Privacy Policy

黑料吃瓜网 Digital Privacy Statement

黑料吃瓜网 is committed to respecting your privacy. This privacy statement governs the collection and use of information collected through official 黑料吃瓜网 websites and other 黑料吃瓜网 digital properties.

This Privacy Policy explains the information that 黑料吃瓜网 gathers, why we collect this information, and how we use the information.

INFORMATION GATHERING AND USE OF INFORMATION
1. Personally Identifiable Information
  
  黑料吃瓜网 will not collect personally identifiable information (PII) about you when you visit our websites or digital properties unless you voluntarily provide us with that information. For the purposes of this policy, PII may include, but is not limited to: a user鈥檚 name, email address, IP address, 黑料吃瓜网 identifiers (ID number, class year, etc.) mailing or home address, phone numbers, employment information, academic information or other information that identifies a user personally. 黑料吃瓜网 may request users to voluntarily provide PII and, in doing so, the user is providing 黑料吃瓜网 with permission to use the information for the stated purpose and in accordance with this policy. PII may be requested, for example, to access a password-protected website, join a mailing list, download admissions marketing materials, or engage in a payment transaction.
  
  黑料吃瓜网 may use that information for such purposes as fulfilling your requests for our information or services, communicating information that may be of interest to you, improving our services, and conducting research surveys. 黑料吃瓜网 will not share your information with third parties except as set forth below under "Sharing Your Information."
2. Public Forums
  
  If you use any comment or form submission functions on our site, any PII you submit can be read, collected, or used by other users of these tools, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the PII you choose to submit in these forums.
3. How We Use Information Collected From Web Visitors
  
  Examples of how PII and/or aggregate data collected by 黑料吃瓜网 sites and services may be used include, but are not limited to, the following:
  
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;For educational and/or research purposes;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;For editorial and feedback purposes;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To enable outreach to audiences such as prospective students, event attendees, enrolled students, staff and faculty members, alumni, and retirees;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To aid in statistics analysis of a visitor鈥檚 online behavior for website development;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To enable analysis of trends;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;For administration of the site;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;For the development of usage statistics;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To gather demographic information;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;For website page/content and layout customization;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To offer assistance, web or printed materials, services, and support upon request;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To provide College-related events, news, publications, and other opportunities;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;For fundraising activities;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To perform outreach and marketing about the College;
  鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;To consider an application for admission to the College.
  
  In addition, names, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers provided by visitors via online forms may be added to 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 database(s). This information may be used for correspondence, e-mail, or other uses consistent with 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 business practices and/or academic mission. 黑料吃瓜网 may also use such information to provide users with notifications concerning College and community events.
4. Non-Personally Identifiable Information
  
  When you visit 黑料吃瓜网 websites and other 黑料吃瓜网 digital properties, we may automatically collect and store information sent by your web browser, such as IP addresses (i.e., the Internet address of your computer) in server logs. We also collect standard information about your computer (such as your web browser and operating system) and about your usage of our websites and digital properties (such as pages visited, length of visit, and search queries). This information, which does not identify you personally, is aggregated and used to help diagnose problems and suggest points for improving parts of our website and digital properties. For example, we utilize website analytics software to identify which parts of our website are most heavily used.
5. Cookies
  
  Cookies are small pieces of data automatically stored in a user鈥檚 browser when a website is visited. 黑料吃瓜网 may place cookies on a visitor鈥檚 computer to store information about visitor preferences, record user-specific information on pages accessed or visited, customize web page content based on browser type or device, or to present visitors with content or advertisements about 黑料吃瓜网 on other web pages they subsequently visit.
  
  Users can set their browsers to receive notification when a website sends them a cookie so they may accept or reject it. Note that some parts of the College website may not function properly, or may be considerably slower if cookies are rejected.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

In cases when 黑料吃瓜网 has personally identifiable information (PII) about you, we will not sell, rent, or share that PII with unnecessary third parties and will treat it in compliance with other related institutional policies and federal and state laws and regulations. 黑料吃瓜网 may share PII with authorized third parties for the purposes of providing services or when required to comply with legal and/or law enforcement requirements.
BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

黑料吃瓜网 may contract with third-party vendors to show our advertisements on non-黑料吃瓜网 websites and digital properties. 黑料吃瓜网 and third-party vendors with whom we contract may use cookies and web beacons to serve our ads based on your prior visit(s) to 黑料吃瓜网 websites and digital properties and to assess the effectiveness of our ads. This is also called Targeted Advertising or Interest-Based Advertising.

These techniques use only non-personally identifiable information, and you may opt out of behavioral advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative .
SECURITY

黑料吃瓜网 is firmly committed to data security. To restrict unauthorized access and to ensure data integrity and security, 黑料吃瓜网 implements physical, electronic, and administrative policies and procedures intended to safeguard information the College collects and/or stores. However, the College cannot assure or warrant absolute data security.
THIRD PARTY SITES

黑料吃瓜网 websites and digital properties may link to external sites that are not controlled by 黑料吃瓜网. Your use of such websites will be subject to the privacy statements of those websites, which we encourage you to read. 黑料吃瓜网 is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites and does not make any representations about them.
YOUR CONSENT AND HOW TO CONTACT US

By visiting 黑料吃瓜网 sites and services, you consent to the collection, storage, and dissemination of PII and aggregate data as described above. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time.

Effective Date

This policy was updated on October 4, 2023.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact the 黑料吃瓜网 College Office of Communications and Marketing at info@skidmore.edu, (518) 580-5733, or via postal mail to:

Office of Communications and Marketing
815 N Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866