Covenant College Online Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting Covenant College's Web site and online services. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we've developed this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used within our sites and services. Please read on for more details about our privacy policy.
When Personal Information Is Collected And How Covenant College Uses Your Personal Information
Covenant College collects personal information to make our site(s) and service(s) more relevant and rewarding for you to use.
For each visitor to our web pages, our web server automatically recognizes your domain, service provider, operating system, and internet browser. Our web server additionally records usage of pages by our visitors. We use this information, in aggregate, for our research reports and performance surveys. We sometimes use this non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience.
Some of Covenant College's sites and services collect personally identifiable information to further personalize your experience within a site. Some sites and services require that you provide personally identifiable information in order to participate in the activities and offerings within.
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about the College and these offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when we make changes to our services, to fulfill a request by you, or to contact you about your account with us. Most of our communications provide an "opt-out" feature.
We may also use your information to update internal systems. This allows for seamless delivery of services and resources to you across the College.
Covenant College websites and online services may contain e-mail services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal Web pages, calendars, photo displays and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others. The information we collect in connection with these methods is used to provide an interactive experience and to facilitate participation. Within some third party services, Covenant College provides you with privacy options that allow you to alter your information and/or adjust what information is viewable to others.
Cookies
To enhance and personalize your experience, some of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive to store your preferences. When using cookies, we do not store personally identifiable information within the cookie.
Collection Of Information By Third-Party Sites
Some of our website and online services contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy policies as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
Will Covenant College Disclose My Personal Information To Parties Outside The College?
Covenant College does not sell, rent, give away, or loan any identifiable information regarding its members to any third party other than agents and contractors of Covenant College.
Agents and contractors of Covenant College who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Covenant College.
Covenant College may release personal information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i.) comply with law, (ii.) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii.) protect the rights, property, or safety of Covenant College, our users, or others.
How Covenant College Protects Your Information
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. We secure information transmission, storage, and retrieval.
On our secure servers, we use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") technology to guarantee the confidentiality of online transactions made on our site. SSL authentication and encryption of the information that you send to us over the Internet helps protect your online transaction information from third party interception.
We never display your sensitive information (such as your full credit card number) once it has been entered. We will only reveal the last four digits of your credit card for verification purposes.
We urge you to protect your own privacy. We recommend that you do not share any account information or passwords used to access our website or online services.
Unfortunately, despite all of our efforts, there is always a risk that third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions. This reality is true of all Internet use. As a result, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit, and you transmit all information at your own risk.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
Many digital services we provide allow you to manage your personal information. Should you need further assistance, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
How Does Covenant College Protect The Privacy Of Children Younger Than 13 Years?
Covenant College is concerned about the privacy of young children and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13 years. We suggest that you become involved with your child's access to the Internet and to our site to ensure that his or her privacy is well protected.
Your Consent
By using our website and online digital services, you consent to the collection and use of your information by Covenant College.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Further questions about this privacy policy
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or the content or practices of our website, you can contact Covenant College:
Covenant College
Department of Marketing and Communications
14049 Scenic Highway, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750-9601
communications@covenant.edu