Maryville College respects your privacy, and has developed this policy to communicate the ways in which we collect and use personal information from our web site. Maryville College does not sell or distribute any personal information collected from users of our site, but uses the information to track user activity, and to improve site design and navigation. We collect information in the following ways:
Cookies
We use cookies on this website. Cookies are small text or data files that are written to a specific location on your device to help identify you as a user, whether to enable login access to certain areas of the site, to customize your use of the site according to preferences, and to track generic activity on the site. We do not knowingly or willfully exchange cookie information with any other site or third party. We use cookies in three ways:
1. Session Cookies: cookies that are necessary to provide specific services to a user, including use of the website itself. Session cookies allow logged in users to be recognized when they navigate a website and make changes. A session cookie expires when the user logs out of the application. We do not use session cookies for anonymous users.
2. Preference Cookies: cookies that remember information about a user to enhance the performance of the website, such as facilitating faster loading of pages. We use preference cookies to store a user’s preferences – like for instance, if the user collapses the menu, or expands it. A persistent cookie remains on your device indefinitely unless you “Rejected All” cookies or take steps to remove it.
3. Statistics Cookies: cookies that collect information about you to analyze certain of your activities to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. We use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Site and to optimize our Site based on that data. Such tools use information generated by cookies about your use of the web site (including IP address), which is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate users’ use of the Site and to compile statistical reports on website activity for us. Please note that you have the right to withdraw your agreement to the use of cookies at any time by changing your preferences in our Cookie tool via the finger print icon in the lower left of every page, or by setting your browser to not accept cookies (which may limit your ability to use the Services). We control the cookie-related information obtained from you on our website. Any Personal Information obtained from our use of cookies will not be used for any purpose other than the purposes set out in this section of the policy relating to cookies. Use the link in this text to see a list of what kinds of data Google collects.
Voluntarily Provided User Information
Maryville College collects information from users through various web-based forms on the web site. This information is used for event registration, alumni updates, online applications for admissions, athletics recruiting questionnaires, and general inquiries. This information is forwarded to a specific College representative for processing. It is not provided to any outside organization. If you are not comfortable submitting this information through an online form, you may contact the appropriate representatives by phone or email.
Security
The Maryville College web site uses encryption technology provided by GoDaddy to prevent any information submitted through online forms from being read by unauthorized persons. Your web browser should indicate to you when you are using pages that are secure.
Electronic newsletters
We offer the opportunity to subscribe to our electronic newsletters, the Scot-e-News (for alumni, friends, and parents) and the Scot-Knot (for parents of current students). The newsletters are sent to subscribers and members of campus mailing lists on a regular basis. Each newsletter provides information about how to unsubscribe, for those who no longer wish to receive e-mail news.