Visible Employee is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Visible Employee Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Visible Employee website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Visible Employee collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Visible Employee also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Visible Employee. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Visible Employee for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Visible Employee Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Visible Employee public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Visible Employee does not read any of your private online communications.

Visible Employee encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Visible Employee so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Visible Employee is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Visible Employee and Visible Employee family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Visible Employee collects and uses your personal information to operate the Visible Employee Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Visible Employee also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Visible Employee and its affiliates. Visible Employee may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Visible Employee does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Visible Employee may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Visible Employee may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Visible Employee, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Visible Employee does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Visible Employee keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Visible Employee, in order to determine what Visible Employee services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Visible Employee to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Visible Employee Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Visible Employee or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Visible Employee; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Visible Employee, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Visible Employee Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Visible Employee pages, or register with Visible Employee site or services, a cookie helps Visible Employee to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Visible Employee Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Visible Employee features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Visible Employee services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Visible Employee secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Visible Employee secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Visible Employee will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Visible Employee encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Visible Employee is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Visible Employee welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Visible Employee has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Visible Employee at jmstanto@syr.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.