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Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or information privacy on our website, please contact us at privacy@stvincent.edu.

Your information is very important to us. This Privacy Policy explains SVC’s policies regarding information you provide to us via our website located at www.stvincent.edu (the “website”), information we collect via the website, and how we use that information. Your use of the website, and any functionality offered via the website, constitutes your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy and any additional terms set forth on this website. If we update our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, and such changes will apply to information collected after the date of the change. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through the website and not to information collected by us offline.

  • Third-Party Websites

    This website may contain links to independently-run websites for SVC student groups or organizations, planned giving and/or fundraising sites, and other external websites with different privacy practices or policies. SVC is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of those sites, you access them at your own risk, and we therefore encourage you to review such third-party privacy policies to understand how your information is being used. However, we welcome any comments pertaining to any independently-run sites accessed via our website.

  • Security

    We take precautions to protect the information you submit to us by using industry-standard security measures such as permission-based and role-based access controls and SSL encryption, however no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is percent secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information during its transmission or its storage in our systems.

    Any credit card or other method of payment you use will be handled by a third-party payment processor that will be responsible for obtaining and maintaining your information under its own terms and policies, including whether any of that information is shared with us and, if so, under what conditions. We do not permanently store credit card information provided to us via the website either on or outside the website.

    Any user identification names or passwords you use shall be maintained by you as confidential and should not be shared with anyone not authorized to have access to your personally identifiable information. You are responsible for and should take steps to reduce the risk of disclosure of such identification names or passwords, including, without limitation, using unique and strong passwords.

  • How We Collect and Use Your Information

    We use log data and ‘cookies’ to hold session specific information and to collect general information about our visitors. Cookies can be disabled on most personal computers; however, some web-based services require cookies for access.

    We do not collect personally identifiable information about you unless you provide us with such information via online registration or participation in or use of the website features, functionality, services or otherwise. We may require you to provide additional personally identifiable information when registering or utilizing certain features of the website, such as name, email address, phone number, billing and payment processing information.

    We may collect and use your information to personalize your experience and support your use of and access to the website and its features, to analyze usage, respond to inquiries from you, notify or update you about features, and/or address or prevent potentially prohibited and/or illegal activities.

    We may use personally identifiable information or other information you have provided in order to communicate with you via text or other messaging technologies, our inquiries or communications to you regarding your enrollment, registration, or use of any feature or service on the website, and notices of developments related to the website and/or SVC.

    We may also retain an archived copy of information you provided or we acquired as a result of your use of the website, including personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information, as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

    We may share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information with third parties.

    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, student records are protected by the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Pennsylvania law and SVC policy. Information about student access to education records and protection of education records is available in the Registrar’s Office. That policy also provides information on a student’s right to limit access to otherwise public directory information.

    From time to time, individuals or companies under contract with SVC may have access to confidential information in the course of the service they provide to us, but they are not permitted to use or disclose that information for unauthorized purposes.

  • Children

    Pursuant to the terms of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not knowingly collect personally–identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13). The website is not directed at children under the age of thirteen (13), and by using the website, you represent that you are not under the age of thirteen (13).

  • Required Disclosures

    We may be required by applicable law, subpoena, court order or other legal process (including without limitation, rendering assistance to government enforcement agencies) to disclose or retain for some period your personally identifiable information and/or non-personally identifiable information. SVC has the right to comply with any such requirements (including a good-faith belief that such requirement exists) without liability for any such disclosure or retention. We may also securely communicate your information to credit reporting and/or law enforcement agencies solely in connection with, and restricted to, their assistance in preventing or assessing fraudulent and/or unlawful transactions via the website. We also may share, disclose or otherwise use your information if we have a good-faith belief that doing so is necessary to prevent injury and/or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of SVC students, employees or others, protect the security or integrity of the website, or prevent illegal activity, including without limitation, fraud. We reserve the right to disclose and/or transfer (on a confidential basis) your personally identifiable information to our affiliates, partners (including partner educational institutions), or a purchaser of all or substantially all of our assets.

  • Consent to Processing of Information in United States

    Notwithstanding your country of origin, or country, state and/or province of residence, by utilizing the website and/or directly providing personal information to us, you hereby agree to and acknowledge your understanding of the terms of this Privacy Policy, and consent to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States and/or in other jurisdictions as determined by SVC.  In addition, Saint Vincent College takes seriously the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will affect our students and employees who are European (EU) residents and/or citizens, are studying or working in the EU, or who are travelling to the EU as part of a Saint Vincent College program. It is our goal to be sensitive and respectful of your personal information and to adhere to all facets of the GDPR regulation.  

Contact Us

For Privacy Requests: Privacy@stvincent.edu

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