At Saint Mary’s School we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers, which is why we do not sell or rent any personal identifiable information regarding our customers to any third party. We hope the policy below will answer all of your questions regarding how we treat information gathered from visitors to www.sms.edu. Policy Effective Date: October 2006

What Information We Collect

In order to process your order efficiently, we collect the following information: name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number and credit card number ("Personal Information") when you place an order with us.

Use of Information that You Provide

At Saint Mary’s School we collect Personal Information only for the purposes of accepting donations and fulfilling orders. We do not give or sell Personal Information to any other party, except to those of our employees whom we rely on to handle this information on our behalf in accordance with the above purposes.

Security of the Information You Provide

Among our top priorities is keeping your Personal Information secure. This Web site can secure your private information using a VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate. SSL technology is used to encrypt all of your Personal Information before it is transmitted to us. Encrypted information cannot be read or recorded as it travels over the Internet. You can tell you are sending information securely by the unbroken key icon or closed lock icon that should appear at the bottom of your internet browser's window (depending on what browser you use). These icons will appear when you are placing an order or donation on our Web site. In addition, you will see our site address change slightly, from http: to https: indicating a secure server connection is being used.