Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Napa Valley College
Collection of your Personal Information
Napa Valley College collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.
Additionally, information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by Napa Valley College. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Napa Valley College website.
Please be aware that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Napa Valley College's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Napa Valley College does not read any of your private online communications.
Napa Valley College encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Napa Valley College so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. Napa Valley College is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Napa Valley College website.
Use of your Personal Information
Napa Valley College collects and uses your personal information to operate the Napa Valley College website and deliver the services you have requested. We also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Napa Valley College and its affiliates. Napa Valley College may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services.
Napa Valley College does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Napa Valley College may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you e-mail or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Napa Valley College, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Napa Valley College does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Napa Valley College keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Napa Valley College, in order to determine what Napa Valley College services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Napa Valley College to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Napa Valley College websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Napa Valley College or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Napa Valley College; and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Napa Valley College, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Napa Valley College website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Napa Valley College pages or register with Napa Valley College site or services, a cookie helps Napa Valley College to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Napa Valley College website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Napa Valley College features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Napa Valley College services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Napa Valley College secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We secure the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Napa Valley College will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Napa Valley College is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Napa Valley College welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Napa Valley College has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Napa Valley College at: [email protected]. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.