Privacy Statement
- We
consider "personally identifying information" to be: your name or
a unique identifier (such as an IP address), your e-mail address, your
mailing address, your telephone number, and any financial information
relating to your or your accounts that you may provide us.
- We
may use "cookies" to retrieve information for inquiry form
submissions. These “cookies” are not used to gather information about
you.
- Our
system collects server log data which will include your IP address, your
domain name, the type of browser and operating system you used, the pages
you viewed, search requests, in some cases data you submitted via web forms,
and, if you linked to our site from another web site, that web site's
address. This data is used to weekly create reports for internal use and is
not distributed to the general public. This is how we discover how many
"hits" our site received. The aggregated data helps us to
ascertain, for example, the volume of our web site users' interest in
portions of our web site, and to help us understand how to improve the
navigation and content of our web site.
- Personally
identifying information that you provide by email or web forms will be used
only for such purposes as are described at the point of collection (for
example on a web form), such as to send information or products to you, or
to respond to your questions or comments. If you provide contact
information, University System of Georgia (USG) staff or contractors may
contact you to clarify your comment or question, or to learn about your
level of customer satisfaction with our services.
- We
do not sell any personal information to third parties.
- We
may transfer personal information to a third party only in the following
cases:
- A bank or United States Department
of the Treasury account must receive payment for a transaction that you
initiated.
- A company, that agrees not to sell
or use personal information for other purposes, is contracted to assist us
with specific services.
- We suspect that you are attempting
to change or otherwise damage this web site, or you are using it in
violation of Federal or local laws, and we decide to provide personal
information to legal authorities.
- This information is subpoenaed by
Congress or a court.
- The
first time that you use an area of our site that utilizes animation
software, such as "Flash" or "Shockwave," it is possible
that our site will provide you an opportunity to go to the software
manufacturer's web site so you may download a related plug-in that will
enable your browser to show you that part of our web site. This prompt
occurs because our system can tell whether your browser has the needed
capabilities provided by these plug-ins. Our system does not read or place
anything on your hard drive when recognizing your browser's capabilities.
While the plug-in(s) are needed to view some content, you retain control and
choice about conducting the download. At the time that we create and post
the web pages that require these software plug-ins for viewing, they are
provided by their manufacturer for download and use free of charge. We
cannot guaranty, however, that the plug-in will remain free, or that the
manufacturer will not collect personally identifying information about you
when you elect to download the software from their site. If you choose to
visit the manufacturer's web site to obtain the plug-in, please carefully
review their posted policies for details about personal privacy and use of
downloaded plug-ins.
- Although
questions, comments, and other communications that we receive generally are
not retained as permanent records, please note that it is possible that any
mail--electronic or paper--that we (or any State
or Federal agency, for that matter) receive could become part of the
permanent record of the agency, if the mail is part of materials that are
scheduled for permanent retention.