OUR
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by the Kentucky Peer Tutoring Project
and the Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute at the University
of Kentucky. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance
to us. At the KYPT Project Web Site, we want to make your experience online
satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION THE KYPT PROJECT GATHERS AND TRACKS
the KYPT Project gathers two types of information about users:
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic quizzes, to participate in our message boards or forums, and from participation in polls and surveys:
The KYPT Project Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
1. Listserv Email Messages
We will offer an email listserv to users. The KYPT Project gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by opting out on the registration or account update pages.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register for these services in order to visit the site and to post messages. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
3. Surveys
The KYPT Project may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content and services to our audience.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself contains User Information and it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. The KYPT Project uses cookies to establish secure access to content meant for Users only. Cookies will also be used to prefill some form fields when available.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in our forums, event registration, polling, and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
The KYPT Project uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience at our site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the needs of our users.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
Opting not to receive our listserv messages.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by the KYPT Project. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.