TACUPA WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY

 

 

 

The Texas Association of College and University Police Adminitrators (“TACUPA”) discloses how privacy is addressed on the TACUPA web site (the “Site”). TACUA provides the privacy policy below (the “Privacy Policy”) explaining how your personal information is treated by TACUPA. TACUPA reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Your use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of the Privacy Policy and acknowledges it may be amended at any time.

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1. Collection of Personal Information from Site Users
   
   a) TACUPA may collect and/or track: (1) the home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of computer, and type of Web browser of visitors to the Site; (2) the e-mail addresses of visitors that communicate with TACUPA or the Site via e-mail; (3) information knowingly provided by the visitor in online order forms, registration forms and surveys, (including but not limited to name, address, e-mail and other personal profile data); and (4) aggregate and user-specific information regarding page views.
   
   b) TACUPA may place Internet “cookies” on visitors’ hard drives. Internet cookies save data about individual visitors, such as the visitor’s name, password, user-name, screen preferences, the pages of a site viewed by the visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the visitor. When the visitor revisits the Site, TACUPA may recognize the visitor by the Internet cookie and customize the visitor’s experience accordingly. Visitors may decline Internet cookies, if any, by using the appropriate features of their Web client software, if available; however, this may impair certain features of the Site
   
   c) When a visitor performs a search within the Site, TACUPA may record information identifying the visitor or linking the visitor to the search performed. TACUPA may also record limited information associated with every search request made by the visitor and use that information to, among other things, solve technical problems with the service and to calculate overall usage statistics.

 

1. Use of Personal Data Collected
   TACUPA may use personally identifiable information in a number of ways, such as:
   
   a) To communicate with you about your membership, or to communicate information about the Site.
   
   b) To build higher quality, more useful services, such as by analyzing usage trends, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Site.
   
   c) To provide customer service.
   
   d) To support the operation of the Site (such as account maintenance and record keeping), troubleshoot problems, resolve disputes, and to enforce our Terms and Conditions.
   
   e) To inform you about goods and services related to TACUPA and developments campus public safety. You will have the option of opting out of further communications of this type by sending an email to TACUPAORGANIZATION@GMAIL.COM

 

1. Disclosure of Personal Data Collected
   TACUPA may disclose personally identifiable information about you to Third Parties as follows:
   a) With your consent.
   b) To TACUPA’s agents and advisors (such as our accountants or attorneys). 
   c) As TACUPA believes necessary to: (a) comply with law (including court and government orders, and civil subpoenas); (b) enforce or apply TACUPA's Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or (c) protect the rights, property, or safety of TACUPA, our users, or others.
   d) If you partake (or we reasonably suspect that you are partaking) in any illegal or potentially illegal activity. We may disclose personal information even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order, to the extent we feel is necessary to inform and cooperate with law enforcement agencies or other appropriate authorities.
   e) In aggregated form, i.e., information about multiple users collectively without identifying any individual user, such as the total number of visitors to a particular section in a given week.

2. Collection of Personal Data from Children
   To the extent that TACUPA is able to determine the age of users by their submissions to, or communications with the Site, TACUPA will not knowingly (a) collect or post information from individuals under eighteen (18) years of age (“Children” or “Child”) without their parent’s or guardian’s consent, or (b) provide any personally identifying information collected from Children, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.

3. Security Measures
   For electronic commerce transactions conducted through the Site, TACUPA has implemented certain security features to prevent the unauthorized release of or access to personal financial information. In particular, all financial transactions are conducted through a secure server. The secure server encrypts all financial information a visitor inputs before it is sent to TACUPA.

4. Third Party Web Sites
   The Site may contain links to other Internet web sites. Unless we explicitly state otherwise, we have no control over these third party sites and their privacy practices. This Privacy Policy applies only to information you supply (or that we collect) in connection with use of the Site. You should review third party privacy policies specific to the third party web sites to which this Site provides links.

5. Delete Personal Data
   You are entitled to request the personal information that we hold no longer be stored. To do so, please email  TACUPAORGANIZATION@GMAIL.COM. Please note that this may limit your access to some of the services we provide.

6. TACUPA’s Right to Change Privacy Policy
   TACUPA may change the content of our Site and Privacy Policy at any time. Please revisit our Privacy Policy from time to time to be sure you are familiar with our current policy.

7. Contact Information
   If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or you would like to review, change, and/or remove your personal information, you may contact us at: E-mail: TACUPAORGANIZATION@GMAIL.COM