Website Accessibility and Privacy

List of 2 items.

• Accessibility Statement

  Lexington School for the Deaf is committed to ensuring digital accessibility of its website for all people. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
  
  The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. Lexington School for the Deaf strives to be conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. 
  
  Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility, there may be some limitations. We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of our website. We will respond within five business days and attempt to resolve the problem in ten business days. Please let us know if you encounter website accessibility barriers by contacting us at:
  
  Telephone or videophone: 718-350-3300
  E-mail: webmaster@lexnyc.org
  Mail: Webmaster, Lexington School for the Deaf, 25-26 75th Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370

• Privacy Statement

  Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

  Lexington School for the Deaf and Lexington School for the Deaf Foundation are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
  
  We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new services, events or changes to this privacy policy.
  
  Our website provider collects non-personal information (e.g. date/time, pages accessed, search entries) on visits to our website for the purposes of website analytics.
  
  

  Your Access to and Control Over Information

  You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website.
  
  

  Security

  We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.
  
  

  School Store & Special Events

  When you purchase items from the school store or purchase tickets for a special event, we request information from you on the order form. You must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.
  
  

  Cookies

  We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
  
  

  Links

    This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content, accessibility or privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy statement, please contact us at:
  
  Telephone or videophone: 718-350-3300
  E-mail: webmaster@lexnyc.org
  Mail: Webmaster, Lexington School for the Deaf, 25-26 75th Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370