Thank you for visiting http://www.nassauboces.org/artsined, on Nassau BOCES' Web site. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices used at the http://www.nassauboces.org/artsined site.

Nassau BOCES and Arts in Education Programs will never share, rent or sell your personal information. It is strictly kept for the purposes of conducting Arts in Education business only and confidentiality is strictly maintained.

At http://www.nassauboces.org/artsined, you can request and approve programs, complete and approve evaluations, register as an artist, post your offerings, modify your "contact" information, or express an opinion. The information that we request from you is needed in order to process requests for programs and their associated invoices. In order to appropriately represent artists and their program offerings on the Website, we require the following: your name, organization (if applicable), home/business address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and website address (if any). For purposes of internal identification and to enable us to process invoices and list programs in the "Calendar", we request your Social Security or Federal ID number. Please be aware that these last two identifiers are used by BOCES only and are never posted or revealed online anywhere on the Arts in Education Website. We also request that you select a username and password that are exclusively yours and which will enable you to access and (as needed) revise the information you have submitted for inclusion on the Website.

We use the information you provide about yourself and your organization to appropriately represent your offerings on the Arts in Education web site and to enable schools, libraries and other presenters to contact you quickly and easily. With the new changes to the web site, we are now able to list your in-school programs on the web site "Calendar" with a direct link to the program descriptions you have submitted.

We will only disclose your information when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We are also required to disclose your information in response to a law enforcement agency's request. These are the only circumstances in which your information would be shared with others. The Arts in Education program will contact you occassionally via e-mail for routine business matters.

This web site is secured using a Thawte Digital Certificate. This ensures that all information you send to us via the World Wide Web will be encrypted (garbled). If any other Internet user should happen to intercept your communication he/she will only be able to see it in an encrypted (garbled) form. For more information on SSL digital certificates for web servers please see godaddy.com. If you feel more comfortable telephoning us directly with your personal information, please do. We will be happy to take sensitive information over the phone. Call us at 516 396-2345.

We have put in place all appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the web site and to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

If you have any questions or concerns about the Nassau BOCES online policy for this site or its implementation you may contact us at artsined@nasboces.org.