Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. We are committed to protecting your online privacy while providing you with the most useful and enjoyable Web experience possible. We support the Fair Information Practices defined by the U.S. government and privacy initiatives in other countries.
We do not share your personal data with any entity outside of the University of California, Irvine . We do not and will never sell, rent, or share your name, mailing address, e-mail address or any other data that can personally identify you an any way to any outside group.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of the UCCSC 2003 Web site following the posting of changes to this policy will mean you accept those changes.
Information We Collect
In general, you can visit UCCSC 2003 on the Web without revealing
any information about yourself. If you register to attend the
conference we will collect
personal information including payment information.
We may collect and distribute aggregate statistics about our Web site visitors, traffic patterns, and related site information. These statistics do not include information that would allow us or the recipient to identify any individual in any manner whatsoever.
Sending You Information
When you sign up for the conference, we add you to our uccsc@uci.edu
mailing list. This list is used only to send out information
about upcoming conferences
and has a low volume of e-mail sent out. At any time, if
you wish to be removed from our mailing list, you may call (949)
824-2222
or send
an email
to uccsc2003@uci.edu and we will be happy to remove you from
our contact list as you request. As stated above, we will
never make
your contact
or preference information available to anyone outside of
UC Irvine, unless
required to do so pursuant to a judicial or governmental
order, and even then, only to the extent so ordered.
How we protect your personal information
Data you enter during a visit to our site is stored on systems
using the same security standards and procedures that protect
our essential
business
data. Access to your data is restricted to authorized employees
for UC Irvine for business purposes and based on our employees
need to
know. Any
sensitive or personal data, such as credit card or purchase
information, that you enter for online e-commerce transactions,
is transmitted
in an encrypted form and requires the use of a secure browser.
By using
the UCCSC
2003 Web site to enter into a credit card transaction,
you are consenting to UC Irvine transferring your encrypted credit
card
information
and the dollar amount of the transaction to external companies
for credit
verification.
Cookies
We use cookies, i.e. small files which are stored on a
user's hard drive, as part of its normal service to enable
information
about
customers and
their preferences to be stored and to prevent unauthorised
access to a customer's account online. However, we do
not use cookies
on customers'
PCs to monitor an individual's use of the Internet.
Links to other sites
As a convenience to you, we sometimes provide links to
other Web sites. These sites are not under the control
of UCCSC
2003; and
the fact that
we provide such links is not an indication that UCCSC
2003 endorses or is liable for those sites or their
content.
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at uccsc2003@uci.edu.