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On-line Privacy Statement

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is firmly committed to maintaining appropriate data privacy; our data gathering and dissemination are governed by state and federal laws, including the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13. The following discloses our data practices policy for these web sites:

http://www.academicaffairs.mnscu.edu and http://www.studentaffairs.mnscu.edu
Academic and Student Affairs Division

For security purposes and to ensure that the web site remains available to all users, we use software to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

On our feedback, contact, and registration forms, we ask for contact information such as name and email address so that we may respond to your questions or comments if necessary. The information that you provide may be classified as private by law. You are not legally required to provide this information, but if you do not supply this information on a contact or feedback form, we will be unable to contact you. Contact information missing from a registration form may mean that your registration will be incomplete and may not be able to be processed.

The information you provide will be available to MnSCU Academic and Student Affairs staff to allow them to perform their work-related duties.

We store only the following information:

We use this information to determine the number of visitors to the site and to different sections of the site, to monitor system performance, to assess technical design requirements, and to design our site to support our users' needs. We only analyze the above information in aggregate; we cannot and do not use the information in our server logs to identify an individual.

If you wish to visit our site anonymously, there are services for this available on the internet. For more information, search for "anonymous web surfing" using your favorite internet search engine or directory.

Cookies are a mechanism that allows a web server to store and retrieve information about a user on the user's computer. Web sites sometimes use cookies to "remember" information about a user, such as login ID or user preferences. Cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, only machines.

We do not use cookies, nor do we plan to do so.

MnSCU Academic and Student Affairs is not responsible for the privacy or integrity of any data or personal information that you submit on another web site that may be accessed through a link from our site.

Requests for data collected on this web site will be dealt with in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13 and other applicable laws. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, this web site's data practices, or your dealings with this site, contact:

Revised August 24, 2000