Privacy Statement

Virginia Tech has created this privacy statement in order demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

Information Automatically Logged

This site uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site.

This site records the browser type to monitor market penetration of various web browsers so we can better determine the Internet technologies we may utilize in the design of our pages.

This site uses page referrer data - that is, information about the page that linked you to this page - to determine to what extent our page is referenced by other resources on the Web.

This data may be used to preserve the integrity of our computing resources.

Personal Information

Various forms on this site may ask you for your first name, last name, e-mail address, and zip code. In limited cases you will be asked for your phone number.

Name and e-mail address are used to subscribe and unsubscribe user to the reminder service. Zip code is used to facilitate removal from the existing mailing list. Phone number will be used to contact the user only if advanced troubleshooting is necessary.

We do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes beyond those stated here.

Links to Virginia Tech Sites

This site contains links to other Virginia Tech pages. The privacy practices of other pages may vary with the purposes of the page. Consult the privacy statement on each page.

Session Management

This site may use hidden form elements on each page to maintain a continuous user session.

The hidden form elements may contain a unique ID that identifies your browser session. This ID is in no way associated with your machine or you individually.

The session information used by this site is deleted when your browser is closed.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Log file access is restricted to system administrators while stored on the server. Log files are rotated regularly and archived in a secure location.

Users should also consult Virginia Tech's policy on Acceptable Use.
http://www.vt.edu/admin/policies/acceptuseguide.html

Virginia Tech complies with all statutory and legal requirements with respect to access to information.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact sakelly@vt.edu