Garrison Forest School respects the privacy of those using the School’s website and is committed to protecting any personal information shared with Garrison Forest. Visitors to and users of the Garrison Forest website may choose to provide personal information, such as requesting admission information or making an online payment or gift. Garrison Forest only uses this personal information to conduct School business and does not disseminate any information to unaffiliated third parties.
Acceptable Use
Garrison Forest School has adopted and enforces the standards set forth in its Computer Use and Social Media Policy Guidelines, published annually in the Parent, Student, and Faculty handbooks, for materials posted on its website and on the personal web pages that it hosts. The School reserves the right to remove or disable access to material that violates its acceptable use policies. Garrison Forest does not assume any responsibility or liability for content provided by others, including content provided by faculty, staff, and students on their own personal web pages, nor does Garrison Forest assume any liability or responsibility for failure to enforce its acceptable use standards as set forth herein.
Stored Information
Garrison Forest’s website does not collect any personal information, but it does automatically track accesses, which are identified by the Internet address of the computer accessing the site, the web browser being used by that computer and a record of the pages visited on the site. We may on occasion disclose information concerning our users in an aggregate, non-personally-identifiable form such as the total number of visitors on a particular day or the most often accessed pages. Tracking visits allows the School to improve features and the usability of its website.
Links
Links to other websites are found throughout our web pages as a service to offer more information to our website users. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers.
Advertising
Unless approved by the Administrative Committee via the Communications Department, the advertising or direct sale of non-School related goods and services is prohibited on all sections of the Garrison Forest School website and through postings on the School’s social media. This also applies to personal Web pages that are hosted by the School’s site. To contact the Communications Department, email Sarah Achenbach, Director of Communications, at sarahachenbach@gfs.org.
Copyright
Posting or providing access to material that violates the copyrights of others is prohibited. No copyrighted materials, including educational materials subject to copyright, may be posted anywhere on gfs.org, without the authorization of the copyright owner. Photographs taken by non-GFS photographers or not owned outright by GFS should be cited. Anyone wishing to assert his or her copyright to original materials that he or she has placed on the Garrison Forest website may include the following on the first page of the materials: “Copyright © 2007 [name].”
Access to Your Information
We encourage alumnae, faculty/staff, and current parents to provide updates as needed to assure that Garrison Forest School has current, accurate, and complete contact information.
Current parents may change their contact information through the secure parent directory in the Parent Portal. Alumnae may do the same through the alumnae directory in the Alumnae Center. Faculty and staff should email Christine Herdson at christineherdson@gfs.org.
Forget Your Password?
If you have forgotten your password to access the secure Parent Portal or Alumnae Center, please contact Garrison Forest. Parents should contact the division assistant in your child’s division. Alumnae should contact Sara Hartley in the Alumnae Office at (410) 559-3136 or sarahartley@gfs.org.
Opt-Out
You may always opt-out of receiving future marketing-related correspondence from Garrison Forest School. To "opt out," send an email with the request to Robert Ammons, Director of Information Technology at robertammons@gfs.org.
Policy effective as of March 8, 2012.