Last updated: November 13, 2026
Our promise
Five Oaks Academy respects your privacy and your family’s. This page explains what information our website collects, why, and what we do with it. The short version: our website does not ask you to create an account, and we never sell your information.
Who we are
Five Oaks Academy, Inc. is a Montessori school at 1101 Jonesville Road, Simpsonville, SC 29681. You can reach our office at (864) 228-1881. This policy covers www.fiveoaksacademy.com.
Information you choose to share
We receive your name, email address, phone number or other details only when you send them to us, for example when you:
- request a tour or apply for admission,
- fill in one of our online forms,
- make a gift, or
- email or call our office.
We use what you send only to answer you, to run admissions and enrollment, to process your gift and send a receipt, and to keep in touch about school life if you have asked us to.
Services that work on our behalf
Some tasks are handled by trusted service providers that collect information for us and use it only to provide their service:
- a school-management service runs tour requests, admissions applications and our Parent Portal,
- secure form services run some of our online forms,
- payment services process gifts, so we never see or store your full card number, and
- video services show the videos on some of our pages.
Each provider has its own privacy policy. We choose providers with care, and from time to time we may change which ones we use.
Visitor statistics: Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to learn which pages are useful, how visitors find us and what we could do better. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you stay, the kind of device and browser you use, and your general location (city or region). Google processes this information for us. The reports we see do not identify you, and we never combine them with information that could. We have turned off Google’s advertising features.
We load Google Analytics through Google Tag Manager, a tool that manages the code on our site. Tag Manager does not itself store information about you.
To learn how Google uses this information, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can stop Google Analytics from collecting your visits by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking cookies in your browser.
Other information collected automatically
- Hosting. Our website runs on Amazon Web Services. Like every website host, it keeps short-term technical records of visits, such as your device’s internet address, browser type and the pages requested, to keep the site running and secure.
- Search. The search box on our site runs inside your own browser. What you type is not sent to us.
- Videos and maps. When you play a video on one of our pages, or view the Google map on our Contact page, that service may set its own cookies.
Our website itself does not ask you to log in and keeps no visitor accounts.
Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. There is no common standard for responding to it, so our website does not change what it collects when that setting is on. You can still block or delete cookies in your browser, and use the Google Analytics opt-out above.
How we protect and keep information
Only staff who need your information can see it, and we keep it only as long as we need it. Our website is served over a secure, encrypted connection. If a security problem ever affects your personal information, we will tell you as the law requires.
We never sell your information
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information, and we do not use it for advertising. We share it only with the service providers described above, when you ask us to, or when the law requires it. Because we do not sell or share information for advertising, there is nothing to opt out of. Browser privacy signals such as Global Privacy Control are welcome, and they do not change how our site works.
Children’s privacy
Our website is written for parents and other adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. If we learn that we have, we will delete it. If you think we might have, please call our office at (864) 228-1881.
Links to other sites
Our pages link to other websites, such as our partners. We are not responsible for how those sites handle your information.
Your choices
You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it where we are not required to keep it. Call our office at (864) 228-1881. We may ask you to confirm who you are before we share or change anything.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and update the date at the top.
Questions
Call our office at (864) 228-1881, visit us at 1101 Jonesville Road, Simpsonville, SC 29681, or write to us through our Contact page. We are happy to help.
