Privacy, Terms, and Usage Statement

Statement

Oconee Fall Line Technical College uses reasonable precautions to protect your privacy to the maximum extent possible on this web site. Oconee Fall Line Technical College cannot ensure absolute privacy. We are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties which result from any such security breach. This statement informs you of the information that Oconee Fall Line Technical College collects from you at this site and what Oconee Fall Line Technical College does with it.

Definitions

Cookies – small text files downloaded to a visitor’s computer where site customizations, preferences, and user IDs are stored. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information that you supply. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on our sites visited by our users. Users can set browsers to not accept cookies, but this may render parts of the site inaccessible or unusable.

IP Address – Internet Protocol Address – a unique number usually assigned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to identify computers connected to a network (either a local network or the internet, or both). Your IP address does not identify you personally to us. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our sites.

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) – high level security protocol for transmitting encrypted documents over the internet that prevents eavesdropping, interception, or tampering.

Who will have access to my information?

To register for courses or personalize our services, you may be required to provide certain information as part of the process. We do not sell or disclose contact information of our users to third parties. Oconee Fall Line Technical College will not disclose any personally identifiable information collected online to entities outside of Oconee Fall Line Technical College departments and agencies except: (1) where you have given your permission; (2) where the information is considered public information under the Georgia Open Records Act O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et. seq., or other applicable laws; (3) where required to do so by other operation of law. Visitors should be aware that information collected through this website may be subject to examination and inspection, if such information is a public record and not otherwise protected from disclosure.

Voluntary Information

In order to request information and materials, register or sign up for e-newsletters, or provide comments and suggestions, we collect your contact information for the express purpose of fulfillment of the requested services. At any time, you may opt-out of any communications or services.

If you choose to register or enroll in Oconee Fall Line Technical College courses through the website, we will request information from you including your name, address, telephone number, email address, social security number and/or your student number. Personal information that you provide via email or through other online means will be used only for purposes necessary to serve your needs. The service may involve redirecting your inquiry, information or comment to another person or department better suited to meeting your needs.

Involuntary Information

Oconee Fall Line Technical College can use your IP address to compile site statistics for this site and the popularity of its various pages and functions. Oconee Fall Line Technical College will not attempt to match any personally identifiable information that you provide to Oconee Fall Line Technical College with your IP address, unless there are reasonable grounds to believe that doing so may provide information that is relevant to or necessary as part of an investigation concerning the violation of a law or College policy. Oconee Fall Line Technical College may also collect information regarding the type of browser and operating system used to access this site along with the internet address from which linked to the Oconee Fall Line Technical College site as well as links followed to other sites from the Oconee Fall Line Technical College site. We can continue to improve the Oconee Fall Line Technical College web site if we know which pages our users are visiting and how often.

Privacy Notice

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for OFTC.edu. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  • What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  • What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  • The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  • How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to answer an email or register you for an event.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption (SSL) to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, please contact us immediately.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). We implement the scripts (cookies) onto our webpages, however, we have no access to or control over the data once collected, and processed by our partner(s). This aggregated demographic information is shared with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Links to other sites

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys

From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Statement Changes

Revisions to this privacy statement will be posted to this location so that you will know the type of information we collect and how that information is used.

Contact Info

If you have comments or questions regarding privacy at OFTC.edu, please contact us.