Thank you for visiting Calumet College of St. Joseph’s website. This website is designed to make it easy for individuals and businesses to learn about and interact with the College. Calumet College of St. Joseph recognizes that it is critical for individuals and businesses to be confident that their privacy is protected when they visit our website.

Calumet College of St. Joseph respects the privacy of every individual who visits our websites, requests information, or responds to our promotions. To better protect your privacy we have provided this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Calumet College of St. Joseph websites, unless otherwise posted.

Consistent with the provisions of the Internet Security and Privacy Act, the Freedom of Information Law, and the Personal Privacy Protection Law, this policy describes Calumet College of St. Joseph’s privacy practices regarding information collected from users of this website. This policy describes what information is collected and how that information is used. Because this privacy policy applies to only Calumet College of St. Joseph websites and those in the www.ccsj.edu domain, you should examine the privacy policy of any website, including other government websites that you access by linking from this website. For purposes of this policy, “personal information” means any information concerning a natural person which, because of name, number, symbol, mark, or other identifier, can be used to identify that natural person. Calumet College of St. Joseph does not collect any personal information about you unless you provide that information voluntarily by completing a form, sending an e-mail, responding to a survey, or completing an on-line transaction.

Calumet College of St. Joseph will collect personally identifiable information about you such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address. We will collect additional information such as your social security number, date of birth, ethnicity and emergency contact information when you register on our online admission center. We collect information that you provide to us for the following uses, unless otherwise stated:

• We will use it to contact you and respond to your request for information.
  • By providing your phone number, you consent to receive notifications from this organization. Reply STOP to unsubscribe. Message and data rates may apply.
• We may store and process the information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our website and services.

Additionally:

• We will not sell, share, rent, or trade your individual information with third parties other than as disclosed within this privacy policy.
• We will maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and it will only be used to support your relationship with Calumet College of St. Joseph.
• We may disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
• We may disclose your personal information if Calumet College of St. Joseph is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets. You will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

Collected Information

Information collected when you submit a form, send an email or complete a transaction

During your visit to this website, you may send an e-mail to Calumet College of St. Joseph. The information, including your email address and the contents of the email message, will be collected. The information collected is not limited to text characters and may include audio, video, and graphic information formats included in the message. The information you provide will be used to respond to you, to address issues you identify, to improve this website, and/or to forward your message to another State agency for appropriate action. Your e-mail address is not collected for commercial purposes and Calumet College of St. Joseph is not authorized to sell or otherwise disclose your e-mail address for commercial purposes.

During your visit to this website, you may complete a transaction such as a survey, registration, or order form. The information, including personal information volunteered by you in completing the transaction, is used by the College to operate Calumet College of St. Joseph programs, which include the provision of goods, services, and information. The information collected by the College may be disclosed by Calumet College of St. Joseph for those purposes that may be reasonably ascertained from the nature and terms of the transaction in which the information was submitted. Calumet College of St. Joseph does not knowingly collect personal information from children or create profiles of children through this website. Users are cautioned, however, that the collection of personal information submitted in an e-mail will be treated as though it was submitted by an adult, and may, unless exempted from access by federal or State law, be subject to public access. Calumet College of St. Joseph strongly encourages parents and teachers to be involved in children’s Internet activities and to provide guidance whenever children are asked to provide personal information on-line.

Information Collected Automatically

Calumet College of St. Joseph also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your location (city). There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Calumet College of St. Joseph. This information can include: your IP address and access times. This information is used by Calumet College of St. Joseph for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of Calumet College of St. Joseph’s website.

Pictures/Videos/Testimonials

When you view one of our websites, we may store cookies on your computer. With most Internet browsers you can block cookies, receive a warning about cookies, or erase all cookies from your hard drive. Please refer to your browser instructions or Help screen to learn more about these functions. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We post pictures, testimonials and videos on our website which contains personally identifiable information. We do obtain the customer’s consent prior to posting pictures, testimonials and/or Videos to post their name along with their testimonials, pictures and videos. To request removal of your personal information or video from our site, contact us at webmaster@ccsj.edu.

Links to Other Sites

If you click on a link to a third-party site, you will leave the Calumet College of St. Joseph site you are visiting and be redirected to the site you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as Calumet College of St. Joseph. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider from whom you request services. If you visit a third-party website that is linked to a Calumet College of St. Joseph site, you should read that site’s privacy policy before providing any personally identifiable information.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. Calumet College of St. Joseph secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Calumet College of St. Joseph secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.