Privacy policy

This website has no accounts, no logins and no database. It has four forms for writing to us:

• Enrollment inquiry (Inquire page). Your name as parent or guardian, your email address, your phone number if you give it, your children's ages, the earliest year they could start, how you heard about us if you tell us, and any message.
• Contact form (Campus and contact page). Your name, your email address, the subject you choose (enrollment, sponsorship, giving, employment, press or general) and your message.
• Business Center interest (Wall Family Business Center page). Your name, your email address, your business if you give it, and the part of the Center that interests you: the student track, the parent program or speaking.
• Sponsorship inquiry (Sponsor page). Your name, your email address, your phone number if you give it, the sponsorship that interests you and any message.

These forms reach us by email. Sponsorship inquiries go to Terrence R. Wall, who answers them personally. If a form cannot reach us, it says it was not sent and asks you to try again. The website keeps no copy of what you typed.

Card gifts are made to The T. Wall Foundation, restricted to the Academy, and processed on the Foundation's Stripe account. On the Give page you choose an amount and a designation, which the website sends to Stripe. "Give by card" then takes you to a secure payment page run by Stripe.

Stripe collects your card details and email address directly from you, and may also ask for your name and billing address. Your card details never reach our servers, and we never see your full card number.

When your gift is complete, Stripe sends the website your name, email address, the amount, the designation, the date, whether the payment has cleared and a payment reference. The website uses these only to send your receipt and to tell us about your gift. It ignores anything else Stripe includes, such as your billing address, and stores nothing itself. Your payment record stays in the Foundation's Stripe account.

Stripe also uses payment data for its own purposes, such as fraud prevention and legal compliance. See Stripe's privacy policy (opens in new tab).

• Hosting. With each visit, our host, Vercel, receives your IP address, your browser type and the page you asked for, to deliver and protect the website. The website's own log entries say whether each email was sent, without your name, email address or message.
• Spam checks. Each of the four forms has a hidden field people never see and notes how long the form was open before you sent it. The website checks both, then drops them.
• Rate limits. The website also counts recent requests from each IP address on the four forms and the Give page, and recent submissions from each email address on the four forms. Each count covers 10 minutes, is held only in the server's temporary memory, and is never written to a file, a database or a log.
• Google map. The Campus and contact page shows a Google map. When it loads, your browser sends Google your IP address and the page address, and Google may set or read its own cookies. See Google's privacy policy (opens in new tab).

We use your personal information:

• To answer you and follow up, by email, or by phone if you gave a number on the enrollment or sponsorship form.
• To send the emails listed under Emails we send you.
• If you sponsor a classroom, an office or a teaching chair, to show your family's name on it, as the Sponsor page describes.
• To process gifts, send receipts and keep the Foundation's gift records.
• To keep the forms free of spam and abuse.

We do not use your personal information for advertising.

• Confirmations. When one of the four forms reaches us, we email you a short confirmation. It repeats nothing you typed except your name in the greeting. Replies to it come to us.
• Gift receipts. When a card gift is complete, the Foundation emails you a receipt. It shows your name, the receipt number, date, amount and designation, that the Foundation received the gift for the Academy, and that no goods or services were provided. Please keep it as your receipt. Replies to it come to us. If it cannot be sent automatically, we send it by hand.
• Gift notices. We receive a notice of each card gift with your name, email address, amount and designation.
• Opening updates. If you sent an enrollment inquiry, your family is on the Academy's interest list. We email updates about the Academy's opening to families on the list, so they are the first to hear each announcement, such as when tuition is published.
• Business Center updates. If you registered interest in the Wall Family Business Center, we write to you about the Center.

To stop opening or Business Center updates, reply to any of them and ask us to stop, or contact us as described under Contact us, and we will take you off the list.

• Our people. Terrence R. Wall and the people who work with him on behalf of the Academy and the Foundation.
• Our developer. The developer who maintains the website can see the hosting logs and Resend's copies of the emails the website sends.
• Google Workspace hosts the mailboxes where we receive form messages, gift notices and replies.
• Resend sends the website's emails, including the form messages it delivers to us. See Resend's privacy policy (opens in new tab).
• Vercel hosts the website. See Vercel's privacy notice (opens in new tab).
• Stripe runs the payment page and processes card gifts, as described under Card gifts.
• Google Maps. Google receives your IP address and the page address when the map on the Campus and contact page loads.
• The annual tax return. As a private foundation, the Foundation files an annual federal tax return (Form 990-PF). It lists the name, address and total gifts of each donor who gave $5,000 or more in the year, and that part of the return is open to public inspection.
• When the law requires. We also disclose information when the law requires, such as under a court order.

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information.

This website sets no cookies, uses no browser storage and runs no analytics or advertising tools. Google, when the map loads, and Stripe, on its payment page, may use their own cookies under their own privacy policies.

Do Not Track signals have nothing to act on here, because we do not track you across websites.

This website is written for parents, guardians, donors and others interested in the Academy. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

The enrollment form asks a parent or guardian for children's ages and earliest start year, not their names. If a child has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.

• Mailboxes. Form messages, gift notices and replies stay in the mailboxes where we receive them until we delete them. We keep enrollment inquiries so we can send opening updates. We delete your messages when you ask, except gift records.
• Gift records. The Foundation keeps gift records, including those in its Stripe account, as part of its financial and tax records.
• Resend keeps copies of the emails it sends, and its sending logs, for 30 days.
• Hosting logs. The hosting logs we can see are kept for no more than 30 days. Vercel also keeps its own records under its privacy notice.

You can ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, or ask us to stop sending updates. Fields marked optional can be left blank.

To make a request, contact us as described below. We delete your information from the mailboxes where we received it. We keep gift records, and Stripe keeps its own records under its own obligations.

This website uses an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Form messages and gift notices are kept in password-protected email accounts. We take reasonable care, but no website or email system is perfectly secure.

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this website with a new "Last updated" date.

For privacy questions and requests, use the contact form on the Campus and contact page, or write to terrence@twallfoundation.com.