The South Orange County Community College District, “SOCCCD,” owns and operates its website and is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its user community. The intent of this privacy statement is to detail the information SOCCCD may gather about individuals who visit its website, how that information is used, and SOCCCD disclosure practices. Please note that this only applies to its website and not to the websites of other companies or organizations to which we provide links or to any software that may be downloaded from the SOCCCD website.
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SOCCCD collects some anonymous information each time you visit its website so it can improve the overall quality of your online experience. It collects your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register with SOCCCD before we can collect this anonymous information.
The SOCCCD website does not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or e-mail address, in order for you to use the website. The SOCCCD website may assign an anonymous ID number to your request(s) and links the following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited the website, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard website servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. SOCCCD analyzes the information to examine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information.
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click-stream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track user’s movements around the site and to gather information about our user base as a whole.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We do use cookies on this site. SOCCCD may use both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browsers help file.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site will be limited.
SOCCCD safeguards the security of transactional data you send us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. Likewise, we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, and make sure you use a secure browser.
The SOCCCD website uses industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is required. When entering personal information, we strongly recommend an SSL-enabled web browser. This protects the confidentiality of your personal and credit card information while it is transmitted over the Internet. On some areas of the web site containing non-sensitive information, users do have the option to use a non-SSL connection. We do this for compatibility for older browsers.
When you enter credit card information on the SOCCCD web site, we do not store credit card numbers on our servers. Credit card numbers are submitted to a credit card authorization service. This service provides SOCCCD with credit card authorization information only. We do not have access to your personal financial data.
The SOCCCD web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by SOCCCD. Please be aware that SOCCCD is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on our website. We may also share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of SOCCCD or such SOCCCD website terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.