PS 59 Beekman Hill International School
Policies & Disclaimers
Translation Disclaimer
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Accessibility Notice
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. ps59.net is conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AAA. PS 59 Beekman Hill International internally assessed the accessibility of the ps59 website via self-evaluation practices with support from the WebAIM Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool.
In addition to technical concerns (such as providing for screen reading software, ensuring those with color-vision deficiency can view our content, etc.), PS 59 Beekman Hill International takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of the ps59 website:
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Include accessibility as part of our mission statement
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Include accessibility throughout our internal policies
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Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities
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Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the ps59 website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on ps59.net by emailing our Technology Director.
Data Policy
ps59.net may serve cookies to your web browser as part of essential web services, as well as non-essential cookies provided by third parties for embedded content. Examples of cookies used in the course of essential service of the website include, but are not limited to:
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Fraud detection
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Security
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Identification
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Performance
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Attack detection
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Error/issue tracking
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API protection
We collect these cookies for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate ps59.net
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To provide our users with ongoing assistance and technical support
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations
Our school website is hosted on the Wix platform. Your data, collected via the cookies detailed in the policy above, may be stored through Wix’s data storage, databases and the general Wix applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. Wix is a processor for ps59.net visitors’ data. This means that Wix will only process your data following instructions from ps59.net and on our behalf. Wix will not process your data for their own benefit. If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact our Technology Director.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.