Privacy Policy
El Camino Community College District is committed to protecting your privacy and developing
technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement
of Privacy applies to the El Camino Community College District website and governs
data collection and usage. By using the El Camino Community College District website,
you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
El Camino Community College District collects personally identifiable information,
such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. El Camino
Community College District also collects anonymous demographic information, which
is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and
favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by El Camino Community College District. This information can include: your
IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses.
This information is used by El Camino Community College District for the operation
of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics
regarding use of the El Camino Community College District website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through El Camino Community College District's public
message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
El Camino Community College District encourages you to review the privacy statements
of websites you choose to link to from El Camino Community College District so that
you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. El
Camino Community College District is not responsible for the privacy statements or
other content on websites outside of the El Camino Community College District and
El Camino Community College District family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
El Camino Community College District collects and uses your personal information
to operate the El Camino Community College District website and deliver the services
you have requested. El Camino Community College District also uses your personally
identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from
El Camino Community College District and its affiliates. El Camino Community College
District may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of
current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
El Camino Community College District does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists
to third parties. El Camino Community College District may, from time to time, contact
you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be
of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information
(e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In
addition, El Camino Community College District may share data with trusted partners
to help us perform statistical analysis, send you e-mail or postal mail, provide customer
support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using
your personal information except to provide these services to El Camino Community
College District, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
El Camino Community College District does not use or disclose sensitive personal
information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit
consent.
El Camino Community College District keeps track of the websites and pages our customers
visit within El Camino Community College District, in order to determine what El Camino
Community College District services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver
customized content and advertising within El Camino Community College District to
customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject
area.
El Camino Community College District websites will disclose your personal information,
without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that
such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal
process served on El Camino Community College District or the site; (b) protect and
defend the rights or property of El Camino Community College District; and, (c) act
under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of El Camino Community
College District, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The El Camino Community College District website use "cookies" to help you personalize
your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by
a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your
computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server
in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save
you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize El Camino Community College District
pages, or register with El Camino Community College District site or services, a cookie
helps El Camino Community College District to recall your specific information on
subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information,
such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same
El Camino Community College District website, the information you previously provided
can be retrieved, so you can easily use the El Camino Community College District features
that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the El Camino Community College District services or websites
you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
El Camino Community College District secures your personal information from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure. El Camino Community College District secures the personally
identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment,
protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such
as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through
the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
For the protection of student data (FERPA data) we strictly adhere to the compliance
regulations set forth by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014,
also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or GLBA.
Changes to this Statement
El Camino Community College District will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy
to reflect company and customer feedback. El Camino Community College District encourages
you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how El Camino Community
College District is protecting your information.
Contact Information
El Camino Community College District welcomes your comments regarding this Statement
of Privacy. If you believe that El Camino Community College District has not adhered
to this Statement, please contact the El Camino Community College District Office
of Marketing & Communications at: marcomm@elcamino.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.