Wichita State University Web Privacy Policy

The following represent the information gathering and use practices of the Wichita State University web site, www.wichita.edu.

Information gathering

When you visit the WSU gateway web site, information is collected regarding

  • your Internet location (IP address)
  • which pages you visit in the WSU site
  • the referring page that led you to the WSU site
  • the software you use to visit the WSU site and its configuration

None of the information is associated with you as an individual.

Use of information

WSU assures you that it does not provide or sell any personally identifiable information from the WSU web site to outside agencies (third parties). Information is collected to improve the functionality and content of the WSU web site and to monitor its performance. Sometimes data are aggregated and analyzed to help answer specific questions about the usage and performance of the web site or individual web pages. At no time do we associate site usage with individual IP addresses.

Cookies

WSU uses "cookies" (A cookie is a small piece of data that our web servers send to your browser and that is stored on your computer. That small piece of information allows our computers to recognize a user. It also allows our computers to remember things about your past interaction with the site, like page styling preferences and positioning of user modules on the myWSU site.) to allow you to customize certain aspects of the site and to measure overall traffic patterns on the WSU site. For example, cookies can tell us which sections of wichita.edu are most popular with our users. Cookies served by wichita.edu do not gather demographic information about our users.

Contacting the WSU gateway website

If you have any questions about the practices of this site or your dealings with this site, you may contact webmaster@wichita.edu.

Disclaimer

The wichita.edu web site provides links to other web sites within the WSU network and to some outside of this 'wichita.edu' domain. The WSU web site cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.