Virginia Tech has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web page: alumni.iddl.vt.edu
The server collects the IP address, date, time, page accessed, browser type, and the referring page if present. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web page. The date and time are used to track the load on the server and peak usage times. We record the browser type to monitor market penetration of various web browsers so we can better determine what Internet technologies we may utilize in the design of our pages. We use page referrer data--that is, information about the web page that pointed you to our page--to determine to what extent our page is referenced by other resources on the web. These data may be used to preserve the integrity of our computing resources.
The VTalumnNET website issues and reads cookies to track your course registration requests. This includes the ability to create a course schedule and proceed to sign up and pay for those courses.
This Web site requests and collects personal information required to verify your alumni status with Virginia Tech, create a student record, charge your credit card for services requested, and authorize your access to course material.
We share some personal information (name, address, and credit card number) with a third party vendor, AuthorizeNet, in order to securely process credit card transactions. Personal information is not shared with any other vendor or used for any other purpose.
This site contains links to other Virginia Tech pages. The privacy practices of other pages may vary with the purposes of the page. Consult the privacy statement on each page.
This site contains links to other sites. Virginia Tech is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Log file access is restricted to system administrators while stored on the server. Log files are rotated regularly and archived in a secure location. User and password information, when requested, is encrypted before it is transmitted across the network.
Users should also consult Virginia Tech's policy on Acceptable Use. http://purl.vt.edu/vtdocs/policies/2015 Virginia Tech complies with all statutory and legal requirements with respect to access to information.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: iddl@vt.edu.