This information describes Surry Community College's policy regarding information received about you during visits to our web site. The amount and type of information received depends on how you use the site.
Limitation on Scope of Content:
The Surry Community College website contains information regarding Surry Community College and its education and training services. All pricing information referred to in this site is in U.S. dollars.
No Representation or Warranty:
Surry Community College reserves the right to modify the information contained in this site at any time without notice. While Surry Community College makes all reasonable efforts to insure that all material on this site is correct, accuracy cannot be guaranteed and SCC does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of any information contained in this site.
This site and all information and materials contained herein, is provided to you "as is" without warranty of any kind. This site may contain hypertext links to other World Wide Web sites which are completely independent of this site. SCC makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such hypertext link, and any hypertext link to another person or entity shall not in any manner be construed as endorsement by SCC of such person's or entity's World Wide Web site, products or services. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
Your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by Surry Community College. SCC shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any information you transmitted to this site.
Normal Website Usage:
You can visit Surry Community College's web site to access education/training service information or use our online tools (online courses, etc.) without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. The only information we collect and store during normal web site usage is the web site that referred you to us, the pages you request and the date and time of those requests.
We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of customer visits. During normal web site usage, we do not collect or store personally identifiable information such as name, mailing address, email address, phone number or social security.
Links to Other Websites:
The Web sites contain links to other Web sites that are not owned or operated by Surry Community College. The College is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third parties or the content or security of such Web sites.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information:
There are instances where Surry Community College requests personally identifiable information to provide the web site visitor a service or correspondence (mailed class schedules and brochures). This information, such as name, mailing address, email address, type of request and possibly additional information, is collected and stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the data by Surry Community College and is used to fulfill your request. Surry Community College makes every effort to insure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). The information you provide is used by Surry Community College to improve the services we provide you. It is never provided to any other company for that company's independent use. However, there is no perfect security. SCC cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information collected by the Site. SCC will not accept any liability for any unauthorized disclosure of User’s Personal Information. User is responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any credentials used to access User’s account with SCC. User should report actual or suspected unauthorized activity to SCC immediately, and in no event later than 24 hours after discovery.
SCC specifically reserves the right to terminate User’s access to the Site and any contract User has with us in the event SCC learns or suspects User has disclosed their account or password information to an unauthorized third party.
Use of Cookies:
Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes so that we may track site and user activity. The use of cookies is an industry standard and you will find them at most major web sites. By showing how and when visitors use the site, cookies help SCC to better track which those areas of our site which are popular and those which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the site will not function properly if you do so.
Copyright/Trademark Ownership:
The information in this site is protected by copyright. You may only use the information, text or graphics contained in this site for your personal use and may not reproduce, adapt, or publish it, in whole or in part, for any purpose without the express written consent of SCC. The SCC logo may not be used, downloaded, copied or distributed in any way.
By using this site, you signify your assent to the Surry Community College Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. We reserve the right to change Surry Community College's Online Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice or consent.
Email Communications
User may unsubscribe from any of Surry Community College's marketing communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” link found in every commercial email sent by the College. If User opts-out of receiving marketing email communications, Surry Community College may still send User email messages related to User’s account with Surry Community College, including specific transactions, identity verification, or Services. Unsubscribing from Surry Community College's marketing communications will not affect Surry Community College's service to User.
This Site is Not Intended for Children
The Site is not intended for children nor targeted to children under the age of 13. SCC does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If SCC learns that it possesses information from a child under the age of 13, SCC will delete such information in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and other applicable laws. If User is a parent or guardian and believes that their child under the age of 13 has provided SCC with personal information without User’s consent, please contact the College.
Data Retention
SCC may retain User’s Personal Information for the periods necessary to:
- Fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy
- Meet the timelines required or recommended by regulators, professional bodies, or associations
- Comply with applicable laws, legal holds, and other legal obligations (including contractual obligations)
- Comply with User’s requests.
