myNSU Privacy Policy

 

Welcome to myNSU and thank you for reading our Privacy Policy.

 

While we automatically collect information about your computer and Internet request, we do not collect any personal information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide the information. We will not sell, rent, loan or share your nonpublic personal information to anyone.

 

This policy applies to only the myNSU web site. Other web sites that are linked to myNSU have different and separate privacy policies.

 

Protecting the privacy of our Web site visitors is very important to myNSU. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want to make sure you are informed of the ways in which we may and may not use the information you transmit to us when you visit myNSU.

 

This privacy policy covers two categories and can change without notice:

 

(1) Information that is collected automatically

• The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you use to access our Web site. The IP address is a number that uniquely identifies your computer on the Internet. Without this number, our servers would not know where to send back the information you are requesting.

• The date and time you "hit" each page on our site.

• The page you are requesting.

• The Web browser and computer operating system you are using to access our site.

• The address of the site or page you came from to our site.

These data do not contain any personally identifiable information and will be used for purposes of analyzing Web site traffic and making improvements for visitors to myNSU.

 

(2) Information you send to us
We will not collect personally identifiable information from you, other than what you supply to us on a voluntary basis. To make use of certain features on myNSU you need to register and to provide some information as part of the registration process. The information you supply helps us offer you more personalized features, tailoring our site to your interests and making it more useful to you.

 

If you choose to send us e-mail or fill out a Web-based form, that information is stored in an employee's e-mail or in an on-line database. We use that information to respond to your request or to provide interaction on our Web site. We do not use any of the information you send us for commercial marketing purposes.

 

The areas of the site in which we collect such information, the information collected and the purpose for collecting that information are described below:

 

Subscription to electronic announcements (future capability)
myNSU offers students the capability to receive announcements from University recognized student organizations. Students must subscribe and select those organizations

Whose announcements they want to receive. Students may at any time unsubscribe from any and all such announcements.

 

Online Surveys (future capability)
myNSU will occasionally conduct surveys with the option of participating through myNSU. Apart from preference information you provide, survey responses are not correlated to any personally identifying information.

 

Online feedback
Name and e-mail address information provided though the feedback capability for myNSU page is used to respond to your comments. It may also be used in aggregate form for statistical purposes.

 

Use of Cookies
Some Web sites store information in a small text file, called a "cookie," on your hard disk. Cookies contain information about you and your preferences. myNSU  does not make use of cookies and does not write to your hard disk. However, myNSU makes use of session cookies. A session cookie (also called per-session cookie) is a text-only string that gets entered into the memory of your browser.  The value of this string is set by our website programs when you visit.  Session cookies help us make sure that only you have access to your personal information. When you terminate your session with myNSU, the session cookie is deleted from memory.

 

You can refuse or disable cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies enabled to use myNSU. However, if you refuse or disable session cookies, you will not be able to access myNSU.

 

Acceptance of the myNSU privacy policy

By using this Web site, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this myNSU Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of myNSU following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

 

Webmaster
200 Roy Hall
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA  71497
318-357-5594
webmaster@nsula.edu