Privacy Policy and Disclaimer

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this policy for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose, and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy. It is intended to comply with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), and other policies and regulations.

• Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
• 我们收集及使用个人资料的目的，只会用于完成我们指定的目的及其他相容的目的, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
• 我们将只保留个人信息，只要有必要，以实现这些目的.
• We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
• 个人资料应与其使用目的有关，并应在该等目的所需的范围内准确无误, complete, and up-to-date.
• We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use and modification.
• 我们将随时向客户提供有关我们个人信息管理的政策和做法的信息.

我们致力于按照这些原则来管理我们的组织，以确保个人信息的机密性得到保护和维护. However, no internet connection, website, or e-mail transmission is ever 100% safe and secure. 由于不可预见的事件或我们无法控制的情况，我们无法对您的信息或帐户发生的任何事情负责. In the event of a security breach, we will notify affected customers within a 72 hour time period. 我们将在得知或合理要求时提供与安全事件有关的信息.

The data we collect online:

When you visit our website, 您可以向我们提供两种不同类型的信息:自愿收集的个人信息和汇总收集的网站使用信息.

1. Personal information you choose to provide through our contact form:
   You may provide us with your full name, email address, education information, city and country of birth, country of citizenship, citizenship status, permanent address, mailing address (if different than permanent address) and (in some cases) your phone number. 您还可以选择提交有关您个人兴趣的其他评论或文件, personal needs, and academic goals. 我们可能会在我们的数据库中保留所有提交表格的内容和由此产生的通信以及您的姓名和电子邮件地址.
2. 申请世界大学学术课程所需提供的个人信息:
   During the user account creation process, 用户被提示对网站表示同意，并且必须采取明确的行动授权收集和存储个人信息. 任何不回应同意消息的用户将不被允许继续进行，直到同意被授予. Upon admission and confirmation of attendance to the University of the Incarnate Word, the university will have the right to use your personal information for academic, marketing, tracking, and immigration purposes.
3. Website-use information:
   We also use web server logs to collect information regarding how our website is being used. Such collected information may include, but may not be limited to, your IP address, browser type, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, and your total time spent on our website. 这些信息将用于改善我们的网站，以便我们能够保持高质量的服务，并提供与网站使用情况有关的一般统计数据. This automatically-collected data is used only on an aggregated, anonymous basis and never in conjunction with, or linked to, any information concerning your personal identity.
4. In order to withdraw your consent authorizing UIW to use your personal information, you must email the UIW Registrar’s Office, at registrar@uiwtx.edu. 请注意，处理个人信息对于uw向您提供教育服务是必要的. Thus, 撤回同意使用个人信息将导致退出您所注册的学术课程和课程，并失去访问所有相关UIW信息系统的权限. Any refund of tuition and fees paid will be subject to UIW policies.

Use of plug-ins:

We may use a variety of social media plugins and widgets. These are provided and operated by third-party companies (e.g. Facebook). Social media plugins may collect information such as the page you are visiting on our website, your IP address, and may set cookies to enable the plugin to function properly.

If you are logged into your account with the third-party company, 然后，第三方可能会将您访问和使用我们网站的信息链接到您与他们的社交媒体帐户. Similarly, your interactions with the plugin may be recorded by the third party.

您可以通过第三方社交媒体平台的隐私设置管理信息共享并选择退出定向营销. Please refer to their privacy policy directly.

The following plugins are used on our website: Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.

Sharing data with third parties:

您的个人信息可能会在我们运营或我们与服务提供商合作的任何国家/地区进行存储和处理. These include, but may not be limited to, incoming agencies, hotels, airlines, bus companies, 以及我们聘请的保险公司，以满足您的项目要求和预订. By using UIW services, 您明白，您的信息将被转移并仅用于您的特定学术课程和大学业务及合规要求. We only provide these companies with data that they require to perform their specific service.

如果海关或移民局等公共机构需要，您的信息也可能被提供给他们, or as required by law. Your information is shared under the jurisdiction of applicable laws and regulations. We do not sell or otherwise market your personal data to third parties.

How you can control your data:

您可以向我们发送电子邮件，要求访问我们在数据库中收集的有关您个人身份的所有信息 infosec@uiwtx.edu. You have the right to rectify any information that you find to be inaccurate. You may also request that we delete personal data from our database.

Occasionally, 您要求删除的信息将在我们的法律保留框架内在某些文件中保留一段时间. In addition, 由于技术限制，某些类型的信息可能会在“备份”系统或日志文件中存储更长时间或无限期, or financial or legal requirements.

How long your data will be retained:

我们将根据获取您的个人资料的目的，在需要或允许的时间内保留您的个人资料, in consistency with applicable law, 在法定索赔时效期间，您的个人信息可能与我们可能对您承担的任何责任相关.

The criteria used to determine our data retention periods include:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide our services to you;
• Whether there is a legal obligation with which we must comply

Security:

We use encryption (SSL) to protect data transmitted to and from our website. Wherever the ESC collects personal data, 我们寻求使用合理的技术和组织安全措施来保护我们组织内的所有信息免受损失, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, hacking attacks, destruction or any other problems which may occur.

Confidentiality of processing:

uw确保任何被授权处理客户数据的个人或实体将在适当的保密义务下这样做.

Security Incident Response:

In the event of a security incident, uw将在72小时内通知受影响的客户，并在得知或合理要求时及时提供与安全事件有关的信息.

Link Disclaimer:

UIW is not responsible for any content linked or referred to from any external websites. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented on external pages, only the author of the respective website might be liable, not the party who has linked UIW to these websites. Furthermore, UIW is not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailing lists provided on these external pages.

Permission to Use Materials:

UIW grants you a personal license to access and use this website. You may download material from this website for your own personal non-commercial use. You may not, however, otherwise copy, retransmit, distribute, 未经uw明确书面许可，不得发布或商业利用本网站的任何材料.

Changes to Privacy Policy:

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice. Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page. 您有责任在每次向我们提供个人信息时查看uw的隐私政策，因为自您上次使用我们的网站以来，该政策可能已经更改.

Contacting the University of the Incarnate Word:

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy at infosec@uiwtx.edu.

If you do not agree to these policies and terms of use, you always have the right to mail us your information in paper format.

Last updated: May 2018