Privacy Statement

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. 

This Privacy Policy is effective [October, 16, 2018]

Collection of your Personal Information

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. You can review and update your personally identifiable information at any time by clicking on “Account” in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet 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 that is automatically collected by Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet Web site.

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

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

To ensure compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 6501-6506 ("COPPA"), students under thirteen cannot create accounts on Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet. Therefore, Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet does not collect personal information online from children under the age of 13. 

Use of Your Personal Information

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

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet 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, Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet may share data with trusted partners and administrative service providers (i.e. program managers or other direct service staff), to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email 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 Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Online Tracking

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

Some browsers have a “do not track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, we do not respond to browser “do not track signals. 

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet 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 Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet 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 Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet pages or register with Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet site or services, a cookie helps Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet 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 Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet 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 Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet 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

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet is protecting your information. Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet will notify users of any updates to this Statement of Privacy by providing a notification on the Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet home webpage. 

Contact Information

Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Foundation for California Community Colleges Intranet at khagel@foundationccc.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.