Privacy Policy

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As an organization serving Lakota (Sioux) children in an educational and residential setting, privacy is very important to us at St. Joseph’s Indian School. We also respect your right to privacy and are happy to share the following policy with you.

Friends who place orders, make donations, send eCards, download a digital product or request our email updates are added to our mailing list. From this information, we track transactions you make so we can better meet your needs. Please contact us at 1-800-341-2235 or saintjosephs@stjo.org if you have questions.

Occasionally, St. Joseph’s shares names and postal addresses with other respected organizations, as is standard practice for most nonprofits. You can also visit the DMAchoice to have your information removed from all lists.

We make select portions of our postal mailing list available to carefully screened organizations. However, you always have the option to be removed from our rental list. To keep your information private, please email us at saintjosephs@stjo.org, fill out our online Communication Preferences Form or call 1-800-341-2235.

Because our friends are a special part of our thiyóšpaye — extended family — we do occasionally receive birth dates from various sources. This information is used so the Lakota children at St. Joseph’s are able to send you birthday greetings. If you prefer to be excluded from this program, please email saintjosephs@stjo.org or call us toll-free at 1-800-341-2235.

General Web Site Policies

View St. Joseph's Indian School's Detailed Online Privacy and Security Policy.

We DO NOT sell or share email addresses. Email addresses are added to our files through several means:

Making an online donation
Sending an eCard
Asking to receive email updates
Downloading a St. Joseph’s digital product
Providing email information to St. Joseph's Indian School via postmail or telephone
Entering St. Joseph's online raffles
Completing St. Joseph's online surveys
Purchasing items from St. Joseph’s online gift store
Purchasing items from the Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center

We do not randomly collect information on our website, http://www.stjo.org/. We gather general information regarding pages visited, time spent on each page and resources accessed. Additionally, we enter information volunteered by visitors such as survey information and sweepstake entries into our system for tracking and corresponding purposes. We do not sell or share email addresses.

Friends who donate online are opted in to receive email correspondence. If you decide to opt out, you will not receive any solicitation email from us; however, you may receive customer service emails regarding your gifts, information changes, etc.

Also, if you are opted in to our email program, you may receive regular emails from the Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center, which is an outreach program supported by and located on the campus of St. Joseph’s Indian School.

In dedication to serving the Lakota children to the best of our ability, we are also more than happy to honor all your reasonable wishes and instructions. We encourage friends to contact us via phone, postal mail or email at any time with concerns, changes, questions or comments.

For further information on your rights as a consumer and how to remove your name from all mailing lists, please visit The DMAchoice website.

For detailed information regarding specific online policy and security issues, please view our online privacy policy now!