Privacy
Your family's information, handled with care.
Effective September 2026
The Winter Park School respects the privacy of our families, prospective families, employees, applicants, and website visitors. This policy explains how we may collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit thewinterparkschool.com, contact us, schedule a visit, submit an inquiry, apply for enrollment, or otherwise interact with our online services. Certain information collected in connection with enrollment, student records, health and safety, billing, or school operations may also be governed by enrollment agreements, school policies, applicable law, and the privacy practices of third-party systems used by the school.
Information We May Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with The Winter Park School.
Information You Provide to Us
When you request information, schedule a visit, contact the school, join a waitlist, or begin the enrollment process, we may collect information such as:
- Parent or guardian name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Mailing address
- Child's name
- Child's age or date of birth
- Program of interest
- Desired start date
- Information you voluntarily provide in a message, inquiry, application, or form
During the enrollment process, additional information may be required to operate the school safely and comply with applicable requirements. This may include emergency contacts, authorized pickup information, health and medical information, allergy information, immunization or health records, and other information necessary to care for and educate your child.
Employment Information
If you apply for employment with The Winter Park School, we may collect information including your name, contact information, employment history, education, qualifications, references, certifications, résumé, and other information you choose to provide.
Additional information may be collected during the hiring process as permitted or required by law.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies. This may include:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages viewed
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website
- General website interactions
We may use this information to maintain our website, understand how visitors use it, improve the visitor experience, measure website performance, protect against misuse, and understand the effectiveness of our communications and marketing.
How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to inquiries
- Schedule school visits and tours
- Communicate with prospective and current families
- Process enrollment and waitlist requests
- Provide childcare and educational services
- Maintain required school and student records
- Communicate about your child's program
- Manage billing and administrative functions
- Provide information about school events, programs, enrollment opportunities, and updates
- Process employment applications
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website
- Analyze website performance
- Prevent fraud or misuse
- Meet licensing, safety, legal, and regulatory obligations
We may also use contact information to communicate with you about The Winter Park School. Where required, you may unsubscribe from promotional email communications using the unsubscribe option included in those messages.
Children's Privacy
Our public website is intended for parents, guardians, and other adults and is not designed for children to independently submit personal information.
We do not knowingly solicit personal information directly from children through our public website.
Information about children that is necessary for inquiries, enrollment, education, care, safety, or school operations should be provided by a parent, legal guardian, or other authorized adult.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information directly through our public website without appropriate parental or guardian authorization, please contact us so that we can review the matter and take appropriate action.
Student and Family Information
Protecting information about our students and families is particularly important to us.
Information collected in connection with a child's enrollment and attendance may include educational, developmental, health, emergency-contact, attendance, billing, photographic, and other records necessary to operate the school and provide appropriate care and education.
Access to this information is limited to authorized individuals and service providers who require it for legitimate school purposes, subject to applicable law and school policies.
Photographs and Media
The Winter Park School may photograph or record school activities, projects, classrooms, events, or student work.
Any use of identifiable student photographs or recordings for public marketing, social media, website, promotional, or similar purposes will be handled according to the school's applicable enrollment agreements, media authorization procedures, and parent or guardian permissions.
Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services.
These third parties operate independently from The Winter Park School and may maintain their own privacy policies and practices.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing personal information to them.
The Winter Park School is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites or services that we do not control.
Data Security
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, electronic communication, database, or method of transmitting information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, operate the school, meet licensing and recordkeeping requirements, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
Your Choices
You may contact us to:
- Update or correct certain personal information you have provided to us
- Ask questions about how your information is handled
- Unsubscribe from promotional email communications
- Request information about applicable privacy choices or rights
Certain records may need to be retained because of childcare licensing, educational, contractual, safety, financial, or legal requirements.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or services.
When we make changes, we will update the effective date displayed at the top of this page.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how The Winter Park School handles personal information, please contact us.
The Winter Park School
225 S. Interlachen Avenue, Winter Park, Florida 32789
admissions@thewinterparkschool.com
thewinterparkschool.com