Due to the nature of this site and its use as an organizing point for our fellow alumni, collection and storage of some personally identifiable information is required. And, we all have read about the various sales & leaks of personal information that occur all the time. So, we wanted to lay out how we will use, store, and manage your personal information.
We have a list of our fellow classmates compiled from sources including our senior yearbook and the Plain Local Schools alumni association. In addition, we allow users to provide us information on fellow alumni including name corrections, email addresses, and status. Your email address is visible only to administrators. Any correspondences out from this site about the reunion will be sent via transactional email (Amazon SES) or mailing list services (MailChimp) that will not reveal your email address to other users. That's why the classmates list only displays an indicator of whether or not we have someone's email address, not their actual address.
In the future, we may also capture pictures, short biographical information, address, and etc. in the hopes of making this site & storage an ongoing database of our fellow classmates to aid in organizing future reunions.
We do NOT share any of your personal information with anyone except for those third-party vendors with whom we must share pieces of information to enable certain functionality. Detailed list:
If you're on Facebook and have joined our official Facebook group, any information you share there is subject to the privacy terms and policies of Facebook. The group is not public; however, you should always consider any information shared on Facebook as potentially able to be made public due to their shifting privacy terms.
… are delicious, but here, we're talking about small pieces of data stored in your web browser when you visit websites. We use a session cookie on this site. This cookie doesn't store any personal information. We also use a separate cookie that stores your roster/person ID (once you add it to the site); only this website has access to this cookie & it's used to identify you when suggesting edits on classmate information. (If you access this site from a second computer or mobile device, you'll have to re-enter your email address when you're suggesting edits on classmates' information.) We also use Google Analytics for tracking hits & visits; this service does not store any personal information. If you have disabled cookies in your web browser, you can still use this site, but you'll have to input your email address every time.
There are no passwords on this site for regular users. Because it's a transaction-based system, you'll want to ensure you use the same email address throughout every transaction. The easiest way to do this is to just keep the email we send you so you can click the secure link inside of it each time you want to log in. In other words, whatever email address you use during initial registration for the reunion should be the same one you use when placing payment down the road, or any other features we enable. We may add password-based registration in the future, if needed, but that then requires a whole thing around password reset/forgotten passwords, customer service, etc. Let's try to keep it simple, shall we?
This site is protected by an industry-standard SSL certificate for HTTPS communication. This is a lot more relevant when we start accepting payments online, but it's also good to have when people are providing personal information.
When the time comes for us to accept credit card payments via the site, we will be using the vendor Stripe. Stripe is an industry-standard payment provider that you've probably used behind-the-scenes of various payments you may have placed online. At no point during payment do we ever store your credit card or billing information. Stripe handles all payments and merely gives us a token identifying your transaction and account. This means you don't have to worry about your billing information ever "leaking" from this site; we won't even have it!
This site is hosted on a private dedicated server by Greg Kefalas's company, Mattermind, via IBM SoftLayer Dallas datacenter. It's not a shared or cloud server. The datacenter where it's physically located has industry-leading security and access restrictions. If you want to know more about this side of things, you can reach out to Greg. He loves to talk tech.
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