A. Optional Voluntary Information
- Electronic Newsletters (Dispatches)
The Culinary Institute of America, at times, offers visitors to our Web site subscriptions to electronic newsletters. In so doing we gather the e-mail addresses of the visitors who subscribe to electronic newsletters. As part of the subscription service, visitors may receive additional information and offers about products from third-parties. Subscribers to electronic newsletters may remove themselves from this mailing list by unsubscribing on each newsletter's subscription management page.
- Surveys
The Culinary Institute of America may occasionally conduct visitor surveys to better target content to our audience.
- Registration Forms
The Culinary Institute of America offers online registration for courses and seminars which ask the Web site visitor to voluntarily provide personal information. The Web site's registration forms may ask Web site visitors for contact information (like their name and email address), a unique identifying number (for use as passwords in our record system), and/or financial information.
- Information Request Forms
The Culinary Institute of America uses information request forms that ask the Web site visitor to voluntarily provide personal information such as names and addresses.
- Sharing of Voluntary Information
The Culinary Institute of America uses information that visitors voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable visitors to participate in polls and surveys. Such voluntarily provided information may be used by us to notify visitors about Culinary Institute of America updates, new features and third-party products and services. In addition, voluntarily provided information may be shared with third parties who assist us in coordinating our newsletters, surveys and other postings or perform other services.
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B. Aggregated Tracking Information
- Usage tracking
The Culinary Institute of America may track Web site visitor traffic patterns throughout our Web site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual visitors. The Culinary Institute of America does break down overall usage statistics according to a visitor's domain name, browser type, and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every Web site visitor's browser).
A text file called a "cookie" may be placed in the browser files of a visitor's computer. Although the cookie file itself does not contain personal information, it provides information about a particular visitor's use of a Web site. A cookie file can not read data off a hard disk or read cookie files created by other Web sites.
The placement of cookies can be blocked by changing the browser setting pertaining to cookies. This setting can also be changed to provide notification when a cookie file is placed. Note that our Web site does not require cookies to be accepted in order to function.
The Culinary Institute of America may also track and catalog some Web site visitor data, including the search terms that visitors enter in our Web site's search function, but this tracking information is not associated with individual visitors.
- Use of Aggregated Tracking Information
The Culinary Institute of America uses aggregated tracking information to determine which areas of the Web site is preferred by visitors and to tailor our content to visitors' needs. For example, we do not track what individual visitors read, but rather the utilization rates for each page overall.
- Sharing of Aggregated Tracking Information
The Culinary Institute of America may use the aggregated tracking information we collect from our Web site visitors individually or aggregated with other information in order to improve and customize our online content. We do not share such aggregated tracking information about individual users with any third party, except in order to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our visitors or the public.
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C. Related Issues
- Choice/Opt-Out
The Web site provides its visitors the opportunity to "opt-out" of receiving communications from us and our partners both at the time voluntary information is requested from the visitor (and at any time pursuant to the procedures outlined below). Upon receipt of such an opt-out request, we will update our records as promptly as practical. Note, however, that visitors may receive additional communications after requesting removal while we process the request. Additionally, a visitor's information may exist in multiple lists within our system and our technology limits the processing of opt-out requests to the specific list source. We will continuously assess our responsiveness to opt-out requests with respect to new technologies, business practices and our visitors' needs.
The procedure for requesting the above opt-out status is as follows:
- You can send email to ciaprochef@culinary.edu
- You can visit the following URL: www.ciaprochef.com/enews/subscribe.html
- You can send mail to the following postal address:
Privacy Manager, CIA @ Greystone
2555 Main Street
St. Helena, CA 94574
or to
Privacy Manager, CIA, Continuing Education Department
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY 12538
- You can call the following telephone number: 707-967-2405
- Public Forums
The Web site makes forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its visitors. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
- Links
The Web site contains links to other sites. The Culinary Institute of America is not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of such other Web sites. Use these linking features at your own discretion.
- Children
Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Action of 1998, The Culinary Institute of America will not knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of thirteen without first requesting parental consent.
- Security
The Culinary Institute of America operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems [specifically Secure Socket Layer (SSL), other server authentication or data encryption products]. Although our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals are given access to the information provided by our visitors, perfect security does not exist on the Internet. We cannot guarantee that any visitor information will remain secure and therefor you should use extreme caution when revealing information on the Web site.
- Your Consent
By using this site, each Web site visitor hereby consents to the collection and use of information as disclosed herein by The Culinary Institute of America.
- Privacy Policy Updates
This privacy statement will be continuously assessed with respect to new technologies, business practices and our visitors' changing needs. The Culinary Institute of America may change its privacy practices from time to time. If we make any changes, we will update this privacy statement accordingly (the date of the most recent change is displayed at the bottom of this statement).
- Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of the Web site, or your dealings with the Web site, you can contact:
Webmaster
The Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY 12538
ciaprochef@culinary.edu
This policy was last Updated May 1st, 2002 |
