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Privacy Policy
The Minnesota Technical Assistance
Program (MnTAP) values the trust and the relationship
it has built with Minnesota business and organizations.
It is the policy of MnTAP to respect and protect the
privacy of its clients and Web site visitors to the
extent permitted by law. This policy outlines how MnTAP
collects and uses information about our clients.
MnTAP collects and stores the following
information from online users:
- The name of the domain from which
Internet access occurred
- The date and time the site was
accessed
- The pages perused and files accessed
- Internet protocol addresses are
not linked to personally identifiable information.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer
the site, track user's movement, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use.
MnTAP does not track individually
identifiable habits, but rather general trends and use.
This information is stored only as a log file for review
to improve the value of MnTAP resources for its readers.
Online Privacy
This online privacy statement is intended to inform
you of the ways in which this Web site collects information,
the uses to which that information will be put, and
the ways in which we will protect any information you
choose to provide us.
Network Traffic
Logs
In the course of ensuring network security and consistent
service for all users, MnTAP, through the University
of Minnesota, employs software programs to do such things
as monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized access
or access to nonpublic information, detect computer
viruses and other software that might damage University
computers or the network, and monitor and tune the performance
of the University network. In the course of such monitoring,
these programs may detect such information as e-mail
headers, addresses from network packets, and other information.
Information from these activities is used only for the
purpose of maintaining the security and performance
of the University's networks and computer systems. Personally
identifiable information from these activities is not
released to external parties without your consent unless
required by law.
Web Visit Logs
MnTAP's Web site host routinely collects and stores
information from online visitors to help manage our
sites and improve service. This information includes
the pages visited on the site, the date and time of
the visit, the internet address (URL or IP address)
of the referring site, the domain name and IP address
from which the access occurred, the version of browser
used and the capabilities of the browser. This site
makes no attempt to identify individual visitors from
this information: any personally identifiable information
is not released to external parties without your consent
unless required by law.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information stored by your Web
browser on behalf of a Web site and returned to the
Web site on request. This site may use cookies for two
purposes: to carry data about your current session at
the site from one Web page to the next, and to identify
you to the site between visits. If you prefer not to
receive cookies, you may turn them off in your browser,
or may set your browser to ask you before accepting
a new cookie. Some pages may not function properly if
the cookies are turned off. Unless otherwise notified
on this site, we will not store data, other than for
these two purposes, in cookies. Cookies remain on your
computer, and accordingly we neither store cookies on
our computers nor forward them to any external parties.
Unless otherwise notified on this site, we do not use
cookies to track your movement among different Web sites
and do not exchange cookies with other entities.
Data Security
We use appropriate safeguards to ensure the security,
integrity, and privacy of personally identifiable information
submitted to our site and periodically update measures
with new technologies. When appropriate for data security,
MnTAP uses encryption technologies, user authentication
systems, and access control mechanisms.
Personal/Private
information
If you provide us with personal or private information
in an e-mail message or via an online form, MnTAP will
use this information to respond to your request. Your
e-mail may be forwarded within MnTAP to employees who
are better able to assist you. Information gathered
may be stored in MnTAP's secure database and used for
future MnTAP outreach.
MnTAP provides contact information
about MnTAP clients to a limited number of pre-screened
environmental assistance providers so clients can be
made aware of their services. These environmental assistance
providers have been deemed by the MnTAP to provide a
significant service or benefit to our clients. By agreement,
such partners may not release or sell this secured information.
Except for the foregoing circumstances
and as required by law, MnTAP does not rent, sell, or
share any information it collects with outside organizations
without your permission.
See MnTAP's Confidentiality
Statement for treatment of information that is "CONFIDENTIAL"
or "PROPRIETARY."
Links to outside
Web sites
This Web site contains links to other Web sites. Please
be aware that MnTAP is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites. We encourage our users
to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy
statements of each Web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by this Web site.
Additional
information on U of M security measures
If you have questions about general University of Minnesota
security measures see the University policy, Collecting
Information from Visitors to University Web Sites.
Effective December
2002
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