
WSD use a tool called “Google Analytics”, provided by Google, to collect information about the use of our website and school websites. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to understand how users use our site, with a goal of focusing updates and improvement efforts on parts of the site that are heavily used. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics uses a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser or using Google’s method for opting out of their analytics.

Washougal School District may use third-party advertising and analytic companies (included, but not limited to Facebook and Twitter) to serve ads about our organization on websites across the internet. These companies may use cookies to serve you more relevant advertisements and offers across the internet based on the information about your visit to this website or other websites.

Linking
Within Washougal School District websites are embedded content, widgets, or other content links to non-Washougal School District websites. These sites operate independently of Washougal School District and have their own privacy policies. Washougal School District is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of non-Washougal School District websites, and such links are not intended to be an endorsement of these non-Washougal School District websites or their content. For your protection, you should review the privacy policy of the site you linked to from our website.

Comments
Questions and comments about this privacy policy may be directed to Washougal School District at 360-954-3000.