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SMU Cox School of Business
On-line Privacy Policy

See also: SMU Legal Disclosures

We Respect Your Privacy Rights
The SMU Cox School of Business will not sell, rent or loan any information about you to any third party without your consent.

Anonymous Browsing
We do not collect any personal information from visitors browsing our Web site. Visitors to the public area browse anonymously. Only aggregate data is collected to improve the value of the site. An example of aggregate data is: how many people visit our site during a time frame or which are the most popular pages. We will not make any attempt to link the traffic information on the site with the individuals who actually visit the site.

We Do Not Use Passive (Hidden) Collection Technologies

NO COOKIES
A cookie is a small data file that certain web sites write to your Web browser (your computer's hard drive) so it can later be read back from that browser. A cookie file can contain certain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited on that site.

NO WEB BUGS
A Web Bug is a code hidden under a graphic on a site. The Web Bug's purpose is to collect information from and deliver cookies to site visitors without their knowledge. Web Bugs can also retrieve information from previously deposited cookies or active screen sessions. The information collected by a Web Bug may be transferred outside of the site to a third party. They are not always owned or managed by their host sites.

Information We Do Accept
The SMUCox School of Business maintains contact lists of those individuals or organizations that have proactively contacted us, registered for a class or requested to receive updates and other information. The list content varies by what the individual decides to provide.

When you provide us information, we may be contacting you in the future to keep you informed about additional courses by the SMUCox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, or events which are co-sponsored by any of these offices.

Change or Deactivate
If you wish to change or deactivate any personal information you submitted to the Edwin L. Cox School of Business please send your requests to the contact information provided on the mailing or in the email you received. Please specify standard mail and/or e-mail.

Children
No part of this site is directed to children. We will never knowingly collect information from users under the age of 13.

Security
SMUCox Schoolwill use industry-standard measures to protect the security of personal information. All payment-related information submitted are encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology. When your browser is in secure mode, you will see an unbroken key or padlock icon near the bottom of your browser window.

If there are any concerns or questions about our On-line Privacy Policy please contact email webmaster@mail.cox.smu.edu

Additional Information
Internet sites and services accessible through our site have separate privacy and data-collection practices, independent of us. Our privacy policy applies only to our web sites and not to sites that may be linked to ours. You should refer to those sites' privacy policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.

Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.