Privacy Statement
UTSA College of Education and Human Development (COEHD)
education.utsa.edu
Spectrum magazine
COEHDnews (weekly newsletter)
The College of Education and Human Development adheres to the privacy statement outlined by The University of Texas at San Antonio viewable at http://www.utsa.edu/policies/privacy.html.
This privacy statement covers only the online website and publications maintained by the COEHD.
All information available from visits to our website or news subscriptions will NEVER be shared with outside organizations or third parties
As a rule, it is possible to use our website without entering your personal data. Personal data (e.g. name, address or E-Mail addresses) are collected on our pages as a means of contact or to subscribe to newsletters, and only done on a voluntary basis. Should you provide such data, it will not be passed on to third parties and will be used only for the services or contact that you request.
The following statements describe the privacy practices for the COEHD:
- We do not collect any personal information from our users without their consent
- Subscribers must opt-in and give consent for their subscription for any publications
- Visits are logged for aggregate statistics and diagnosis (analytics)
- Demographic data (age, location, etc.) is not associated with an individual and is only retained for audience diagnosis
- We make every effort to safeguard personal information and employ security settings to protect the misuse of sensitive information
- No commercial advertisements or product endorsements may appear on our website or publication
Personal User Information
- COEHD requires no user registration. Users are free to visit education.utsa.edu, and navigate all public pages.
- UTSA COEHD Employees are required to register to obtain access to certain functions of the website.
Analytic Data
COEHD does compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows, which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at, etc.
This helps us to continuously improve our website. These analytics programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use:
- Google Analytics
- AddThis
- MailChimp
Cookies
Our website uses cookies, like almost all websites. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies help us:
- Improve the speed of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Offer you a subscription to our free publications/content
- Make our content more user-focused
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions or gain advertising revenue
Granting us permission to use cookies
If your browser is adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to deactivate cookies, you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that your browser will not work as you would expect on most web pages.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Your browser help function will tell you how. Doing so, however, will limit the functionality of most of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of websites.
Social Website Cookies
Cookies are used by social websites (like Facebook and Twitter) so you can easily Like or share our content with the sharing buttons on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from the different social websites and are dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Advertisements
COEHD is a non-profit educational institution and as such does not accept or use advertisements for our website or publications.
Links
COEHD contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. This privacy document applies only to COEHD.
Contacting the Website
For any questions about this privacy statement, please contact: coehdcomm@utsa.edu