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PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY<\/h2>\n

The Department of Information Technology in the Division of Student Affairs respects your privacy. We are providing this privacy and security policy to ensure that we make every effort to respect your privacy and to inform you of what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, when we can release it, and how you are entitled to access it.<\/p>\n

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Information Collection, Use, and Release<\/h3>\n

When you visit our website to read or download information, we do not collect personal information about you. In particular, we do not use \u201ccookies\u201d to collect or store personal information. However, we do collect and store technical information about your visit in server logs.<\/p>\n

We use information from server logs to evaluate accessibility or gauge the popularity of various features on our websites. We also use that information for general reporting and management functions. Specifically, we use log analysis tools to generate statistics, determine technical design specifications, and identify system performance issues.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, we acquire, record, and analyze portions of the data that you enter, store, or transmit through our websites or email you send us. We release this information \u2013 only when legally required \u2013 to help law enforcement investigations, legal proceedings, or internal investigations of Texas A&M University rule and regulation violations. These groups would use the information to track the electronic interactions back to the source computer(s) or account(s).<\/p>\n

Except for education records governed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), all information collected from our website, including server logs, and information collected from web forms, or email you send to us, may be subject to the Texas Public Information Act. This means that while we do not actively share information, in some cases we may be compelled by law to release this information.<\/p>\n

Cookies<\/h3>\n

A cookie file contains unique information that a website can use to store such things as passwords, or pages you have visited, or the date you last looked at a specific page. Cookies can also identify your server session at a particular website. We do not use cookies to collect or store personal information.<\/p>\n

Server Logs<\/h3>\n

We store the following information in our server logs:<\/p>\n