School of the New American Farmstead

Policies

Office of Professional Studies

Sterling College’s Office of Professional Studies, through EcoGather and the School of the New American Farmstead, want you to feel confident in knowing that your online security is of utmost importance. We want you to have an understanding of the measures we take to keep your information safe and as such, this policy serves as a guide to how that is collected, used and disclosed. 

PRIVACY POLICY

Sterling College respects and is committed to protecting your privacy. We may collect personally identifiable information such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, emergency contact details, demographic data, social media ID, etc when you visit our site. We also automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the page(s) you visited. Please be assured that Sterling College will not sell your personally identifiable information to anyone. 

SECURITY POLICY

Your payment and personal information is safe when used on the Sterling College website. Our Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. It encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read over the internet.

THIRD PARTY LEARNING AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS

A number of third party platforms may be used by students, instructors and program participants during their affiliation with the Office. By visiting (accessing, browsing, downloading) these platforms you consent to the collection of certain data. These sites each have their own privacy policy that you should become familiar with.

• Thinkific

• Zoom

• Facebook

• Sociohub

CANCELLATION & REFUND POLICY

Pre-order online course fees are refundable in full until 14 days before the course opens, after  which the course fees are refundable only in the case that the course has been cancelled by the School of the New American Farmstead. 

In the case of a course cancellation by the School of the New American Farmstead, all course fees will be refunded in full.

For further clarification or to address concerns, please contact the Office of Professional Studies via email at [email protected].