Protecting your privacy and maintaining the accuracy of data Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios or the College) collects is of paramount importance and obligations the College takes very seriously. This policy applies to all Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios employees, students, contractors, volunteers, and visitors, and is balanced with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios legal, policy and administrative duties in managing data.
This Privacy Policy applies to the information provided to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios and which Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios maintains when you visit Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios main website,Ìýwww.menlo.edu,Ìý, other websites Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios controls, refers to or links to this policy, as well as other information maintained by the College in carrying out its mission. This policy also outlines how this information is processed or used, as well as the choices available to you regarding the use of information you provide to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios which Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios maintains.
For purposes of this policy, Personal Data is any information that can reasonably be used to identify you. [1]
Sensitive Personal Dataincludes special categories of Personal Data (e.g., racial or ethnic origin, citizenship, religious affiliation, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health, and data concerning a person sex life or sexual orientation) for which applicable law provides enhanced protections.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios does not collect personally identifying information about you when you visit Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios site “unless you choose to provide such information to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios Providing such information is strictly voluntary. This policy is your guide to how Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios will handle information it learns about you from your visit to this website.
You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios takes reasonable steps to ensure your Personal Data is relied upon for its intended use, is accurate, complete, and up to date. If you wish to contact us directly about accessing, correcting, updating, or deleting your personal data, or altering your Personal Data, you may do so at any time by contactingprivacy@menlo.edu. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios shall consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.
You may also object to processing of your Personal data, ask to restrict processing or your Personal Data, or request portability of your Personal Data by contactingprivacy@menlo.edu.
Similarly, if Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios has collected and processed your Personal Data with your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contactingprivacy@menlo.edu. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processed conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processor of your Personal Data conducted in reliable on lawful processing notwithstanding the absence of consent.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios responds to all requests received from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios may ask you to verify your identity in order to help Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios respond efficiently to your request. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios will only use Personal Data provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios shall not discriminate or retaliate against anyone for exercising their rights under this policy.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios uses cookies and tracking technologies on its website to improve functionality and analyze visitor behavior. Cookies may have unique identifiers and reside, among other places, in your device, in emails Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios sends to you and on Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios website.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios uses cookies to collect and use data such as IP addresses, visited pages, and browser details. These cookies enable features such as login and more convenient access to the MyÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµios portal. Cookies are usually only set in response to actions taken by users which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging-in, or filling-in forms. Users can manage their browser settings to limit the use of cookies, but disabling cookies entirely may negatively affect certain site functions.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios website uses cookies during on-line sessions for certain legitimate business interests, which may include delivering content specific to your interests, collecting the domain name of the service which you are visiting, and providing Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios with information about the site performance. Cookies also allow Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios to avoid showing the same ad or other message repeatedly. Cookies enable Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios to relate your use of the site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios website. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios does not store or share cookies externally, nor does it allow second-party or third-party cookies to be placed on Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios.edu.
You may control and/or delete cookies as you wish For details, including how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies or how to disable cookies, seeor contactprivacy@menlo.edu.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (), which prohibits educational institutions from releasing most education records without student consent.
Citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA) have additional rights regarding the use of and access to their own personal data, under the provisions of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (), and California residents have additional rights when dealing with larger, profit-making entities in this state, under the California Consumer Privacy Act (). Because Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios is neither located in the EEA nor is it a profit-making enterprise, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios is not legally required to conform to either of these policies, but Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios nevertheless pledges to do its best to respect them.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios shall comply with all reasonable requests for information, subject to legal obligations and legitimate interests. Any request for student information should be forwarded toregistrar@menlo.edu. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios will not charge a fee to process or respond to your request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios determines that the request warrants a fee, it will tell you why that decision was made and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
If you have questions about FERPA, GDPR, or CCPA, or if you wish to contact Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios in connection with the exercise of your own privacy rights, please contactprivacy@menlo.edu. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Data if it cannot verify your identity or authority to make and request and confirm the Personal Data relates to you. Requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to Personal Data associated with that particular account shall be processed. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios will only use Personal Data provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor identity or authority to make the request.
Please note that, in certain circumstances, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios may not be able to delete your Personal Data without also deleting your user account. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios may be required to retain some of your Personal Data after you have requested deletion, to satisfy its legal or contractual obligations. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios may also be required by applicable laws to retain some of your Personal data to satisfy its business needs.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios shall respond to your written request without unreasonable delay and in accordance with any deadlines imposed by law. Unless Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios notifies you at the time of your request, it will not charge you any fee in connection with the exercise of your rights.
If you have any concerns about the policy or the way in which Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios processes your Personal Data, please contactprivacy@menlo.edu.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios intends this policy to be a general statement and may be subject to more specific privacy notices that pertain to personal information related to specific departments or functions at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios. Likewise, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios reserves the right, at our discretion, to change, modify or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this policy periodically for changes.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios uses email and web links to respond to questions or comments directly. Occasionally, our website includes links to external resources for convenience. These external sites are not controlled or endorsed by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios and may have their own privacy policies or none at all. When you access or use Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµios sites, it may collect and process the following information from you.
[1] Personal Data does not include:
¢ Publicly available information from government records; ¢ Lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern; ¢ Deidentified or aggregated consumer information or information specifically excluded from the scope of applicable data protection laws such as health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); and ¢ Clinical trial data or other biomedical research study or Personal Data covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Drivers Privacy Protection Act of 1994.