Privacy

Effective: 2020-09-25

Applicability

At Indiana University (IU), we are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information entrusted to us. By accessing and using IU’s services, you acknowledge and consent to the practices described in our global privacy statement here: https://privacy.iu.edu/privacy/global.html.

For additional information outlining how Science Fest collects, uses, and safeguards personal information obtained specifically through our website (sciencefest.indiana.edu), please also review the information below.

Continued use of our website indicates consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice.

Visitors to other IU websites should review the privacy notices for the sites they visit, as other units at the university may collect and use visitor information in different ways. Science Fest is not responsible for the content of other websites or for the privacy practices of websites outside the scope of this notice.

Changes

Because Internet technologies continue to evolve rapidly, Science Fest may make appropriate changes to this notice in the future. Any such changes will be consistent with our commitment to respecting visitor privacy, and will be clearly posted in a revised privacy notice.

Collection and Use

Passive/Automatic Collection

When you view pages on our site, the web server automatically collects certain technical information from your computer and about your connection. This information is outlined in the IU Privacy statement.

In addition to any information outline in the global statement, our server and/or site collects the following:

• Your screen resolution
• Your IP address
• The domain name from which you visit our site
• Aggregate information on pages visited
• The referring website
• The date and time of visit
• The duration of visit
• Your browser type

Active/Manual/Voluntary Collection

In addition to the technical information about your visit described above (or cookies, described below), we may ask you to provide information voluntarily, such as through forms or other manual input. We might ask for you to provide this information in order to make products and services available to you, to maintain and manage our relationship with you, including providing associated services or to better understand and serve your needs. This information is generally retained as long as you continue to maintain a relationship with us. Your providing this information is wholly voluntary. However, not providing the requested information (or subsequently asking that the data be removed) may affect our ability to deliver the products or service for which the information is needed. Providing the requested information indicates your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice. Information we may actively collect could include:

• The email addresses of those who communicate with us via email
• The email addresses of those who make postings to our chat areas
• Name
• Information volunteered by the visitor, such as preferences, survey information and/or site registrations

Information Usage

This information is:

• Used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor

Information Sharing

We may share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information with other entities or organizations.

Except as described in the IU Privacy statement, we will not share any information with any other entities or organizations for any reason.

Except as provided in the Disclosure of Information section below, we do not attempt to use the technical information discussed in this section to identify individual visitors.

Cookies

For more information on how we use cookies, please review the IU Privacy statement.

In order to customize the information and services offered to you, our site uses cookies to:

• Record session information, such as items that visitors add to their shopping cart.
• Store visitors preferences

Children

• We ask children under age 13 to obtain permission from a parent or guardian before interacting with our site.
• We do not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s or guardian’s permission.
• We do not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Use of Third Party Services

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies (described above) to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including possibly your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google.

For more information, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy.

Social Media

Third-party social media sites may collect information from this site. Indiana University is not responsible for their privacy practices. This site embeds features from third party social media sites, including:

• Facebook (visit Facebook’s privacy policy at: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php)
• Twitter (visit Twitter’s privacy policy at: https://twitter.com/en/privacy)
• Pinterest (visit their privacy policy at: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy)

Access to Information

In some cases, we will grant visitors access to the information we collect about them.

This information includes:

• A description of information that we maintain about them.

Visitors can access this information by:

• Sending us email at the listed address

Updating Inaccurate Information

In some cases, we will grant visitors the ability to update or correct inaccuracies in the information that we maintain.

Visitors may correct inaccuracies in:

• contact information that we have on file

Visitors can have this information corrected by:

• sending us email at the listed address
• visiting us at the following URL: https://sciencefest.indiana.edu/my-dashboard/

Disclosure of Information

Other than sharing your information with other appropriate university personnel and units to ensure the quality, functionality, and security of our website, or manage your relationship with us, we will not disclose personally identifiable information about your use of the site except under the following circumstances:

• With your prior written (including email) consent
• When we have given you clear notice that we will disclose information that you voluntarily provide
• With appropriate external parties, such as law enforcement agencies, in order to investigate and respond to suspected violations of law or university policy. Any such disclosures shall comply with all applicable laws and university policies.

Security

Due to the rapidly evolving nature of information technologies, no transmission of information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. While Indiana University is committed to protecting user privacy, IU cannot guarantee the security of any information users transmit to university sites, and users do so at their own risk.

• Once we receive user information, we will use reasonable safeguards consistent with prevailing industry standards and commensurate with the sensitivity of the data being stored to maintain the security of that information on our systems.
• We will comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding the privacy and security of user information.

Links to non-university sites

Indiana University is not responsible for the availability, content, or privacy practices of non-university sites. Non-university sites are not bound by this site privacy notice policy and may or may not have their own privacy policies.

Privacy Notice Changes

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice.

We will post the policy changes to our Website to notify you of these changes, but only data collected from the time of the policy change forward will be used for these new purposes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Website periodically.

Contact Information

If you have questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us.

Science Fest
ATTN: Jo Anne Tracy
scihouse@indiana.edu
812-855-5809

If you feel as though this site’s privacy practices differ from the information stated, you may contact us at the listed address or phone number.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated policy and communicating with the owner of this site does not resolve the matter, or if you have general questions or concerns about privacy or information technology policy at Indiana University, please contact the chief privacy officer through the University Information Policy Office, 812-855-UIPO, privacy@iu.edu.