Privacy Policy

Collection of your Personal Information

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software automatically collected by California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office for the operation of the service, maintaining the quality of the service, and providing general statistics regarding the use of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office does not read any of your private online communications.

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office collects and uses your personal information to operate the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Web site and deliver the services you have requested. California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and its affiliates. California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services.

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office 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, California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office 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 California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, in order to determine what California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Web sites 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 California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Web site use "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 California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office pages, or register with California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office site or services, a cookie helps California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office 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 California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office 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 California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office secures 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 Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office is protecting your information.

Contact Information

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office has not adhered to this Statement, please contact California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office at: Communications@cccco.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.