CMU Help Desk Privacy Policy
This privacy statement covers data that is gathered online from visitors to this website. You may find out what kind of information may be gathered, when and how it might be used, how we protect the information, and the options available to users of this site with regard to personal information, all on this page.
What private data is gathered via this website, and how is it put to use?
We gather data from three sources: cookies, web server logs, and information you enter on this website. Our main purpose for using this data is to give you a customized online experience that shows you the content that is most pertinent and helpful to you. We don't divulge any information you give to other parties.
Please refrain from sending us any sensitive, proprietary, or secret information while corresponding with us via this website. The terms "personal," "personally identifying," and "protected health information" are used to describe material that can be interpreted broadly. We will use the information you give us on this website to answer your questions and help you in the future. You transmit any sensitive, private, or confidential material to us at your own risk, and we won't be held accountable to you or anybody else for submissions that violate our privacy policies.
The data gathered from our web server logs assists us in managing the website, examining how it is used, safeguarding the content and the website from improper use, and enhancing the user experience. The data that we gather could include your IP address, name of your organization, name of your ISP, kind of computer or browser you use, pages you view on our website, searches you do on our website, location data, and the time and date of your visit.
We might use cookies to track information about you so that users of our site can have a more personalized experience. Simply put, cookies are little bits of information that are downloaded to your hard drive by your browser from a Web server. We can keep your preferences and passwords using cookies, saving you the trouble of entering them every time you visit our website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies, and their use is rather popular. You have the option to configure your browser to either reject or alert you when a cookie is received.
Except with your permission or as may be required by law, we do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise give user data to other parties.