Â鶹´«Ã½ has developed this e-commerce privacy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to safeguarding the privacy of those who utilize our e-commerce Web sites. Â鶹´«Ã½ e-commerce Web sites are developed in accordance with this privacy statement and adhere to the following sets of privacy principles. This statement applies to all Â鶹´«Ã½ departments and groups authorized to sell goods and services and to collect payments over the campus network and the Internet.
Treatment of Your Information
Â鶹´«Ã½ Web sites covered by this policy may request personal information from you in order to complete an e-commerce transaction, for example, your name, phone number(s), physical address, shipping address (if different), e-mail address, credit card number and expiration date. Other information may be collected at individual points of sale. Your information will be used only to execute the immediate transaction and for other business needs of Â鶹´«Ã½ related to the transaction it will be provided to other parties only as necessary to complete your transaction and provide services to you. Otherwise, Â鶹´«Ã½ will not provide any of your personal information to third parties without your permission, and we will not sell any personal information to third parties for purposes of marketing, advertising or promotion. Â鶹´«Ã½ may release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law or to protect the rights, property or safety of Â鶹´«Ã½, our users or others.
Network Security
The information you provide to the website covered by this policy is protected in transit by using a network protocol called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Through the use of SSL, information being transmitted is encrypted or scrambled to make it extremely difficult for anyone who intercepts the information to read it. To further protect your personal and financial information, Â鶹´«Ã½ has contracted with a certified Internet commerce transaction service provider responsible for managing the interactions between the University and its credit-card processors.
Use of Cookies
Some Â鶹´«Ã½ Web sites may be designed to follow the progress of your transaction by passing pieces of information to your Web browser for storage and subsequent retrieval ("cookies"). A cookie is a file written to your computer's hard drive that is often used to remember information about preferences and pages you have visited. Also, if you submit personal information to our Web site (such as your name, interests or preferences), we may use cookies to keep track of such information so that you will not need to reenter this information during subsequent visits. You may set your Internet browser preferences to notify you when you receive a cookie, or you may decline acceptance of cookies. If you decline acceptance of cookies, however, you may experience less than optimal performance from our Web site.
Caution on Links to Other Web sites
Our Web site may contain links to other Web sites. Please be aware that Â鶹´«Ã½ is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. The user is encouraged to be aware when they leave our Web site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects information about you. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Consent
By conducting electronic commerce transactions on our Web site, you consent to Â鶹´«Ã½'s use and collection of the information you provide for the purposes of the transaction and other uses as specified in this statement. If Â鶹´«Ã½'s privacy guidelines change, such changes will be reflected on this page. By continuing to use our Web sites after a change is posted, you agree to the applicable version of these guidelines. Please refer to this policy before making a transaction or sharing personal information.