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Privacy Notice

Updated: Feb. 28, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to the bulletin.exeter.edu website. The bulletin.exeter.edu website and its subdomains, and all portals, applications, products, services, events, and any interactive features, applications or other services that post a link to these Terms of Use (the “Site”) are owned and operated by Phillips Exeter Academy (the “Academy,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). Please read these terms carefully. By accessing or viewing the Site or participating in or using any service offered on this Site (collectively, the “Services”), you agree to these Terms of Use (“Terms of Use” or “Terms”).

All references to “you” or “your,” as applicable, mean the person that registers for, accesses, or uses the Services. If you use or access the Services on behalf of an entity or individual, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that entity or individual. You represent and warrant that you are at least 16 years of age, or if you are ages 13 to 16 years of age, that you are visiting the Site under the supervision of a parent or guardian. If you are under 16 years of age, we may ask your parent or guardian to provide written consent for you to use the Site. Our Site is not intended for those under the age of 13. These Terms form a contract between you and the Academy. If you do not agree to the Terms, do not use the Site or the Services. From time to time, the Academy may decide to modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms and will post those changes here. If the Academy does so, your continued use of the Site or the Services after any such changes have been made means you agree to such changes. The amended Terms will automatically be effective when posted on this Site.

Table of Contents

This Privacy Notice will inform you about:

  • Types of Information the Academy Collects
  • How the Academy Uses Your Information
  • Changes to Your Personal Information
  • Children’s Privacy
  • How You Can Opt Out of Receiving Information from Us
  • Security of Personal Information
  • Do Not Track
  • Your California Privacy Rights
  • Updates to this Privacy Notice
  • Our Contact Information

How We Collect Your Information

The Academy may collect Personal Information from or about you in a number of ways, for example:

For Applicants and Students

  • From information you provide when you first express an interest in enrolling at the Academy;
  • When you communicate with us by telephone, email, or via our website in order to ask questions or raise concerns;
  • Through the Academy’s school disciplinary procedures, the Lamont Health and Wellness Center, and/or the administration of student housing or financial services; and
  • Through surveys, comment cards, and/or other feedback mechanisms.

For Alumni and Donors

  • From the information you voluntarily provide to us: when you are graduating, sign up for an alumni event, make inquiries, raise concerns, or share what is going on in your life, make a donation to the Academy, or otherwise communicate with us by telephone, email, or via our website or in person at an alumni or other Academy event;
  • From the information you voluntarily provide to the Academy or third parties with whom we partner when you sign up for an alumni event;
  • From publicly available sources of information.
  • The Academy also may combine personal information you provide to us with information available from external sources to gain updated contact information and/or a better understanding of our alumni and donors to improve our fundraising methods, products, and services.

Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use various methods and technologies to store or collect Usage Information (“Tracking Technologies”). Tracking Technologies may set, change, alter or modify settings or configurations on your Device. A few of the Tracking Technologies used on the Site, include, but are not limited to, the following (as well as future-developed tracking technology or methods that are not listed here):

  • Cookies. A cookie is a file placed on a Device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information on your Device. Our Site may use HTTP cookies, HTML5 cookies, Flash cookies and other types of cookie technology to store information on local storage.
  • Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Site, such as the links you click on.
  • Browser Fingerprinting. Collection and analysis of information from your Device, such as, without limitation, your operating system, plug-ins, system fonts and other data, for purposes of identification.
  • Recognition Technologies. Technologies, including application of statistical probability to data sets, which attempt to recognize or make assumptions about users and devices (e.g., that a user of multiple devices is the same user).